Bad Self Portraits Chords

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Bad Self Portraits by Lake Street Dive is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords E/B, B, G#m, F#, E, Bsus, C#7, D#m, C#m, D#7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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B
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16
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Intro: E/B B E/B B G#m F# E  


  E/B           B    
I bought this camera   
            E/B                    B  
to take pictures of my love  
G#m           F#  
Now that he's gone  
                E  
I don't have anybody to take pictures of  
 E         B  
Along some highway  
   E                   Bsus 
is pretty good subjects  
G#m           F#            E      
I'm gonna make myself make use of this thing  

C#7  
I'm taking landscapes  
I'm taking still lifes  
                  E           D#m           C#m  
I'm taking bad self portraits  
     F#  
of a lonely woman  

E/B B E/B B G#m F# E  

E/B             B  
I've spent my life  
   E/B         B   
so lost on lovin'  
G#m                     F#               E  
I could have been a painter or a president  
          E/B           B  
But after twenty-five years   
            E/B             B  
I should be good at something  
G#m            F#                       E  
Gone are the days of me being so innocent  

C#7 
I'm taking night classes  
I'm making sculptures  
             E         D#m        C#m  
I'm painting bad self portraits  
      F#  
of a lonely woman  

E/B B E/B B G#m F# E  
E/B B E/B B G#m F# E 

I bought this camera  
to take pictures of my love  
Now that he's gone   
I don't know what to do with this thing, well  
B        D#7             G#m        C#m   D#m 
I don't care about the time or money  
E                D#m            F#         
I just never thought that I'd be   
through with this love  

C#7 
Stuck taking landscapes  
Stuck making still lifes  
Stuck making sculptures  
                    E        D#m        C#m  
I'm out here taking bad self portraits  
      F#  
of a lonely woman  
E         B        C#m       F#                F 
Bad self portraits     of a lonely girl  
E        D#m       C#m       F#  
Sad self portraits     of a lonely woman  

E/B B E/B B G#m F# E  (2x)  

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante