Biography:
With Abney Park's unique darkwave style, one can easily imagine inspiration drawn from fairy tales and nightmares, and recollect a past that never was. Heavy Steampunk inspiration creates style quite unlike anything else.
Abney Park began around 1997, but their popularity exploded with the onset of internet music, with much success through MP3.com in the early 2000’s. The band was a regular chart topper, often holding the number 1 – 5 positions in Goth and Darkwave, and Industrial Dance music charts.
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So...this is how I play it, but I'm sure it's likely played on a 7 string guitar, therefor played a string lower than
how I play it, but it sounds correct none the less. >:] Anyways...for now I'll
post the basic chords with the lyrics and then add the specific tab parts later,
including the solo...and I hope if it's not correct, that it helps someone tab it
out more correctly...
I play it in Standard E A D G B e tuning(which the seven string would likely be B A D G B e), but like I said, it may be played a full
string lower, so if you know how to transpose...anyways
Also, the clean parts I usually play with some Chorus effect or Reverb...maybe
some good phaser mixed in there.
So, on the seven string i'm sure it'd be using the chords E, G, and A( F# on those chorus') I dunno, try em out however! >:]
Intro.
A, A, C, D
A, C, D(I like to let it ring out a bit, and tremolo/vibrato bend it a bit)
Verse(First half clean)
A
I take a steam train to work
C D
Just like the one my father took
A
And I pass over the walls
C D
I see the people as I look
(transtion from clean to distortion during these lyrics)
I see
Verse(second half heavy distortion[prolly use power chords])
A
there's the block
For folks with purple skin
C D
There's the block for folks who have no chin
A
There's the block for me & all my kin
C D
And over there is the change cage where we throw the rebels in
CHORUS
A
I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
C B
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall
(2x)
Verse 2(first half clean)
A
Walls of iron bolted with steel
C D
Two miles high that should hide how we feel
A
And in the city we've walled off each block
C D
This should work to segregate any racial melting pot
Verse 2(second hald heavy distortion)
A
Long ago we learned of the trouble
C D
When a man steps out of his life's plastic bubble
A
So we walled off the city, caged thoughts that were free
C D
And now our lives are safe from any change that
Could have come between you & me
Repeat the CHORUS (2x)
Solo [I'll include this, with the tab later] (played over the verse chords)
Repeat the CHORUS (2x)
Verse 3(first half clean)
A
They say an artist from block 616
C D
Revived some old art just for his own kicks
A
They say his pictures were lude
They say his women were nude
C D
So we throw them inside
Verse 3(second half, heavy distortion)
A
Well now that artist can run, he can hide
C D
But sooner or later we'll throw him inside
A
I don't think the people should see
C
Well that's not art to me
D
So we'll throw them inside
Repeat CHORUS(a few times actually, I'll listen again, and put the excact outro chorus here)
And I will hold the key, until the day they say the cage will fall!
Have fun playing, this has been my favourite song for the longest time...I hope this helps!!
how I play it, but it sounds correct none the less. >:] Anyways...for now I'll
post the basic chords with the lyrics and then add the specific tab parts later,
including the solo...and I hope if it's not correct, that it helps someone tab it
out more correctly...
I play it in Standard E A D G B e tuning(which the seven string would likely be B A D G B e), but like I said, it may be played a full
string lower, so if you know how to transpose...anyways
Also, the clean parts I usually play with some Chorus effect or Reverb...maybe
some good phaser mixed in there.
So, on the seven string i'm sure it'd be using the chords E, G, and A( F# on those chorus') I dunno, try em out however! >:]
Intro.
A, A, C, D
A, C, D(I like to let it ring out a bit, and tremolo/vibrato bend it a bit)
Verse(First half clean)
A
I take a steam train to work
C D
Just like the one my father took
A
And I pass over the walls
C D
I see the people as I look
(transtion from clean to distortion during these lyrics)
I see
Verse(second half heavy distortion[prolly use power chords])
A
there's the block
For folks with purple skin
C D
There's the block for folks who have no chin
A
There's the block for me & all my kin
C D
And over there is the change cage where we throw the rebels in
CHORUS
A
I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
C B
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall
(2x)
Verse 2(first half clean)
A
Walls of iron bolted with steel
C D
Two miles high that should hide how we feel
A
And in the city we've walled off each block
C D
This should work to segregate any racial melting pot
Verse 2(second hald heavy distortion)
A
Long ago we learned of the trouble
C D
When a man steps out of his life's plastic bubble
A
So we walled off the city, caged thoughts that were free
C D
And now our lives are safe from any change that
Could have come between you & me
Repeat the CHORUS (2x)
Solo [I'll include this, with the tab later] (played over the verse chords)
Repeat the CHORUS (2x)
Verse 3(first half clean)
A
They say an artist from block 616
C D
Revived some old art just for his own kicks
A
They say his pictures were lude
They say his women were nude
C D
So we throw them inside
Verse 3(second half, heavy distortion)
A
Well now that artist can run, he can hide
C D
But sooner or later we'll throw him inside
A
I don't think the people should see
C
Well that's not art to me
D
So we'll throw them inside
Repeat CHORUS(a few times actually, I'll listen again, and put the excact outro chorus here)
And I will hold the key, until the day they say the cage will fall!
Have fun playing, this has been my favourite song for the longest time...I hope this helps!!
Above Envy
Above the Golden (...)
Above Waves
Abra
Abra Moore