WARNING: You are trying to view
content from Ultimate-Guitar.com
in an unauthorized application,
which is prohibited.
Please use an official Ultimate
Guitar Tabs application for iPhone,
iPad or Android to access legitimate
chords, guitar, bass, and drum tabs
from Ultimate-Guitar.com database.
Type "ultimate guitar tabs" in Apple
App Store's or Android Market's
search to find the application.
Back Against The Wall - Cage the Elephant
Play the two lowest bass notes and the fourth string of
the chord in the verse as shown in the intro
chords: Ab 466544
F# 244322
F#(9) x9,11,11,11,9 (A shape, ninth fret.)
B 799877 (E shape, seventh fret)
B x24442
C# x46664
|---------|
Intro:
Ab F# F(9)# C# B
e|-------------------------|
B|-------------11----6---4-|
G|--5------3---------------|
D|-------------11----6---4-|
A|--6------4---9-----4---2-|
E|--4------2---------------| X2 (listen to song for rythmn)
Verse 1:
Ab F#
Tonight I'll have a look
F#(9) C# B Ab
And try to find my face again
F# F#(9)
Buried beneath this house`
C# B Ab
My spirit cries and dies again
F# F#(9)
Out back a monster wheres
C# B Ab
A cloak of persian leather
F# F#(9)
Behind the TV screen
C# B Ab
I've fallen to my knees
|---------|
Pre Chorus:
(All chords in the pre chorus and chorus are down strokes, with a quick up in between
switching chords. You can here the rthymn in the song)
Ab
I said you've got me where you want me
B C#
And dammit I can't turn away
Ab F# C#
I'm hanging by a thread and Im feeling like a fool
Ab B C#
I'm stuck here in between the shadows of my yesterday
Ab
I want to get away
F# C#
I need to get away
|---------|
Chorus:
Ab F#
Now you know
B C# Ab
Yeah, you got my back against the wall
F# B C# Ab
Oh gosh, I aint got no other place to hide
F# B C#
chained down, like a sitting duck
Ab
Just waiting for the fall
F# B C# Ab
You know, yeah you got my back against the wall
|---------|
Verse 2:
Intro x 1/2
Ab F#
Blanket of silence
F#(9) C# B Ab
makes me want to sink my teeth in deep
F#
Burn all the evidence
F#(9) C# B Ab
A fabricated disbelief
F# F#(9) C# B Ab
Pull back the curtains take a look into your eyes
F# F#(9) C# B Ab
My tongue has now become a platform for your lies
|---------|
Pre Chorus
|---------|
Chorus
|---------|
Solo (I haven't tabbed this and I'm not sure what scale it's in, so I'll find out
and if someone tabs it or if i work it out I'll put it up as well =D)
|---------|
Chorus
|---------|
(End however you like, probably on the G# with a down stroke.)
