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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
SOL
Everytime I'm with you
RE SOL LA
You know you've got me on the run
SOL
But let me make it clear to you
SIm SOL
It's taken two fools such as we
LA SOL
To make love deaf, dumb and blind
RE SOL LA SOL
Now you're upset 'cos I can't read your mind love
RE SOL RE SIm RE SIm RE SIm LA RE SIm RE SIm
You're upset 'cos I can't read your mind
RE SOL LA
I hate the arsehole I become
SOL
Everytime I'm with you
RE SOL LA
I get the feeling looking in your eyes
SOL
That somehow I should forgive you
SIm SOL LA SOL
I know that I'm guilty but I don't know what I've done
RE SOL RE SOL
You're not about to let me join in the fun are you
RE SOL RE SIm RE SIm RE SIm LA RE SIm RE SIm
You're not about to let me join in the fun
RE SOL LA
I hate the arsehole I become
SOL
Everytime I'm with you
RE SOL LA
I hate the way you try to give me back
SOL
All the things I give to you
SIm SOL
I know when I leave the room
LA SOL
They say what's up with him
RE SOL RE SOL
But love is not a game you play to win girl
RE SOL RE SIm RE SIm RE SIm LA RE SIm RE SIm
Love 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
LA SOL
The stories it could tell
RE SOL RE SOL
The chase is always better than the kill, love
RE SOL RE RE SIm
Little Time Bomb
SOL
One's of them off her food
DO SOL
And the other's off his head
MIm SOL RE
And both of them are off down the boozer
DO SOL
To drink a toast
DO SOL
To the one that he hates most
MIm SOL RE SOL
And she says there are no winner, only losers
SOL MIm
Well if there are no winners
DO SOL
Then what is this he thinks
MIm SOL RE
As he watches her complete a lap of honour
DO SOL
And he sits in the stands
DO SOL
With his head in his hands
MIm SOL
And he thinks of all the things
RE SOL
He'd like to bring down upon her
SOL MIm DO SOL
Revenge will bring cold comfort in this darkest hour
SOL DO RE SOL
As the jukebox says 'It's All Over Now'
MIm SOL
And he stands and he screams
DO SOL
What have I done wrong
RE MIm DO SOL
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
RE MIm DO SOL
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
DO SOL LAm SOL
In public he's such a man
DO SOL LAm SOL
He's punching at the walls with his bare ad bloody hands
DO SOL LAm SOL
He's screaming and shouting and acting crazy
DO RE
But at home he sits alone and he cries like a baby
SOL MIm DO SOL
Oh he holds your letters but he can't read them
SOL DO RE SOL
As he fights this loneliness that you call freedom
MIm SOL DO SOL
You said this would happen and you were not wrong
RE MIm DO SOL
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
RE MIm DO SOL
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
Must I paint you a picture
intro DO - SOL - LAm
DO SOL FA
It's bad timeing and me
SOL DO
We find a lot of things out this way
SOL
And there's you
FA SOL
A little black cloud in a dress
DO SOL
The temptation
LAm FA
To take the precious things we have a part
DO SOL DO
To see how they work
SOL LAm FA DO
Must be resisted for they never fit together again
SOL LAm
If this is rain let it fall on me and drown me
SOL LAm SOL
If these are tears let them fall
DO SOL LAm
Must I paint you a picture
DO SOL LAm
About the way that I feel
DO LAm SOL
You know that my love for you is strong girl
DO LAm SOL
You know that my love for you is real
DO SOL FA
It took a short walk and a talk
SOL DO
To change the rules of engagement
SOL FA SOL
While you searched frantically for reverse
DO SOL
And then claiming
LAm FA DO LA
That virtue never tested is no virtue at all
DO SOL LAm
And so I lost my ignorance
FA-G LAm
And now the bells across the river chime out your name
SOL LAm SOL
I look across to them again (chorus)
MIm DO
All your friends sais come down
It will never fly
FA
And on that imperfect day
SOL
We threw it all away
MIm LAm
Crisis after crisis, with such intensity
FA SOL
This would never happen if we lived by the sea
DO SOL FA
Most important decisions in life
SOL DO
Are made between two people in bed
SOL FA SOL
I found that at my own expense
DO SOL
And when I see you
LAm FA DO SOL DO
You juts turn around and walk away like we never met
SOL LAm FA
Oh we used to be so brave
SOL LAm SOL
I dreamt the wolrd stopped turning as we climbed the hill
LAm SOL
I dreamt impossible dreams that we were lovers still (chorus)
Ontario, Quebec and me
SOL RE SOL
You don't need my Christmas card,
MIm RE DO
You already have my heart.
SOL RE SOL
This has been an holiday romance,
LAm DO RE
Try from the very start.
chorus
DO SOL
For we know how to spend the time,
MIm DO
Who cares about the weather.
SOL RE SOL
We'll dance in the town 'till the sun goes down,
MIm RE DO
And push our bed together.
SOL RE SOL
From the land of the midnight sunglasses,
MIm RE DO
To the mountain of the moon.
SOL RE SOL
You could never stay in bed too long,
LAm DO RE
I'll never come back too soon.
(chorus)
SOL MIm RE SOL
You know how a fool I am,
DO RE SOL
With my short attention span.
DO RE MIm
Flying in the really season too,
DO RE SOL
Nothing could keep me away from you.
BREAK (same chords than a verse)
(chorus)
Rotting On Remand
DO
I stood before the judge that day
FA DO
As he refused my bail
And I knew that I would spend my time
SOL
Awaiting trial in jail
DO
I said there is no justice
FA DO
As they led me out of the door
FA DO
And the judge said, "This isn't a court of justice son
SOL DO
This is a court of law".
DO
They first sent me to Windsor
FA DO
And then to Stoke on Trent
In a holding cell in Liverpool
SOL
Three days and nights I spent
DO
My solicitor can't find me
FA DO
And my family don't know
FA DO
I keep telling them that I'm innocent
SOL DO DO7
They (just) say, "Come on son, in you go."
FA DO
I was picked up on suspicion of something I haven't done
DO SI/DO LA/DO SOL/DO DO SOL
Here I sit in 'F' wing waiting for my trial to come
FA DO FA
It's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands
DO SOL DO
Innocent till proven guilty, rotting on remand
FA DO SOL DO LA7
RE
I ended up in this jail
SOL RE
Built in 18-82
When one man to one prison cell
LA
Was a Victorian value
RE
Now three of us are squeezed in here
SOL RE
And you can't escape the smell
SOL RE
Of that bucket in the corner
LA RE
And we eat in here as well
They let me out of this cage
SOL RE
To slop that bucket out
To get my food and bring it back
LA
And if I'm lucky, get a shower
RE
Apart from one hours exercise
SOL RE
I'm locked in here all day
SOL RE
You don't turn criminals into citizens
LA RE RE7
By treating them this way
SOL RE
Is the prize of law and order the stench of Wormwood Scrubs
RE DO#/RE SI/RE LA/RE LA
With judges quick to sentence sending more down from above
SOL RE SOL
It's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands
RE LA RE
Innocent 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 LA
RE
What is that sound
SOL LA
Where is it coming from
RE
All around
SOL LA
What are you running from
SIm LA RE
Something you don't understand
SOL MIm
Something you cannot command
RE
That's how I know
SOL LA
She's got a new spell
RE
Yes, that's how I know
SOL LA
That she's got a new spell
RE
What's going down
SOL LA
Who's moved this room from round me
RE
Where has it gone
SOL LA
I fear this night will drown me
SIm LA RE
So I lie awake all night
SOL MIm RE
'Cos I can't sleep with something I can't fight
SIm LA RE
SOL LA SIm LA RE
The laws of gravity are very, very strict
SOL LA SIm LA RE
And you're just bending them for your won benefit
RE SOL LA RE SOL LA SIm LA RE
RE SOL LA RE SOL LA RE SOL LA
SIm LA RE
SOL LA SIm LA RE
The laws of gravity are very, very strict
SOL LA SIm LA RE
And you're just bending them for your won benefit
One minute she says
SOL LA
She's gone to get the cat in
RE
The next thing I know
SOL LA
She's mumbling in Latin
SIm LA RE
She cut the starts out of the sky
SOL MIm
And baked them in a pie
RE
That's how I know
SOL LA
She's got a new spell
RE
Yes, that's how I know
SOL LA
That she's got a new spell
SIm LA RE
She stole the scene and the scenery
SOL MIm
The script and the machinery
RE
That's how I know
SOL LA
She's got a new spell
RE
Yes, that's how I know
SOL LA SIm LA RE
That she's got a new spell
Sin City
Intro SOL RE SOL DO SOL RE DO SOL
SOL RE
This old town 's filled with sin
SOL DO
It'll swallow you in
SOL RE
If you got some money to burn
SOL RE
Take it home right away
SOL DO
You've got three years to pay
SOL RE SOL SOL7
The city is waiting his turn
(chorus)
DO RE SOL SOL7
This old earthquake 's gonna leave me in the poor house
DO SOL RE
It seems like this old town 's insane
DO RE SOL DO
On the thirty-first floor, a gold plated door
SOL RE SOL SOL RE SOL DO SOL RE DO SOL
Won't keep out the lord's burning rain
SOL RE SOL DO
The scientist say, it will all wash away
SOL RE
But we don't, believe anymore
SOL RE
So we got our recruit
SOL DO
And a green mohair suit
SOL RE SOL SOL7
So please show your I.D. at the door
(chorus)
SOL RE SOL DO
A friend came around, tried to clean up this town
SOL RE
His ideas made some people mad
SOL RE SOL DO
But he thrusted his crowd, so he spoke right out loud
SOL RE SOL SOL7
And they lost the best friend they had
(chorus
The Price I Pay
intro SOL MIm DO SOL RE
SOL MIm
My friend said she could see no way ahead
LA DO
And I was probably better off without you
SOL MIm
She said to face up to the fact that you weren't coming back
LA DO
And she could make me happy like you used to
SOL SI7
But I'm sorry to say I turned her away
DO SOL# Maj7
Knowing everything she said was true
SOL MIm DO SOL RE
And that's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
SOL MIm
There's something inside that hurts my foolish pride
LA DO
To visit the places we used to go together
SOL MIm
Not a day goes by that I don't sit and wonder why
LA DO
Your feelings for me didn't last forever
SOL SI7
Girl I love you so much that sometimes it's such
DO SOL# Maj7
I'd walk a mile with a stone in my shoe
SOL MIm DO SOL RE
And that's that price I pay for loving you the way that I do (2x)
SOL MIm LA DO
SOL MIm LA DO
SOL SI7
So keep that phone out of my way for the things I must say
DO SOL# Maj7
Are empty if you don't believe they're true
SOL MIm DO SOL RE
And that's that price I pay for loving you the way that I do
SOL MIm DO SOL RE
That's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
SOL MIm
I love you so much that baby it's such
LA DO
I'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
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----------------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 LA
Yet 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
LA SI
I long to let our love run free
SOL#m DO#m LA
Yet 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#m LA
Live 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 DO
Some day boy you'll reap what you've down
FA DO FA SOL
You'll catch a cold and you'll be on your own
FA DO FA DO
And you will see that what's wrong with me
FA DO
Is wrong with everyone that
REm SOL FA DO
You want to play your little games on
DO FA DO
Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats
FA DO FA SOL
You've gone to the dogs again and I'm not placing bets
FA DO FA DO
On you coming home tonight anything but blind
FA DO REm SOL
If you take me for granted then you must expect to find
FA DO DO MIm LAm
Surprise, surprise
LAm FA DO FA SOL DO MIm LAm
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
LAm FA DO FA DO
Valentine's Day is over
SOL FA DO SOL
If you want to talk about it well you know where the phone is
MI FA FAm DO
Don't come round reminding me again how brittle bone is
SOL FA SOL
God didn't make you angel the Devil made you a man
DO MI FA FAm
That brutality and the economy are related now I understand
DO MI FA FAm FA DO
When 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
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 SOL
Time runs out very fast
DO MI
We used to want the same things
FA FAm
But that's all in the past
DO MI
And lately it seems that as it all gets tougher
FA FAm FA DO
Your ideal of justice just becomes rougher and rougher
DO MIm LAm
LAm FA DO FA SOL DO MIm LAm
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
LAm FA DO FA DO
Valentine's Day is over
DO FA DO
Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card
FA DO FA SOL
Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard
FA DO FA DO
That love between two people must be based on understanding
FA DO
Until that's true you'll find your things
REm SOL FA DO DO MIm LAm
All stacked out on the landing surprise, surprise
LAm FA DO FA SOL DO MIm LAm
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
LAm FA DO SOL DO FA DO SOL DO
Valentine'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.
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