Beatlab (song)

Name	Beatlab
Album/single	Ignite
Length	5.22
Alternative titles
First live performance
Recorded
Writer/composer	Shihad
Producer	Shihad

Additional Information

The guitars for this song were recorded in the key of G, with a tempo of 192.

While Beatlab was aimed at being an album song, it ended up being in essence unfinished, and as such is on the album as a bonus track, acting as a bridge between the main album and the remixes.

Lyrics

Tell me everything you think I need to know
Gonna try, gonna try
Gonna get it to go

Tell me something that will change my world
And when I feel sad/would not feel sad(?)
I don’t think so

So I’m sitting at the local dump
Bought a drink to shut you up
You were saying how you been reborn

Hey now, everybody do the uniform  (x5)

Teach respect for what they say
Run them down when they get in the way
I’d give it up
I’d heed the call
If it didn’t seem so criminal
Lose your body, mind, and soul
To an ancient ritual
When all logic's lost and gone

Hey now, maybe we can do the uniform
Hey now, everybody do the uniform  (x5)

And even if the tough guy’s telling the truth
That’s too bad
Mean, do you really want the dark side speaking for you?
That’s so sad

Now change colour

Tell me everything you think I need to know
Go die, go die, go die
Make 'em terminate original 
And convince yourself it’s right
Give your body, mind and soul
An outdated ritual
And once you know whose side you’re on

Hey now, everybody do the uniform  (x5)

And even if the tough guy’s telling the truth
That’s too bad
Mean, do you really want the dark side speaking for you?
That’s so sad

It’s your moment
But you hang by your fingers stripped to the bone
Been broken
So get back in your place and
Lay down your arm

And even if the tough guy’s telling the truth
That’s too bad
Mean, do you really want the dark side speaking for you?
That’s so sad

Hey now, everybody do the uniform  (x8)

Now change colour

Teach respect for what they say
Run them down when they get in the way (change colour)
I’d give it up
I’d heed the call
If it didn’t seem so criminal
Lose your body, mind, and soul
To an ancient ritual (change colour)
When all logic's lost and gone

Hey now, maybe we can do the uniform

It’s your moment
But you hang by your fingers stripped to the bone
Been broken
So get back in your place and
Lay down your arms

It’s so sad
You can tell by the splinters that enter your heart
You’ve spoken
Only that’s an opinion
And this a command

Hey now, everybody do the uniform (now change colour)   (x3)
Hey now, everybody do the uniform

Guitar

Beatlab
EADGBe

All verses have no guitar.

Chorus
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-{first}-----------------------------------------   x3
-{time-}-----------------------------------------
-{only-}-------------------------------13-12-10--
-{--10-}---11-11-11-11-11-11//14-14-10-----------

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-11-11-11-11-11-11-13-13-13-13-13-13-------------

Bit after first chorus before verse
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-5-5---5-54---5-5---5-4--|-5-5--65--54--5-5---5-4
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-3-3---3-32---3-3---3-2--|-3-3--43--32--3-3---3-2

The second part of the second chorus
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-000000-2/4-4444-7-555555/10--10-10-10-10-10-----
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-44444444444-7-555555/10-10-10-10-10-10----------
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Modified version of the chorus
------10---10------10------10--------------------
----8----8-----8----------8----8-----------------
-10--------------9------8------------------------
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Then there's the bit after the first chorus again, with this added to it at the end
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-456-
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-234-

Then:
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------------6----------------6------------6----------------6------
-555-55-55-----44--55-55-55-----55-55-55-----44--55-55-55-----457-
------------4----------------4------------4----------------4------
-333-33-33-----22--33-33-33-----33-33-33-----22--33-33-33-----235-

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------------6----------------6------------6-----------------------
-555-55-55-----44--55-55-55-----55-55-55-----44-------------------
------------4----------------4------------4-----------------------
-333-33-33-----22--33-33-33-----33-33-33-----22-------------------

Then some parts are repeated