Pink Floyd - "The Final Cut"
from the album "The Final Cut"


Notation:Effects:

EEight note9~~~~Vibrato
ErEight rest (quiet)5:(7)Bend note
QQuarter note(2)(4)Increase bend
Q.Punktured quarter note (1/4 + 1/8)(8):5Release bend
HHalf note===:5Hold and release bend
H.Punktored half note (1/2 + 1/4)12h10Pull off
FFull note5\Slide note out

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THE FINAL CUT

FF Piano Chord 
                                          F/CF/C Piano Chord 
   CC Piano Chord 

Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes____

BbBb Piano Chord 
 add9                                   FF Piano Chord 

I can barely define the shape of this moment in time.

FF Piano Chord 
                                  F/CF/C Piano Chord 
   CC Piano Chord 

And far from flying high in clear blue skies___,

BbBb Piano Chord 
 add9                                           FF Piano Chord 

I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide.

Bb                   F|| Accoustic guitar
If you negotiate the minefield in the drive,|| begins here.
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Bb                                   F|| Listen to record
And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes,|| for strumming rhytm.
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BbBb Piano Chord 
         CC Piano Chord 
                    Dm||Dm|| Piano Chord 

And if you make it past the shotgun in the hall,||
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Gm7||Gm7|| Piano Chord 

Dial the combination, open the priesthole||
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CC Piano Chord 
                                 F||F|| Piano Chord 

And if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind the wall.|| Stop here.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                                   FF Piano Chord 

There's a kid who had a big hallucination

AmAm Piano Chord 
                          CC Piano Chord 

Making love to girls in magazines.

BbBb Piano Chord 
                                   DmDm Piano Chord 

He wonders if you're sleeping with your new found faith.

Gm7Gm7 Piano Chord 

Could anybody love him

/CC Piano Chord 
          FF Piano Chord 
      F/CF/C Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 
  BbBb Piano Chord 
 add9  FF Piano Chord 

Or is it just a crazy dream___?

FF Piano Chord 
                     CC Piano Chord 

And if I show you my dark side

BbBb Piano Chord 
   FF Piano Chord 

Will you still hold me tonight?

FF Piano Chord 
            CC Piano Chord 

And if I open my heart to you

BbBb Piano Chord 

And show you my weak side,

FF Piano Chord 

What would you do?

BbBb Piano Chord 
                                   FF Piano Chord 

Would you sell your story to Rolling Stone?|| Start again here.
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Bb||Bb|| Piano Chord 

Would you take the children away||
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F||F|| Piano Chord 

And leave me alone?||
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BbBb Piano Chord 
           C||C|| Piano Chord 

And smile in reassurance||
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Dm||Dm|| Piano Chord 

As you whisper down the phone,||
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Gm7||Gm7|| Piano Chord 

Would you send me packing,|| Stop here.

/C                   FF Piano Chord 

Or would you take me home?

AmAm Piano Chord 
  FF Piano Chord 
  AmAm Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 
  BbBb Piano Chord 
  DmDm Piano Chord 
  Gm7Gm7 Piano Chord 
  /CC Piano Chord 
  FF Piano Chord 


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SOLO                               Background guitar is not notated

Lead guitar: lightly distorted

4/4
H.                      Er  E   F
e||13:(15)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~----20-|17~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
H||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
G||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|

Q       Q       H               Q       E   E   H
e||--------13------13:(15)~~~~~~~~|13------12 p10-----------------|
H||13-----------------------------|----------------13~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
G||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|

Q        Q      Q       Q.          Q       E   H
e||----------------12------13-----|----12-------------------------|
H||13-------15--------------------|------------15--15~~~~~~~~-----|
G||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|

Q         Q.       E   Q        Q       Q.          E   Q
e||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
H||15--------13-------------------|-------------------------------|
G||-------------------14--14------|10------12----------14--12-----|

E   E   H.                      Q       Q       H
e||-------------------------------|15:(17)(18)====:15~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
H||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
G||14 p12--10~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\---|-------------------------------|

E   Q.          E   Q.
e||--------13------13:(15)~~~~~~~~|13--12-------------------------|
H||13-----------------------------|----------------13--11---------|
G||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|

Q       H.
e||-------------------------------||
H||-------------------------------|| End of guitar solo
G||14 p12--10~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\---||

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Am                                 F|| Start here.
Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings,||
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AmAm Piano Chord 
                                C||C|| Piano Chord 

Thought I oughta tear the curtain down.||
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Bb||Bb|| Piano Chord 

I held the blade in trembling hands,||
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DmDm Piano Chord 
                   Gm7||Gm7|| Piano Chord 

Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang,|| Stop here.

GG Piano Chord 
      CC Piano Chord 
  BbBb Piano Chord 
 add9  FF Piano Chord 

I never had the nerve to make the final cut.

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