Pornography by The Cure
Key: BB | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Main Riff: Cm, B
It doesn't matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car
In a high building there is so much to do
Going home time
A story on the radio
Something small falls out of your mouth
And we laugh
A prayer for something better
A prayer for something better
Please love me
Meet my mother
But the fear takes hold
Creeping up the stairs in the dark
Waiting for the death blow
Bridge: A#
Waiting for the death blow
Waiting for the death blow
Repeat Main Riff: Cm, B
Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
Fighting for freedom on the television
Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
Have we got everything?
She struggles to get away
The pain and the creeping feeling
A little black haired girl
Waiting for Saturday
The death of her father pushing her
Pushing her white face into the mirror
Aching inside me
And turn me around
Just like the old days
Just like the old days
Bridge: A#
Just like the old days
Just like the old days
Caressing an old man
And painting a lifeless face
Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
All shadows and deliverance
Under a black flag
A hundred years of blood
Crimson
The ribbon tightens round my throat
I open my mouth
And my head bursts open
A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
Thrashing in the water
Over and over
We die one after the other
Over and over
We die one after the other
Bridge: A#
One after the other
One after the other
One after the other
One after the other
Crd: F#
It feels like a hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
One hundred years
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“A SHORT TERM EFFECT”
Words by: R.Smith  Music by: The Cure  published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: graph_sas
Main Riff: Dm, C, G, F
Dm
Movement
No movement
C                  G   F
Just a falling bird
Dm                  C             G  F
Cold as it hits the bleeding ground
Dm
He lived and died
      C
Catch sight
                  G  F
Cover me with earth
Dm
Draped in black
C
Static
            G   F
White sound
Here is the brige:
A#
A day without substance
   C
A change of thought
   A#                        C
An atmosphere that rots with time
A#                      C
Colours that flicker in water
          Dm      C  G  F
A short term effect
Repeat the main riff over the Verse:
Scream
As she tries to push him over
Helpless and sick
With teeth of madness
Jump jump dance and sing
Sideways across the desert
A charcoal face
Bites my hand
Time is sweet
Derange and disengage everything
A#
A day without substance
   C
A change of thought
   A#                        C
An atmosphere that rots with time
A#                      C
Colours that flicker in water
          Dm      C  G  F
A short term effect
Repeat Main Riff: Dm, C, G, F
A short term effect
A short term effect
A short term effect
An echo
And a stranger's hand
A short term effect
An echo
And a stranger's hand
A short term effect
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“THE HANGING GARDEN”
Words by: R.Smith  Music by: The Cure  published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: graph_sas
Dm                C           Dm C
Creatures kissing in the rain
Dm                C         Dm A#
Shapeless in the dark again
Dm                    C                 Dm C
In the hanging garden please don't speak
Dm                     C            Dm A#
In the hanging garden no one sleeps
Riff: Dm, C, Dm, Bb, C (x2)
Catching haloes on the moon
Gives my hands the shapes of angels
In the heat of the night
The animals scream
In the heat of the night
Walking into a dream...
Am
Fall fall fall fall
A#
Into the walls
Am        A#
Jump jump out of time
Am
Fall fall fall fall
A#
Out of the sky
Am            A#
Cover my face as the animals die
Dm      C            Dm, C,
In the hanging garden
Dm      A#
In the hanging garden
Creatures kissing in the rain
Shapeless in the dark again
In a hanging garden
Change the past
In a hanging garden
Wearing furs and masks...
Fall fall fall fall
Into the walls
Jump jump out of time
Fall fall fall fall
Out of the sky
Cover my face as the animals die
In the hanging garden
In the hanging garden
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“SIAMESE TWINS”
Words by: R.Smith  Music by: The Cure  published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: graph_sas
Am F Dm7 F }*4
Am         F            Dm7    F
I chose an eternity of this
Am           F          Dm7                 F
Like falling angels the world disappeared
Am                  F          Dm7                 F
Laughing into the fire, is it always like this ?
Am                       F
Flesh and blood and the first kiss
Dm7                   F
The first colors the first kiss.
Am F Dm7 F }*2
(repeat Am F Dm7 F throughout the Verse)
We writhed under a red light
Voodoo smile, siamese twins
Girl at the window looks at me for an hour
Then everything falls apart
Broken inside me, it falls apart.
C                   Dm7           Am
The walls and the ceiling move in time
C                    Dm7
Push a blade into my hands, slowly up the stairs
Em
And into the room
Em
Is it always like this ?
Am            Fmaj7
Dancing in my pocket
Am           Fmaj7
Worms eat my skin
Am                    Fmaj7
She glows and grows with arms outstretched
E7
Her legs around me, in the morning I cried.
Am F Dm7 F }*4
(repeat Am F Dm7 F)
Leave me to die, you won't remember my voice
I walked away and grew old
You never talk, we never smile
I scream you're nothing
And I don't need you anymore
You're nothing
It fades and spins
Fades and spins.
C         Dm7              Am
Sing out loud we all die
C                 Dm7
Laughing into the fire
Em                  A#
Is it always like this ?
Em                  A#
Is it always like this ?
No Chord
Is it always like this ?
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“THE FIGUREHEAD”
Words by: R.Smith  Music by: The Cure  published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: unregistered
C5              A#5		     F5			  G#5
Sharp and open, leave me alone and sleeping less every night
       C5                      A#5
As the days become heavier and weighted
        F5                G#5
Waiting in the cold light
           C5                             A#5               F5
A noise, a scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten
               G#5
With spiders inside them
                C5                  A#5
And dust on the lips of a vision of hell
                 F5             G#5
I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year.
C5 A#5 F5 G#5
Bridge (Figure 1) 2x
*1:06*
e|-----------------|
B|--1-3-4-1-3-4----|
G|--------------1--|
D|-----------------|
A|-----------------|
E|-----------------|
Verse 2: *1:23*
  C5                  A#5                F5       G#5
A hundred other words blind me with your purity
        C5                      A#5		     F5			   G#5
Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance I think about tomorrow
              C5			 B5b	 F5			G#5
Please let me sleep as I slip down the window freshly squashed fly
         C5     A#5        F5        G#5
You mean nothing, you mean nothing.
C5 F#5		       C5 A#5 F5
A#5 F5 G#5
Bridge (Figure 2) 4x  Bridge (Figure 1) 1x	Bridge (Figure 3) 1x
*1:58*		       *2:16*	               *2:24*
e|--------2-3-2--|    e|-----------------|   e|----------------3--1------|
B|--1-3-4--------|    B|--1-3-4-1-3-4----|   B|--1-3-4-1-3-4--------4-3--|
G|---------------|    G|--------------1--|   G|--------------1-----------|
D|---------------|    D|-----------------|   D|--------------------------|
A|---------------|    A|-----------------|   A|--------------------------|
E|---------------|    E|-----------------|   E|--------------------------|
C5 A#5 F5 G#5				C5 A#5
G#5
Bridge (Figure 4) 1x			Bridge (Figure 3) 1x
*2:33* 					*2:41*
e|--------1-----------1--------|	e|----------------3--1------|
B|--1-3-4---4-3-1-3-4--4-3-----|	B|--1-3-4-1-3-4--------4-3--|
G|-----------------------------|	G|--------------1-----------|
D|-----------------------------|	D|--------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|	A|--------------------------|
E|-----------------------------|	E|--------------------------|
Verse 3: *2:50*
      C5             A#5              F5             	G#5
I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls
        C5		     B5b		F5	G#5
All the time lose me in the dark please do it right
                 C5			A#5
Running into the night I will lose myself tomorrow
F5               G#5
Crimson pain, my heart explodes
   C5          A#5		       F5	  G#5
My memory in a fire and someone will listen at least for a short while.
C5 F#5                    D#5 F#5
    F5 F5 F5 F5 F5
Bridge (Figure 2) 4x      Bridge (Figure 5) 4x            Bridge (Figure 6) 5x
*3:25*                    *3:43*                          *4:00*
e|--------2-3-2--|        e|--11--14—-11--2--3--2---|     e|-----------|
B|--1-3-4--------|        B|-------------(7)(8)(7)--|     B|--6--9--8--|
G|---------------|        G|-------------11-12-11---|     G|-----------|
D|---------------|        D|------------------------|     D|-----------|
A|---------------|        A|------------------------|     A|-----------|
E|---------------|        E|------------------------|     E|-----------|
*4:10*
       F5
(I can never say no)
      F5              F5
I can never say no to anyone but you.
C5 A#5 F5 G#5                C5
F5 G#5
Bridge (Figure 7) 2x         Bridge (Figure 4) 1x
*4:17*                       *4:34*
e|-----------------6--4--|   e|--------1-----------1--------|
B|-----------6--8--------|   B|--1-3-4---4-3-1-3-4--4-3-----|
G|--5--7--8--------------|   G|-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------|   D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------|   A|-----------------------------|
E|-----------------------|   E|-----------------------------|
C5 A#5 F5 G#5
Bridge (Figure 8) 1x
*4:43*
e|-----------------6--4--3--1--------------|
B|-----------6--8--------------4--3-----1--|
G|--5--7--8--------------------------3-----|
D|-----------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|
Verse 4: *4:51*
C5                A#5		  F5		 	G#5
Too many secrets, too many lies writing with hatred
C5                A#5                          F5  G#5
Too many secrets, please make it good tonight
        C5			  A#5				F5
But the same image haunts me in sequence, in despair of time
       G#5              C5
I will never be clean again
            A#5              F5
Touched her eyes, pressed my stained face
       G#5              C5
I will never be clean again (Figure 1)
          A#5            F5
Touch her eyes, press my stained face
       G#5              C5  A#5  F5
I will never be clean again
       G#5              C5  A#5  F5
I will never be clean again
       G#5              C5  A#5  F5
I will never be clean again
       G#5
I will never be clean again.
Outro: Drums *6:02-6:13*
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“A STRANGE DAY”
Words by: R.Smith  Music by: The Cure  published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: Mario Dorion SSE Sun Montreal
A            B                   G
Give me your eyes that I can see
A             B                G
The blind man kissing my hands
The sun is humming
My head turns to dust as he plays on his knees
As he plays on his knees
F                                G
And the sand and the sea glows I close my eyes
F                   G
Move slowly through drowning waves
A               B
Going away on a strange day
And I laugh as I drift in the wind
Blind
Dancing on a beach of stone
Cherish the faces as they wait for the end
Sudden hush across the water
And we're here again
And the sand
And the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away
On a strange day
F                                G
And the sand and the sea glows I close my eyes
F                   G
Move slowly through drowning waves
A               B
Going away on a strange day
E                                           F
My head falls back and the walls crashed in
G                                       A
And the sky and the impossible explodes
B                                    C
And for one moment I remember a song
D
An expression of sounds
E
And the everything is gone forever
Fig.1
1 - 3 1 0   3 1 0   0 1 3 1 0 0 1 0           0 0 1 0               3 1
2 -       3       3                 3 1 0 1 3         3 1 0 1 0
3 -                                                             2 0
4 -
5 -
6 -
A     B   G
A strange day
Repeat fig.1
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“COLD”
Words by: R.Smith  Music by: The Cure  published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: graph_sas
SYNTH PROGRESSION CHORDS: C, C#, A#, G#, F, F#
GUITAR PROGRESSION CHORDS: Bm, G
Bm
Scarred
Your back was turned
          G
Curled like an embryo
Bm
Take another face
                          G
You will be kissed again
      Bm
I was cold as I mouthed the words
                        G
And crawled across the mirror
Bm
I wait
Await the next breath
G
Your name
Like ice into my heart
Main Riff: Bm, G (x2)
Bm
A shallow grave
                   G
A monument to the ruined age
Bm
Ice in my eyes
                         G
And eyes like ice don't move
Bm
Screaming at the moon
                 G         Bm
Another past time
G
Your name
Like ice into my heart
Main Riff: Bm, G (x2)
Repeat the progression chord through the Verse:                    
Everything as cold as life
Can no one save you?
Everything
As cold as silence
And you never say a word
Your name
Like ice into my heart  (x2)
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“PORNOGRAPHY”
Words by: R.Smith  Music by: The Cure  published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: graph_sas
The basics chords are:
Dm, Bb, A, A#
A hand in my mouth
A life spills into the flowers
We all look so perfect
As we fall down
In a n electric glare
The old man cracks with age
She found his last picture
In the ashes of the fire
An image of the queen
Echoes round the sweating bed
Sour yellow sounds inside my head
In books
And films
And in life
And in heaven
The sound of slaughter
As your body turns
But it’s too late
The Brigde chords are:
F#m, G (x3)
F#m, F
One more day like today and I’ll kill you
A desire for flesh
And real blood
And I’ll watch you drown in the shower
Pushing my life through your open eyes
I must fight this sickness
Find a cure...