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the Smashing Pumpkins "Today"
Siamese Dream
Tabbed by: Harley Cheesbro
Tuning: Standard (can also be played 1/2 step down)

Rythm Chords (guitar 2)
 Eb5  Bb5  Ab5 C5  F5  G5  Cb5  Db5
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|--8------------------------5---7--|
|--8---8---6---10---3---5---5---7--|
|--6---8---6---10---3---5---3---5--|
|--6---6---4---8----1---3----------|

Guitar 1: Opening riff
|--11----13----11----15p11----| x4 (clean) 
|-----11----11----11-------11-| x8 (distorted)
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|

Guitar 2: (distorted)
Eb5  Bb5  Ab5
Ab5  Bb5  Ab5
Eb5  Bb5  C5  Ab5
Eb5  Bb5  Ab5

Verse (clean)
Eb5       Bb5        Ab5                      Eb5
    Today is the greatest day I've ever known 
      Bb5          Ab5
Can't live for tomorrow, tomorrow's much too long
Eb5     Bb5        Ab5  Eb5    Bb5      C5
I'll burn my eyes out,  before I get out

Guitar 1 (clean):
|--------------------------------------|
|---------------8-9----------11---9-8--|
|--8---10---8-------8------8----8------|
|----8----8---8-------8----------------|
|-----------------------11-------------|
|--------------------------------------|

|---------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------13-----|
|-8---10---8---------------10/12----12--|
|---8----8---8-10-10-10-10--------------|
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|

Chorus (guitar 1):
F5  Ab5    Cb5    F5   Ab5        Cb5
I   wanted more   than life could ever give me
F5     Ab5    Cb5     F5   Ab5     G5   Db5      
bored by the chore,   I'm saving face

  Guitar 2 (distorted)
  |--------------|
  |--------------| x2
  |-9b10---------| (on first and second times only)
  |--------------|
  |--------------|
  |--------------|
   ^slowly

Verse 2, guitar 2 (clean):
Eb5        Bb5     Ab5    
     Today is the greatest day Ive ever known
Eb5   Bb5      Ab5
Can't wait for tomorrow, I might not have that long
Eb5  Bb5     Ab5        Eb5      Bb5  C5
I'll tear my heart out,  before I get out.

Guitar 1 (distortion)
F5      Ab5    Eb5        Bb5          F5
   Pink ribbon scars that never forget
  Ab5      Eb5      Bb5           F5
I tried so hard to cleanse these regrets
   Ab5   Eb5        Bb5         F5
My angel wings are bruised and restrained
   Ab5   G5      Db5
My belly stings

Bridge: guitar 1 (distorted)
Eb5     Bb5
  Today is.....
Eb5     Ab5
  Today is.....
Eb5     Bb5  Eb5   Ab5 
  Today is....the greatest
Eb5   Bb5       C5 Ab5  Eb5   Ab5  C5    
  DAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYEAHHHHHEEEAAAOHHHHH

Guitar 1 (clean):
|-------------------|
|-8-8-8-8-8-8-8b9p8-|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
 ^ x6 under lyrics, then comes:

|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|--8~~~~------------------------------------------------------|
|---------9b10r9--9h10--7h9-----------------------------------|
|----------------------------10~~----10h12p108h10b12r10~~~~--|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus 3: Guitar 2 stays the same as the first
Guitar 1: (distorted)
F5           Ab5      Cb5
   I want to turn you on
F5           Ab5      Cb5
   I want to turn you on
F5           Ab5      Cb5
   I want to turn you on
F5           Ab5      
   I want to turn you.....

Outro: Guitar 2 plays the opening riff and ends with:
|---------------------------------------15p11------|
|------------------------------------11-------11---|
|-12--------12h13p12----12-----12h13---------------|
|----15-13-----------13----13----------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|

Guitar One (distorted):
Eb5      Bb5     Ab5     
   Today is the greatest
Eb5      Bb5     Ab5
   Today is the greatest....day
Eb5      Bb5         C5  Ab5 Eb5  Bb5 
   Today is the greatest day that
           C5   Ab5    Eb5
   I have ever really known


Not sure if its completely correct, but Im sure it's pretty close.
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