Angry Chair - Alice in Chains

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Angry Chair
(words & music by Layne Staley)

Main riff throughout verses

Eb|-----------
Bb|-----------
Gb|-----------
Db|-----------
Ab|------2----
Eb|--0-----0--

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------|
------|
------|
-3----|
------|

Pre-chorus - b
Eb|-----------
Bb|-----------
Gb|-----------
Db|--3-3-3-3-2
Ab|--3-3-3-3-2
Eb|--1-1-1-1-0

asically it's FFFF EE and bend A
----------|
----------|
----------|  (the fifth fret is bent)
--2-------|
--2-------|
--0--5b---|


[Intro]
     (x4)


[Verse 1]

Sitting on an 

angry chair

Angry walls th

at steal the a

ir

Stomach hurts 

and I don't ca

re

[Pre-Chorus]
            
What do I see 

       
across the way

, hey.
            
See myself mol

        
ded in clay, o

h
            
Stares at me, 

           
yeah I'm afrai

d hey
            
Changing the s

            
hape of his fa

ce, oh yeah

[Verse 2]

Candles red I 

have a pair

Shadows dancin

g everywhere

Burning on the

 angry chair

[Pre-Chorus]
            
Little boy mad

       
e a mistake he

y
            
Pink cloud has

              
 now turned to

  
 gray, oh
            
All that I wan

         
t is to play h

ey
            
Get on your kn

             
ees, time to p


ray, oh

[Chorus]
          
I don't mind, 

          
yeah I don't m

      
ind I I I
          
I don't mind, 

          
yeah I don't m

      
ind I I I
          
Lost my mind, 

          
yeah I don't m

      
ind I I I
          
Can't find it 

          
anywhere I don

      
t mind I I I

[Pre-Chorus]
            
Corporate pris

        
on, we stay he

y
            
I'm a dull boy

   
, work all day

 Oh
            
So I'm strung 

       
out anyway Hey

[Guitar Solo]
    (x2)

[Verse 3]

Loneliness is 

not a phase

Field of pain 

is where I gra

ze

Serenity is fa

r away

[Pre-Chorus 4]
            
Saw my reflect

         
ion and cried 

hey
            
So little hope

         
 that I died, 

oh
            
Feed me your l

          
ies, open wide

 hey
            
Weight of my h

              
eart, not the 


size, oh

[Chorus]
          
I don't mind, 

          
yeah I don't m

      
ind I I I
          
I don't mind, 

          
yeah I don't m

      
ind I I I
          
Lost my mind, 

          
yeah I don't m

      
ind I I I
          
Can't find it 

          
anywhere I don

      
t mind I I I

[Pre-Chorus]
            
Pink cloud has

              
 now turned to

  
 gray
            
All that I wan

  
t is to play
            
Get on your kn

    
ees time to pr

ay, boy

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