Marquee Moon From the Television album Marquee Moon Music and Lyrics: Tom Verlaine Transcribed by: Jay Verkuilen and someone else (Slight corrections by Andrew Taylor) Lyrics: As is usual with TV's stuff, you gotta listen closely to catch the rhythms --they're not at all straightforward. Key: D mixolydian (D E F# G A B C). Riff: Bm Tom: ---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7------- ---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- Richard: ------------------------------------------- ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3----------- ---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4----------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- D7 ------------------------------------------- ---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7------- Tom: ---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7 ^ 5---7------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- Richard: ------------------------------------------- ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3----------- ---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2----------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- I don't think I've got the timing right above, so you'll have to listen real closely. Richard's part goes for a beat or a part of a beat before Tom's. Most of the song is this riff. The second solo (jam) is over that. Little scale part (corrected): Play 3x last time -------------7-10-8-7------------||--------------10-8-7----7--| ------7-8-10----------10-8-7-----||-10-8-7---7-8--------10----| --7/9------------------------9-7-||--------9------------------| ---------------------------------||---------------------------| ---------------------------------||---------------------------| ---------------------------------||---------------------------| Em C Am Am I misremember the chords under this scale, so check them. Then the Life in the hive... part (listen to vocal): |D C|, with someone playing notes from the D mixolydian scale (Tom?), ended with Gmaj7 chord and the following riff (Tom?): Tom: ---8^7------- -------7----- ---------7--- ------------- ------------- ------------- The first solo (Tom) is a set of three scales with pauses in between, played with alone, each in D mixolydian. The first starts on 15th fret D on the B string and ends on 9th fret F# on the A string. It covers all notes in between. The second starts on 10th fret A on the B string and goes to 5th fret D on the A string (then slides to 9th fret F#). Listen closely to the song to catch the repeats. I don't have a guitar here, so I can't check it to be sure and can't exactly remember what to do here. :( The third part is: v Tom: -----19-19-19-19-17-15-17-19-17-15-17-19-17-15-17---22---- ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- ("v" indicates staccato with pause) Tom: ---8^7------- -------7----- ---------7--- ------------- ------------- ------------- Second verse..., same as the first. Second solo is over the main riff and is in D mixolydian. It starts slowly and builds to a massive climax. The solo is one massive improv--Tom goes pretty crazy through this part. Afterwards there are some chords, but I can't remember what they are--nothing complicated, however. Lyrics I remember how the darkness doubled I recall lightning struck itself I was listening, listening to the rain I was hearing, hearing something else Life in the hive puckered up my night The kiss of death, the embrace of life There I stand neath the Marquee Moon Just waiting I spoke to a man down at the tracks And I asked him how he don't go mad He said, "Look here junior, don't you be so happy And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad" Life in the hive puckered up my night The kiss of death, the embrace of life There I stand 'neath the Marquee Moon Hesitating Solo Well a cadillac, it pulled out of the graveyard Pulled up to me, and they said "Get in, get in" Then the cadillac, it puttered back into the graveyard Me, I got out again Life in the hive puckered up my night The kiss of death, the embrace of life There I stand 'neath the Marquee Moon I ain't waiting