Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
Guaranteed has leaked. What do you think? Just as a reminder--songs cannot be offered publically on the site, and begging for pms is discouraged. If you do your homework and read the appropriate threads you should be able to track down a copy for yourself without too much trouble
Thanks to Badradio for transcribing the lyrics
"Guaranteed" lyrics
On bended knee is no way to be free Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently All my destinations will accept the one that's me So I can breathe...
Circles they grow and they swallow people whole Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul And so it goes...
Don't come closer or I'll have to go Holding me like gravity are places that pull If ever there was someone to keep me at home It would be you...
Everyone I come across, in cages they bought They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts I'm alive...
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead...
Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed
_________________ "Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."--FDR
Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
I normally don’t like when you hear the scratch of moving your fingers up and down the strings, but it really works here. This song totally fits with the poster of the movie with the main character sitting up on top of his bus in the universe pondering his place in it. It’s an honest and imperfect melody that fits perfectly with the sense of naïve hope and boundless horizons. Lyrically it is pretty strong, with an utterly fantastic final lyric. This song has grown on me with every listen, and I imagine I’ll like it even more when I see the movie.
_________________ "Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."--FDR
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:37 pm Posts: 15767 Location: Vail, CO Gender: Male
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead...
My favorite lyric of eddies in the past few years. Fucking beautiful and sad and so perfect with this song/story. So good. Love this tune.
Joined: Tue May 30, 2006 2:48 pm Posts: 3115 Location: Edinburgh/Lincoln, UK
stip wrote:
This song totally fits with the poster of the movie with the main character sitting up on top of his bus in the universe pondering his place in it. It’s an honest and imperfect melody that fits perfectly with the sense of naïve hope and boundless horizons. Lyrically it is pretty strong, with an utterly fantastic final lyric.
Joined: Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:46 am Posts: 8052 Location: Northern Virginia Gender: Male
The guitar work is quite impressive on this. I never would've thought Ed would be willing to play guitar fingerstyle. It reminds me of Elliott Smith although the tune sounds nothing like him. Maybe its because I've just been listening to some of his stuff lately. The lyrics are sensational and perhaps required a more delicate touch as opposed to him just strumming a few chords, but I can easily envision this as the closing song that ends up rolling over the credits, ending, and then going into Hard Sun.
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Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:52 pm Posts: 1058 Location: Hong Kong
This my fav of the bunch.
Call me crazy if you want, but this song reminded me of something and I couldn't put my finger on it until it finally hit me. Maybe it is Ed's delivery (which I think it is) the melody or arrangement or something.
but it is:
"Someday at Christmas". slowed down. Granted I haven't heard that song in a long time.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:46 pm Posts: 286 Gender: Female
Wow... There is that sense of the philosophical again... these lyrics are haunting, yet beautiful at the same time... which I feel is almost a common theme...
Sometimes (like now), Eddie's lyrics remind me of a more mellow-Jim Morrison...
_________________ ... The willow knows what the storm does not; that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Joined: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:46 pm Posts: 4970 Location: Portland, OR Gender: Male
Here's a nice easy way to play Guaranteed...it's the same through every verse
Guaranteed" Chords
G............................D............... On bended knee is no way to be free F...............................C.............. Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently C...............................G......................... All my destinations will accept the one that's me ..................D So I can breathe...
Circles they grow and they swallow people whole Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul And so it goes...
Don't come closer or I'll have to go Holding me like gravity are places that pull If ever there was someone to keep me at home It would be you...
Everyone I come across, in cages they bought They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts I'm alive...
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead...
Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed
Joined: Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:48 pm Posts: 4320 Location: Philadelphia, PA
porchball wrote:
Here's a nice easy way to play Guaranteed...it's the same through every verse
Guaranteed" Chords
G............................D............... On bended knee is no way to be free F...............................C.............. Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently C...............................G......................... All my destinations will accept the one that's me ..................D So I can breathe...
Circles they grow and they swallow people whole Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul And so it goes...
Don't come closer or I'll have to go Holding me like gravity are places that pull If ever there was someone to keep me at home It would be you...
Everyone I come across, in cages they bought They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts I'm alive...
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead...
Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed
Thanks for putting up these chords. I've got the melody on my violin, and I was just working out the chords on the piano.
Joined: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:46 pm Posts: 4970 Location: Portland, OR Gender: Male
Patrick Bateman wrote:
I'm scared to make this post because i suck at playing but wouldn't G-----Bminor-----F-----C work better ?
Had a chance to give it a shot and you're absolutely right... Here's the correction.
Thanks man...can't believe I missed that
Guaranteed" Chords
G............................Bm............... On bended knee is no way to be free F...............................C.............. Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently C...............................G......................... All my destinations will accept the one that's me ..................D So I can breathe...
Circles they grow and they swallow people whole Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul And so it goes...
Don't come closer or I'll have to go Holding me like gravity are places that pull If ever there was someone to keep me at home It would be you...
Everyone I come across, in cages they bought They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts I'm alive...
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead...
Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed
Joined: Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:06 am Posts: 3146 Location: Orange County, California
This song is McCandless. Ed couldn't have done any better with the lyrics. This is my favorite original song on the album.
_________________ I waited all day
you waited all day
but you left before sunset
and I just wanted to tell you
that the moment was beautiful
just wanted to dance to bad music
drive bad cars
watch bad tv
should have stayed for the sunset
if not for me
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