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                       BURNING PHOTOGRAPHS - Ryan Adams
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Artist: Ryan Adams
Song: Burning Photographs
Album: Rock And Roll (2003)

Tuning: Standard

Note: Between the "[]" are the bass notes.



  PD- INTRO

A B E E (x2)


  INTRO 1

A B E E (x4)


  VERSE 1 (0.23)

A B E E (x4)
i finally see the light
down on the east side, wasted like a memory
if i had a car i'd drive
straight off the bridge into the river, it would empty me


  POST-VERSE 1 (0.39)

A B E E (x2)
pretty pictures in a magazine
everybody is so make believe, it's true


  VERSE 2 (0.47)

A B E E (x2)
i used to be sad, now i'm just bored with you


  CHORUS 1 (0.54)

B B A[E] (x3)
B [C# Eb F#]
you're doomed to repeat the past
'cause nothing is gonna last
i burned all of your photographs


  INTRO 2 (1.10)

A B E E (x2)


  VERSE 3 (1.18)

A B E E (x4)
traffic sings the songs
inviting me in to dodge the bullets from an empty gun
if i had a car
i'd drive straight into the window of a bank i owed money to


  POST-VERSE 2 (1.33)

A B E E (x2)
pretty pictures in a magazine
everybody is so make believe, it's true


  VERSE 4 (1.41)

A B E E (x2)
i used to be sad, now i'm just bored with you


  CHORUS 2 (x2) (1.49)

B B A[E] (x3)
B [C# Eb F#]
you're doomed to repeat the past
'cause nothing is gonna last
i burned all of your photographs


  BRIDGE (2.19)

C#m C#m A  A
E   E   B  B
C#m C#m A  A
and all the time you're so unhappy
and everything to you's so heavy
but oh my word, ain't you so pretty now

B [A G# F#] (x3)
B [C# Eb F#]
there's nothing to make up now
no one to wake up now
she's starting to break up, wow


  POST-VERSE 3 (2.46)

A B E E (x2)
pretty pictures in a magazine
everybody is so make believe, it's true


  VERSE 5 (2.54)

A B E E (x2)
i used to be sad, now i'm just bored with you


  CHORUS 3 (x2) (3.02)

B B A [E] (x3)
B [C# Eb F#]
you're doomed to repeat the past
'cause nothing is gonna last
i burned all of your photographs


  OUTRO (3.33)

A B E E (x8)


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CHORDS
A   577655
B   799877
E   022100
C#m x46654


GUITAR LEADS

intro
   A    B  E             A   B     E         
E|-7---9---------------|-------------------|
B|-----------7/9-------|-------------------|
G|--------9-----------6|-------------------|
D|-----------------9---|-------6-----------|
A|---------------------|----9----9---------|
E|---------------------|-----------7-9p7h9-|

post-verse
   E
E|-------2-0-|
B|-----0-----|
G|-1-2-------|
D|-----------|
A|-----------|
E|-----------|