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        This is an official QUALITY TABS INC. TabFile
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This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation
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                SONG TITLE: The Distance
              ARTIST/GROUP: Cake
                     ALBUM: Fashion Nugget
            TRANSCRIBED BY: qualitytabs@qualitytabs.tk
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This transcription is largely based on the work of
<WrockPhrog@aol.com> who posted this song at OLGA. I don't know
his name, he didn't write it in the file. There are no chords
in this song, just four riffs. Words in () are backing vocals.


TAB SYMBOLS:
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/ = slide up
\ = slide down
h = hammer-on
p = pull-off
b = bend


INTRO: [see below for bass-tab]
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Reluctantly crouched at the starting line
Engines pumping and thumping in time
The green light flashes, the flags go up
Churning, and burning, they yearn for the cup


BASS-TAB FOR INTRO:
G|---------------------|
D|--0-1-2-----0-1-2----|
A|---------------------|
E|--------0---------0--|


VERSE RIFF:
E|-------------------------------|
B|--0-----1/3\1-0-------0h1p0----|
G|--0-----2/4\2-0-2-----0h2p0-2--|
D|----------------4-----------4--|
A|-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|

The last time you play the verse riff
play it like this:
E|------------------------------|
B|--0-----1/3\1-0-------0h1p0---|
G|--0-----2/4\2-0-2-----0h2p0---|
D|----------------4-------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|


VERSE 1: [play with VERSE-RIFF]
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They deftly manueuver and muscle for rank
Fuel burning fast on an empty tank
Reckless and wild they pour through the turns
Their prowess is potent and secretly stern
As they speed through the finish the flags go down
The fans get up and they get out of town
The arena is empty except for one man
still driving and striving as fast as he can



PRE-CHORUS RIFF: [this is actually a trompet]

E|--7---6-------5---3-------2---0-------0---0-----|
B|--8---7-------6---5-------3---2-------1---0-----|
G|------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------|


PRE-CHORUS: [play with PRE-CHORUS RIFF]
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The sun has gone down and the moon has come up
And long ago somebody left with the cup
But he's driving and striving and hugging the turns
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns



CHORUS RIFF 1:
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------0-1-2------------------------5/7--7-5-----|
E|-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-3b----------0-0---0-0---0-0---0----------7\--|
                        |
              Very small bend, don't bend all the way to the 4th fret

CHORUS RIFF 2:
E|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|
G|----------------------------|
D|--------2-------------------|
A|--1p0--------------0-1-2----|
E|------3-----3b--4-----------|



CHORUS:
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[play CHORUS RIFF 1]
He's going the distance
He's going for speed
She's all alone
All alone in a time of need

[play CHORUS RIFF 2]
Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the course
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse
He's going the distance


[play CHORUS RIFF 1 twice before starting verse 2]


VERSE 2: [play like verse 1]
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No trophy, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no line
He's haunted by something he cannot define
Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse
Assail him, impale him, with monster truck force
In his mind he's still driving, still making the grade
She's hoping in time that her memories will fade
'Cause he's racing and pacing and plotting the course
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse


PRE-CHORUS: [play like first pre-chorus]
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The sun has gone down and the moon has come up
And long ago somebody left with the cup
But he's driving and striving and hugging the turns
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns


CHORUS:
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[play CHORUS RIFF 1]
'Cause he's going the distance
He's going for speed
She's all alone  (all alone)
All alone in a time of need

[play CHORUS RIFF 2]
Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the course
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse
He's racing and pacing and plotting the course
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse
He's going the distance
He's going for speed
He's going the distance


OUTRO:
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Play CHORUS RIFF 1 twice

Play CHORUS RIFF 2 seven times

[sing 'aah-aaah' or something like that]



P.S.

As a bonus, here's the main riff in their new song, 'Never There':

E|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|-------2-----------2---1-----|
A|-----------0-----3---2---2---|
E|-0---3-----------------------|


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