Chord transcription by Mikayel Abazyan mikayelabazyan@yahoo.com
Playing tips
In this powerful song that concludes the album you need to be
ready to attack with the sequence of chords, created by doing
chromatic runs up and down from g on 3rd (open) string to g on
5th string with your fingers. At least this is how I noted it
down on that piece of paper.
Dm Am
And when you feel you can't go on
Dm A
what kind of laurels do you look to?
C
Sometimes we get what we want,
Bb
sometimes we take a good hook too.
Dm Am
Once you thought you were so strong...
C(2=3) C+g
some young pretender came and shook you.
C Bb
Now there's a lesson to be learned:
C
we must respect what is gone
Bb Am
and still expect there'll be something more,
Am+f Am+g
but there's a tab left to pay
Bb Dm+a Dm+g Dm Dm(1-0)
for the experience we're gaining day af - ter day
Bb
as our knuckles are grazed
Am
by the marks that we made
Dm(1=0) Dm
with the tools of the trade.
A telegraph is on its way
that might explain my every action.
Sometimes we get what we want
and then forget what we came here for.
From fitness to decay
we trade in opposite attractions.
There are still lessons to be learned
and when we get what we want
we find it less than we might deserve.
Now I'm a little bit lost,
not for the first time I'm here in some disarray
and returning in spades
are the hands that I've played
with the tools of the trade.
Dm (keep base chord Dm but picture the difference with fingers by picking the notes chromatically from g on 3rd string)
If I learned my lesson well
I've got time to buy and sell with the tools of the trade.
"What do you want? What do you get?
What do you want? What do you expect?"
What you want, what you want's not what you get.
Dm C Dm C Dm
The tools of the trade, look what you made with the tools of the trade.
C Dm
But what price has been paid for the tools of the trade?
And here's a message in my hands,
though I'm not sure I can decode it.
Sometimes we get what we want
and yet still don't know quite what that is.
Timidity be damned .
hang on to that towel, never throw it.
Still there are lessons to be learned:
if we don't get what we want
at least we get to request the bill,
carrying on
until the last one is standing still in the game.
With quick breath we all pay
for the fists that we made:
these, the tools of the trade.