Revenge
Author: Ryan Adams / Phil Wandscher

Official Appearance:

 Faithless Street -- Whiskeytown
Faithless Street (Reissue) -- Whiskeytown

Unofficial Appearance:

 N/A

Tablature:

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Notes: Ryan Adams interview:  "The timing on "Revenge" is just a slap-back on a four-beat. It’s somewhere between a James Brown beat and a Stones beat. Every second verse we cut a corner before the chord. I don’t know how we found that rhythm. Maybe it was X. [X drummer] D.J. Bonebrake used a lot of those corner-cutting beats. I love those X records, but I never really thought that sort of thing would work with Whiskeytown until "Revenge" happened."

Played Live:

 11/18/95 01/26/96 03/15/97 12/31/99
05/09/96
08/18/96
Lyrics:

What ever happened to you, you're trashed
And I'm still wrong
I know you wanted to stay so long
And I'm still wrong

And there were no secrets, there were no stories,
There was no one around
And there were no reasons, there was no questions,
There is no point now

What ever happened to you, you're trashed
And I'm still wrong
I know you wanted to stay so long
And I'll all wrong

So tell me a secret, did you want to see me pull my guns?
So tell me a secret, there were no stories, nobody won

I'll give you a reason, I'll wage your war,
Pull the punch from your face (?)
I'll stand my guard, I'll give you a reason,
You might see it, you might hate it,
You might never know your name

So tell me a secret, did you want to see me pull my guns? 
(reason, tell me one more lie)
So tell me a secret, stole all your punches in the eye (?)
Tell me a secret, wage your war, stole all your punches (?)
Tell me a secret, how does it feel to be so old?
How does it feel to be so old?
To see her cry?

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