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ANOMUSICBYlink in Park TRANSCRIBED
BYJeff Perrin
***NEW FORMAT***
Bass lines are included in the guitar transcriptions
All gtrs. are in dropped-D tuning tun ed down one half step (low to high: Db Ab D b Gb B b Eb).
Bass tuning (low to high ): Db Ab Db Gb .
All notes and chords sound one half step lower than written (key of Db minor).
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I. I cannot take this anymore Sayin' anything I said before

(2.) (break) I find the answers weren't so clear Wish I could find a way t~ disappear
DS Eoct. Bb5A5 05 Coct.
Gm . I & 2 play Rhy . Fig. I eight times
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All these words they make no sense I found bliss in ignorance Less I hear the less you say You'll find that out anyway I
All these thoughts they make no sense I found bliss in ignorance Nothing seems to go away over and over again I
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As heard on Linkin Park's Warner Bros. recording Hybrid Theory

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Everything you say to me
2nd rime (break takes me one step closer to the edge and I'm about to)
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12 Gtrs 1& 2

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(break 'causeI'm one step closer to the edge and I'm about to)
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Riff B {1:4 1) Rhy. Fill 1 (1: 14)

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[Q]Interlude {1:41)
break
(4 th time) Shut up when I'm talkin' to you
Ebsus2 N.C.
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Shut up Shut up when I'm talking to you
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break Everything you say to me
(takes me one step closer to the edge and I'm about to
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26 Gtrs. 1 & 2

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I need a little room to breathe

(break 'causeI'm one step closer to the edge and I'm about to) break)
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