Biography:
Rocky Votolato is an American musician. He was born in rural Texas in 1978, though was raised in the Pacific Northwest. When his former band Lying on Loot disbanded in 1996, Rocky Votolato, along with friends Rudy Gajadhar (drums) and Andrew Hartley (bass), started playing under the name Waxwing. Rocky's younger brother Cody (The Blood Brothers) soon joined the band on second guitar, and the band recorded their debut 7" for Henry's Finest Recordings.
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Other songs:
- End Like This
- Mix Tapes Cellmate
- The Break-up Song (let's Just Be Friends)
- White Daisy Passing Am C Please Slow It Down Am There'
- A Discourse On Killing
- Above The Water
- Alabaster
- Automatic Rifle
- Boxcutter
- Crabtree And Evelyn
- Death Right
- Death
- Dont Walk Out On Me
- Eyes Like Static
- Fragments
- Goldfield
- Hospital Handshakes
- Ill Catch You
- Instrument
- Light And The Sound
- Like Silver
- Lilly White
- Lily White
- Little Spring
- Lucky Clover Coin
- Makers
- Mix Tapes Cellmates
- Montana
- Nights Disguise
- October
- One More Work Song Blues
- Portland Is Leaving
- Postcard From Kentucky
- Red River
- Safety Is A Coffin
- Sawdust And Shavings
- Secrets Of A Salesman
- She Was Only In It For The Rain
- Silver Trees
- Sparklers
- Suicide Medicine
- Sun Devil
- Sunlight
- Television Of Saints
- Tennessee Train Tracks
- The Finish Line
- The Old Holland
- The Wrong Side Of Reno
- Tinfoil Hats
- Treasure Chest
- Uppers Arent Necessary
- Where We Left Off
- White Daisy Passing
- White
- Without Eyes Still Seeing
- Writing Fiction
- Your Darkest Eyes
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You should go buy Suicide Medicine because its a great album.
The Light And The Sound by Rocky Votolato...
Tuning - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb / Half step down
I'm not sure if this will be the most conventional way to tab out this song but I'll give my best shot.
Chords used (numbered from high E to low E
Em D G6 Cmaj7 Am C
Eb 0 2 0 0 0 0
Bb 0 3 0 0 1 1
Gb 0 2 0 0 2 0
Db 2 0 0 2 2 2
Ab 2 0 2 3 0 3
Eb 0 x 3 x x x
Verse
Em D G6 Cmaj7 Em
Are you gonna die with the music inside? / Or did you catch the twilight on
D Cmaj7 Em D G6 Cmaj7 Em
your way into work? / You can live any day you can think / man i'm not lying
D Cmaj7
to you and yeah thats a threat.
Pre-Chorus
Am Em C Am Em
I dont wanna have you bury you like this / Somethings got to get your
D Am Em C Am
attention / If I have to crack open your skull with my fist / I'll let
Em D
the light and the sound escape.
Chorus
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am D
Listen now / you can hear the sound / surrender and let the light come out/
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am D
dont be afraid / let me hear your voice / what you live is what you make /
Am Cmaj7 D
what you make / what you ma' 'ake.
Verse 2
Em D G6 Cmaj7 Em D
I know youve worked hard your whole life / now youre tired of the money
Cmaj7 Em D G6 Cmaj7
its never enough / its never gonna be enough man that not even the point /
Em D Cmaj7
the only thing you cant afford is to keep buying the lines youre fed /
choking them down.
Pre-chorus 2
Am Em C Am Em
I know its comfortable to go back to sleep / Take a look at what youve
D Am Em C
been laying in / before you wake up in search of your paycheck death /
Am Em D
Demons of regret are making your death bed.
Chorus
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am D
Listen now / you can hear the sound / surrender and let the light come out/
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am D
dont be afraid / let me hear your voice / what you live is what you make /
Am Cmaj7 D
what you make / what you ma' 'ake.
Post-Chours/outro
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am D
dont be afraid / let me hear your voice / what you live is what you make /
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am
Cause im ready now / like i never was before / to see what this is all
D Am Cmaj7 D
about / all about / all abo' 'out.
Chords in sequence
verse
Em D G6 Cmaj7
Em D Cmaj7
Pre-chorus
Am Em C
Am Em D
Chorus
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7
G6 Am D
verse
Em D G6 Cmaj7
Em D Cmaj7
Pre-chorus
Am Em C
Am Em D
Chorus
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7
G6 Am D
Outro
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7
G6 Am D Am Cmaj7 D
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The Light And The Sound by Rocky Votolato...
Tuning - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb / Half step down
I'm not sure if this will be the most conventional way to tab out this song but I'll give my best shot.
Chords used (numbered from high E to low E
Em D G6 Cmaj7 Am C
Eb 0 2 0 0 0 0
Bb 0 3 0 0 1 1
Gb 0 2 0 0 2 0
Db 2 0 0 2 2 2
Ab 2 0 2 3 0 3
Eb 0 x 3 x x x
Verse
Em D G6 Cmaj7 Em
Are you gonna die with the music inside? / Or did you catch the twilight on
D Cmaj7 Em D G6 Cmaj7 Em
your way into work? / You can live any day you can think / man i'm not lying
D Cmaj7
to you and yeah thats a threat.
Pre-Chorus
Am Em C Am Em
I dont wanna have you bury you like this / Somethings got to get your
D Am Em C Am
attention / If I have to crack open your skull with my fist / I'll let
Em D
the light and the sound escape.
Chorus
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am D
Listen now / you can hear the sound / surrender and let the light come out/
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am D
dont be afraid / let me hear your voice / what you live is what you make /
Am Cmaj7 D
what you make / what you ma' 'ake.
Verse 2
Em D G6 Cmaj7 Em D
I know youve worked hard your whole life / now youre tired of the money
Cmaj7 Em D G6 Cmaj7
its never enough / its never gonna be enough man that not even the point /
Em D Cmaj7
the only thing you cant afford is to keep buying the lines youre fed /
choking them down.
Pre-chorus 2
Am Em C Am Em
I know its comfortable to go back to sleep / Take a look at what youve
D Am Em C
been laying in / before you wake up in search of your paycheck death /
Am Em D
Demons of regret are making your death bed.
Chorus
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am D
Listen now / you can hear the sound / surrender and let the light come out/
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am D
dont be afraid / let me hear your voice / what you live is what you make /
Am Cmaj7 D
what you make / what you ma' 'ake.
Post-Chours/outro
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am D
dont be afraid / let me hear your voice / what you live is what you make /
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7 G6 Am
Cause im ready now / like i never was before / to see what this is all
D Am Cmaj7 D
about / all about / all abo' 'out.
Chords in sequence
verse
Em D G6 Cmaj7
Em D Cmaj7
Pre-chorus
Am Em C
Am Em D
Chorus
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7
G6 Am D
verse
Em D G6 Cmaj7
Em D Cmaj7
Pre-chorus
Am Em C
Am Em D
Chorus
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7
G6 Am D
Outro
G6 Cmaj7 G6 Cmaj7
G6 Am D Am Cmaj7 D
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