This file contains:
1. tab for the picking pattern (transcribed by T-rev)
2. chords for the whole song (from the published Songbook)
Songbook duplicated with permission - http://www.t-rev.net/html/permission
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1. tab for the picking pattern (transcribed by T-rev)
"Standing Up For Nothing" by Caedmon's Call
From "Caedmon's Call", Warner Alliance 1997
Words and music by Derek Webb
Copyright © 1997 Cumbee Road Music (ASCAP)
caedmonscall.com awakeningrecords.com
Transcribed by T-rev http://www.t-rev.net
the picking in standing up for nothing is just this repeated pattern:
1 & 2 & 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
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--------3-----------3-----------3-----------3--------------
------------0-----------0-----------0-----------0---------
------0---0-------0---0-------2---2-----------0------------
--2h3---------0h2---------0-------------------------------
--------------------------------------3----------------------
^ ^ ^
these on beat 2 are much softer. for the G he just leaves it out
then in between verses he does this once.
--------0-----------------------0-----------------------
------------3-------3---------------3-------3--------------
------------------------0-----------------------0---------
------0---0-------0---0-------2---2-----------0------------
--2h3---------0h2---------0-------------------------------
--------------------------------------3----------------------
Transcribed 3/14/1998 by T-rev
More tab available at http://www.t-rev.net
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2. chords for the whole song (from the published Songbook)
STANDING UP FOR NOTHING
Artist: Caedmon's Call
Album: Caedmon's Call
Words and Music by Derek Webb
Copyright © 1997 Cumbee Road Music
Transcribed by Bryce Inman (from the Caedmon's Call Songbook)
http://caedmonscall.com/guitar_tab/songbook.shtml
More tab available at http://www.t-rev.net
C2 x30033
G/B x20033
Am11 x02033
G5 3x0033
D2 x00230
Am7 x02010
Fmaj7 133010
D2/F# 200230
E 022100
A#m7b5 x12120
B x2444x
C2 G/B Am11 G5 C2 G/B Am11 G5
-Verse 1-
C2 G/B Am11 G5 C2
Well, I can't stop staring at myself;
G/B Am11 G5 C2
My face reflected in this empty plate.
G/B Am11 G5 C2
I can't decide if it's the devil
G/B Am11 G5 C2G/B Am11 G5
Or if it's just something I ate.
G/B Am11 G5
'Cause he's been down there all morning.
C2 G/B Am11 G5 C2
He's patiently waiting at my gate.
G/B Am11 G5 C2
He's throwing rocks at my window.
G/B Am11 G5 C2 G/B Am11
Hey won't you come on out and play with me?
-Verse 2-
C2 G/B Am11 G5 C2
But everyday when I get up
G/B Am11 G5 C2
I see folks trading in their crowns
G/B Am11 G5
for all these paper or plastic lives;
C2 G/B Am11 G5
An opiate for the masses hounds.
C2 G/B Am11 G5
And pride, like a vestige of lives lost.
C2 G/B Am11 G5 C2
It's the stench of the old folks coming 'round.
G/B Am11 G5
Now with the news I heard today,
C2 G/B Am11 G5 C2
I can't tell if this world is lost or found.
-Chorus-
D2 C2
You go; I'll be waiting here.
D2
And I'm awake, I cannot sleep.
C2 D2
So I'll sit upon this rock is you.
Am7 C2
I ain't standing up for nothing.
G/B Am11 G5 C2 G/B Am11 G5
-Verse 2-
C2 G/B Am11 G5
Well, I've never seen my congressman,
C2 G/B Am11 G5
But I can't deny that he exists.
C2 G/B Am11 G5 C2
'Cause I've seen his legislation pass;
G/B Am11 G5
I've seen his name on the ballot list.
C2 G/B Am11 G5 C2
Same, I can't deny this fallen world.
G/B Am11 G5
Though not my home it's where I live.
C2 G/B Am11 G5
How can I preserve and light the way
C2 G/B Am11 G5 C2
for a world that I can't admit I'm in?
-Chorus-
D2 C2
'Cause I know who I say You are,
D2 C2
But these crows can't be made to stop.
D2 Am7
So I'll sit denying by this fire
C2
I ain't standing up for nothing
G/B Am11 G5
-Bridge-
Fmaj7
Lack of interest leads to,
D2/F#
Lack of knowledge leads to,
G5
Lack of perspective leads to,
E
Lack of communication leads to,
Am7
Lack of understanding leads to,
A#m7(b5)
Lack of concern leads to,
B
This complacency denotes,
C2
This approval denies
D2
The truth.
C2 G/B Am11 G5 C2
But I can't stop staring at myself;
G/B Am11 G5 C2
It's my face reflected in this empty plate.
G/B Am11 G5 C2
And I know that it's the devil.
G/B Am11 G5
C2 D2 C2
So You lead; and I'll be close behind.
D2 C2
So You speak and I'll hang on Your words.
D2 Am7
You've got to lift me from this hardened tree,
C2 G/B
'Cause I ain't standing up for nothing.
Am11 G5 C2 G/B Am11
G5 C2
nothin'.
G/B Am11 G5 C2 G/B Am11 G5
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