CST Approved
"Black and White"
Written and Performed by Static X
Taken from the album Machine released on May 22nd, 2001 via Warner Bros
Running Length of: 3:12
(Verse)
Lost in my own World
Lost in my own World
Lost in my
Lost in my own World
Lost in my own World
Lost in my
Getting to the right
Getting to the wrong
Getting mine
Getting to the right
Getting to the wrong
Getting high
(Chorus)
Losing your mind
Losing your mind
It's bluring, It's fading
Your soul's on fire
It's black and white
(Verse)
Burning inside
Burning inside
Burning into white
Burning inside
Burning inside
Burning into night
Yourself collides
Yourself collides
Yourself into mine
Yourself collides
Yourself collides
Yourself splinters like
(Chorus)
Losing your mind
Losing your mind
(It's ours for the taking)
It's bluring, It's fading
Your soul's on fire
It's black and white
(Chorus)
Blurring the light
Blurring the light
(It's blurring, It's fading)
It's ours for the taking
Flickering colours
It's black and white
GUITAR TABLATURE
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS PRETTY MUCH UNOFFICIAL
Tuning C G C F A D
(All Distorted)
INTRO AND BETWEEN VERSE AND CHORUS
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|-333--33333---333--333--|-333--33333---333--333--|-333--33333---333--333--
|-222--22222--0222--2220-|-222--22222--0222--2220-|-222--22222--0222--2220-
|-111--11111--0111--1110-|-111--11111--0111--1110-|-111--11111--0111--1110-
|-------------0--------0-|-------------0--------0-|-------------0--------0-
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|-333--33333---333--333--3-|
|-222--22222--0222--2220-2-|
|-111--11111--0111--1110-1-|
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VERSE (each verse is the same, each note hits on the same syllable in the line)
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Lost in my own world, lost in my own world, lost in my.....
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Getting to the right, getting to the wrong, getting mine...
CHORUS (same as verse)
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|-1----------------3-----------------4------3------------------------|
|-1----------------3-----------------4------3------------------------|
|-1----------------3-----------------4------3------------------------|
Losing your mind, losing your mind, its blurring, its fading...
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|-1-----3--------4----------3------------------------|
|-1-----3--------4----------3------------------------|
|-1-----3--------4----------3------------------------|
Your souls on fire, its black and white!
BASS TABLATURE
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|-------7---8---7---8---7----------7---8---7---8---7--|
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Lost in my own world, lost in my own..lost in my...
CHORUS
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|---4----4--4--4----6----6--6--6----7----7--7--7----6----6--6--6----------------|
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Losing your mind, losing your mind........It's blurring, It's fading...
Your....soul's...on.....fire.......It's Black and White!
I would put a drum tab up, if only drum tabs were more popular and I could play drums! If ANYONE knows a link to a drum tab for this song, I will add it after you /msg me.
For those of you who can't be bothered to find out for yourselves:
This song is about how the band when they are on tour and how they become lost in their own worlds and lose their sense of reality and home life. The lead vocalist, Wayne Static, is describing how these two worlds, reality and his own little world, are completely seperate, but at the end it all comes together ("blurring the light"). The two worlds are like black and white i.e. completely different to each other.
Sources:
http://www.songmeanings.net
http://www.mxtabs.net
Song Production and Programming: Wayne Static, Ulrich Wild
Mastering: Tom Baker
Mixing: James McCrone, Ulrich Wild
Engineering: Ulrich Wild