Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Warner Brothers Records
Otherside
Californication (1999)
Intro:
Am F C G
Chorus:
Am F C G Am
F C
How long
how long will I slide Separate my
side I don't
G Am
F C G
I don't
believe it's bad Slit my
throat, it’s all I ever
Verse 1:
Am Em
Am Em
I heard
your voice through a photograph I
thought it up it brought up the past
Am Em
G Am
Once you
know you can never go back I've got to
take it on the otherside
Am Em Am
Em
Centuries
are what it meant to me A cemetery
where I marry the sea
Am Em G Am
Stranger
things could never change my mind I've
got to take it on the otherside
G Am G
Am
Take it
on the otherside Take it
on, take it on
Chorus:
Verse 2:
Am Em Am Em
Pour my
life into a paper cup The
ashtray's full and I'm spilling my guts
Am Em
G Am
She wants
to know am I still a slut I've got to
take it on the otherside
Am Em Am Em
Scarlet
starlet and she's in my bed A
candidate for my soul mate bled
Am Em
G Am
Push the
trigger and pull the thread I've got to
take it on the otherside
G Am G
Am
Take it
on the otherside Take it
on, take it on
Chorus:
Break:
Em C Em C
(Bridge chords)
Bridge:
Em C
Turn me
on take me for a hard ride Burn me
out leave me on the otherside
Em
I yell
and tell it that it's not my friend
C
I tear it
down, I tear it down and then it's born again
Break:
Am F C
G (Verse chords)
Chorus:
define:
Em during the verse works best at 7th fret position (079987)
tabs
^^^^
Not much to be tabbed:
Am F C G
+ . . . + . .
. + . . . + . . . + . . . + . . . + . .
. + . . .
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-----------------2-----2---4-2-0-|---------------------------------|
|-2-----2-----2-------------------|-2---------------0-----0-----0---|
|-0-------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
|-----------------1---------------|-----------------3---------------|
[this is just the very beginning - there are slight
variations on this
figure during the whole song]
[same notes played somewhere else on the fretboard,
transcribed by
Gabriel Drolet, guitare@mail.com www.bend.cjb.net]
(Normal Tuning)
Intro/Main riff Some notes
e||------------------------------------|---------------||
B||------------------------------------|-----20----20--||
G||------------------------------------|--16-----------||
D||--------7--7-9-7-5------------------|---------------||
A||--7-7-7------------7-(7-7-7)-5-5-5--|---------------||
E||------------------------------------|---------------||
bridge (\"Turn me on...\" and the
instrumental bit right before):
[this actually imitates the bass notes, but it also
works on a guitar]
Em C
+ . . . + . .
. + . . . + . . . + . . . + . . . + . .
. + . . .
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-----2---0-2---------2-0-2-0-----|-----2---0-2---------5---4---0---|
|-----^-----^---------^-------0-2-|-3---^-----^---3-----^---^---^---|
|-0-------------0-----------------|-^-------------^-----------------|
^ ^
2nd time C:
+ . . . + . .
. + . . . + . . .
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|-----2---0-2-------5-4-2-4-5-4---|
|-3---^-----^---3---------------5-|
|-^-------------^-----------------|
[a ^ means a staccato]
Stuff to be added to this tab:
- all the little arpeggio played during the verse, on
Am/Em
- the little solo after the bridge