@Song: Gold Soundz

Written by Pavement
Recorded by Pavement on album "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" (Matador)
Transcription by Gary Von Colln

Here's the basic chord progression. The A-B-D progression is also

used in the instrumental interlude. If you don't want to bother with
the Dsus2 and Bsus2 just play D and B instead, it will still sound
good.

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A
Go back to those gold soundz
B D
And keep my affect to yourself
A
Because it's nothing that I don't like
B D
Is it a crisis or a boring change
A
When it's central, so essential
B D
It has a nice ring when you laugh
A
At the low-life opinions
B D
And they're coming to the chorus now

F#m Dsus2
I keep my address to yourself
Bsus2
Cause we need secrets
Dsus2
We need secret, cret, cret, cret, crets
A
Back right now

Because I never want to make you feel

That you're social, never ignorant soul
Believe in what you want to do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trials over, the weapon's found

Keep my address to myself

Cause it's secret
Cause it's secret, cret,
cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,
Back right now

So drunk in the august sun

And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty, and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there ,I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long
I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasting
Allocating outward
For the last word
Last words come up
All you've got to wait

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Now for some "Pavement chords". First retune your guitar to

C-G-D-G-B-B (fat E string down 4 frets in pitch, A string down 2 frets
in pitch, thin E sting down 5 frets in pitch). Once you've retuned
these are the chord shapes:

A(I) A B(I) B Bsus2 D(I) D Dsus2

F#m
B-|------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-|--2-------10--------4-------12-----4--------7-----15------7-------10----
G-|--2--------9--------4-------11-----6--------7-----14------9-------11----
D-|--2-------11--------4-------13-----4--------7-----16------7-------11----
G-|--2--------9--------4-------11-----4--------7-----14------7-------11----
C-|-----------9----------------11--------------------14--------------------

The (I) or (II) just indicates position, e.g. A(I) is an A major,

played in the first position (along the guitar neck), while A(II) is
also A major but played in the second position.

Note that the first string is not played in any of the above chords.
Since the first and second strings are tuned the same, if you want,
you can fret the first string the same as the second and play it.

>From listening to the recording, I think the two guitars play as

follows:

verses:
guitar 1: A(I) - B(I) - D(I)
guitar 2: A(II) - A(II) - A(II)

Here guitar 2 is playing the A(II) the whole time. Listen for those
high notes on the record, especially during the first verse when
guitar 1 is quit.

chorus:
both: F#m - Dsus2 - Bsus2 - Dsus2

intrumental interlude (roughly):

guitar 1: A(I) - B(I) - D(I)
guitar 2: A(II) - B(II) - D(II)

The interlude is pretty free form so this simple pattern isn't the
whole story, but you can play around with these chords and find a lot
of the sounds on the record.
- - -

Place a capo on the 2nd Fret.

Chords used:

G (320033)
A7sus4 (x02033)
Cadd9 (x32033)
Em7 (022033)

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G
Go back to those gold sounds
A7sus4 Cadd9
And keep my advent to yourself
G
Because it's nothing I don't like
A7sus4 Cadd9
Is it a crisis or a boring change
G
When it's central, so essential,
A7sus4 Cadd9
It has a nice ring when you laugh
G
At the low life opinions
A7sus4 Cadd9
And they're coming to the chorus now

Em7 Cadd9 A7sus4

I keep my address to yourself 'cause we need secrets
Cadd9 G
We need secrets -crets -crets -crets -crets -crets back right now

A7sus4 Cadd9
Because I never wanna make you feel
G
That you're social

Never ignorant soul

A7sus4 Cadd9
Believe in what you wanna do
G
And do you think that is a major flaw
A7sus4 Cadd9
When they rise up in the falling rain
G
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
A7sus4 Cadd9
The trial's over, weapon's found

Em7 Cadd9 A7sus4

I keep my address to myself 'cause it’s a secret
Cadd9 G
I need secrets -crets -crets -crets -crets -crets (etc) back right now

G A7sus4 Cadd9 ( a few times )

G
So drunk in the August sun
A7sus4 Cadd9
And you're the kind of girl I like
G
Because you're empty and I'm empty
A7sus4 Cadd9
And you can never quarantine the past
G
Did you remember in December
A7sus4 Cadd9
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
G
And if I go there, I won't stay there
A7sus4 Cadd9
Because I'm sitting here too long

Em7 Cadd9
I've been sitting here too long
A7sus4
And I've been wasted
Cadd9
Advocating that word for the last word
G
Last words come up all you've got to waste