Alice Cooper - Talk Talk guitar tab
"Talk Talk" by Alice Cooper
Words and music by Sean Bonniwell
From the album Flush The Fashion (1980)
Transcription by Brian Gaddis
\= slide down /= slide up ()= carried notes b= bend up
rb= release bend ~~= vibrato
Note: Some parts of this song are not transcribed due to the difficulty
in hearing them.
Intro
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Verse
"I got me a complication and it's an only child. Concern my reputation
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"as something more than wild. I know it serves me right. But I can't
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"sleep at night. I have to hide my face or go some other place."
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"No
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"I won't cry out for justice, admit that I was wrong. Stay in hibernation
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"until the talk subsides and gone. My social life's a dud. My name is
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"really mud. I'm up to here in lies. I guess I'm down to size."
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(To size)
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"I can't seem to talk about the things that bother me. Seems to be
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"what everybody has against me."
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"Ow. Oh. "Oh..Yeah."
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"Now, here's my situation and how it really stands. I'm out of circulation
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"I've all but washed my hands. My social life's a dud. My name is
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"really mud. I'm up to here in lies. I guess I'm down to size."
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(To size)
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|Lead guitar |
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|Lead guitar |
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|Overdub |
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"Talk talk. Talk talk. Talk talk...."
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