Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:47:58 -0400
From: "Robert Page" 
Subject: s/smashing_pumpkins/age_of_innocence.crd

Date: Mon, 18 September 2000

Age of Innocence

Written by Billy Corgan
Music by Billy Corgan
Performed by the Smashing Pumpkins
>From "Machina"
Transcribed by Jonathan Newman

INTRO:
Fig. One: Cadd9 X 4-Asus2 X 3-Em X 9

VERSE ONE:
           Cadd9    Asus2     Em-----(so in essence:Fig. I)
..........miss
               Fig. I
.............roads
                      Fig. I
...................streets
         Fig. I
.......raid
                Fig. I
........        to
               Fig. I
...........paint
                Fig. I
............ bones
        Fig. I
.......shamed

PRE-CHORUS: strange distortion and power chords
D#        C                    E5              D
       ...more .............upon ..........
D#        C                  D                 A
    .... more ............ man

CHORUS:
  Fig. I, 8X, once for each line


VERSE TWO: same as verse one and chorus, with Distortion

PRE-CHORUS: Same as p.c. one


CHORUS TWO:
[same as chorus one]

MIDDLE 16: drums and guitar only, chords are picked, and get four beats
each.
Cadd9                  Asus2   Em
          .............. rites ....spring
Cadd9               Asus2     Em
          ............ mean ....things
Cadd9             Asus2
          .......... taste
Em                       Dsus2
       ................ come
Cadd9           Asus2                        Em
         ............glimpse ........... gone
(above pattern repeats with distorted power chords)
355                121414              799
................ moment ........ free
355            121414    799
............... bind ....release
355                       121414
      ,................. die
799                  577
      .............. care
355                       121414               079900
      .................. swear ............. there

CHORUS THREE:
C      Em
Lay   yes
G       C
tay     no
C       Em
Lay     yes
C       Em, etc.
Tay      no
Asus2     Em
might      guessed
G          C
make   home
C       Em
Lay  yes
G         Cadd9
Tay        no

CHORDS USED:
Cadd9: x32033
Asus2: x02200
Em: 022000
D#: x688xx
C: x355xx or x32010 as in Chorus 3
D: x577xx
E5: x977xx
G: 320033
A: 577xxx