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			   American pompeii - Anthrax
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tabbed by:Phill Higgens & Lewis Davis

all strings tuned half step down

.= palm mute
   Intro/verse
eb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Gb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Db|-2-1-2-2-1-1-2-2-1-2-2-1-1--4-4--------------------------------------------|
Ab|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--2-2-4-4-4--/9-9-4-4-4-/9-9-4-4-4---------------|
Eb|--------------------------------2-2-2--/7-7-2-2-2-/7-7-2-2-2---------------|

eb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Gb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Db|-2-1-2-2-1-1-2-------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2---2-2-2-2-4-4-4-2-4-4-4-----------------------------------|
Eb|---------------0---0-0-0-0-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-----------------------------------|

eb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Gb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Db|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-----4-3-----4-3-----------------------------------------------------------|
Eb|-2-2-----2-2-----2/5-------------------------------------------------------|
    . .     . .
eb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Gb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Db|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|---------------------------4/7---------------------------------------------|
Eb|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/5---------------------------------------------|
    . . . . . . . . . . . . .
eb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Gb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Db|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-7-7-7/9-4-4-4-4-7-7-7/9-4-4-4-4-7/9-7/9-7/9-4-4-4-4-4---------------------|
Eb|-5-5-5/7-2-2-2-2-5-5-5/7-2-2-2-2-5/7-5/7-5/7-2-2-2-2-2---------------------|

ok, heres the weird part, right here they drop the low Eb down to Db they use D-tuners
but the way i do it is pluck the Eb and the Db together and just match the Eb to the
tone of the Db. the rest of the song uses this alternate tuning


eb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Gb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Db|-0-0-03-3-57-7-1012--------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-0-0-03-3-57-7-1012--------------------------------------------------------|
Db|-0-0-03-3-57-7-1012--------------------------------------------------------|
        ho   ho    ho
eb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Gb|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Db|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-3-2-3-3-2-2-3-3-2-3-3-2-2-5-5-0-0-0-5-5-0-0-0-----------------------------|
Db|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-0-0-0-5-5-0-0-0-----------------------------|

thats the music, you have yo figure out how many times to play each riff.
i put the lyrics in here too.

Lyrics:
I try to imagine the best place I've been
Can I go back again?
Open my eyes, what was no longer exists,
I can't go back again
I like to pretend that nothing has changed
And never went too far
But it started to lose me like a four-hour movie
I'd already seen
Holding onto my memory of what this used to be
Holding onto my memory of you

Sometimes I tell myself that things are O.K.
Another lie but it makes me feel better
Never as old as I was today
I'm gonna breakdown

In American Pompeii
In American Pompeii
Break myself just to live this way
Never as old, as I was today
American Pompeii

Look in my eyes and see how sick I feel
About what you've become
Filthy and twisted like you never existed
I know what you were
Your beauty forgotten under mountains of schism
I don't want to climb
Giving up my memory of what this used to be
Giving up my memory of you

Sometimes I tell myself that things are O.K.
Another lie but it makes me feel better
Never as old as I was today
I'm gonna breakdown

In American Pompeii
In American Pompeii
Break myself just to live this way
Never as old, as I was today
American Pompeii

Try to imagine the best place I've been
Can I go back again
Open my eyes it just no longer exists
I can't go back again
I'm giving up my memory of what this used to be
Giving up my memory of you

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