Crashing By Design – guitar tab
Crashing By Design | guitar tab By Pete Townshend >From White City, 1985 Written by Pete Townshend, ©1985 Eel Pie Publishing Ltd. #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# ============== transcribed by Whotabs litgo@aol.com 1999-09-03 www.thewho.net/whotabs ============== Capo on 1 (tape speed is slightly off, so to match CD, slightly detune) [intro pattern] G# C#/G# |4-------|-----------|3------|------------| |4-------|<13>-------|2------|------------| |1-------|<13>-------|1------|--4^\^\^\^--| |1-------|<13>-------|3------|------------| |--------|-----------|-------|------------| |4-------|-----------|4------|------------| [chorus] |G# | D#/G# |C#/G# |C#/G# D#/G# |G# Nothing must pass this line, unless it is well-defined |G# D#/G|C#/G | You just have to be resigned, |E |C#m |B |F# You're crashing by design |G# | D# You once believed that crazy accidents were happening to you |C# | D# You were chasing a capricious wind |G# | D# Whenever bad luck and trouble happened to pursue you |C# | (D#) The dice would surely save your skin |Fm | D# D# But when you look back you must realize |Fm | C# C# That nothing in your life's divine |Fm | D# D# Everything that's ever befallen you |Fm | Happened simply 'cause it crossed your mind D# C# |G# You're crashing by design [repeat chorus] [solo] |E |C#m |B |F# | |---7--|---9--|---11--|-11---14--| |9-----|7-----|9------|----------| |------|------|-------|----------| |------|------|-------|----------| |------|------|-------|----------| |------|------|-------|----------| In your single-roomed flat in a courtyard building You sit alone just like a broken toy Where's your mother, where's your lover And where are the children Are you a man or are you still a boy? Who left you behind, or did you run From the crush of so many options? Now you know the special despair of the man Discussed, debated and offered for adoption [repeat chorus] |E |F# Another man without a woman |G# |Bb Dropped like a useless tool no longer required |B |C# |D# A man who longs for the stifling milk-flowing bosom | A fool who's no longer desired [solo2] |G# | D#/G# |C#/G# D#/G#|G# | D#/G#|C#/G# | |B | F# F# Another man without a woman (Nothing can pass this line) |B | F# F# Too many rages have cost you this time (Unless it is well-defined) |B | F# F# Another man among a hundred children (You'll just have to be resigned) |B |F# F F# F F#|G# You're just a child who is lost in time (It all happens by design...) Nothing can pass this line Unless it is well-defined You'll just have to be resigned You're crashing by design ============= litgo@aol.com #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
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