The Empire Strikes First

Tabed by: Justin Le Tourenau  *
my email is *. 

I re-wrote my original tab so it was in standard tuning, and added the solo ( I have no
idea if it's right, but it sounds good to me)


Note: Lowercase letters are meant to signify the higher note  (example F - 133xxx
f - x81010xx) 

Verse:

pick slide;
D               F      C                     B / C    
This song goes out to all the hopeless sinners
D              F                 C           F  - C 
With Grave allegiances so meaningless and vain
D                A         B                   f - e                      
The walking wounded, in a pageant of contenders,        
D#                       A#                         f(let ring)
who balance on a rail of pain for just a pail of rain


Chorus:
                  D        A#          f             e
And everything is barely mised- blood relations and bricks
D                          A#           
My expression, my confession
        F               A                  D
       A#               F           A
Once again, like a bullet, as a freind tell me;
A#         C           D (let ring)
Can that be all there is?

D                 F          C                    B / C   
In my rectory of doubt i kneel to prlay like one devout
D                      F       C                           F  - C
As time the great gray dreamless sleep of a useless modern god
D                               A / B                     f - e                       
Erodes away each storied day as wreched Adams with hell to pay  
D#                       A#                     f(let ring)
Content upon a rail of pain for just a little rain

Verse 2:
                  D        A#           f               e
And everything is dearly mised- blood relations and bricks
D                            A#           
My expression, my confession
F                              A                      D
         A#            F            A
Once again, like a bullet, as a freind tell me;
A#        C            D (let ring)
Can that be all there is?

Solo:
Rythem - (Play the first 2 lines of Verse 2 and then play D#  A# B)

Solo:

e-|---------13--13----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B-|---13b-----------------------------13---13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13----------------------------|
G-|---14b-----------12b(14)-----12----12---10-12-10-12-10-12-10-12---10--10--10------10/12----|
D-|-------------------------12---------------------------------------------------12-----------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

e-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B-|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------13--13-----|
G-|--------------------------------------------------12b(14)--12--10--10b(12)--10-------------|
D-|------------10------------------10----10--12/15--------------------------------------------|
A-|---------10---(10)~~~--------10----10------------------------------------------------------|
E-|---10h13---------------10/13---------------------------------------------------------------|

e-|---10--10b(11)--10\\\------------10--10--10~~----------------------------------------------|
B-|------------------------3/10h13--------------13~~--10--------------------------------------|
G-|-------------------------------------------------------12--10--12/14b(16)r14\\\\-----------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Verse 3:

(Palm Mute)

D                         F              C                         B / C      
There's and  endless disposition and it doesn't mean a god damn thing
D                         F                    C                  f  - C 
There's space for a paper airplane race in the eye of a hurricane
       D                          A                                          
And if pigs could fly then surely so could I
  B                                       f \ e                                        
But this pedestrian know better than to even try
             e                   B                        f
My divinity is caught between the colors of a butterfly


pick slide;
                   D      A#            f               e
And everything is dearly mised- blood relations and bricks
D                            A#             
My expression, my confession
F                              A                      D
         A#                   F            A
Once again, like a bullet, as a freind tell me;
  A#          C         A      A#
Can that be all there is?
  C         D       (let ring)
All there is?