The Sky Is Fallin Chords & Tabs
This is a beautiful song off of Songs for the Deaf. I haven't seen one decent tab for
this song on this site, so i'll do my best.
Tuning: 1/2 step down
Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb
Pre Verse: Guitar w/slight distortion (along with vocal harmony)
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Slide (lap steel if you have one)
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Guitar Continued
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Slide
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Guitar Cont. (heavy distortion enters at this point)
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Verse: Heavy Distortion
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The Sky is Fallin'
Run Has Left Me Crawlin'
Sun All in a Moment I Noticed
Day I Payed Attention
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Hu---------man------ Race That-- We--
Star-------ing----- Straight At--- the--
Every-------Dog---- Has---- His
Caused------Me------ So------- Much---- De-
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Slide Lead
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Pre Chorus
-lay For so Long I Saw Only
But Now To Remind It's a Waste of
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Slide
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Wrong-------
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Chorus
Close Your Eyes and See the Skies Are
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Fallin'------
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Pre Verse
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Verse: Heavy Distortion
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I Wan--ted Something---
Know It's Hard--- Deflecting
Throw All in a Moment I Noticed
Behind On Wasted Useless
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/q/queens_of_the_stone_age/the_sky_is_fallin_tab.html ]
No---------thing---- Blank I Don't
Sto-----nes Are---- Ea-----sy to
Hou---------rs----- Days--- Left----
Self--------ish------ None--- of a-
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Slide Lead
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2nd Pre Chorus
-Kind For So Long I Saw Only
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Slide
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Wrong But Now------- To Re-
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-mind Not to Go Back to the
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Low That has Drained---------My Life------- So-----
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Long That has...
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* after "long it repeats 3x without change, the next part is the 4th time, which does change
Drai-------ned My----------
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2nd Chorus
Close Your Eyes and See the Skies Are
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Fallin'------
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Interlude/Solo (another guitar enters to play the lead)
*there are two guitars playing lead here, one with really low fuzzy distortion, the
other a lighter distortion with low tone, but i can't distingiush the fuzzy solo enough
to do the whole thing since the mix is so low, so i'm going to add in whatever licks i
can hear from the quieter solo
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3rd Chorus
Close Your Eyes and See the Skies Are
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Fallin'------
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Fallin'------
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the end. this is a great song. the trickiest part are the vocals, these are some of J
Ho's best
