Knowing People

Written by Matthew Sweet(EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./Charm Trap Music 1993)

Found on Altered Beast LP (1993)

Transcription arranged by Jason Robinson (SporkGD@aol.com or shaft@trib.infi.net

for questions or comments)

This is one of the best tunes on Altered Beast(at least in my opinion). It

just is powerful and gritty, so if you heard it live, you know that

distortion is heavily used. Like most of the songs on Altered Beast, this

song uses rhythm guitar and Richard Llyod backing up with the squeals and

lead alongside. If I ever get the lead part singled out, I'll add on.

But the song's fairly simple...

Standard Tuning

Verse Riff (played four times before first verse)

--palm mute this riff the whole way through

B N.C. E

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5-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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3--------9-----------9-\------------------------------------------------------------------------6---6-/-7-\-6-

2----x--9------x---9--\--------------9----7----5------5-/-7---7--------7----x--x--x---------------------

1----x--7---x------7--\-----5-/-7------------------------------------0---------0--0--0---------------------

Verse Riff 4 times, band enters on third riff

B N.C.

Are you made like God

When you start to bleed

B N.C.

Do you really know

What it is to breathe

B N.C.

Without a mind to think

Or a hand in fate

B N.C.

You're an animal

Filled with love and hate

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Pre chorus Riff

E N.C. D E D E N.C.

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5---pm~~~~~-------------------------------pm~~~~~~~~----------------------------------

4----9--------9----------------------------------7-/--9----7-/--9------------------------7h8h9---

3----9---x---9-----------------5-/-9-\-5------7-/--9----7-/--9------------5--7-/-9--------------

2----7---7---7--------5-/-7--------------------5-/--7----5-/--7----5--7--------------------------

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And you

N.C. D E D E

And the way you move

N.C. E

And the things you say

N.C. D E D E

Your desperate dreams

N.C.

Are pathetic

I don't like knowing people

I don't like people knowing about me

I don't like knowing people

I don't like people knowing about me

Why should we care

What we do or say

Why would we long

For yesterday

What is here

And who wants to stay

No lasting life

And no judgement day

And the fact of you

And the way you move

And the things you say

Your desperate dreams

Are pathetic

I don't like knowing people

I don't like people knowing about me

I don't like knowing people

I don't like people knowing about me

What are you lookin' at?

Bridge Riff

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3----pm~~~~~~~~~~~----5-----------pm~~~~~~~~~~~---5------------

2----5---7---x---7-----5---7----------------5---7---x---7-----5--7----------------

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3----pm~~~~------------5--7/-------\(7)--5h7p5-----5---------------------x---x----7----

2----5--7--x--7-----5--7--------------------------------7-------5--7--x--7----x---x----------

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5----8--8--8------8--x--x--x---8--8--8--8--8--8-----8--8----x--x--x----------

4----7--7--7------7--x--x--x---7--7--7--9--7--7-----7--7----x--x--x-----------

3----7--7--7------7--x--x--x---7--7--7--7--7--7-----7--7----x--x--x-----------

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5----8--8--8--8--8-----8----8--8--8--8----8--8--8--8--------------8--8--8--8-

4----7--7--7--9--7-----7----7--7--9--7----7--7--9--7--------------7--7--7--7--

3----7--7--7--7--7-----7----7--7--7--7----7--7--7--7--------------7--7--7--7--

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I don't like knowing people

I don't like people knowing about me

I don't like knowing people

I don't like people knowing about me

I don't like knowing people

And I don't like people knowing about me

I don't like knowing people

And I don't like people knowing about me

Get out of here

Just use the same chords as the chorus until you feel like stopping