veryone, this will be the first tab I've made. Note that this version of the song
tabbing is the rhythm and goes along with the voice of GLaDOS, and is not the chords that
Coulton plays. This took me a couple hours to make so I hope it was worth the time :)
I separated the acoustic guitar (in the beginning) and GLaDOS' singing by putting the
notes in the section below here, then the whole song after it.
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Song: Still Alive
Artist: Portal/GLaDOS
Composer: Jonathan Coulton
Tabbed By: Chargerfan96
This is the pattern to the acoustic guitar after GLaDOS says, ?This was a triumph,? and
the song:
(This was a triumph?) (It?s hard to overstate?)
e|--------2-----------2-----}------|----------0-----}------------|
B|-----3-----3-----3-----3--}-x4---|-------2-----2--}-x4---------|
G|--2-----------4-----------} -----|----2-----------}------------|
D|---------------------------------|-----------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|-----------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|-----------------------------|
And here?s the part after the chorus: (This is actually played throughout the rest of
song)
e|-----2~-----3--2--0---|
B|----------------------|
G|--2------2------------|
D|----------------------|
A|----------------------|
E|----------------------|
NOTE: At the second and third chorus (marked **), an electric guitar comes in. During
chorus I?ve written an extra stanza below each phrase. This shows the notes of the chords
the electric guitar. Also, I?ve also put each word where the chord is played in CAPS, to
it easier to follow along. (x means palm-mute)
[INTRO/VERSE 1]
This was a tri-umph I?m mak-ing a note here: huge suc-cess
e|--3----2--0--0---2---------------3---2--0--0----2-----------0-------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------3------------------|
G|-----------------------------2----------------------------------2---------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
It?s hard to ov-er state my sat-is-fac-tion
e|-------0---2--3--0------------0----------2--------------------------------|
B|----------------------2---3-----------------------------------------------|
G|--2------------------------------2---2------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Ap-er-ture Sci-ence We do what we must be-cause we can
e|-3--2---0----0---2------------3---2---0---0-----2----------0--------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------3--------------------|
G|---------------------------2-----------------------------------2----------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
For the good of all of us Ex-cept the ones who are dead
e|--0---2---3---0---------0--------------0---1----0-------------------------|
B|------------------2--3------------3-----------------3---1-----------------|
G|------------------------------2-------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[CHORUS]
But there?s no sense cry-ing ov-er ev-ry mis-take
e|------------------1----0--------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------1-------------3--3--1--3--1---1---1--------------------------|
G|--2----3------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
You just keep on try-ing till you run out of cake
e|---------------1---3---1---0------------0--1---1--------------------------|
B|-----------1--------------------3---3-------------------------------------|
G|--2---3-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
And the sci-ence gets done And you make a neat gun
e|--3---5---6---6----5----3------1---3---5---5--3----1----------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
For the peo-ple who are still a-live
e|--------------1---1---0----0---2--2---------------------------------------|
B|--3---1---3---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[VERSE 2]
I?m not ev-en an-gry I?m be-ing so sin-cere right now
e|------3--2--0--0---2--------------3--2---0--0---2---------0---------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------3---------------------|
G|--2------------------------------------------------------------2----------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Ev-en though you broke my heart and killed me
e|-0--2----3-----0-------------0--------------2-----------------------------|
B|--------------------2---3-------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------2----2----------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
And tore me to pie-ces And threw ev-ry piece in-to a fire
e|------3---2--0---0---2------------3---2--0----0-----2-------0-------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------3------------------|
G|--2--------------------------2---------------------------------2----------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
As they burned it hurt be-cause I was so hap-py for you
e|-0---2-----3----0------------0---------------0---1--0---------------------|
B|--------------------2---3-----------------3-------------3---1-------------|
G|---------------------------------------2
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