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Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Song: The Day The Whole World Went Away
Album: Fragile
Brought to you by: front_rowe_centre
Standard Tuning: EADGBe
x= pause
\= down slide
Opening (hold note with distortion for 22 seconds)
e|---|
B|---|
G|---|
D|---|
A|---|
E|-4-|
Chorus
gtr. 1
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-----------------------------------|
D|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-|
A|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-|
E|---------------------------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-5-|x4
Gtr. #2, comes in after 2nd, round of chorus with this:
e|----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-15--12--14--10--15--12--14--10--15--12--14--10--15--12--14--10-|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse (This is usually a bass tab so use it only if you are playing guitar alone
and want to accompany the lyrics with instrumental)
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-----------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-5-|x4
After second round of (bass) verse, guitar comes in with this (after "grey")
Slow playing as you progress after bass has ended.
e|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|-4-6-6-8--8--9--9--x-|
D|-6-8-8-10-10-11-11-x-|
A|-6-8-8-10-10-11-11-x-|
E|---------------------|x14
For more simple alternitave that sounds pretty much the same this section can be
played:
e|-------------------|
B|-------------------|
G|-6-8-8-9-9-11-11-x-|
D|-------------------|
A|-------------------|
E|-------------------|x14
Lyrics
"I listen to the words he'd say,
but in his voice I heard decay,
the plastic face forced to portray,
I'll be inside left cold, and gray,
there is a place that still remains,
it eats the fear, it eats the pain,
the sweetest price he'll have to pay,
the day the whole world went away"
Chorus
Gtr. #1
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-----------------------------------|
D|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-|
A|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-|
E|---------------------------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-5-|x7
Gtr. #2
e|-------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------|
D|---6—--4---2---9---8---9---8---|
A|-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|x10
Gtr. #2 ctd.
e|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|
G|-----------------------13-\-11--|
D|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|x4
With chanting of "na na na..."