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"What's Good"
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album _Until The End Of The World_
(Original Soundtrack, 1991)

written by Lou Reed
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        Life's like a mayonnaise soda
        and life's like space without room
        And life's like bacon and ice cream
        that's what life's like without you

        Life's like forever becoming, but -
        - life's forever dealing in hurt
        Now life's like death without living
        that's what life's like without you

        Life's like Sanskrit read to a pony
        I see you in my mind's eye strangling on your tongue
        What good is knowing such devotion
        I've been around, huh, I know what makes things run

        What good is seeing eye chocolate
        what good's a computerized nose
        And what good was cancer in April
        why no good, no good at all

        What good's a war without killing
        what good is rain that falls up
        What good's a disease that won't hurt you
        why no good, I guess, no good at all

        What good are these thoughts that I'm thinking
        It must be better, huh, not to be thinking at all
        A styrofoam lover with emotions of concrete
        no not much, not much at all

        What good is life without living
        what good's this lion that barks
        You loved a life others throw away nightly
        it's not fair, huh, not fair at all

        What's good
        oh baby, what's good
        What's good
        what's good, not much at all

        Hey baby, what's good (what's good)
        What's good (what's good)
        what's good (what's good), not much at all

        What's good (what's good)
        what's good (life's good)
        Life's good (life's good)
        what's good (life's good), but not fair at all



opening * see tabs below

intro   {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}

        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (Life's like a mayonnaise soda ...)
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (And life's like bacon and ice ...)

        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (Life's like forever becoming ...)
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (Now life's like death without ...)

guitar  {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}

        ...

        ...

guitar  {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}

        ...

        ...

        ...

        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (- good, oh, baby, what's good ...)
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G...  (- good, what's good, not much at all)
drums   ../x}
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (Hey, baby, what's good, What's ...)
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (- good (what's good),  What's ...)

        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (- good (what's good), What's ...)
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (- good (life's good), what's ...)
        {D...

ending  * see tabs below




* opening (similar to "Dorita" from the album _Magic And Loss_)

 1e ------------------------------------------------------
 2B --------------------------------------------2------x--
 3G --4h5-5v---4----4h5-5-4---------------------2------x--
 4D ------------------------5-4-5-4--4v---------2------x--
 5A -------------------------------------5-4--0-0------x--
 6E ------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------2------2-x--
------------------------------------------2-2--3------3-x--
--4h5-5v-5v---4h5-5-4---------------------2-2--2------2-x--
----------------------5-4-5-4-5b7r5-------2-2--0------0-x--
------------------------------------5-4-0-0-0--------------
-----------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------2-------2-x--
--4h5-5v-5v---4h5-5v--4-----------------------2-------2-x--
------------------------5-4-5b7r5-4-0---------2-------2-x--
--------------------------------------5v--4-0-0-------0-x--
-----------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------2----
-------------------------------------------2-------3----
--4h5-5v---4h5-5-4-------------------------2-------2---- ... fade out
-------------------5-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------2-------0----
-------------------------------------5-4-0-0------------
--------------------------------------------------------



* riff

     {D            } {D  / Em.D }{D            } {Em  / G         }
 1e --x-3-x-x-2--x-x--3-2---------x-3-x-x-2--2-2--0-0-0-3--3-3-3--
 2B --x-3-x-x-3--x-x--3-3--0--3---x-3-x-x-3--3-3--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--
 3G --x-2-x-x-2--x-x--2-2--0--2---x-2-x-x-2--2-2--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--
 4D --x-0-x-x-0--x-x--0-0--2--0---x-0-x-x-0--0-0--2-2-2-0--0-0-0--
 5A -----------------------2----------------------2-2-2-2--2-2-2--
 6E ----------------------------------------------0-0-0-3--3-3-3--



* intro

 {D         }{D  /Em.  D}{D         }{Em / G    }
------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
--4--------------5--4--5--4---------------------
------------------------------5-----------------
------------------------------------------------

 {D         }{D  /Em.  D}{D         }{Em / G    }
------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
--2---2----------2/4---2--2---------------------
-------------------------------0----------------
------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------



* ending (same as "Dorita" from the album _Magic And Loss_)


... fade in
 1e --2....----------------
 2B --3....----------------
 3G --2....----------------
 4D --0....----------------
 5A -----------------------
 6E -----------------------

----------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------2------x--
--4h5-5v---4----4h5-5-4-------------------------2------x--
------------------------5-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------2------x--
------------------------------------------5-4-0-0------x--
----------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------2----
-------------------------------------------------------------2-----3----
--4h5-5v-5v---4h5-5v-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------------------------2-----2----
-------------------------------------5-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------2-----0----
-------------------------------------------------------5-4-0-0----------
------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------2-------2-x--
--4h5-5v-5v-4h5-5v-5v---4-5b7r5--4-------------------------2-------2-x--
-----------------------------------5-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------2-------2-x--
-----------------------------------------------------5-4-0-0-------0-x--
------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------2...-----2-x--
--------------------------------------------2-------2-x---3...-----3-x--
--4h5-5v---4h5-5v-4-------------------------2-------2-x---2...-----2-x--
--------------------5-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------2-------2-x---0...-----0-x--
--------------------------------------5-4-0-0-------0-x-----------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------



*** please note ***

h - hammer on
p - pull off
b - bend string up
r - release bend
/ - slide up
\ - slide down
v - vibrato
^ - harmonics







==========================
"What's Good - The Thesis"
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album _Magic And Loss_
(Lou Reed, 1992)
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        Life's like a mayonnaise soda
        and life's like space without room
        And life's like bacon and ice cream
        that's what life's like without you

        Life's like forever becoming, but -
        - life's forever dealing in hurt
        Now life's like death without living
        that's what life's like without you

        Life's like Sanskrit read to a pony
        I see you in my mind's eye strangling on your tongue
        What good is knowing such devotion
        I've been around, huh, I know what makes things run

        What good is seeing eye chocolate
        what good's a computerized nose
        And what good was cancer in April
        why no good, no good at all

        What good's a war without killing
        what good is rain that falls up
        What good's a disease that won't hurt you
        why no good, I guess, no good at all

        What good are these thoughts that I'm thinking
        It must be better, huh, not to be thinking at all
        A styrofoam lover with emotions of concrete
        no not much, not much at all

        What good is life without living
        what good's this lion that barks
        You loved a life others throw away nightly
        it's not fair, huh, not fair at all

        What's good
        oh baby, what's good
        What's good
        what's good, not much at all

        Huh, hey baby, what's good (what's good)
        What's good (what's good)
        what's good (what's good), not much at all

        What's good (what's good)
        what's good (life's good)
        Life's good (life's good)
        what's good (life's good), but not fair at all



         .x}                    drums
intro   {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}

        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (Life's like a mayonnaise soda ...)
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (And life's like bacon and ice ...)

        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (Life's like forever becoming ...)
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (Now life's like death without ...)

guitar  {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}

        ...

        ...

guitar  {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}

        ...

        ...

        ...

        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (- good, oh, baby, what's good ...)
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G...  (- good, what's good, not much at all)
drums   ../x}
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (Hey baby, what's good, What's ...)
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (- good (what's good)  What's ...)

        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (- good (what's good), What's ...)
        {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}    (- good (life's good), what's ...)
        {D...




* riff

     {D            } {D  / Em.D }{D            } {Em  / G         }
 1e --x-3-x-x-2--x-x--3-2---------x-3-x-x-2--2-2--0-0-0-3--3-3-3--
 2B --x-3-x-x-3--x-x--3-3--0--3---x-3-x-x-3--3-3--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--
 3G --x-2-x-x-2--x-x--2-2--0--2---x-2-x-x-2--2-2--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--
 4D --x-0-x-x-0--x-x--0-0--2--0---x-0-x-x-0--0-0--2-2-2-0--0-0-0--
 5A -----------------------2----------------------2-2-2-2--2-2-2--
 6E ----------------------------------------------0-0-0-3--3-3-3--




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transcribed by Shiroh KOUCHI (wildside@mx21.tiki.ne.jp)
http://ww21.tiki.ne.jp/~wildside/
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