Wait And See (song)

Name	Wait And See
Album/single	The General Electric
Length	4.34 (album version), 4.28 (Blue Light Disco)
Alternative titles	??
First live performance	??
Recorded	1999
Writer/composer	Shihad
Producer	GGGarth

Additional Information

Song meaning as told by Jon: "I was living in a batch by myself for a week, with no drugs and no phone and no nothing. Karl's parents share-own a batch on the beach in Raumati. It was amazing but at the same time I was looking at how the houses had slowly eaten into the hillside and I was thinking, 'fucking termites'. It's a crime to think that how it is now, is how it's going to be forever. We're living on a living being and burrowing into its skin". (Real Groove, September 1999)

Lyrics

We could choose to disregard it
or have some fun and break it
Since god has just departed
We could carry on or fake it
Who has a better plan
Whats the true nature of man
Whats money to your soul
Watch as money takes control

And is there space for every boy and girl
In a competitive, material world
I guess we'll have to wait and see
And I'm trying too hard too believe

Know when to draw the line
Know there's a grand design
Know there's a better way
I don't know and cannot say
When my respect for man
Has taken all it can
The purchase of your soul
Placate and we have lost control x2

Is it daddy's little boys and girls
Become the acne on the face of the world
I guess we'll have to wait and see
And I'm trying too hard too believe

We could choose to disregard it x2
Who has a better plan
Whats the true nature of man
Whats money to your soul
Watch as money takes control

Is it daddy's little boys and girls
Become the acne on the face of the world
I guess we'll have to wait and see
And is there space for every boy and girl
In a competitive, material world
I guess we'll have to wait and see
And I'm trying too hard too believe

Tab

Guitar

Shihad standard tuning

Chorus
Code:
--3---2-------
--3---3-------
--0---0-----2--
-------------2----
-------------0- ---
------------ 


Florish at end of chorus
Code:
---------- almost a slide, but not quite
-------1--
-0-1-2----
----------
----------
----------

Tab for the part just before the chorus Phil plays
Code: 

--------------------------
--------1--------1--------
--2--0---0----0---0-2----
--2---------4--------2----
--0------------------0----
---------------------------

Bass

Author: Brad Snare
Email:  bodysnare@hotmail.com

Standard Tuning. Low to High : EADG

RIFF 1:
G|-------------------|
D|-------------------|         Played through most of song.
A|--77--8---777--8---|
E|-------------------|

RIFF 2:
G|-------------------|
D|--77--8---777--8---|         Played during choruses,
A|-------------------|             "And is there space for every"/
E|-------------------|               "Is it daddys little boys and
                                                           girls"

RIFF 3:
G|----------------|
D|----------------|    This is played once, you'll recognise it
A|--77--8--8/(0)--|               when you hear it.
E|----------------|

There a couple of pauses in there but it's easy to follow along.
Just listen to the song for timing and it won't take long
for you to get into the flow of it.