Sleight of Hand Pearl Jam
Ok I take no credit for this song, I'm just simply adding to the archive since there's
another version of it, which seems to be a live version - this is the studion version.
goes to original transcriber. This is such an underrated song by Pearl Jam. Let's see
tab for this also.
Author/Artist: Pearl Jam
Title: Sleight Of Hand
Album: Binaural
Transcribed by: Evan Cowan
Email: evan@giventowail.com
Might be in an alternate tuning (my guess is open-D)
Here it is in standard, some of it doesn't sound quite right...
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G1 *let ring, same for each repeat
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G1 Routine was the theme he'd wake up and wash and pour himself
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[G2]
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G1 In uniform something he hadn't imagined being
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[G2]
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G1 As the merging traffic passed he found himself staring down
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[G2]
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G1 At his own hands not remembering the change
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[G2]
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G1 Not recalling the plan was it...
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G1 He was ok but wondering about wandering or was it
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[G2]
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G1 Age by consequence or was he moved by sleight of hand
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G2 *trem bar dive **trem bar/wah effects
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G1 Mondays were made to fall lost on a road he knew by heart
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G2 W/ Fill 1
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G1 It was like a book he read in his sleep endlessly
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[G2]
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G1 Sometimes he hid in his radio watching Fill 1 *prebend
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[G2]
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[G3]
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G1 Others pull into their homes while he was drifting....
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[G2]
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[G3]
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G1 On a line of his own off the line on the
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G2 *with wah and trem bar effects
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G1 Side bye the by as dirt turned to sand as if moved by sleight of hand
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G2 *continue with wah and trem bar effects
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[G3]
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[G1]
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G2 (With delay)
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[G1]
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[G2]
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G1 When he reached the shore of his clip on world
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[G2]
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G1 He resurfaced to the norm organized his few things
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[G2]
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[G3]
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G1 His coat and keys any new realizations would have to
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[G2]
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[G3]
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G1 Wait till he had more time
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[G2]
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G3 (with delay)
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G1 More time time to dream to himself he waves goodbye to
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G2 *w/wah and trem bar effects
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[G3]
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G1 Himself I'll see you on the other side
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G2 *same as before
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G1 Another man moved by sleight of hand
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[G2]
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[G3]
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G1 fade out
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G2 **let ring, rock wah back and forth *trem dive
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