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Hungry Ghost Eyes

Tabs by Miguel A. Dominguez

NOTE FOR PLAYERS: Numbers in parenthesis can be played or not as you choose. You can use D instead D/F/9 if you find it better or easier to play. Notice the unusual and rare chord G5dim/5dim. Do you remember "Imperfectly" ?... Here is that same chord that I don't know how to name again! I think I should name it "the Frame chord"...


Chords Used:

             E    A    D    G    B    E
G ---------- 3    2    0    0    2    2
Em           0    2    2    0    0    0 
C ---------- 0    3    2    0    1    0
D            x    x    0    2    3    2
G5dim5dim - (3)   4    5    6   (0)  (0) Frame Chord 
G7           3    2    3    0    0   (1)     
D/F/9 ------ x    x    4    2    3    0 
C/9          0    3    2    0    3   (0)



Riff Intro:

(v=vibrato bar 1/2 low)

E|-----------------|---------------|--------------|-------------|
B|-----------------|---------------|--------------|-------------|
G|-----------------|------0v-------|--------------|-------------|
D|-----------------|------2v-------|--------------|-------------|
A|2--2--2--2--3--2-|---------------|--2-2-2-2-3-2-|-------------|
E|-----------------|---------------|--------------|------0v-----|

E|-----------------|---------------|
B|-----------------|---------------|
G|-----------------|---------------|
D|-----------------|0-2_3-2-0------|
A|--2--2--2--2--3--|----------3----|
E|-----------------|---------------|

E|-----------------|---------------|
B|-----------------|---------------|
G|-----------------|---------------|
D|--5-4-2-0--------|4-2-0----------|	
A|3---------3-2-0--|------3-2------|
E|----------------3|----------2-3v-|



Verse:

G ------------------------------------------
The hungry ghosts that haunt the working day

Em -----------------------------------
Who want it most and want it yesterday

------- C -----------------------------------------------
Will se-duce you with your power, crush you like a flower

D ---------------
Here comes payday

G --------------------------------------------
You're headed for a taste of bittersweet times

Em ----------------------------------------
The sun and moon'll never rise to deadlines

--- C -----------------------------------------------------
And wellin' up within will come the taste of nearly winning

G5dim/5dim---------
 Perfume and saline...



--- C -------------------------- Em --
And every little tear is like an ocean

---- C ----------------------------- Em ----
That falls beyond the reach of our e-motions

- C ----------------------------------------
A place within a place where everybody bears

---------------- D/F/9 -------------- D
a trace of every promise ever broken



Chorus:

--- G ------------------------------ Em ---------
You say it doesn't touch you but you seem so sore 

G ---------------------- Em ------------
Maybe you don't wanna be touched anymore

G7 ---------------------------- C ----------------
The world is waitin' but you"ve seen it all before

--------------------------------- D ---------- G ---> INTRO
With your hungry ghost eyes, your hungry ghost eyes



Verse 2

G ----------------------------------
In the city there's no place to hide

Em ----------------------------------
from a world defined by foolish pride

--- C ---------------------------------- C/9 -----------------
You say it's what you choose because you couldn't bear to lose

----------- G ------------ D
And so your soul's denied

G --------------------------------------
Out on the bridge beyond the bottom line

Em --------------------------------------
I started thinkin' 'bout what wasn't mine

-- C -------------------------- C/9 -------------------
My lips were gettin' drier, the boulevards were hummin'

-------- G5dim/5dim --------------------------------------
With the sound of sheer desire, we've really got it comin'



---- C ------------------------------- Em ----
This paste and copy world has lost its meaning

----- C ---------------------------- Em -
Where things are only ever what they seem

---- C -------------------------------------------------------
It's bound to bring you down when every word that was profound

------------ D/9 ---------------------
Suggests the sound of someone schemin'



Chorus 2:

--- G ------------------------------------ Em -
You say that your ambition's gonna get you free

-- G ------------------------------- Em ---------
In-stead of sittin' wishin' for what you can't be,

G7----------------------- C ----------
You wanna buy it but your soul can see

--------------------------------- D ---------- G --
Into your hungry ghost eyes, your hungry ghost eyes



Instrumental:

C -- Em
C -- Em
C -- G5dim/5dim -- Gdim



Chorus 3:

--- G ----------------------------------- Em ---------
You say you've found something that could set you free

------ G ----------------------------- Em -------
You're gonna sit and wish for what you want to be

------ G --------------------------- Em ------------
You're itchin' to believe it but you still can't see

------ G --------------------------- Em ----
You're mixin' up your money with the mystery

G7------------------------------------------- C ---------------
But there's a little bitty Buddha where there didn't used to be

-------------------------------------- D ------- G ---
I hope your hungry ghost eyes meet his innermost smile 

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