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chords: Emperor X's Florencia Tropicana
2026-07-29

heard chad play this song live for the first time at The Echo
in LA on July 25, 2026 and can't get it out of my head. i
believe this is the first tab of it ever, only about 21 years
late. haha
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Florencia Tropicana
Tectonic Membrane / Thin Strip on an Edgeless Platform
by Emperor X / Chad R. Matheny, 2004

TUNING: EADGBe
KEY: A
there seem to be two loops to this, A and B.

LOOP A goes: D, A, B/F#, F#m, E
count: (D) 1-2-3, (A)(B/F#)(F#m) the same, E 1-2-3-4

LOOP B goes: G, A, F#m,  G

where:
D   = xx0232
A   = 002220
B/F#= 224442
F#m = 244222
E   = 022100
G   = 320003

note: B/F# could also be 224422, which would be F#sus4. unsure.
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lyrics transcribed per live show, not necessarily the same

INTRO / LOOP A
D A B/F# F#m E 
Call...

D               A          B/F#          F#m          E 
It takes a call to make us face where we stop and start
           D     A        B/F#      F#m       E 
And in the mall, the mall, the mall, the mall
       D    A            B/F#      F#m    E 
at the J.C. Penney where your mama works
         D      A   B/F#    F#m    
We drove across the state...
        E  D          A      B/F#    F#m        
I wanna go halfway to Boston and the borderline
    E        D    A           B/F#   F#m       E
You bought a map (you wanted, a map, you wanted)
        D   A             B/F#   F#m      E
And the FTA searched your flight all night

[LOOP B]
  G                      A
A one way arrow puts you on Air France
F#m                               G
Reverse the flow of time and your plane flies backwards
       G                      A
Let it crash into Florida and kill my chance
F#m                    G
Standing on a desktop, screaming swear words


        G              A
Getting crushed at the night club drunk
F#m                                    G
You're drinking too much tea from Long Island toxins
  G                    A
I see you dance to the Japanese dub
         F#m                    G
That you put in my head when we started talking

LOOP A
D A B/F# F#m E 
D A B/F# F#m E 

   D     A B/F# F#m E 
We fight
D           A      B/F#        F#m E 
Sending out sabers through the satellites all night

D   A      B/F#        F#m        E 
(in orbit, fiber-optic telescopic)
            D  A         B/F#     F#m        E 
Through the AP wires and security networks
     D      A         B/F#     F#m            E 
Give light (cohesion, alliance by a wavelength)
         D                A      B/F#    F#m   E 
to your fiber-optic head, it's a mess of cables
       D      A  B/F# F#m E 
It's a balled up fist
         D STOP..................................D
And it's angry at the concept of technology drift


LOOP B
G                        A
I open .txt files at the break of day
F#m    G
.psd extension blasted
G                 A
Bleary eyes and a soulless sway
 F#m
I swagger out the door
          G
Yeah, I'm sure I’ve lost it


G                          A
Update your journal with a data disc
  F#m                               G
I put it in your pack. I don't know where I tossed it
G                              A
I made a tape recording of the Boston bridge
    F#m                        G
And sent as an attachment, but Friendster lost it

note: a couple verses are missing here, as played
G                         A
Cell phone blinks, “Baby, scan my heart.”
        F#m
They're cutting the connection
     G
I've already lost it 

LOOP A
D A B/F# F#m E 
D A B/F# F#m E 

D  A      B/F# F#m      E 
...Florencia   Tropicana

D  A      B/F# F#m      E 
   Florencia   Tropicana

D  A      B/F# F#m      E 
   Florencia   Tropicana...

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