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W - WASP - "The Great Misconceptions Of Me" guitar tab and chords
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Song: The Great Misconceptions of me - W.A.S.P. (The Crimson Idol)
by Hugo_MSD (ee95114@tom.fe.up.pt)
--/=-=/-=/-=/-=/-=/-=/--/=-=/-=/-=/-=/-=/-=/--/=-=/-=/-=/-
 This is NOT a professional transcription, it is just the way I play the song, 
 so you may find some errors in it. If you have any correction and/or comment, 
                            feel free to e-mail it.
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||--2---------------3-------0-------3---------------2--------||
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 Em              D                 C              Am  D C               D 
"Welcome to the show, the great finale's finally here, I thank you for coming
                                                              Em
                                                      into my theatre of fear;

 Em              D                C             Am D   C              D  
Welcome to the show, you're all witnesses you see, A privledged invitation
                                                             Em
                                                      to the last rights of me.

                                                                     
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||-2---------------3-----00-2----2---------------|-2-------||-3----------------|
||-0------------------------0--023---------------|-0-------||------------------|

 Em        D             C    D AmEm G         D            Em 
"Remember me? You can't save me,     Mama you never needed me;

 Em          D             C  D    Am   Em     G         D                 C
  No crimson king, look in my eyes, you'll see, Mama I'm lonely, it's only me,

                                                                            D
                                                                  it's only me.

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||--0---------------------------------------||---------|

    Em                D                 C                            Am   D 
"I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be the crimson idol of a

                                                                      million

  Em                D                 C                            Am   D
  I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be the crimson idol of a
                                                            Am
                                                   million eyes, of a million"

dist.
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  C_____________________________________________
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  D_______________________________________
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(pick each note twice very fast) (pick up and down)   

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||.-9-0-11-0-12-0-9-0-0-11-0-11-14-0-11-0-12-0-14-0-16-0-12-0-
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D_______________________
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19-0-16-0-17-0-14-0-16-12-.||
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(both guitars)
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||.-9___-7___-5_-2_-9__-12-9_-.||
||--7___-9___-3_-0_-7__-10-7_--||
||-----------------------------||

  Em                       F#/D                    C         Am 
"I am the prisoner of the paradise I dreamed, the idol of a million lonely 
                                                             Em            GEm
                                                              faces look at me

  Em                                       F#/D                 C  
Behind the mask of sorrow, four doors of doom behind my eyes, I've got their
                                         Am              Em               GEm
                                         footprints all across my crimson mind

|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|--9__--11__-12__-14__-|-9__-10__-12-14_-14|
|--9__--12__-10__-12__-|-9__-12__-10-12_-12|
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|--9___-7___-5___-7___-|-9___-7___-5-----7-|
|--7___-9___-3___-5___-|-7___-9___-3-7__-5-|
|----------------------|-------------5__---|

  Em         F#/D       C             D              Em         F#/D 
"Long live, long live, long live the King of Mercy, Long live, long live,
                                                                     C     Am D
                                                                    There is no

||-------------------------------------------------------------------||
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||-------------------------------------------------------------------||

  Em              D        C     D 
"love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free;
 No  love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free"

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|----------------------------
|----------------------------
|--9___-7___-5_-2_-9__-12-9_-
|--7___-9___-3_-0_-7__-10-7_-
|----------------------------

  Em                         F#/D                   C             Am 
"I was the warrior, with an anthem in my soul, the idol of eight thousand
                                                             Em             GEm
                                                     lonely days of rage ago

  Em                      F#/D                          C               Am  
And remember me when it comes your time to choose, be careful what ya wish
                                                      Em            G    Em
                                                for, it might just come true

|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|--9__--11__-12__-14__-|-9__-10__-12-14_-14|
|--9__--12__-10__-12__-|-9__-12__-10-12_-12|
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|--9___-7___-5___-7___-|-9___-7___-5-----7-|
|--7___-9___-3___-5___-|-7___-9___-3-7__-5-|
|----------------------|-------------5__---|

  Em         F#/D       C             D              Em         F#/D 
"Long live, long live, long live the King of Mercy, Long live, long live,
                                                                     C     Am D
                                                                    There is no

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  Em              D        C     D 
"love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free;
 No  love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free"

(both guitars)
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||--99999999-1010101010101010-99999999-10-9-7-9-7--7----||
||--77777777--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-77777777-----------10-10--||

  B             B6      B       N.C.  
"Red, crimson red, am I the invisible boy?
       B        B6            B      N.C.  
The strap on my back...    ahhhh"
                  (ah ah ah ah ah)

solo: 
<- 4x ->
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|------12-----------------------------15p13p12-------
|---------------------------------------------1211_-
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|-9---------7-------5-------------------------7------
|-9---------7-------5-------------------------7------
|-7---------5-------3-------------------------5------
|----------------------------------------------------
 

<- 4x ->  H  H  H  H
|---------12----------17p13--15p13--17p13--17p13--22__-19p17-15-17p15-17-|-19_-
|------------12------------15-----15-----15-----15-----------------------|-----
|-14p12---------12-------------------------------------------------------|-----
|------14----------12_---------------------------------------------------|-----
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|-9-------7-----------5---------------------------7----------------------|
|-9-------7-----------5---------------------------7----------------------|
|-7-------5-----------3---------------------------5----------------------|
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||--99999999-1010101010101010-99999999-10-9-7-9-7--7----||
||--77777777--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-77777777-----------10-10--||

   B            B6   B        N.C.  
"Red, crimson red, no I was never to be. Only
    B           B6   B     N.C.
   one crimson son, no it never was me"

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|-4__-6__-7__-9_-7-6-44__-6__-7__-9_-7-6-4|
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|-4__-6__-7__-9_-7-6-44__-6__-7__-9_-7-6-4|
|-2__-4__-5__-7_-5-4-22__-4__-5__-7_-5-4-2|
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||-99_-9-7-9-77_-7-7-7-55_-5-5-5-99_-7-7-7-||
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||-4_____----7_____----5_____----9_--------||
||-2_____----4_____----5_____----7_--7___--||
||---------------------3_____--------5___--||

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||.----------------------.||
||.-11___-9___-7___-9___-.||
||---9___-7___-5___-7___--||
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  F#m                     G#/E                     D 
"Living in the limelight little did I know, I was dying in the shadows and
                                                             E
                                                        the mirror was my soul
         F#m                G#/E                          D
  It was all I ever wanted, everything I dreamed, But the dream became my
                                                       E
                                     nightmare and no-one could hear me scream
                      ___      ___
                     |1.      |2.
||-------------------|-------||-----------------
||-------------------|-------||-----------------
||.------------------|------.||-----------------
||.-11___--9___-7___-|-9___-.||-6-6-6-6674-6___-
||---9___-11___-5___-|-7___--||-4-4-4-4444-4___-
||-------------------|-------||-----------------
                                <- -3x- ->

       F#m                  G#/E             D                  E
 "With these six-strings, I make a noose, to take my life, it's time to chose

      F#m               G#/E          D  C#             C#
  The headlines read of my demise, of my suicide, of my suicide.

|-------------||-------------------------------||
|-------------||-------------------------------||
|-11_________-||.-11___--13___--14___--16___--.||
|-11_________-||.-11___--14___--12___--14___--.||
|--9-________-||-------------------------------||
|-------------||-------------------------------||
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|
|-------------||-------------------------------||
|-------------||.-----------------------------.||
|-9-9_--9-9_--||.--9___---7___---5___------7_-.||
|-------------||------------------------7_-----||

  F#m               E                   D             E 
"Oh sweet silence, where is the sting? I am no idol, no crimson king

 F#m               E                      D                    E 
I'm the imposter, the world has seen, my father was the idol, it was never me

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||.-11___--13___--14___--16___--.||-11_____--
||.-11___--14___--12___--14___--.||-11_____--
||-------------------------------||----------
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|                                  
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||---2------0------2------2_-0---||-2_____---
||---2------0------3------3_-0---||-3_____---
||.--2------1------2------4_-1--.||-4_____---
||.--4------2------0------4_-2--.||-4_____---
||---4------2-------------2_-2---||-2_____---
||---2------0----------------0---||----------
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||-------------------------------||----------
||.-----------------------------.||----------
||.--9___---7___---5___------7_-.||----------
||------------------------7_-----||----------

 F#m                E                 D                            Bm   E 
"I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be the crimson idol of a
                                                                       million

 F#m                E                 D                            Bm   E
  I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be the crimson idol of a
                                                            Bm
                                                   million eyes, of a million"

  Em___________________  D______________________________________________
|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-9099099099099011p9p7h9-11-0-11-11-0-11-11-0-11-11-0-11-11-0-12p11p9h11-
|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------

  C_____________________________________________
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
-12-0-12-12-0-12-12-0-12-12-0-12-12-0-14p12p11h12-
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------

  D_______________________________________
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-14-0-14-14-0-14-14-0-14-14-0-14-14-0-14-0-|
-------------------------------------------|
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||-------------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------||
||.-----------------------------------------------------------------.||
||.------------5---------------5---------------5---------------5----.||
||--7_-5h7-7_-5-7-5-7_-5h7-7_-5-7-5-7_-5h7-7_-5-7-5-7_-5h7-7_-5-7-5--||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------||
||     <-2x->          <-2x->          <-2x->          <-2x->        ||
||                                                                   ||
||                                                                   ||
||                                                                   ||
||--7---------------5---------------3---------------5----------------||
||--8---------------7---------------5---------------7----------------||
||.-9---------------7---------------5---------------7---------------.||
||.-9---------------7---------------5---------------7---------------.||
||--7---------------5---------------3---------------5----------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------||


||-------------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------||
||.-----------------------------------------------------------------.||
||.------------5---------------5---------------5---------------5----.||
||--7_-5h7-7_-5-7-5-7_-5h7-7_-5-7-5-7_-5h7-7_-5-7-5-7_-5h7-7_-5-7-5--||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------||
||     <-2x->          <-2x->          <-2x->          <-2x->        ||
||                                                                   ||
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||--7---------------5---------------3---------------5----------------||
||--8---------------7---------------5---------------7----------------||
||.-9---------------7---------------5---------------7---------------.||
||.-9---------------7---------------5---------------7---------------.||
||--7---------------5---------------3---------------5----------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------||

  Em              D        C     D 
"love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free; 
No  love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free"

|-------------------------------------000000000000000------|
|-------------------------------------000000000000000------|
|-------------------------------------999999999999999------|
|-----5--7--5-----5--7--5-----5--7--9-999999999999999-999-|
|--7-----------7-----------7----------777777777777777-777-|
|-------------------------------------000000000000000-000-|
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|--7-----------5-----------3-----5----777777777777777------|
|--8-----------7-----------5-----7----888888888888888------|
|--9-----------7-----------5-----7----999999999999999------|
|--9-----------7-----------5-----7----999999999999999-999-|
|--7-----------5-----------3-----5----777777777777777-777-|
|----------------------------------------------------------|
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