Debris
I left you on the debris
of the sunday morning market
searching through odds and ends
i was looking for a bargain.
Heard your footsteps at the front door
and that old familiar love song
I knew you'd find me waiting there
at the top of the stairs.
I've been there and back
just to see how far it is
you, you tried to tell me
but i had to learn for myself
Trouble at the depot
with the general workers union
said it'll never change a thing
they wont fight but they're not working
Oh you were my hero
now you're just my good friend
I've been there and back
now i know how far it is.
I left you on the debris
now we both know you've got no money
and i wonder what you would have done
without me hanging around.
Greetings To The New Brunette
Shirley,
it's quite exciting to be sleeping here in this new room
Shirley,
you're my reason to get out of bed before noon
Shirley,
you know when we sat out on the fire escape talking
Shirley,
what did you say about running before we were walking
Sometimes when we are as close as this
It's like we're in a dream
How can you lie there and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team
Shirley,
your sexual politics have left me all of a muddle
Shirley,
we are joined in the ideological cuddle
I'm celebrating my love to you
With a pint of beer and a new tattoo
And if you haven't noticed yet
I'm more impressionable when my cement is wet
Politics and pregnancy
Are debated as we empty our glasses
And how I love those evening classes
Shirley,
you really know how to make a young man angry
Shirley,
could we get through the night without mentioning family
The people from your church agree
It's not much of a career
Trying the handles of parked cars
Whoops,there goes another year
Whoops,there goes another pint of beer
Here we are in our summer years
Living on ice-cream and chocolate kisses
Would the leaves fall from the trees
If I was your old man and you were my missus
Shirley,
give my greetings to the new brunette
Greetings to the new brunette...
Life With The Lions
intro RE SIm RE SIm LA RE SIm RE SIm
RE SOL LA
I hate the arsehole I become
Everytime I'm with you
RE SOL LAYou know you've got me on the run
SOLBut let me make it clear to you
It's taken two fools such as we
LA SOLTo make love deaf, dumb and blind
RE SOL LA SOLNow you're upset 'cos I can't read your mind love
You're upset 'cos I can't read your mind
I hate the arsehole I become
SOLEverytime I'm with you
RE SOL LAI get the feeling looking in your eyes
That somehow I should forgive you
SIm SOL LA SOLI know that I'm guilty but I don't know what I've done
RE SOL RE SOLYou're not about to let me join in the fun are you
You're not about to let me join in the fun
I hate the arsehole I become
SOLEverytime I'm with you
RE SOL LAI hate the way you try to give me back
All the things I give to you
SIm SOLI know when I leave the room
LA SOLThey say what's up with him
But love is not a game you play to win girl
RE SOL RE SIm RE SIm RE SIm LA RE SIm RE SImLove is not a game you play to win
RE SOL LA SOL RE SOL LA SOL
SIm SOL
If that face of yours could only talk
The stories it could tell
RE SOL RE SOLThe chase is always better than the kill, love
RE SOL RE RE SIm
Little Time Bomb
One's of them off her food
DO SOLAnd the other's off his head
MIm SOL REAnd both of them are off down the boozer
To drink a toast
DO SOLTo the one that he hates most
MIm SOL RE SOLAnd she says there are no winner, only losers
SOL MIm
Well if there are no winners
Then what is this he thinks
MIm SOL REAs he watches her complete a lap of honour
DO SOLAnd he sits in the stands
With his head in his hands
MIm SOLAnd he thinks of all the things
RE SOLHe'd like to bring down upon her
SOL MIm DO SOL
Revenge will bring cold comfort in this darkest hour
As the jukebox says 'It's All Over Now'
MIm SOLAnd he stands and he screams
DO SOLWhat have I done wrong
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
RE MIm DO SOLI've fallen in love with a little time bomb
DO SOL LAm SOL
In public he's such a man
DO SOL LAm SOLHe's punching at the walls with his bare ad bloody hands
He's screaming and shouting and acting crazy
DO REBut at home he sits alone and he cries like a baby
SOL MIm DO SOLOh he holds your letters but he can't read them
As he fights this loneliness that you call freedom
MIm SOL DO SOLYou said this would happen and you were not wrong
RE MIm DO SOLI've fallen in love with a little time bomb
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
Must I paint you a picture
intro DO - SOL - LAm
It's bad timeing and me
SOL DOWe find a lot of things out this way
SOLAnd there's you
A little black cloud in a dress
DO SOLThe temptation
LAm FATo take the precious things we have a part
To see how they work
SOL LAm FA DOMust be resisted for they never fit together again
SOL LAmIf this is rain let it fall on me and drown me
If these are tears let them fall
Must I paint you a picture
DO SOL LAmAbout the way that I feel
DO LAm SOLYou know that my love for you is strong girl
You know that my love for you is real
It took a short walk and a talk
SOL DOTo change the rules of engagement
SOL FA SOLWhile you searched frantically for reverse
And then claiming
LAm FA DO LAThat virtue never tested is no virtue at all
DO SOL LAmAnd so I lost my ignorance
And now the bells across the river chime out your name
SOL LAm SOLI look across to them again (chorus)
MIm DO
All your friends sais come down
It will never fly
FA
And on that imperfect day
We threw it all away
MIm LAmCrisis after crisis, with such intensity
FA SOLThis would never happen if we lived by the sea
DO SOL FA
Most important decisions in life
Are made between two people in bed
SOL FA SOLI found that at my own expense
DO SOLAnd when I see you
You juts turn around and walk away like we never met
SOL LAm FAOh we used to be so brave
SOL LAm SOLI dreamt the wolrd stopped turning as we climbed the hill
I dreamt impossible dreams that we were lovers still (chorus)
Ontario, Quebec and me
You don't need my Christmas card,
MIm RE DOYou already have my heart.
SOL RE SOLThis has been an holiday romance,
Try from the very start.
chorus
For we know how to spend the time,
MIm DOWho cares about the weather.
SOL RE SOLWe'll dance in the town 'till the sun goes down,
And push our bed together.
SOL RE SOL
From the land of the midnight sunglasses,
To the mountain of the moon.
SOL RE SOLYou could never stay in bed too long,
LAm DO REI'll never come back too soon.
(chorus)
You know how a fool I am,
DO RE SOLWith my short attention span.
DO RE MImFlying in the really season too,
Nothing could keep me away from you.
BREAK (same chords than a verse)
(chorus)
Rotting On Remand
I stood before the judge that day
FA DOAs he refused my bail
And I knew that I would spend my time
Awaiting trial in jail
DOI said there is no justice
FA DOAs they led me out of the door
And the judge said, "This isn't a court of justice son
SOL DOThis is a court of law".
DO
They first sent me to Windsor
FA DOAnd then to Stoke on Trent
In a holding cell in Liverpool
SOLThree days and nights I spent
DOMy solicitor can't find me
And my family don't know
FA DOI keep telling them that I'm innocent
SOL DO DO7They (just) say, "Come on son, in you go."
FA DO
I was picked up on suspicion of something I haven't done
Here I sit in 'F' wing waiting for my trial to come
FA DO FAIt's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands
DO SOL DOInnocent till proven guilty, rotting on remand
FA DO SOL DO LA7
I ended up in this jail
SOL REBuilt in 18-82
When one man to one prison cell
Was a Victorian value
RENow three of us are squeezed in here
SOL REAnd you can't escape the smell
Of that bucket in the corner
LA REAnd we eat in here as well
They let me out of this cage
SOL RETo slop that bucket out
To get my food and bring it back
LAAnd if I'm lucky, get a shower
REApart from one hours exercise
I'm locked in here all day
SOL REYou don't turn criminals into citizens
LA RE RE7By treating them this way
SOL RE
Is the prize of law and order the stench of Wormwood Scrubs
With judges quick to sentence sending more down from above
SOL RE SOLIt's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands
RE LA REInnocent till proven guilty, rotting on remand G D A D ...
She's got a new spell
(Capo 5e fret)
intro RE SOL LA RE SOL LARE
What is that sound
Where is it coming from
REAll around
SOL LAWhat are you running from
Something you don't understand
SOL MImSomething you cannot command
RE
That's how I know
SOL LAShe's got a new spell
Yes, that's how I know
SOL LAThat she's got a new spell
RE
What's going down
SOL LAWho's moved this room from round me
Where has it gone
SOL LAI fear this night will drown me
SIm LA RESo I lie awake all night
'Cos I can't sleep with something I can't fight
SOL LA SIm LA RE
The laws of gravity are very, very strict
SOL LA SIm LA REAnd you're just bending them for your won benefit
RE SOL LA RE SOL LA SIm LA RE
The laws of gravity are very, very strict
SOL LA SIm LA REAnd you're just bending them for your won benefit
One minute she says
SOL LAShe's gone to get the cat in
The next thing I know
SOL LAShe's mumbling in Latin
SIm LA REShe cut the starts out of the sky
And baked them in a pie
That's how I know
SOL LAShe's got a new spell
REYes, that's how I know
That she's got a new spell
SIm LA REShe stole the scene and the scenery
SOL MImThe script and the machinery
That's how I know
SOL LAShe's got a new spell
REYes, that's how I know
That she's got a new spell
Sin City
SOL RE
This old town 's filled with sin
SOL DOIt'll swallow you in
If you got some money to burn
SOL RETake it home right away
SOL DOYou've got three years to pay
The city is waiting his turn
This old earthquake 's gonna leave me in the poor house
It seems like this old town 's insane
DO RE SOL DOOn the thirty-first floor, a gold plated door
SOL RE SOL SOL RE SOL DO SOL RE DO SOLWon't keep out the lord's burning rain
SOL RE SOL DO
The scientist say, it will all wash away
But we don't, believe anymore
SOL RESo we got our recruit
SOL DOAnd a green mohair suit
So please show your I.D. at the door
SOL RE SOL DO
A friend came around, tried to clean up this town
SOL REHis ideas made some people mad
But he thrusted his crowd, so he spoke right out loud
SOL RE SOL SOL7And they lost the best friend they had
(chorus
The Price I Pay
intro SOL MIm DO SOL RE
My friend said she could see no way ahead
LA DOAnd I was probably better off without you
SOL MImShe said to face up to the fact that you weren't coming back
And she could make me happy like you used to
SOL SI7But I'm sorry to say I turned her away
DO SOL# Maj7Knowing everything she said was true
And that's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
There's something inside that hurts my foolish pride
LA DOTo visit the places we used to go together
SOL MImNot a day goes by that I don't sit and wonder why
Your feelings for me didn't last forever
SOL SI7Girl I love you so much that sometimes it's such
DO SOL# Maj7I'd walk a mile with a stone in my shoe
And that's that price I pay for loving you the way that I do (2x)
So keep that phone out of my way for the things I must say
DO SOL# Maj7Are empty if you don't believe they're true
SOL MIm DO SOL REAnd that's that price I pay for loving you the way that I do
That's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
I love you so much that baby it's such
LA DOI'd walk a mile with a stone in my shoe ...
intro/verses:
(much easier to play this C| in position I but you lose the slide)
LAm7 FA DO SOL DO MIm7 MIm LAm----------0-1-0---0--------------------------------------
----------------1---------0---------------0--------------
-------0----2-0--------------------5-----------------0---
----2-----------------------------------0---------2------
-0----------------------2---2----7---\2--------2-------0-
--------------------3-3-------\8------------0------------
when....off...I will not say who..that
LAm MIm LAm LAm7
-------------------------------
-1-1p0-----------0-----0h1p0---
-2-1p0-------------2-2-------0-
-------h2-------2--2-2---------
--------------2----------------
-----------0-------------------
who so quickly...
When he drops you off I will not say
Who was that who so quickly drove away
The things you've done and the places you've been
When I open the door for you I will not let them in
As long as you come back to me I will never ask
For you I will be the man in the iron mask
then this bridge part:
(octaves optional-not sure if they belong or not but I like them)
DO SOL MIm DO SOL MIm MI7----------------------------------------------0-------
----0--1---1------0--------------1----0-------0-------
-2---------0------0--------------0----0-------1-------
---------2-----------2-----------2-------2----0-------
-0--2--3--------2----2-2.......2----2----2----2-----2-
--------------3------0-0.......0---3-----0----0-------
Listen to the record... Hit the C, G, hard where indicated... The first Em
mute E&A and go at it for an extra beat before the C. The second time let
the Em ring, then strum the E7 slowly, hit the B, and back into the verse.
You said you loved me and it broke my heart
I was always your prisoner right from the start
The nights you spend without me this house is like a dungeon
And you only return to torture me more
You must have your reasons, I will not ask
For you I will be the man in the iron mask
It ends with a variation of the verse, mostly playing an arpeggiated Em with
those little Am things... the last chord is an A (major) on the B&G (or maybe
B&D) strings.
The Only One
intro: E (7th) G#m (4th) C#m (4th) D#/B (main riff)
note: play main riff throughout all the verses
Sometimes when you lose your way to me
I think you don't care at all
If you don't get here soon
I'll tear that clock down from the wall
Your family and friends don't understand
They treat me so strange
The book you said to read
Well I have read but nothings changed
LA SI
The clocks go forward the clocks go back
SOL#m DO#m LAYet here I sit as if I were the only one
(main riff)
And oh you cannot hear me
Oh you cannot hear me
Can anybody hear me out there
(main riff)
He's up on high horse again
You're down in the park
I'm left to fight my impulses alone here in the dark
The chain that fell off my bike last night
Is now wrapped round my heart
Sometimes I think that
Fate has been against us from the start
I long to let our love run free
SOL#m DO#m LAYet here I am a victim of geography
(main riff)
And oh you cannot hear me
Oh you cannot hear me
Can anybody hear me out there
She said kiss me or would you rather
SOL#m DO#m LALive in a land where the soap won't lather
(main riff)
And oh...
You know you are the only one
Yes you are the only one
Yes you are the only one
The Short Answer
Between Marx and marzipan in the dictionary there was Mary
Between the deep blue sea and the devil that was me
If ever anyone could help me with my obsession with
The young Susannah York it was Mary
If my pink pyjamas she asked me for something
I gave her the short answer
She read our stars out load
And I knew then that we should have gone sailing
But we stayed home instead
Fighting on the waterbed
Like the honeymoon couple on drugs
Me and Mary
What happened in the past
Remained a mystery of natural history
She should have been the last
But she was just the latest
If she wanted to be a farmer's wife
I would endure that muddy life
I would dig for victory
And the sound of happy couples
Coupling happily in the dark
While you and I sat down to tea
I remember you said to me
That no amount of poetry
Would mend this broken heart
But you can put the Hoover round
If you want to make a start
All my friends from school
Introduce me to their spouses
While I'm left standing here
With my hands down the front of my trousers
I just don't know what's to be done
I wonder sometimes how did Dad meet Mum
And how did they conceive of me
Tell me Mary
The boys who came to the shop
Always made her laugh much more than I did
When I told her this must stop
She didn't bat an eyelid
She said you know honey it's such a shame
You'll never be any good at this game
You bruise too easily
So said Mary
Her two brothers took me out
Of circulation for the duration
So we went our separate ways but does she still love me
She still has my door key
Like a bully boy in a Benetton shop
You're never happy with what you've got
Till what you've got has gone
Sorry Mary
Valentine's Day Is Over
intro DO FA DO FA DO FA SOL FA DO
Some day boy you'll reap what you've down
FA DO FA SOLYou'll catch a cold and you'll be on your own
FA DO FA DOAnd you will see that what's wrong with me
Is wrong with everyone that
REm SOL FA DOYou want to play your little games on
DO FA DO
Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats
FA DO FA SOLYou've gone to the dogs again and I'm not placing bets
On you coming home tonight anything but blind
FA DO REm SOLIf you take me for granted then you must expect to find
FA DO DO MIm LAmSurprise, surprise
LAm FA DO FA SOL DO MIm LAm
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
Valentine's Day is over
If you want to talk about it well you know where the phone is
MI FA FAm DODon't come round reminding me again how brittle bone is
SOL FA SOLGod didn't make you angel the Devil made you a man
That brutality and the economy are related now I understand
DO MI FA FAm FA DOWhen will you realize that as above so below there is no love
DO MIm LAm
LAm FA DO FA SOL DO MIm LAm
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
Valentine's Day is over
DO SOL
For the girl with hour glass figure
FA SOLTime runs out very fast
We used to want the same things
FA FAmBut that's all in the past
DO MIAnd lately it seems that as it all gets tougher
Your ideal of justice just becomes rougher and rougher
LAm FA DO FA SOL DO MIm LAm
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
LAm FA DO FA DOValentine's Day is over
DO FA DO
Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card
Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard
FA DO FA DOThat love between two people must be based on understanding
FA DOUntil that's true you'll find your things
All stacked out on the landing surprise, surprise
LAm FA DO FA SOL DO MIm LAmValentine's Day is over, it's over
LAm FA DO SOL DO FA DO SOL DOValentine's Day is over, it's o-ver, it's o-ver, it's o-ver
Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards
It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathize with her but thinks that he should warn her
That the Third World is just around the corner
In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle
In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
Is the sound of people stacking chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
While looking down the corridor
Out to where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards
Jumble sales are organized and pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
One leap forwards, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?
Here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
If no one seems to understands
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman
In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room
So join the struggle while you may
The Revolution is just a t-shirt away
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
"Walk Away Renee"
She said it was just a figment of speech
And I said you mean 'figure'
And she said no 'figment' because she could never imagine it happening
But it did
When we first met, I played the shy-boy
When she spoke to me for the first time, my nose began to bleed
She guessed the rest
The next day we went on a bus ride to the ferry
And when nobody came to collect our fares, why I knew then this was
something special
I couldn't stop thinking about her
And everytime I switched on the radio, there was somebody else singing
a song about the two of us
It was just like being on a fast ride at Fun Fair- the sort you want to get off
because it's scary and then, as soon as you're off again, you want to
get straight back on again
But oh love is strange
And you have to learn to take the crunchy with the smooth I suppose
She began going out with Mr. Potato Head
It was when I saw her in the car park with his coat around her shoulders
I realized
I went home and thought about the two of them together until the bath
water went cold around me
I thought about her eyes and the curve of her breasts and about the point
where their bodies met
I confronted her about it
I said 'I'm the most illegible bachelor in town'
And she said 'Yea, that's why I can never understand any of those silly
letters you send me'
And then one day it happened
She cut her hair
And I stopped loving her.
Debris
I left you on the debris
of the sunday morning market
searching through odds and ends
i was looking for a bargain.
Heard your footsteps at the front
..door
and that old familiar love song
I knew you'd find me waiting there
at the top of the stairs.
I've been there and back
just to see how far it is
you, you tried to tell me
but i had to learn for myself
Trouble at the depot
with the general workers union
said it'll never change a thing
they wont fight but they're not
..working
Oh you were my hero
now you're just my good friend
I've been there and back
now i know how far it is.
I left you on the debris
now we both know you've got no
..money
and i wonder what you would have
..done
without me hanging around.
Greetings To The New Brunette
Shirley,
it's quite exciting to be sleeping
..here in this new room
Shirley,
you're my reason to get out of bed
..before noon
Shirley,
you know when we sat out on the
..fire escape talking
Shirley,
what did you say about running
..before we were walking
Sometimes when we are as close as
..this
It's like we're in a dream
How can you lie there and think of
..England
When you don't even know who's in
..the team
Shirley,
your sexual politics have left me
..all of a muddle
Shirley,
we are joined in the ideological
..cuddle
I'm celebrating my love to you
With a pint of beer and a new
..tattoo
And if you haven't noticed yet
I'm more impressionable when my
..cement is wet
Politics and pregnancy
Are debated as we empty our
..glasses
And how I love those evening
..classes
Shirley,
you really know how to make a
..young man angry
Shirley,
could we get through the night
..without mentioning family
The people from your church agree
It's not much of a career
Trying the handles of parked cars
Whoops,there goes another year
Whoops,there goes another pint of
..beer
Here we are in our summer years
Living on ice-cream and chocolate
..kisses
Would the leaves fall from the
..trees
If I was your old man and you were
..my missus
Shirley,
give my greetings to the new
..brunette
Greetings to the new brunette...
Life With The Lions
intro RE SIm RE SIm LA RE SIm RE SIm
RE SOL LA
I hate the arsehole I become
Everytime I'm with you
RE SOL LAYou know you've got me on the run
SOLBut let me make it clear to you
It's taken two fools such as we
LA SOLTo make love deaf, dumb and blind
RE SOLNow you're upset 'cos I can't read
..your mind love
RE SOLYou're upset 'cos I can't read
RE SIm RE SIm RE SIm LA RE SIm RE..your mind
I hate the arsehole I become
SOLEverytime I'm with you
RE SOLI get the feeling looking in your
..eyes
SOLThat somehow I should forgive you
SIm SOL LAI know that I'm guilty but I don't
..know what I've done
RE SOLYou're not about to let me join in
RE SOL..the fun are you
You're not about to let me join in
RE SIm RE SIm RE SIm LA RE SIm RE SIm..the fun
RE SOL LA
I hate the arsehole I become
SOLEverytime I'm with you
I hate the way you try to give me
LA..back
SOLAll the things I give to you
I know when I leave the room
LA SOLThey say what's up with him
RE SOLBut love is not a game you play to
..win girl
RE SOL RELove is not a game you play to win
SIm RE SIm RE SIm LA RE SIm RE SIm
RE SOL LA SOL RE SOL LA SOL
If that face of yours could only
..talk
The stories it could tell
RE SOLThe chase is always better than
RE SOL..the kill, love
Little Time Bomb
One's of them off her food
DO SOLAnd the other's off his head
MIm SOLAnd both of them are off down the
..boozer
DO SOLTo drink a toast
DO SOLTo the one that he hates most
And she says there are no winner,
RE SOL..only losers
SOL MIm
Well if there are no winners
DO SOLThen what is this he thinks
As he watches her complete a lap
RE..of honour
DO SOLAnd he sits in the stands
With his head in his hands
MIm SOLAnd he thinks of all the things
RE SOLHe'd like to bring down upon her
SOL MIm
Revenge will bring cold comfort in
..this darkest hour
SOL DO REAs the jukebox says 'It's All Over
SOL..Now'
And he stands and he screams
DO SOLWhat have I done wrong
RE MIm DOI've fallen in love with a little
..time bomb
RE MIm DOI've fallen in love with a little
SOL..time bomb
DO SOL LAm SOL
In public he's such a man
He's punching at the walls with
LAm SOL..his bare ad bloody hands
DO SOLHe's screaming and shouting and
..acting crazy
DO REBut at home he sits alone and he
..cries like a baby
SOL MImOh he holds your letters but he
DO SOL.. can't read them
As he fights this loneliness that
RE SOL..you call freedom
MIm SOLYou said this would happen and you
.. were not wrong
RE MImI've fallen in love with a little
DO SOL.. time bomb
I've fallen in love with a little
DO SOL.. time bomb
Must I paint you a picture
DO SOL FA
It's bad timeing and me
SOLWe find a lot of things out this
..way
SOLAnd there's you
FA SOLA little black cloud in a dress
The temptation
LAm FATo take the precious things we
..have a part
DO SOL DOTo see how they work
SOLMust be resisted for they never
..fit together again
SOL LAmIf this is rain let it fall on me
..and drown me
SOL LAmIf these are tears let them fall
SOL
DO SOL
Must I paint you a picture
DO SOL LAm
About the way that I feel
DOYou know that my love for you is
..strong girl
DOYou know that my love for you is
LAm SOL..real
DO SOL FA
It took a short walk and a talk
To change the rules of engagement
DOSOL
While you searched frantically for
..reverse
DO SOLAnd then claiming
LAm FAThat virtue never tested is no
..virtue at all
DO SOL LAmAnd so I lost my ignorance
FA-GAnd now the bells across the
..river chime out your name
SOL LAm SOLI look across to them again
..(chorus)
All your friends sais come down
It will never fly
FA
And on that imperfect day
SOLWe threw it all away
Crisis after crisis, with such
..intensity
This would never happen if we
SOL..lived by the sea
DO SOL FA
Most important decisions in life
SOLAre made between two people in bed
SOL FA SOL
I found that at my own expense
DO SOLAnd when I see you
You juts turn around and walk away
DO SOL DO..like we never met
SOL LAm FAOh we used to be so brave
I dreamt the wolrd stopped turning
SOL..as we climbed the hill
LAmI dreamt impossible dreams that we
..were lovers still (chorus)
Ontario, Quebec and me
You don't need my Christmas card,
MIm RE DOYou already have my heart.
SOL RE SOLThis has been an holiday romance,
Try from the very start.
chorus
For we know how to spend the time,
MIm DOWho cares about the weather.
SOLWe'll dance in the town 'till the
..sun goes down,
MIm RE DOAnd push our bed together.
From the land of the midnight
RE SOL..sunglasses,
MIm RE DOTo the mountain of the moon.
You could never stay in bed too
SOL..long,
LAm DO REI'll never come back too soon.
(chorus)
You know how a fool I am,
DO RE SOLWith my short attention span.
DO RE MImFlying in the really season too,
Nothing could keep me away from
SOL..you.
BREAK (same chords than a verse)
(chorus)
Rotting On Remand
DO
I stood before the judge that day
FA DOAs he refused my bail
And I knew that I would spend my
..time
Awaiting trial in jail
DOI said there is no justice
FA DOAs they led me out of the door
And the judge said, "This isn't a
DO..court of justice son
SOL DOThis is a court of law".
DO
They first sent me to Windsor
And then to Stoke on Trent
In a holding cell in Liverpool
SOLThree days and nights I spent
My solicitor can't find me
FA DOAnd my family don't know
FA DOI keep telling them that I'm
..innocent
SOLThey (just) say, "Come on son, in
..you go."
I was picked up on suspicion of
DO..something I haven't done
DO SI/DO LA/DO SOL/DO DOHere I sit in 'F' wing waiting for
..my trial to come
FAIt's a cruel unusual punishment
DO FA..that society demands
Innocent till proven guilty,
SOL DO..rotting on remand
FA DO SOL DO LA7
RE
I ended up in this jail
Built in 18-82
When one man to one prison cell
LAWas a Victorian value
Now three of us are squeezed in
..here
And you can't escape the smell
SOL REOf that bucket in the corner
LA REAnd we eat in here as well
They let me out of this cage
To slop that bucket out
To get my food and bring it back
LAAnd if I'm lucky, get a shower
Apart from one hours exercise
SOL REI'm locked in here all day
SOL REYou don't turn criminals into
..citizens
LA RE RE7By treating them this way
SOL
Is the prize of law and order the
..stench of Wormwood Scrubs
RE DO#/RE SI/REWith judges quick to sentence
LA/RE LA.. sending more down from above
It's a cruel unusual punishment
RE SOL..that society demands
REInnocent till proven guilty,
..rotting on remand G D A D
.....
She's got a new spell
(Capo 5e fret)
intro RE SOL LA RE SOL LARE
What is that sound
Where is it coming from
REAll around
SOL LAWhat are you running from
Something you don't understand
SOL MImSomething you cannot command
RE
That's how I know
SOL LAShe's got a new spell
Yes, that's how I know
SOL LAThat she's got a new spell
RE
What's going down
SOL LAWho's moved this room from round
..me
REWhere has it gone
I fear this night will drown me
SIm LA RESo I lie awake all night
SOL MIm'Cos I can't sleep with something
..I can't fight
SOL LA
The laws of gravity are very, very
SIm LA RE..strict
And you're just bending them for
LA SIm LA RE..your won benefit
SOL LA
The laws of gravity are very, very
..strict
SOLAnd you're just bending them for
LA SIm LA RE..your won benefit
One minute she says
She's gone to get the cat in
REThe next thing I know
SOL LAShe's mumbling in Latin
She cut the starts out of the sky
SOL MImAnd baked them in a pie
RE
That's how I know
SOL LAShe's got a new spell
Yes, that's how I know
SOL LAThat she's got a new spell
SIm LAShe stole the scene and the
..scenery
SOL MImThe script and the machinery
REThat's how I know
She's got a new spell
REYes, that's how I know
SOL LAThat she's got a new spell
Sin City
SOL RE
This old town 's filled with sin
SOL DOIt'll swallow you in
If you got some money to burn
SOL RETake it home right away
SOL DOYou've got three years to pay
The city is waiting his turn
This old earthquake 's gonna leave
..me in the poor house
DO SOLIt seems like this old town 's
RE..insane
On the thirty-first floor, a gold
DO..plated door
SOL REWon't keep out the lord's burning
..rain
The scientist say, it will all
DO..wash away
SOL REBut we don't, believe anymore
So we got our recruit
SOL DOAnd a green mohair suit
SOL RESo please show your I.D. at the
..door
SOL RE
A friend came around, tried to
SOL DO..clean up this town
His ideas made some people mad
SOL REBut he thrusted his crowd, so he
SOL DO..spoke right out loud
And they lost the best friend they
SOL SOL7..had
(chorus
The Price I Pay
intro SOL MIm DO SOL RE
My friend said she could see no
..way ahead
And I was probably better off
DO..without you
SOLShe said to face up to the fact
..that you weren't coming back
LAAnd she could make me happy like
DO..you used to
But I'm sorry to say I turned her
..away
Knowing everything she said was
SOL# Maj7.. true
SOLAnd that's the price I pay for
..loving you the way that I do
RE
SOL MIm
There's something inside that
..hurts my foolish pride
LATo visit the places we used to go
DO..together
Not a day goes by that I don't sit
..and wonder why
Your feelings for me didn't last
DO..forever
SOLGirl I love you so much that
..sometimes it's such
DOI'd walk a mile with a stone in my
SOL# Maj7..shoe
And that's that price I pay for
MIm DO..loving you the way that I do
SOL RE..(2x)
SOL MIm LA DOSOL MIm LA DO
SOL
So keep that phone out of my way
..for the things I must say
DOAre empty if you don't believe
SOL# Maj7..they're true
And that's that price I pay for
MIm DO SOL..loving you the way that I do
RE
That's the price I pay for loving
MIm DO SOL RE.. you the way that I do
SOL MIm
I love you so much that baby it's
..such
LAI'd walk a mile with a stone in my
DO..shoe ...
intro/verses:
(much easier to play this C|
..in position I but you lose the
..slide)
----------0-1-0---0---------------
----------------1---------0-------
-------0----2-0-------------------
----2-----------------------------
-0----------------------2---2----7
--------------------3-3-------\8--
...
-|-----------------------
-|--------0--------------
-|-5-----------------0---
-|------0---------2------
-|---\2--------2-------0-
-|----------0------------
when....off...I will not say
.. who..that
-------------------------------
-1-1p0-----------0-----0h1p0---
-2-1p0-------------2-2-------0-
-------h2-------2--2-2---------
--------------2----------------
-----------0-------------------
who so quickly...
When he drops you off I will not
..say
Who was that who so quickly drove
..away
The things you've done and the
..places you've been
When I open the door for you I
..will not let them in
As long as you come back to me I
..will never ask
For you I will be the man in the
..iron mask
then this bridge part:
(octaves optional-not sure if they
..belong or not but I like them)
DO SOL MIm DO SOL MIm MI7----------------------------------
----0--1---1------0--------------1
-2---------0------0--------------0
---------2-----------2-----------2
-0--2--3--------2----2-2.......2--
--------------3------0-0.......0--
...
-|------------0-------
-|----0-------0-------
-|----0-------1-------
-|-------2----0-------
-|--2----2----2-----2-
-|-3-----0----0-------
Listen to the record... Hit the C,
..G, hard where indicated... The
..first Em
mute E&A and go at it for an extra
..beat before the C. The second
..time let
the Em ring, then strum the E7
..slowly, hit the B, and back into
..the verse.
You said you loved me and it broke
..my heart
I was always your prisoner right
..from the start
The nights you spend without me
..this house is like a dungeon
And you only return to torture me
..more
You must have your reasons, I will
..not ask
For you I will be the man in the
..iron mask
It ends with a variation of the
..verse, mostly playing an
..arpeggiated Em with
those little Am things... the last
..chord is an A (major) on the B&G
..(or maybe
B&D) strings.
The Only One
intro: E (7th) G#m (4th) C#m
..(4th) D#/B (main riff)
note: play main riff throughout
..all the verses
Sometimes when you lose your way
..to me
I think you don't care at all
If you don't get here soon
I'll tear that clock down from the
..wall
Your family and friends don't
..understand
They treat me so strange
The book you said to read
Well I have read but nothings
..changed
LA SI
The clocks go forward the clocks
..go back
SOL#m DO#mYet here I sit as if I were the
LA..only one
(main riff)
And oh you cannot hear me
Oh you cannot hear me
Can anybody hear me out there
(main riff)
He's up on high horse again
You're down in the park
I'm left to fight my impulses
..alone here in the dark
The chain that fell off my bike
..last night
Is now wrapped round my heart
Sometimes I think that
Fate has been against us from the
..start
I long to let our love run free
SOL#m DO#m LAYet here I am a victim of
..geography
(main riff)
And oh you cannot hear me
Oh you cannot hear me
Can anybody hear me out there
LA SI
She said kiss me or would you
..rather
SOL#m DO#mLive in a land where the soap
..won't lather
(main riff)
And oh...
You know you are the only one
Yes you are the only one
Yes you are the only one
The Short Answer
Between Marx and marzipan in the
..dictionary there was Mary
Between the deep blue sea and the
..devil that was me
If ever anyone could help me with
..my obsession with
The young Susannah York it was
..Mary
If my pink pyjamas she asked me
..for something
I gave her the short answer
She read our stars out load
And I knew then that we should
..have gone sailing
But we stayed home instead
Fighting on the waterbed
Like the honeymoon couple on drugs
Me and Mary
What happened in the past
Remained a mystery of natural
..history
She should have been the last
But she was just the latest
If she wanted to be a farmer's
..wife
I would endure that muddy life
I would dig for victory
And the sound of happy couples
Coupling happily in the dark
While you and I sat down to tea
I remember you said to me
That no amount of poetry
Would mend this broken heart
But you can put the Hoover round
If you want to make a start
All my friends from school
Introduce me to their spouses
While I'm left standing here
With my hands down the front of my
..trousers
I just don't know what's to be
..done
I wonder sometimes how did Dad
..meet Mum
And how did they conceive of me
Tell me Mary
The boys who came to the shop
Always made her laugh much more
..than I did
When I told her this must stop
She didn't bat an eyelid
She said you know honey it's such
..a shame
You'll never be any good at this
..game
You bruise too easily
So said Mary
Her two brothers took me out
Of circulation for the duration
So we went our separate ways but
..does she still love me
She still has my door key
Like a bully boy in a Benetton
..shop
You're never happy with what
..you've got
Till what you've got has gone
Sorry Mary
Valentine's Day Is
..Over
intro DO FA DO FA DO FA SOL FA DO
DO FA
Some day boy you'll reap what
..you've down
FA DOYou'll catch a cold and you'll be
FA SOL.. on your own
And you will see that what's wrong
DO..with me
FA DOIs wrong with everyone that
You want to play your little games
FA DO..on
DO FA
Poetry and flowers pretty words
DO..and threats
You've gone to the dogs again and
FA SOL..I'm not placing bets
FA DOOn you coming home tonight
..anything but blind
FA DOIf you take me for granted then
REm SOL..you must expect to find
Surprise, surprise
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
SOL DO MIm LAmLAm FA DO FA DO
Valentine's Day is over
SOL FA
If you want to talk about it well
..you know where the phone is
SOLMI
Don't come round reminding me
..again how brittle bone is
SOL FAGod didn't make you angel the
SOL..Devil made you a man
That brutality and the economy are
FA FAm..related now I understand
DO MIWhen will you realize that as
..above so below there is no love
FA DO
DO MIm LAm
LAm FA DO FA
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
LAm FA DO FA DO
Valentine's Day is over
SOL FA DO SOL MI FA FAm
DO SOL
For the girl with hour glass
..figure
FA SOLTime runs out very fast
We used to want the same things
FA FAmBut that's all in the past
DO MIAnd lately it seems that as it all
..gets tougher
FA FAmYour ideal of justice just becomes
..rougher and rougher
LAm FA DO FA
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
SOL DO MIm LAm
Valentine's Day is over
Thank you for the things you
DO..bought me thank you for the card
FA DOThank you for the things you
..taught me when you hit me hard
FA DOThat love between two people must
FA DO..be based on understanding
Until that's true you'll find your
..things
All stacked out on the landing
FA DO DO MIm LAm..surprise, surprise
LAm FA DO FAValentine's Day is over, it's over
LAm FA DO
Valentine's Day is over, it's
SOL DO FA DO SOL DO..o-ver, it's o-ver, it's o-ver
Waiting For the Great Leap
..Forwards
It may have been Camelot for Jack
..and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway
..filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a
..rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathize with her but thinks
..that he should warn her
That the Third World is just
..around the corner
In the Soviet Union a scientist is
..blinded
By the resumption of nuclear
..testing and he is reminded
That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's
..optimism fell
At the first hurdle
In the Cheese Pavilion and the
..only noise I hear
Is the sound of people stacking
..chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and
..basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame filled minutes
..of the fanzine writer
Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me
..what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my
..usual excuses
While looking down the corridor
Out to where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the Great Leap
..Forwards
Jumble sales are organized and
..pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time there's
..still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the
..activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you're waiting for the Great
..Leap Forwards
One leap forwards, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?
Here comes the future and you
..can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want
..to be on it
It's a mighty long way down rock
..'n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing
..the dole
If no one seems to understands
Start your own revolution, cut out
..the middleman
In a perfect world we'd all sing
..in tune
But this is reality so give me
..some room
So join the struggle while you may
The Revolution is just a t-shirt
..away
Waiting for the Great Leap
..Forwards
"Walk Away Renee"
She said it was just a figment of
..speech
And I said you mean 'figure'
And she said no 'figment' because
..she could never imagine it
..happening
But it did
When we first met, I played the
..shy-boy
When she spoke to me for the first
..time, my nose began to bleed
She guessed the rest
The next day we went on a bus ride
..to the ferry
And when nobody came to collect
..our fares, why I knew then this
..was
something special
I couldn't stop thinking about her
And everytime I switched on the
..radio, there was somebody else
..singing
a song about the two of us
It was just like being on a fast
..ride at Fun Fair- the sort you
..want to get off
because it's scary and then, as
..soon as you're off again, you
..want to
get straight back on again
But oh love is strange
And you have to learn to take the
..crunchy with the smooth I
..suppose
She began going out with Mr.
..Potato Head
It was when I saw her in the car
..park with his coat around her
..shoulders
I realized
I went home and thought about the
..two of them together until the
..bath
water went cold around me
I thought about her eyes and the
..curve of her breasts and about
..the point
where their bodies met
I confronted her about it
I said 'I'm the most illegible
..bachelor in town'
And she said 'Yea, that's why I
..can never understand any of
..those silly
letters you send me'
And then one day it happened
She cut her hair
And I stopped loving her.
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