Cant Fade Me

Song

'Can't Fade Me'

Performed by 311

From the album "Soundsystem" on Capricorn Records

Music by: N. Hexum

Lyrics by: N. Hexum & D. Martinez

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Tabbed by: Michael Slusarz (slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu)Intro (w/octaver):

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N.C.

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A:-5-7-5-7-5-7-5-7-5-5-5---7-7-7-

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Verse 1 (w/octaver):

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N.C.

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A:-(9p)7-7-5-7-5-5-7-5------9p7-5-7-5-5-7-5---5-
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* Don't play note in ()'s first time through.

Verse 2 (w/octaver):

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E:-(7)-...-7-5-7-5-7-5-7-5-5-5-5-5-5--5-

Palm

Muted

Bridge 1:

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D:-9---9-11-12-11-9--11-9--9-11-12-11-9---9-

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A:----------------11-----------11-9----------------7-7-7-

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Bridge 2:

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Bridge 3:

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Palm

Muted

Ending (w/octaver):

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E:-0-2-2-3-3-3-0-2-2-3-3-3-0-2-2-3-3-3--3-3-3-2h3p2-   (x2)

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E:-12-14-14-15-15-15-12-14-14-15-15-15-12-14-14-15-15-15-

N.C.

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E:-15-15-15-14h15p14- (x2)

Lyrics/Song Structure:

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---> Play Intro (x1)

---> Play Verse 1 over:

SA:

We bust the sound

The kids all gather round

Nick:

And what's comin' from their radios

They all turn down

SA:

The creativeness

We are scientists

Nick:

Move 'em with soul

Move 'em with this

---> Play Verse 2 over:

SA:

When the bass kicks

We get intimate

Nick:

With the music and the people

Yeah they're into it

SA:

Takin' off cruisin through the air

Both:

The sound is aerodynmaic

Let me take you there

---> Play Bridge 1 (x1)

---> Play Verse A over:

SA:

I am a cool and mellow man

Nick:

Always got a plan

SA:

Copin' out problems every time I can

Nick:

I'd like to be known as a great communicator

SA:

If you got beef don't save it for later

---> Play Verse B over:

Nick:

I battle evil weekly monthly yearly

But every step I take the devil stays near me

SA:

Otherwise maintain on the globe

Both:

Just another space trippin' vato

---> Play Bridge 1 (x1)

---> Play Bridge 2 over:

SA:

Massive yang and yin on this earth we spin

Sometimes I gotta center find out who I am

Nick:

I chill out I let in the wind

SA:

I gotta feel the pulse of the planet on my skin

Both:

I got news for ya it ain't nothin nice

We all got demons we all gotta vice

The struggle never ends

To keep it in check

But I never stop trying

To make the trek whadup

---> Play Bridge 3

---> Play Ending over:

Nick:

Which one is it who ya gonna believe

Undivided in my material being

Undivided life

You can't fade me

Desperate the cling I make to positvity

Stay gettin it on til the doubt is gone

If you could be dissuaded you were dead all along

Like what's up now you can't fade me

Still in that same old trade of positivity