THE AUTOMATIC BOX SET: FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN

  A little time has passed since my last post.  I am going to wrap up the Automatic Box here even though there is one more CD to transcribe because I want to get started on Monster.  I will someday revisit these other songs, but for now here is the last and my favorite cover.  The band introduces a very heavy guitar sound to this Leonard Cohen cover and the results are brilliant.  I like Cohen, but this version gives the song an edge that his 80's synth pop sound just couldn't accomplish.  The links below will actually ask you to go to YouTube directly ... but well worth it to hear how the versions differ ...

FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them

First we take Manhattan

Then we take Berlin

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons

First we take Manhattan

Then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you baby
I love your body, and your spirit, and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station
Oh I told you, oh I told you, oh I told you I was one of those

You loved me as a loser but now you’re worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin

First we take Manhattan

Then we take Berlin

I don't like your fashion business mister
I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
I don't like what happened to your sister

First we take Manhattan

Then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you baby
I love your body, and your spirit, and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station
Oh I told you, oh I told you, oh I told you I was one of those

Did I thank you for those items that you sent me?
The monkey and the plywood violin
I practiced every night, now I'm ready

First we take Manhattan

Then we take Berlin

Oh, remember me?  I used to live for music
Remember me?  I brought your groceries in
Its Father's Day and everybody's wounded

First we take Manhattan

Then we take Berlin

  Pretty simple fuzzed out guitar with feedback throughout.  I tabbed the beginning and the end, but after the end where I stopped, Buck just doodles around the same notes as the song fades ... 

FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN

Intro

Guitar 1

e|----------0----|

B|-0-1h-1-3h-----|

G|-----------2---|

D|---------------|

A|---------------|

E|---------------|

Intro

Guitar 2 (x4)

e|-----0-0-0---|

B|-----1-1-1---|

G|-2---2-2-2---|

D|-2---2-2-2---|

A|-----0-0-0---|

E|-----0-0-0---|

Verse

e|-0---0-0-0---0---0-0-0---|

B|-3---3-3-3---1---1-1-1---|

G|-2---2-2-2---2---2-2-2---|

D|-0---0-0-0---2---2-2-2---|

A|-------------------------|

E|-------------------------|

Chorus

e|-3---1---0------0------|

B|-3---1---0------1------|

G|-4---2---1------2------|

D|-5---3---2------2------|

A|-5---3---2------0------|

E|-3---1---0-------------|

Bridge

e|-0---0---3---1---3-0---0---0----|

B|-1---1---3---1---3-1---1---1----|

G|-0---0---0---2---0-0---0---2----|

D|-2---2---0---3---0-2---2---2----|

A|-3---3---2---3---2-3---3---0----|

E|-0---0---3---1---3-0---0---0----|

Bridge

e|-0---0---0---3---1---0------0---------|

B|-1---1---1---3---1---0------1---------|

G|-0---0---2---4---2---1------2---------|

D|-2---2---2---5---3---2------2---------|

A|-3---3---0---5---3---2------0---------|

E|-0---0---0---3---1---0----------------|

Outro Lead (Am-G)

e|-------------------------------------|

B|-0-1h-0----1-3-1-0-1--------0--------|

G|-------0-2------------2-0-2---2>4-7--|

D|-------------------------------------|

A|-------------------------------------|

E|-------------------------------------|