Pearly Guitar Tab

Paranoid Android [Single #1] Tabs:

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* RADIOHEAD - Pearly*
 * Paranoid Android CD1, Airbag EP
 * Guitar tab by Stuart 
                 Ditch 
                 

open GTR noise.
riff=
D---------------3-2-0--------------
A--0---------0--------3-0-----RPT--
E----------------------------------

The chords for the verse are:
Am, E, Em, F x2
F, C, E_____ (over this Jonny implies a sus4 to third resolve)


How'd you get your teeth so pearly?
Dew-drop dishes
White-washed faces
She runs from the third world, pearly

Vanilla (feel it crawl to me)
Milkshakes (crawl back again)
From Hard Rock (whatever you say)
Cafes (it won't go away)
That's where (I feel it crawl to me)
She got her (crawls back again)
Sweet tooth (it won't go away)
For white boys (whatever you say)


outro picking part (w/ the high voice):

  Am            C              E
e-------0-------------0--------------0--------------0-------------
B---------1-------------1--------------0--------------0-----------
G-----------2-------------0--------------1--------------1---------
D----2--------2----2--------2--------------2--------------2-------
A-0-------------3-----------------2--------------2----------------
E------------------------------0--------------0-------------------

e--------12--12---12------12--12--12-----12--12--12--------
B-----15---15--15----13-15--15--15--12-15--15--15----------   etc.
G--14------------------------------------------------------repeat and
D----------------------------------------------------------[fade out].
A----------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------


Additions :

Verse : Am, E, Em, Dsus2
Chorus: F, C, E, Esus



Stuart 


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From : 

Jonny's intro for Pearly (as played on Meeting People is Easy)

e--12-------12-----------------------------15-12-----------------------------------------------------------
B-----13-13----13-13----10--13--10-----------13---------------10-13---10-13---10-13---10--
G-----------------------------------------------------------12-------------------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
e-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G--13-16---13-16---13-16--16-16-16-16-16-16-16--------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  


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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Christina Average	#1 by Christina Anderson at Sep 4, 1971 at 11:51 PM EST
	So he's addressing white worldliness, and she's not so faithful drawn to like white boys like that, it's material go out the window w.any sense of rweality , so she hurts him, because again as he said she's a flirt, like he has high standardcds of faithfullness, but they just do and act ewhatever, all crazxy , but I think I sa he found a women he counts on, and certainly though ow rare we may be the odds came aroundable for him H http://hometown.aol.com/jupiterlordjovei/ I would pay that dude or for his science if I was you first, W/$ His opinion nd communication is good idea, so any prospective female he may have met, he can count on he rlistening to know better, and know the real deal, and ofcourse she must pas shis test of knowingh

No Picture †§ean† Average	#2 by †§ean† at Sep 19, 1978 at 12:35 AM EST
	it is "darling, use me.' the idiots who post the lyrics for this site get it wrong half the time.

No Picture leester Professional	#3 by leester at May 23, 1981 at 3:20 PM EST
	i love ending part....

No Picture Alex Lead Player	#4 by Alex Russo at Feb 13, 1984 at 1:58 PM EST
	I really thought that he was saying "darling it hurts me," but after I saw these postings I listened to it again and he is saying "use me, darling use me." I took it that she came from a poor country, and is likely still on the bottom. I think that the vanilla milkshake is a great way the get the color white in there again, but it's also talking about her going out with white boys who probably buy her things and make her feel good about herself. She in turn gives them what they want.

No Picture Matt Average	#5 by Matt Waas at May 13, 1991 at 6:27 PM EST
	I love the end too, although I thought it said "Darling, use me"

No Picture Colleen Average	#6 by Colleen Shmeltin at Feb 17, 1992 at 6:37 PM EST
	the song is about head

No Picture chris Average	#7 by chris jenko at Jun 21, 1998 at 9:05 AM EST
	About the shallowness of people raised on the media ideal of the perfect human being A girl who is more concerned about what her teeth look like than happenings in the real world, which she tries to ignore, and can only love someone if they look like they fell out of Vouge magazine. Actually sounds like most of the people I work with

No Picture Carly Average	#8 by Carly at Oct 10, 1998 at 8:41 AM EST
	It's supposed to be like those sparkles they put on shiny surfaces to show how bright they are. Like, just to take completely random example, pearly teeth. =)

No Picture Dylan Average	#9 by Dylan Ruiz at Apr 19, 1999 at 4:18 AM EST
	so whats the asterisk for? Also I finally got Airbag today!!

No Picture Grunge Hamster Lead Player	#10 by Grunge Hamster at Mar 23, 2000 at 12:59 AM EST
	This song could mean about a million different things depending on how you read it which is probably why I love it so much. :) You could also see the vanilla milkshakes/hard rock cafes/ white washed faces as sexual (blow jobs etc). I think the question of 'how d'you get your...teeth so...pearly?' is a question not only for this possible non-white girl who is trying to assimilate, please, or follow a standard of beauty(light contact lenses, fair skin bleaching creams) but also a direct question to whoever is in power or trying to claim some sort of power, "how DID you get your teeth so "pearly*?!"..

No Picture randy Professional	#11 by randy taylor at Jan 15, 2003 at 3:00 AM EST
	Uh.. yeah... okay, I guess that makes sense... IF YOU"RE ON CRACK! (just joking) Okay, I think I understand what you're trying to get to, man. I think it's about a girl from a poorer country who had a thing for white boys (god bless those third world girls!) and she wound up cheating on him or just flat out playing him. So, I understand that much from Satan about the flirt thing... Most of that, I think I'd need to do a lot of acid to fully understand, well spoken for a shroom head, Satan. Good night all.

No Picture Alexander Wanna Be	#12 by Alexander Taule at Jan 26, 2004 at 11:34 PM EST
	The lyrics posted are incorrect. Corrections below; ---------------------------------------- How d’you get your teeth so pearly? Dew drop dentures White washed faces She runs from the third world, pearly Vanilla (feel it closing in) Milkshakes (calling back again) From Hard Rock (whatever you say) Cafes (make it go away) That's where (I feel it closing in) She got her (climbing back again) Sweet tooth (make it go away) For white boys (whatever you say) She runs from the third world, pearly It hurts me Darling, it hurts me Darling, it hurts me Darling, it hurts me ---------------------------- Even then some of the words aren't entirely credible. I see it as being hurt by a girl who ran away from her roots and turned her back on history so she could fit in with the modern day crowd. As a result disconnecting herself from everything she did have, so as to fit with the new ‘her’. More moving, I think, is the ‘It hurts me’ as it actually feels as though it is hurting him. Thom Yorke in my opinion is second to none when it comes to expressing feeling in his songs; lyrics and especially vocals. Anyway, amazing roll at the end and perfect rift which you can hear hints of throughout more recent tunes. Radiohead certainly influenced the shape music we hear today – no wonder bands like Muse try to copy them!

No Picture Rene Average	#13 by Rene Salojärvi at Jul 17, 2004 at 9:08 PM EST
	I think these lyrics are to do with ignorance of people, pushing poverty to the side and ignoring problems. It also refers to the way people obsess over trivial things like their appearance , ie-getting perfect pearly white teeth, to avoid important issues like the thrid world. The girl in the song "runs from the third world, pearly" meaning she opts to ignore it and stay involved in a world of blissful ignorance. There is a constant reminder through the song that "it wont go away"