Cold

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From: Winston Campbell <jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu>

Subject: COLD by The Cure

Cold

(words by Robert Smith, music by Simon Gallup, Laurence Tolhurst, and

Robert Smith)

This gloomy song comes off of the angry and gloomy cure album -Pornography-

and never lets up for air. I am not too sure about what is playing that

line, a distorted bass, guitar, or keyboard but I have comprised it to be

like this:

I play this usual, meaning I tune my low E-string down to C. The intro

is:

E --------------------|
B --------------------|
G --------------------|
D -----------4--------|
A -1---3--4------4--3-|
C --------------------|

After this, the drum enters, and the bass (or guitar) goes like this (as

if played on a guitar with its low string tuned to C):

E -------------------------------|
B -------------------------------|
G -------------------------------|
D -------------------------------|
A -------------------------------|
C -10---------8--5--6-------0--1-|

This line continues out throughout the song. The chords are simple, they

are just Bbm to Gb and I play them like this:

Bbm Gb

E -xx---------------6------------|
B -11---------------7------------|
G -10---------------6------------|
D -11---------------x------------|
A -xx---------------x------------|
C -10---------8--5--6-------0--1-|

That is basically how the song goes. The lyrics are:

Scarred

Your back was turned

Curled like an embryo

Take another face

You will be kissed again

I was cold as I mouthed the words

And crawled across the mirror

I wait

Await the next breath

Your name

Like ice into my heart