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Mushroom Cult

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★4.7(6)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Distorted

Q=77 bpm

4/4 9/8

E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E 4x

||----------------------------------|--------------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------|-------------------------------------o||
||----------------------------------|--------------------------------------||
||----------3-------5---------------|--------------------------------------||
||o-3---5---------------5---3---5---|-4---5---7---8-------6---7---6---5---o||
||--3---5-------5---------------5---|-4---5---7-------7-------7---6---5----||

[B]

Q=90 bpm

17/16

e e e S S S e e e S S

||------------------------------------------------||
||o----------------------------------------------o||
||--10---10---10---10-10-10-10---10---10---10-10--||
||---9----9----9----9--9--9--9----9----9----9--9--||
||o----------------------------------------------o||
||------------------------------------------------||

[C]Verse:

Clean

4/4, shuffled

Q=118 bpm

Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E

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

Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E

|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------3p0---|
|-0---3-6-5-4-0---2-4-3-2-|-0---3-6-5-4-0---0-----5-|

|

| Q E E E E Q E E E E

                          |-------------------------|
                          |-------------------------|
                          |-------------------------|
                          |-------------------------|
                          |-------------------------|

|-0---3-6-5-4-0---0-5h7-5-|

Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E

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

Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E

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

" Kaleidoscope of love

Ophidians dance as the shifting occurs

We are stars and electric animals

Nurtured by the mothers of prostitutes "

[D]Pre-Chorus:

Distorted

Q=85 bpm

1.,2.,3.

4/4 2/4

q q q q Q q q q E q q

||--------------------------|-------------------------|--------------||
||o-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------o||
||--5-----5-----5-----5-----|-8-----5-----5-----------|--------------||
||--5-----5-----5-----5-----|-8-----5-----5-----6---5-|-4-----4------||
||o-3-----3-----3-----3-----|-6-----3-----3-----6---5-|-4-----4-----o||
||--------------------------|-------------------6---5-|-4-----4------||

4.

4/4

q q q q E E E E E E E E E E E E

|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-|
|-4-----4-----4-----4-----|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|
|-4-----4-----4-----4-----|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|
|-4-----4-----4-----4-----|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|

" Floating in a mushroom universe

Swimming in a sea of cyclostomes

And as we surface through the tide

You open up and I come inside "

[E]Chorus:

Q=116 bpm

PM--| PM--|

Q E Q Q E E E E a Q E Q Q E E E E

||--------------------------|------------------------------||
||o-------------------------|-----------------------------o||
||--------------------------|------------------------------||
||--2---1-------2---5-------|-5s8---5--------8---11--------||
||o-2---1-------2---5-------|-5s8---5--------8---11-------o||
||--2---1-------2---5-4-3-2-|-5s8---5--------8---11-8-7-6--||

PM--|

Q E Q Q E Q E a Q E Q Q E E E E

||--------------------------|-----------------------------||
||o-------------------------|----------------------------o||
||--------3~~---------------|---------6~~-----------------||
||--2---1-3~~---------------|-5s8---5-6~~---8---11--------||
||o-2---1-1~~---------------|-5s8---5-4~~---8---11-------o||
||--2---1-------2---5-4---2-|-5s8---5-------8---11-8-7-6--||

" I must be in limbo

'Cause purgatory's always felt like home "

[C]Verse

" And as the world spins round and round

We fornicate upon the cotton clouds

That rain down sulphur smiles

On the children at play in the poppy fields "

[D]Pre-Chorus

" Sinking for what seems like forever

Like Atlantis into the sea

To forget the shore and wash away

Wash away my memory "

[E]Chorus

" I must be in limbo

'Cause purgatory's always felt like home "

[F]Interlude:

1.

3/4

Q Q E Q Q Q E Q Q Q E Q E E E E E E Q

||-------x---x------|------x---x------|------x---x------|--------------------||
||o------x---x------|------x---x------|------x---x------|-------------------o||
||--6----x---x-8----|-6----x---x-8----|-6----x---x-8----|-6-5-5-6-5-5-8------||
||--5----x---x-7----|-5----x---x-7----|-5----x---x-7----|-5-4-4-5-4-4-7------||
||o-4----x---x-6----|-4----x---x-6----|-4----x---x-6----|-4-3-3-4-3-3-6-----o||
||-------x---x------|------x---x------|------x---x------|--------------------||

2.

Q=80 bpm, un-shuffled

2/4

E E E E E E H

|-------------|-----------------|
|-------------|-----------------|
|-6-5-5-6-5-5-|-8---------------|
|-5-4-4-5-4-4-|-7---------------|
|-4-3-3-4-3-3-|-6---------------|
|-------------|-----------------|

Bridge:

4/4 3/4

E S S Q E S S Q E E E E e e 4x

||----------------------------------|--------------------------||
||o---------------------------------|-------------------------o||
||----------------------------------|---------6-------8---8----||
||--1---4-3-2-------1---4-3-2-------|-1--/4---5-------7---7----||
||o-1---4-3-2-------1---4-3-2-------|-1--/4---4-------6---6---o||
||--1---4-3-2-------1---4-3-2-------|-1--/4-------4------------||

" Inside the moon lives the high priest of the mushroom cult

Upon the altar are the ashes of the Pharisees

I sold my soul

Sold my soul

Sold my soul away

I'm free of guilt

Free of sin

Free of everything "

Interlude:

Q=85 bpm

4/4

e e e e e e e e e e e e S S S S S S S S

||----------------------------------|----------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------|---------------------------------o||
||--8---8---8---8---8---8---8---8---|-8---8---8---8-----7-7-7---7-7-7--||
||--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---|-7---7---7---7-----6-6-6---6-6-6--||
||o---------------------------------|---------------------------------o||
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------||

La-La part

PM| PM| PM| PM|

S S E S S E S S E S S E 4x

||-----------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------o||
||-----------------------------------||
||------5-------4-------6-------5----||
||o---4-------4-------3-------4-----o||
||--4-------5-------3-------3--------||

q q q q 4x

||-----------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------o||

||-----------------------------------|| (these are the same chords as

||--5-------4-------6-------5--------||  before, just strummmed instead)
||o-4-------4-------3-------4-------o||
||--4-------5-------3-------3--------||

PM| PM| PM| PM|

S S E S S E S S E S S E 4x

||-----------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------o||
||-----------------------------------||
||------5-------4-------6-------5----||
||o---4-------4-------3-------4-----o||
||--4-------5-------3-------3--------||

Bridge:

4/4 3/4

E S S Q E S S Q E E E E e e 4x

||----------------------------------|--------------------------||
||o---------------------------------|-------------------------o||
||----------------------------------|---------6-------8---8----||
||--1---4-3-2-------1---4-3-2-------|-1--/4---5-------7---7----||
||o-1---4-3-2-------1---4-3-2-------|-1--/4---4-------6---6---o||
||--1---4-3-2-------1---4-3-2-------|-1--/4-------4------------||

" Inside the moon lives the high priest of the mushroom cult

Upon the altar are the ashes of the Pharisees

I sold my soul

Sold my soul

Sold my soul away

I'm free of guilt

Free of sin

Free of everything "

Outro:

Q=83 bpm

4/4 9/8

E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E

||----------------------------------|--------------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------|-------------------------------------o||
||----------------------------------|--------------------------------------||
||----------3-------5---------------|--------------------------------------||
||o-3---5---------------5---3---5---|-4---5---7---8-------6---7---6---5---o||
||--3---5-------5---------------5---|-4---5---7-------7-------7---6---5----||

4/4

E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E

||----------------------------------|----------------------------------||------|
||o---------------------------------|---------------------------------o||------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------||------|
||----------3-------5---------------|----------------------------------||------|
||o-3---5---------------5---3---5---|-4---5---7---8-------6---7---6---o||-5----|
||--3---5-------5---------------5---|-4---5---7-------7-------7---6----||-5----|

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