Ain't That Nothin'

From the Television album Adventure

Music and Lyrics: Tom Verlaine

Transcribed by: Andrew Taylor (taylorar@aston.ac.uk)


Intro riff:
  [G5]
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|-3-------3-3-----|-3-------3-3-----|
  1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &   1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &


Main riff:

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|-7--9-10-12-------------|-12-10--9-10-------------|
|-9-10-10-12-------------|-12-10-10-10-------------|
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  1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4    1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4


Play the repeat on first verse only
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||o--7--9-10-12-------------|-12-10--9-12-------------|
||o--9-10-10-12-------------|-12-10-10-12-------------|
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     1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4    1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4
                (lyrics come in)


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|-7--9-10-12-------------|-12-10--9-10-------------o||
|-9-10-10-12-------------|-12-10-10-10-------------o||
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  1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4    1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4


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|-10--9--7-10-------------|-10--9--7-12-------------|
|-10-10--9-10-------------|-10-10--9-12-------------|
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   1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4    1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4

Chorus:

F5   C5     F5                G5
I    know  -Ain't that nothin'
Why  don't -Tell me somethin'
Tragedy    -Ain't that nothin'
Why  don't -Tell me somethin'

Then play the intro riff and back into the verse but ignore the
repeat signs in the verse riff.

At the end it goes into this part:

|--3---------3-----3--------------------1--|
|--3-----------3--------3-------------1----|
|--0-------------0--------0-------0^3------|
|--0---------------------------------------|
|--2--------------------------2-3----------|
|--3---------------------------------------|


Lyrics:

You're pushin' a furnace
You're workin' too hard
Setting things off
All over the yard
You play with your top
Till your eyes start to spin
Then you shrug your shoulders
Ask me where I've been
Travel fills you
But the distance it kills you

I know -Ain't that nothin'
Why don't -Tell me somethin'
Tragedy -Ain't that nothin'
Why don't -Tell me somethin'

The fan keeps whirling
The wind stays high
But I can't keep
From slippin' a lot
I look in that purse
It's a blessing and a curse

Ah yeah -Ain't that nothin'
Why don't -Tell me somethin'
Tragedy -Ain't that nothin'
I just wish that you'd tell me somethin'

Solo

Discover dishonor
With its thousand commands
I want a shot
The target is sand
But I love disaster
And I love what comes after

Aaah -Ain't that nothin'
Why don't -Tell me somethin'
Tragedy -Ain't that nothin'
Why don't tell me somethin'

Solo

And I was building some ruins,
Restin' with my heart,
Hell freezin', collection such a 
Well now, I'm gonna sit up like a,
Just sit like a, it's never enough ...