NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI: ELECTROLITE

  To end this album on such a nice easy song is almost apologetic. Sorry for complaining about the road! Hugs and smooches! Michael originally didn't think the song fit the album, but was overruled. Maybe he was worried about the not overly original lyrics, or perhaps it was just how personal the song was. It was inspired by his life in L.A. and particularly after an earthquake damaged his house and he went up Mulholland and looked upon the city at night. 'Electrolite' is really just short hand for Electric Lights and being that this song is a bit of a goodbye to the 20th century, the idea is appropriate. There is also an excitement in stepping into the future, thinking the coming years would progress the issues of humanity--the 20th century was a shit-show, and it needed to 'go to sleep, really deep.' Unfortunately the 21st Century has seen a regression of humanity, but the song doesn't know that. It also doesn't know this is Bill Berry's last official track listing with the band. In hindsight it's a fitting elegy to a part of the band that would never be replaced and whose departure left the group scrambling for identity for fifteen years. Electrolite is a fun, simple tune with a catchy lyric that pretty much sums up the journey the band had been on and maybe Bill's final thought as well: 'Don't be scared. I'm outta here.'

ELECTROLITE

Your eyes are burnin’ holes through me
I'm gasoline

I'm burnin' clean
20th century go to sleep
You're Pleistocene

That is obscene

That is obscene

You are the star tonight
Your sun electric, outta sight
Your light eclipsed the moon tonight
Electrolite
You're outta sight

If I ever want to fly
Mulholland Drive
I am alive
Hollywood is under me
I'm Martin Sheen
I'm Steve McQueen
I'm Jimmy Dean

You are the star tonight
Your sun electric, outta sight
Your light eclipsed the moon tonight
Electrolite
You're outta sight

If you ever want to fly
Mulholland Drive
Up in the sky

(You are alive)

(You are alive)
Stand on a cliff and look down there

(You are alive)
Don't be scared

(You are alive)
You are alive

(You are alive)
You are alive

You are the star tonight
Your sun electric outta sight
Your light eclipsed the moon tonight
Electrolite
You're outta sight

20th century go to sleep
Really deep

We won't blink
Your eyes are burning holes through me
I'm not scared

I'm outta here
I'm not scared

I'm outta here

  Simple song. I sometimes tab the piano parts here, but for this track it's really just chords and doodling. The banjo is tuned like a guitar, so the below part you can also play on banjo. Love the lead stuff and the subtle pinky remove the second time you hit C in the Verse.

ELECTROLITE

Verse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bridge to Chorus

e|-2---0-------2---2-------|

B|-3---1-------3---4-------|

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

D|-0---2---x2--0---4-------|

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

E|-----0-----------2-------|

Chorus

e|-0---3-0---0---3-0---0---3-2---3-2-3---|

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

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

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

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

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

Lead (B-Am x3, C-D)

(Banjo Doodle, B Chord: G string 7/8

                Am: D string 5/7)

e|-7--7--7--5--5--5---0---2-------|

B|-7-7-7----5-5-5-----1---3-------|

G|-8----8---7----7----0---2-------|

D|-9--------7---------2---0-------|

A|--------------------3-----------|

E|---------------(x3)-0-----------|