Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Take a bow (Rihanna)


This song is pretty well known I think. The tv show Glee did a cover of it in one of the episodes so you may recognize it from that. Personally I like the original version better. I love Glee, but Rihanna's voice is much more suited for the song (and its her song).
Well the lyrics are pretty much just telling about a girl who is angry at an ex-boyfriend for cheating on her. He keeps apologizing but she's had enough and she says "don't tell me you're sorry 'cause you're not... I know you're only sorry you got caught." She's basically mocking him for pretending to be sorry for cheating on her and hurting her. She is rubbing it in his face and trying to teach him that she is not going to forgive him, and that you don't cheat on people when you're in a relationship with them. She mocks him by saying "you put on quite a show" (because she doesn't believe that he's sorry. She thinks he's just putting on a 'show' to pretend he's sorry. "That was quite a show, very entertaining, but it's over now. Go on and take a bow." Basically she's telling him that it's all over now so he can stop pretending that he feels guilty for hurting her.
Just from experimenting with the tab for a few minutes I can say that it is a good one. The parts are simple and its basically ten seconds of melody that keeps repeating throughout the whole song. Here they are:
http://www.tabnabber.com/view_Tab.asp?tabID=5538&sArtist=Rihanna&sName=Take+a+Bow

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