Crush With Eyeliner

uh, you know me

BREAK:

(Hold)

G-|--------|--------|--------|--------|------ --|------ --|0-------|--------|
D-|--------|--------|--------|--------|------ --|------ -4|5-------|--------|
A-|--------|--------|--------|--------|5-5-54h55|7-7-76h7-|--------|--------|
E-|7-----97|5----035|7-----97|5----035|------ --|------ --|--------|--------|

VERSE:

She's a sad tomato

She's 3 miles of bad road

She's her own invention.

(She's her own invention)**

That gets me in the throat.

What can I make myself be?

Uh, life is strange,

Yeah, life is strange.**

What can I make myself be? - faker -

To make her mine.**

CHORUS:

I am smitten

I'll do anything (I'll do anything).

Oh my kiss breath turpentine

my crush with eyeliner

In the last measure of each chorus, right before the next one, insert the

following segue (only in these last three):

*

G-|--------|
D-|--------|
A-|-----T98|
E-|--------|

CHORUS:

I am smitten

And you know me, yeah

You know me

I could be your frankenstein***

My crush with eyeliner

CHORUS:

I am smitten

I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)

Won't you be my valentine?

My crush with eyeliner

INSTRUMENTAL CHORUS

ENDING:

(from the last chorus measure)

G E

G-|--------|--------|
D-|--------|--------|
A-|-----T98|7-------|
E-|3-------|--------|

VARIATIONS:

at the beginning, try starting in with A at the 15th fret of the E string

at the start of the first full measure, then slide into the verse with a

rip from 15 to five. Cool effect.

At the end, you can do as the king of the bass guitar did on Letterman and

also in concert by ending with a slide from B (7th fret) to open E on the E

string on the second (implied) measure of the E chord ending.

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NOTES:

###- this is where the backing vocal (as done by the incredible Mr. Mills)

is a falsetto G to A to E, the second time per chorus G to A to G. You can

work out best for yourself how to handle this (some people relegate it to

keyboard), but I find that it is easiest to do it mouthing "Aah" and

throwing the sound up to the roof of the mouth. Other variations discard

this backing vocal entirely or replace it with an echoing of the lead

vocal. Try screwing around with it to see what kind of effect you can get.

Don't forget the other backup vocals, too, 'cause they're kinda important.

**-these are a combination of lead voacal and two backing vocals, in the

case of the original that'd be Mr. Stipe, Mills, and Berry. You can

probably get by with one or no backing vocals on this, but its so easy, why

bother?

***-Not only the name of that great novel and horror flick classic, but

also the title of a scummy track by the New York Dolls (It can be found on

both their eponymously titled album and their compilation.) Check it out.

According to Stipe in an interview with Anthony DeCurtis (rolling stone)

this is the source of the name and Crush w/ Eyeliner is his attempt at a

Dolls' like song.

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The lyrics just might be from the inside of the Crush With Eyeliner single

(which, by the way, includes a great live version of Fall on Me), and the

tab is very, very accurate (or so I've been told), so therefore copyright

R.E.M./Athens 1995, Night Garden Music 1994 is implicit. But really, for

all intent and legal purposes, it's still just a fan's interpetation of a

good song.