Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper - The Quiet Room guitar tab

The Quiet Room

From the Inside, 1978

Here is my try at "the quiet room"

it's not without faults but it works.

Greetings Andreas Dahlqvist

SWEDEN

Transcription by Andreas Dahlqvist

jd@swipnet.se

INTRO:C#,Bbm,B (x2)

C#,F#,Ebm,C#,F#,B

D A/D D A/D D/F# A/C# Bm D/A

Verse1:The California air Your nightgown on the stairs

Em

I remember every night,

G Em D A/D D,Bm,Em7,A

Scenes from home in the Quiet Room

D A/D D A/D D/F# A/C# Bm D/A

Verse2:How long have I been gone Did winter kill the lawn

Em

And all those polaroids you sent

G Em D A/D D

Are on the wall in the Quiet Room

G

Chorus:They've got this place

Em

Where they've been keeping me

/F# G

Where I can't hurt myself

Em

I can't get my wrists to bleed

D D/C B

Just don't know why, Suicide appeals to me

G Em

The Quiet Room, Is sterilized and white

/F# G

It's like a tomb, With just a

Em Dsus2,D, G/A

moth stained naked night

D A/D D A/D D/F# A/C# Bm D/A

Verse3:Plastic forks and spoon, No laces in my shoes

Em

They all know what I tried to do

G Em D A/D D

Outside the Quiet Room

interlude: D,A/D,D,A/D,D/F#,A/C#,

Bm,D/A,G,Em,G,D,A/D,D

Chorus:This quiet place

It ain't so new to me

It's haunted atmosphere

Has heard so many scream

My home from home

My twilight zone

My strangest dream

My confidant,I have confessed my life

The Quiet Room

Knows more about me than my wife

They've got this place

Where they've been keeping me

Where I can't hurt myself, I just can't

I just can't get these damn wrists to bleed

D A/D D A/D

A mattress on the floor

D/F# A/C# Bm D/A

No handles on the door

G

I really need nothing here

Em Em7,D A/D D

I'm alone

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