Hometown

[0:01 - mandolin w/ sust. tremolo]                        [0:10 vocals join]
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[0:21 - no mandolin. vox, sound FX, electric lead & acoustic rhythm guitars, keys, drums / 5:00 faded out / 6:04 fin]



Lyrics:

He spoke of tortured souls

So outrageous the toll
You can lose all you have
He refused to give in to the town that takes all
Survive, you must have the will
This movie doesn't end the way we want all the time
Then he shouts at the moon

She's gone, and fear has overcome
He was walking the mile, he was walking alone

So outrageous the toll
You can lose all you have
He refused to give in to the town that takes all
Survive, you must have the will
This movie doesn't end the way we want all the time
Then he shouts at the moon

She's gone, and fear has overcome
He was walking the mile, he was walking alone

Four and twenty dead-birds, they bleed upon the nest
There was no time for reason, they had no sign of a threat

Now it's too late, too late for me
This town will eventually take me
Too late, too late for me
This town will win

Through this fog they came along
Dark creatures singing a terrible song
The rest of the bar laughed at him
Only I felt my hope grow dim
They found him dead the very next day
"No more stories from him," I heard them say
We blamed bad luck for his fate
Only I felt terror so great

She and he will know
That someday all things will end
That misty night
That dismal moon
The dead search for their kin
While angels sing, in endless dark
The dead seek out sin 



Tab legend:

tremolo               rapid, alternating down & up picking
.                     stopped note
~                     sustained note



Link to my video lesson: https://youtu.be/-9HEkT0kKpY

OST: https://youtu.be/Qs57T8jMTzc?si=KPKuWvl-NChq-SZz

Hometown was composed by Akira Yamaoka for Silent Hill 3 on the Playstation 2 in 2003. Playing in the end credits
of the game, it also was released as track no. 1 on the accompanying CD release Silent Hill 3 Original Soundtrack(s)
that same year.

This line was taken from the main theme and intro music of the first Silent Hill game. The mandolin was not even re-recorded
or re-sampled and just copypasted into this song. As explained in my full transcript of that theme, it was actually created
with a patch [Sound library: mando trem in Spectrasonics Hans Zimmer Guitars Vol. 2] and not played physically. My reasoning
for transcribing all the notes on one course came from the sample's choppiness, as well as Yamaoka's 2014/15 tours for which
Todd Jordan and Diego Reynoso were instructed to play the main theme in this positioning. But in Hometown, the mando only plays
during the intro. 

The rest of the track then remains a re-imagination of said main theme as well, with different instrumentation. The song will
have completely faded out by the 5 minute mark, but all OST prints then feature an additional minute of silence, resulting 
in the track running to 6 minutes and 4 seconds. This seems to have been an intentional choice. The lyrics and vocals were
both provided by Joe Romersa, who shared singing duties with Mary Elizsabeth McGlynn on this OST. Mandolin transcript in
GDae standard tuning.