Pictures of Matchstick Men Tabs & Lyrics by Type O Negative

Pictures of Matchstick Men

guitar tabs lyrics

Type O Negative

"Pictures of Matchstick Men"
>From the Howard Stern/Private Parts Soundtrack
Tabbed by Raza Mahmood
Tune guitars 2.5 steps below standard:
low to high B, E, A, D, F#, B

(Keyboard/clean guitar with chorus and delay)
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(Guitar volume swells in bkgrnd)
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(Heavy distortion with slight chorus)
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"OOH" "AH" (2 times)
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"When I look up to the sky I see your eyes in a funny kind of
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Yellow..." (6 times)
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"OOH" "AH" (2 times)
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"Pictures of matchstick men and you..." (3 times)
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Bkgrnd guitar...Kenny's just bending the note up and down 1 step
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"Windows... ...yeah they go"
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"...alone Oh no!"
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"...Lie you win the sky, you win the sky you make me cry
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you..." (3 times)
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"I can see the matchstick men" (end bkgd guitar...til fade)
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