Pretty On The Insideclouds by Hole
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Pretty On The Inside / Clouds by Hole
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From 1991's 'Pretty on the Inside'. This is the album closer made up of two songs but
was recorded as a single piece, so I figured I'd give a tab for the entire track as it is
on the album, recorded conjointly. The first song is the title track, "Pretty on the
Inside", which serves as a prologue to a noisy cover of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides, Now",
under the title "Clouds". Two guitars are used in each song: Courtney Love is playing
the less-distorted rhythm and Eric Erlandson is playing heavily distorted lead and uses a
wah-pedal in "Clouds". Both are actually really easy to play if you can nail the rhythm
patterns. Listen to the song(s) for help.
Tuning: Standard (played with heavy distortion)
*****PRETTY ON THE INSIDE*****
e|---------------------------------------
B|---------------------------------------
G|---------------------------------------
D|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7--8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-------
A|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-------
E|---------------------------------------
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--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10----|
--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8----|
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Slutkiss girls, won't you promise her smack?
Is she pretty on the inside?
Is she pretty from the back?
Slutkiss girls, won't you water her rack?
Is she pretty on the inside,
Baby, pretty from the back?
Slutkiss girls, molasses
Rot blackstrap
Is she ugly on the inside, baby,
Ugly, ugly from the back?
There is no power like my pretty power
My pretty power
My ugly
Slutkiss girls, won't you promise her smack?
Is she pretty on the inside?
Is she ugly?
Ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly?
****CLOUDS*****
All you do here is repeat the G and C chords throughout the song alternately for its
entire duration; this same chord progression is used for every verse so it's pretty simple.
You can play the open chords if you like, but the G and C power chords work as well. I
believe they play the power chords on the album version. A tab for these chords is
provided below if for some reason you don't know them. A wah-pedal is also used on these
to give them an almost siren-like effect.
(Open chords:)
e|--3---------3---------3------------------------|
B|--3----1----3----1----3----1-------------------|
G|--0----0----0----0----0----0-------------------|
D|--0----2----0----2----0----2-------------------|
A|--2----3----2----3----2----3-------------------|
E|--3---------3---------3------------------------|
(Power chords, if you wanna keep it simple:)
e|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|-12--------12--------12------------------|
D|-12---10---12---10---12---10-------------|
A|-10---10---10---10---10---10-------------|
E|-------8---------8---------8-------------|
(Bad boy...)
Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feathered canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
Moons and Junes and ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel when
When every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So, so many things that I could have done
But clouds got in...
My angel dust gets in your eyes and hair
On acid stars you're getting there
My body is assembled into a little gift to you
When you die
I've looked at life that way
But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
Don't, don't let them in
Don't, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away
Well, now my friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, man, they say I've changed
Well, well something's wrong and rearranged
From living every, every...
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall, I...
I really don't know
I really don't know
I really don't know
I really don't know
I really don't know life that well
(Count your stars, say goodnight)
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