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In My Time of Need

Opeth
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Song

OPETH - IN MY TIME OF NEED

second track taken from the long-awaited masterpiece Damnation

tabbed as always by eugenio crippa, available for everything at demon_of_the_fall@msn.com

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normal tuning, my friends (did you have any doubt about it?)

I - intro - repeat 4 times

|----------0--------|
|--------7---7------|
|------0-------0----|
|----7-----------7--|
|-------------------|
|--0----------------|

II - drums, bass and voice enter:

"i can't see the meaning of this life i'm leading

i try to forget you as you forgot me

this time there is nothing left for you to take, this is goodbye"

repeat 2 times:

1.2.3. 4.

|----------0--------|----------0---3------|
|--------7---7------|------1-----1-----1--|
|------0-------0----|----4---4-------4----|
|----7-----------7--|---------------------|
|-------------------|--0------------------|
|--0----------------|---------------------|

III - can you hear it?

|-------|
|----5--|
|--5-.--|
|-------|
|-------|
|-------|

IV - chorus part one:

"summer is miles and miles away

and no one would ask me to stay"

1. 2.3. x8

|--4------|--2------|--1------|
|----4----|----2----|----1----|
|------6--|------4--|------3--|
|---------|---------|---------|
|---------|---------|---------|
|---------|---------|---------|

V - orgasm # 2: chorus part two

"and i should contemplate this change

to ease the pain

and i should step out of the rain

and turn away"

strum these chords:

|--0-----7-----5-----2---0-2---0-----|
|--0-----7-----5-----2---0-2---0-----|
|--0-----7-----5-----4---4-4---4-----|
|--2-----9-----7-----4---4-4---4-----|
|--2-----9-----7-----2---2-2---2-----|
|--0-----7-----5---------------------|

> > > >

VI - repeat II with these new lines:

"close to ending it all, i am drifting through the stages

of the rapture born within this loss

thoughts of death inside, tear me apart from the core of my soul"

VII - repeat IV + V

VIII - things change again:

"at times the dark's fading slowly

but it never sustains

would someone watch over me

in my time of need"

repeat 2 times these strummed chords:

1.2.3.

|--0---0--|--0---0--|
|--0---0--|--5---6--|
|--2---3--|--5---6--|
|--2---3--|--5---6--|
|--0---1--|--3---4--|
|---------|---------|

XI - the solo (?)

rhythm: play II

leads: 2 guitars

gtr1

|-------|--11b12--|-----------------------------|---------|---------------------------------------------|
|10b11--|---------|--9h10-12-12b13-------10-12--|--11b12--|---------------------------------------------|
|-------|---------|-----------------------------|---------|--11b12r11-9---12----------------------------|
|-------|---------|-----------------------------|---------|---------------------------------------------|
|-------|---------|-----------------------------|---------|---------------------------------------------|
|-------|---------|-----------------------------|---------|---------------------------------------------|

gtr2

|-------|---------|-----------------------------|--13b14--|---------------------14b151515151515151515\\\|
|-------|--11b12--|-----------------------------|---------|---------------------------------------------|
|-9b10--|---------|--11b12-(slow)-----------11--|---------|---------------------------------------------|
|-------|---------|-----------------------------|---------|---------------------------------------------|
|-------|---------|-----------------------------|---------|---------------------------------------------|
|-------|---------|-----------------------------|---------|---------------------------------------------|

X - repeat IV, V (2 times), then go on repeating the same chords sequence 'till the fading ending.

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| b Bend

| h Hammer-on

| r Release

| tr Trill

| \ Slide down

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