Narcissist Guitar Tab

The Libertines Tabs:

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Intro:
 E----------------------------------------------
 B----------------------------------------------
 G-9-10-9-10-9-10-10-9-10--5--5--3--5--5--5--3--
 D-------------------------5--5--3--5--5--5--3--
 A-------------------------3--3--1--3--3--3--1--
 E----------------------------------------------
Main Riff:
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -------------------------------------------------------------------0--0--0--0-
 ----------------------------3-5--5-3---5-3------------------------10-10-10-10-
 -----3-5--5-3---5-3------5-----------5-----5-------5-7--7-5-7-5---------------
 --5-----------5-----5--3------------------------7---------------7-------------
 3---------------------------------------------5------------------------------- x2

Verse:
 --    --    --    --
 --    --    --    --
 --    5-    --    7-
 5-    5-    7-    7-
 5-    3-    7-    5-
 3-    --    5-    -- VERSE x2

Chorus:
 --    6-    --    -3--3--1--3
 --    8-    --    -3--3--1--3
 --    8-    --    -5--5--3--5
 5-    8-    8-    -5--5--3--5
 5-    6-    8-    -3--3--1--3
 3-    6-    6-    -3--3--1--3 CHORUS x2

Bridge:
 ------------------------------------------
 -------------------------------0--0--0--0-
 --------------5-3-------------10-10-10-10-
 ----5-3-----5-----5-----7-5---------------
 --5-----5-3-----------7-----7-------------
 3-------------------5---------------------


Hit the chords as quickly as you can, keep with the song.

Song Structure

Intro
Main riff x2
Verse x2
Chorus x2
Bridge (Second guitar plays bridge, whilst first guitar plays main riff)
Chorus x2
Solo
Outro

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Venti Average	#1 by Venti at Aug 24, 1973 at 6:40 AM EST
	bit of background on it... a narcissist is someone who's in love with themself..because...greek mythology...this guy looked in a pond and fell in love with his reflcetiin, he was called narcss-something...anywho he died of starvation coz he wouldnt lokk anywheere else...this bird vaished away coz she loved him...faded away until she only repeated his words...she was called echo :-)wow useless info :D

No Picture Dan The English Wanna Be	#2 by Dan The English at Mar 26, 1974 at 4:10 AM EST
	Amazing song and it really clears things up if you read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, one of Carl & Pete's favorite authors

No Picture Ryan Wanna Be	#3 by Ryan Carter at Apr 16, 1974 at 10:38 PM EST
	i like your info debzypip. i'd never heard the part about echo. and dorian gray is an amazing book. a personal favourite. it's all about how youth and beauty are the only things that REALLY matter but it's also about how having that but having a corrupted soul sucked just as much as getting old. kindov something like that. i actually haven't heard this song yet but i'm getting it now. the title attracted me and then the lyrics, so yeah, i'm commenting on a song i've never heard but i don't care. the lyrics look great.

No Picture Steve Wanna Be	#4 by Steve Williams at Dec 14, 1975 at 1:40 PM EST
	carl wrote this song when pete went to get a hair cut

No Picture Freddy Badass	#5 by Freddy Timmons at May 2, 1978 at 12:03 AM EST
	yeah theres a futureheads song thats a cover of a personalities song caled "a picture of dorian gray" also aftre the oscar wilde book

No Picture Da 1 n onli Mat Average	#6 by Da 1 n onli Matt! goncalves at Oct 19, 1980 at 12:38 PM EST
	"wouldnt it be nice to be dorian gray, just for a day" genius. because the point of the book is that he has to live forever with all the evil and corrupt things he's done, and only when the picture is destroyed he can die. i think anyway. so i think the "just for a day" bit is really clever

No Picture Squats Average	#7 by Squats at Oct 7, 1988 at 7:26 PM EST
	the story has a bit more to it, well theres another part which might interest some of you guys, the flowers, which grew by the pond (he might even have turned into one, if memory serves) were named after him, so thats where the narcissus got its name, theyre those yellow easter flowers, very pretty

No Picture hey u by the th Average	#8 by hey u by the that thing. SHUTUP!! at Apr 12, 1993 at 8:08 AM EST
	this one's based on the oscar wilde book...if you didn't know...first i thought that it was about how it would be so much easier just to be beautiful and have no worries but now i'm not so sure...what do you think?

No Picture Dr. Jack Average	#9 by Dr. Jack at Jan 29, 1994 at 8:36 AM EST
	its a classic song! Debzypip u no ur stuff! im impressed i just started reading 'a picture of dorian gray' purely coz of this song. its probably the campest book ever! no wonder the bloke had to go live in france!!

No Picture the white hendr Badass	#10 by the white hendrix at Mar 11, 1999 at 4:12 PM EST
	It's just about beauty not being worth much, and if you care too much about it the ageing process will just devastate you. Also, it reminds me a lot of the Kinks, especially the first verse.

No Picture THE RONANATOR ( Average	#11 by THE RONANATOR (aka.Ronan) downer at Mar 22, 2001 at 5:15 PM EST
	Carl Barat and Oscar Wilde whodathunk it Brilliant :o) x

No Picture Punk Rock Princ Wanna Be	#12 by Punk Rock Princess at Jun 3, 2001 at 8:37 AM EST
	mmmm no, i would have though a combination of pete and wilde birthed this song, not barat....

No Picture Zac Wanna Be	#13 by Zac Fielder at Nov 22, 2002 at 2:17 AM EST
	The greek guy who fell in the pond was called narcissus and dident he fall in the pond? any ways amazing song:DDD

No Picture blake Average	#14 by blake pratt at Dec 5, 2006 at 10:27 PM EST
	You were really close. Narcissus was in love with himself, his weakness being that he stared at himself for long periods of time. One day, he caught sight of himself in the reflection off a pond. He sat by the pond looking at himself for the rest of his life. I really forget most of Echo's story, but she could only repeat words said to her, and therefore couldn't express her love for Narcissus. I'm pretty sure she went and lived in a cave after that. I learned this is Freshman English, and that was two years ago. Dayum.

No Picture Justin Wanna Be	#15 by Justin Neafsey at Mar 18, 2007 at 8:34 AM EST
	this song embodies all that the libertines stood for.oscar wilde's desciption of beauty and youth in picture of dorian grey is better than any other form of literature ever.please read it.why i adore this song is that a contempory artist is admiring the brilliance of a great poet,while vulgar rap artists talk about money and bitches.