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Pictures of Me

Either/Or
transcribed from live DVD - Reading Festival 5/29/1998

elliott usually played this in standard tuning live 
but on Either/Or it is played tuned a full step down

chords and riffs used:
riff (played over C/G)
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E     022100
F#7   242322
C/G   332010
Am    x02210
Am/B  x2x210
C     x32010
D     xx0232
D/C#  x4x232
Em    022000


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E                    F#7
start stop and start, stupid acting smart
C/G                     Am                           /B /Bb
flirting with the flicks, you say it's just for kicks
Am                          Am/B       C
you'll be the victim of your own dirty tricks
C/G                 F#7       C/G       
you got yourself to tease and displease

E                  F#7
door swinging wide, you walked into hide
C/G                Am                 /B /Bb
broken at your feet, failure's complete
Am                   Am/B      C
saw you and me on the coin-op tv
C/G       F#7                 C/G   riff
frozen in fear everytime we appear

D                                   D/C#         C/G
I'm not surprised at all and really why should I be
Am              /G /F# Em
see nothing wrong,     see nothing wrong
D                              D/C#        C/G
so sick and tired of all these pictures of me
Am              /G /F# Em
completely wrong,      totally wrong

E               F#7
go walk in line, come another guy
C/G              Am            /B /Bb
jailer who sells personal hells
Am                           Am/B      C
who'd like to see me down on my fuckin knees
C/G         F#7                     E  (start solo)
everybody's dying just to get the disease

solo
 E   F#7 C/G Am  /B/Bb  Am          B       C  C/G F#7 C/G riff
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D                                   D/C#         C/G
I'm not surprised at all and really why should I be
Am              /G /F# Em
see nothing wrong,     see nothing wrong
D                              D/C#        C/G
so sick and tired of all these pictures of me
Am              /G /F# Em
completely wrong,      totally wrong
D                                   D/C#         C/G
I'm not surprised at all and really why should I be
Am              /G /F# Em
see nothing wrong,     see nothing wrong
D                              D/C#        C/G
so sick and tired of all these pictures of me
C/G            F#7                     C/G   riff
oh everybody's dying just to get the disease
C/G            F#7                     C/G   riff
oh everybody's dying just to get the disease
C/G            F#7                     C/G  
oh everybody's dying just to get the disease