The Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings  

(Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1996))

!!! Tune Down ½ Step: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb  !!! 

B5, B5,  Em, Asus2   (see main riff below)

The world is a vampire, Sent to drain/

   Secret destroyers, Hold you up to the flames

& what do I get,  For my pain/ Betrayed desires,   & a piece of the game 

[Pre-C]       Even though I     know,         I suppose   I’ll    show,

All my cool and cold like old Job

Bm                       G      /   D            Asus2   /     Em G5          

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage      [F#   E   /   F#5  A5   ]  

Now I’m naked,  Nothing but an animal/  But can you fake it, For just 1 more show

& what do you want, I want a change

    / what have you got,        When you feel the same    B5  Em G5

 [Pre-Chorus] – [Chorus]

[Interlude]: |G#5 B5 |F#5 A5|

Em,      G5      /    F#5  E,        A5

Tell me I’m the only one ,    Tell me there’s no other one

Jesus was an only son,          Tell me I’m the chosen one

Jesus was an only son           for you       |F#5 |

[Chorus – SOFT ]

B5             G5        D            Asus2                  

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a [X3]   cage

Tell me I’m the only one, Tell me there’s no other one

Jesus was an only son   for you

Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

And I still believe that I cannot be saved [X4] –  –   F#5 G#5 F# E5  F#5  

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Tablature: main riff:
  B5   B5/A B5 Gmaj7 Esus2   B5/A
e|---------------------------------------|
B|-0-0-------------------------0-0-------|
G|-4-4-------4---------------4-4-4-------|
D|-4-4---4-4-4---------4---4-4-4-4-4-----|
A|-2-2-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---0-0-0-0-0-----|
E|-------------3-3-0-0-0-0-0-------------|