Chord/Tab song: Return to Flesh

Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 10:37:11 +0100
From: Stagiaire Communication

Guitar Tab for "Return to flesh"
(artist: Cannibal corpse; Album :The bleeding)
>From Frank Gillardeaux ( frank.gillardeaux@etu.utc.fr )

TABLATURE EXPLANATION
/ and \ are slides up and down
....... are palm mutings
!!!!!!! are tremolo pickings
4p3 means pull-off from 4 to 3
3h4 means hammer-on from 3 to 4
[14] These notes are the second guitar harmoizations


Song Structure

Intro Intro 4 times
Riff A 2 times
Intro 3 times } with
+Transition 1 } riff A without harmonizations

Riff B 4 times

1st verse Riff C 4 times (verse)
Riff B 4 times
Riff C 4 times (verse) (in fact 3,9 times)
+Transition 1
Riff D 2 times
Riff E 8 times (pre-chorus)
Riff F 4 times (chorus) (in fact 3,9 times)
+Transition 2

Solos Riff C 4 times (on first solo)
Riff B 4 times (between the solos)
Riff C 4 times (on 2nd solo)(in fact 3,9 times)
+Transition 1

2nd verse Riff G 1 times (bridge)

Riff E 8 times (pre-chorus)
Riff F 4 times (chorus)

outro Riff H 8 times (outro riff)(in fact 7,9 times)
+Transition 1
Riff G 1/2 times (just the 2nd half of the
bridge: the harmonized part)
Conclusion riff 1 time

TUNING DOWN 1/2 STEPS

INTRO

--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|
-------------------------------.|
-------/9(9)\---------/8(8)\---.| 4 times
-6-5-3-/7(7)\---6-5-3-/6(6)\----|
-4-3-1-/7(7)\---4-3-1-/6(6)\----|

. . . . . .

Riff A
1________________ 2_____________

-------|------------------|------------------||
-------|------------------|------------------||
-------|------------------|-----------------.||
-------|--3-----------2---|[6]----------[5]-.||
-6-5-3-|-[5]--5---4--[4]--|-8---[8]-[7]--7---||
-4-3-1-|-----[7]-[6]------|-----10---9-------||

. . . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Transition 1

-------|
-------|
-------| (In fact the Intro riff is played 4 times
-------| with riff AAA, but it is cut on the 4th time:

-6-5-3-| play only the 3 first power palm muted chords)
-4-3-1-|
. . .

Riff B (harmonisation on 3th and 4th time)

--------------------------|---------------------------||
--------------------------|---------------------------||
--------------------------|---------------------------||
--------------------------|---------------------------||
-5p44-7p44----------------|-8p77-10p77----------------||
-----------4p33-6p33------|------------7p66-9p66------||

!!!! !!!! !!!! !!!! !!!! !!!! !!!! !!!!
. .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . ..

RIFF C (with voice) 1,2,3_______

--------------------------------------------|-----------||
--------------------------------------------|-----------||
-------------------0-3-0--0-----------------|-----------||
-------2-----------0-3-0--0-----2-----7-6-6-|-----------||
-5-----0------------------------0-----5-4-4-|-----------||
-3-0-0---0-0-0-0-0----------0-0---0-0-------|4p3h4p3-3--||

. . . . . . . . . . . .
on the 4th time go directly to riff D

RIFF D (mix between Intro Riff & Riff A)
1_______________________

-------------------------------|------------------------|
-------------------------------|------------------------|
-------------------------------|------------------------|
-------/9(9)\---------/8(8)\---|--------3-----------2---|
-6-5-3-/7(7)\---6-5-3-/6(6)\---|-6-5-3-[5]--5---4--[4]--|
-4-3-1-/7(7)\---4-3-1-/6(6)\---|-4-3-1-----[7]-[6]------|

. . . . . . . . . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

End of Riff D
2_________________________

--------------------------||
--------------------------||
--------------------------||
--------[6]----------[5]--||
--6-5-3--8---[8]-[7]--7---||
--4-3-1------10---9-------||

. . . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RIFF E (pre-chorus, beware of the measure (5/4 for the tempo of riff D))

---------------------------|
---------------------------|In parenthesis there are
---------------------------|harmonisationsof times 5 to 8.
----(77)-------------(66)--|
-6-5-88---6-5-2-------77---|
-4-3------4-3-0-1/3\1------|

. . !! . . . !!

RIFF F (chorus)
1,2,3___

-------------------|-------------|--------|| On 4th time
-------------------|-------------|--------|| replace by
-------------------|-------------|--------|| Transition 2
-----5-------------|-----5-------|--------||
-4-----4--7-4--5---|-4-----4--7-4|-5430---||
---3-------------4-|---3---------|--------||

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Transition 2

--------|
--------|
--------|
--------|

-2-3-4--|
-0-1-2--|
. . .

RIFF G (bridge)

---------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------|
-5555552222228888885555554444441111114444444-------|
--------------------------------------------333333-|

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Riff G (second part harmonized two guitars)

-------------------------------------------------------||
-------------------------------------------------------||
-------------------------------------------------------||
-3333330000006666663333332222222222222-----------------|| 

-55555522222288888855555544444444444441111111111111111-||

--------------------------------------3333333333333333-||

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RIFF H (outro)

-----------------------------------||
-----------------------------------||
-----------------------------------||
-----------------------------------||
-------------------------------6\5-||
-0-0-5-6-0-0-5-6-000099993333--4\3-||

. . . . . . . . !!!!!!!!!!!!

Conclusion riff

--------||
--------||
--------||
--------|| end of song

-6-5-2--||
-4-3-0--||
. . .

LYRICS

Bleeding wounds never cloath
even after death.
Murdered dead look on from beyond.
Never to return.

No way back at all, trapped.
Between life and death, we can't return to flesh.

I'm dead now, life has passed.
In the grave, no life left.
Move on to, the other side.
Rotten, I have died.

Murder, took my life away.
I will never rest.
Dead, reaching from the grave.
So cold in this place.

I'm dead now, life has passed.
In the grave, no life left.
Move on to, the other side.
Rotten, I have died.

Murder, took my life away.
I will never rest.
Dead, reaching from the grave.
So cold in this place.

No way back at all, trapped.
Between life and death, I will come back.


I think there's few mistakes (perhaps on riff C?).
Please send comments or corrections to
frank.gillardeaux@etu.utc.fr
And enjoy playing C.Corpse !!!!!