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   "Talk Talk" by Alice Cooper
    Words and music by Sean Bonniwell
  
    From the album Flush The Fashion (1980)
  
    Transcription by Brian Gaddis
  
  
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    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
       T= use tremelo bar on notes
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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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