32 Best The Cure Songs (list with chords & lyrics)
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A Forest
INTRO
The intro consists mainly of two parts.
Pt. I - Played three times through as the bass comes in. This is the way I find
it easiest to play.
e|--------------------|
B|--------------------|
G|-----2--------------|
D|----------3---2---3-|
A|--0-----0---0---0---|
E|--------------------|
Pt. II - Played once. Palm mute from the last note into the first Am chord.
e|----------------------------|
B|----------0-1---------------|
G|-----2--------2-0-----------|
D|------------------3-2-0-----|
A|--0-----0---------------3-0-|
E|----------------------------|
Am C F Dadd9 (two measures)
VERSE
Am C
Come closer and see
F Dadd9
see into the trees
Am C
find the girl
F Dadd9
while you can
Am C
Come closer and see
F Dadd9
see into the dark
Am C
just follow your eyes
F Dadd9
just follow your eyes
B C A C
B C A F
Am C F Dadd9 (two measures)
VERSE 2
(Am C F Dadd9 pattern)
I hear her voice
calling my name
the sound is deep
in the dark
I hear her voice
and start to run
into the trees
into the trees
B C A C
B C A F
Into the trees
Am C F Dadd9 (four measures)
VERSE 3
(Am C F Dadd9 pattern)
Suddenly I stop
but i know it's too late
I'm lost in a forest
all alone
(Am C F Dadd9 pattern)
The girl was never there
it's always the same
I'm running towards nothing
again and again and again. . .
B C A C
and again. . .
B C A F
and again. . .
OUTRO
Am C F Dadd9 (repeats until song is finished)Friday Im In Love
INTRO
e|---------0--2--0-----0--|
B|------3-----------3-----|
G|---0--------------------|
D|------------------------|
A|------------------------|
E|------------------------|
VERSE 1
D G
I don't care if Monday's blue
D A
Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too
Bm G
Thursday I don't care about you
D A
It's Friday I'm in love
VERSE 2
D G
Monday you can fall apart
D A
Tuesday Wednesday break my heart
Bm G
Thursday doesn't even start
D A
It's Friday I'm in love
CHORUS
G A
Saturday wait
Bm G
And Sunday always comes too late
D A
But Friday never hesitate...
VERSE 3
D G
I don't care if Mondays black
D A
Tuesday Wednesday heart attack
Bm G
Thursday never looking back
D A
It's Friday I'm in love
INTERLUDE
D G D A Bm G D A
VERSE 4
D G
Monday you can hold your head
D A
Tuesday Wednesday stay in bed
Bm G
Or Thursday watch the walls instead
D A
It's Friday I'm in love
CHORUS
G A
Saturday wait
Bm G
And Sunday always comes too late
D A
But Friday never hesitate...
BRIDGE
Bm C D
Dressed up to the eyes, it's a wonderful surprise
A Bm
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
C D
Throwing out your frown and just smiling at the sound
A
And as sleek as a shriek spinning round and round
Bm C D
Always take a big bite, it's such a gorgeous sight
A Bm
To see you eat in the middle of the night
C D
You can never get enough, enough of this stuff
A
It's Friday I'm in love
[Repeat Verse 1]
D G
I don't care if Monday's blue
D A
Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too
Bm G
Thursday I don't care about you
D A
It's Friday I'm in love
[Repeat Verse 2]
D G
Monday you can fall apart
D A
Tuesday Wednesday break my heart
Bm G
Thursday doesn't even start
D A
It's Friday I'm in love
OUTRO
D G D A Bm G D A x2Plainsong
C F C
"i think it's dark and it looks like rain" you said
F
"and the wind is blowing like it's the end of the
C F
world" you said "and it's so cold it's like the
G Am G C
cold if you were dead" and then you smiled for a second
"i think I'm old and I'm feeling pain" you said
"and it's all running out like it's the end of the
world" you said "and it's so cold it's like the
cold if you were dead" and then you smiled for a second
sometimes you make me feel like I'm living at
the edge of the world like I'm living at the edge
of the world "it's just the way i smile" you saidLets Go To Bed
Capo: 1st fret
INTRO
Bm D E A Bm D E A
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Bm D E A Bm D E A
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
VERSE 1
Bm D E A Bm D E A
let me take your hands I'm shaking like milk
Bm D E A Bm D E A
turning turning blue all over the windows and the floors
Bm D E A Bm D E A
fires outside in the sky look as perfect as cats
Bm D E A Bm D E A
the two of us together again it's just the same a stupid game
PRE CHORUS
E F#m D E
but I don't care if you don't and I don't feel if you don't
E F#m D E
and I don't want it if you don't and I won't say it if you won't say it
CHORUS
Bm D E A Bm D E A
first doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Bm D E A Bm D E A
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
VERSE 2
Bm D E A Bm D E A
you think you're tired now but wait until three
Bm D E A Bm D E A
laughing at the christmas lights you remember from december
Bm D E A Bm D E A
all of this then back again another girl another name
Bm D E A Bm D E A
stay alive but stay the same it's a stupid game stupid game
PRE CHORUS
E F#m D E
but I don't care if you don't and I don't feel if you don't
E F#m D E
and I don't want it if you don't and I won't play it if you won't play it
CHORUS
Bm D E A Bm D E A
first doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Bm D E A Bm D E A
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
VERSE 3
Bm D E A Bm D E A
you can't even see now so you ask me the way
Bm D E A Bm D Bm D
you wonder if it's real because it couldn't be rain
Bm D E A Bm D Bm D
through the right doorway and into the white room
Bm D E A Bm D E A
it used to be the dust that would lay here when I came here alone
PRE CHORUS
E F#m D E
but I don't care if you don't and I don't feel if you don't
E F#m D E
and I don't want it if you don't and I won't play it if you won't play it
CHORUS
Bm D E A Bm D E A
first let's go to bed
Bm D E A Bm D E A
oh oh oh oh let's go to bed
Bm D E A Bm D E A
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Bm D E A Bm D E A
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo let's go to bedPictures Of You
INTRO
E F#m x4
VERSE 1
A
I've been looking so
D
long at these pictures
A
of you That I almost
believe that they're
D A
real I've been living
so long with my
D
pictures of you
A
That I almost
believe that
D
the pictures are
A D A D
All I can feel
VERSE 2
A
Remembering
You standing
D
quiet in the rain
A
As I ran to your
D
heart to be near
A
And we kissed as
the sky fell in
D
Holding you close
A
How I always held
D
close in your fear
VERSE 3
A
Remembering
D
You running soft
through the night
A
You were bigger
and brighter and
D
whiter than snow
A
And screamed at
the make believe
D
Screamed at the
sky And you
A
finally found
D
all your courage
A D A D
To let it all go
VERSE 4
A
Remembering
You fallen
D
into my arms
A
Crying for the
death of your
D
heart You were
A
stone white
So delicate
D
Lost in the cold
A
You were always
D
so lost in the dark
VERSE 5
A
Remembering
D
You how you
used to be
A
Slow drowned
You were angels
D
So much more than
A
everything Hold
for the last time
D
then slip away
A
quietly Open my
D
eyes But I never
see anything
CHORUS 1
E
If only I'd thought
D
of the right words
E
I could have held
D
on to your heart
E
If only I'd thought
D
of the right
E
words I wouldn't
be breaking
D
apart All my
A D A D A D A D
pictures of you
VERSE 6
A
Looking so long at
D
these pictures of
A
you But I never
hold on to your
D A
heart Looking so
D
long for the words
to be true But
A
always just
D
breaking apart
A D A D A D A D
My pictures of you
INTERLUDE
A Bm A/C# D
A/C# D E D/F#
CHORUS 2
A
There was nothing
in the world
Bm
That I ever wanted
A/C#
more Than to feel
D
you deep in my heart
A/C#
There was nothing in
the world That I
D
ever wanted more Than
E
to never feel the
D/F#
breaking apart All
A
my pictures of you2 Late
Intro
Cadd9 - G - Em7 - D x4
Cadd9
So I'll wait for you
G
Where i always wait
Em7 D
Behind the signs that sell the news
Cadd9 G
I'll watch for you like yesterday
Em7
And hope for you
D
One day that once
Cadd9
Spent out on me
G
And up 'til late
Em7
I search for you
D
Your hat pushed straight
Cadd9
Away from me
G
Your measured step
Em7
Heads up you win
D
Always too late
Cadd9 - G - Em7 - D x4
Cadd9 G
If i could just once catch your eye
Em7 D
Invisible against the words
Cadd9 G
That hold you down in solitude
Em7 D
And never let you go
Cadd9
The way that every time
G
My eyes just close
Em7 D
Like lids of wooden men in file
Cadd9 G
I put you under rainy day
Em7 D
Your hat's all off
And I'm gone away...
Cadd9 - G - Em7 - D x4
Cadd9
So I'll wait for you
G
Where i always wait
Em7 D
Behind the signs that sell the news
Cadd9 G
I'll watch for you like yesterday
Em7
And hope for you
D
One day that once
Cadd9
Spent out on me
G
And up 'til late
Em7
I search for you
D
Your hat pushed straight
Cadd9
Away from me
G
Your measured step
Em7
Heads up you win
D Cadd9
Always too lateApart
Am G
He waits for her to understand
Dm Am
But she won't understand at all
Am G
She waits all night for him to call
Dm Am
But he won't call anymore
Am
He waits to hear her say
G
"Forgive"
Dm Am
But she justs drops her pearl-black eyes
Am
And prays to hear him say
G
"I love you"
Dm Am
But he tells no more lies
Am G
He waits for her to sympathize
Dm Am
But she won't sympathize at all
Am G
She waits all night to feel his kiss
Dm Am
But always wakes alone
Am
He waits to hear her say
G
"Forget"
Dm Am
But she just hangs her head in pain
Am
And prays to hear him say
G
"No more
Dm Am
I'll never leave again"
G Dm Am
How did we get this far apart?
Am G
We used to be so close together
G Dm Am
How did we get this far apart?
Am G
I thought this love would last for ever
Am G
He waits for her to understand
Dm Am
But she won't understand at all
Am G
She waits all night for him to call
Dm Am
But he won't call
Am
He waits to hear her say
G
"Forgive"
Dm Am
But she just drops her pearl black eyes
Am
And prays to hear him say
G
"I love you"
Dm Am
But he tells no more lies
G Dm Am
How did we get this far apart?
Am G
We used to be so close together
G Dm Am
How did we get this far apart?
Am G
I thought this love would last for everWhy Can’t I Be You
INTRO
| Dm | Bb G | x8
VERSE
Dm Bb G
You're so gorgeous I'll do anything
Dm Bb G
I'll kiss you from your feet to where your head begins
Dm Bb G
You're so perfect, you're so right as rain
Dm Bb G
You make me make me make me make me hungry again
CHORUS
F E
Everything you do is irresistible
F E
Everything you do is simply kissable
Dm Bb G
Why can't I -I be you?
Dm Bb G
Why can't I be you?
| Dm | Bb G | x2
VERSE
Dm Bb G
I'll run around in circles 'til I run out of breath
Dm Bb G
I'll eat you all up or I'll just hug you to death
Dm Bb G
You're so wonderful too good to be true
Dm Bb G
You make me make me make me make me hungry for you
CHORUS
F E
Everything you do is simply delicate
F E
Everything you do is quite angelicate
Dm Bb G
Why can't I be you?
Dm Bb G
Why can't I be you?
| Dm | Bb G | x2
VERSE
Dm Bb G
You turn my head when you turn around
Dm Bb G
You turn the whole world upside down
Dm Bb G
I'm smitten I'm bitten I'm hooked I'm cooked I'm stuck like glue
Dm Bb G
You make me make me make me make me hungry for you
CHORUS
F E
Everything you do is simply dreamy
F E
Everything you do is quite delicious
Dm Bb G
So Why can't I be you?
Dm Bb G
Why can't I be you?
OUTRO
Dm Bb G
Why can't I be you?
Dm Bb G
Why
Dm Bb G
Why can't I be you?
Dm Bb G
Why can't I be you?
Dm Bb G
Why can't I be you?
Dm Bb G
Why can't I be you?
Dm
You're simply elegant!!!Faith
Am G
Catch me if I fall, I'm losing hope
Em Am
I can't just carry on this way
Am G
And everytime i turn away
Em Am
I lose another blind game, the idea of affection holds me
Am G
Suddenly I see you change
Em Am
Everything at once the same, but the mountain never moves
and so on, it's the same chords repeated over and over, apart from the "no-one lifts
heads" part which i think is...
Dm
No-one lifts their heads
Am
No-one lifts their eyes
Em
Justified with empty words
G
The party just gets better and better
then back to the Am,G,Em progression for the "I went away alone" part and the fade out
the end.
Lullaby
INTRO
C#m A
e|-----------------------0-0-|2-2-4-----0-2-2-4----------|
B|--2--0-2-2-0-2---0-2-2-----|------2-----------2--2--0--|
G|---------------------------|---------------------------| x 2
D|---------------------------|---------------------------|
A|---------------------------|---------------------------|
E|---------------------------|---------------------------|
C#m A x 2
C#m A
e|-----------------------0-0-|2-2-4-----0-2-2-4----------|
B|--2--0-2-2-0-2---0-2-2-----|------2-----------2--2--0--|
G|---------------------------|---------------------------| x 2
D|---------------------------|---------------------------|
A|---------------------------|---------------------------|
E|---------------------------|---------------------------|
(You must play 6 times in total this C#m and A combination before the lyrics begin)
VERSE
C#m
On candystripe legs spiderman comes,
A
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun.
C#m
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead,
A
Looking for the victim shivering in bed.
C#m
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom,
A
And suddenly! A movement in the corner of the room!
C#m
And there is nothing I can do when I realise with fright
A
That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!
C#m A
e|-----------------------0-0-|2-2-4-----0-2-2-4----------|
B|--2--0-2-2-0-2---0-2-2-----|------2-----------2--2--0--|
G|---------------------------|---------------------------| x 2
D|---------------------------|---------------------------|
A|---------------------------|---------------------------|
E|---------------------------|---------------------------|
VERSE 2
C#m
Quietly he laughs, and shaking his head
A
Creeps closer now, closer to the foot of the bed,
C#m
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies,
A
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes...
C#m
"Be still, be calm, be quiet now, my precious boy,
A
Don't struggle like that, or I will only love you more,
C#m
For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light;
A
The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight!"
VERSE 3
F#m
And I feel like I'm being eaten
A
By a thousand million shivering furry holes,
F#m
And I know that in the morning
A
I will wake up in the shivering cold...
C#m(*)
And the spiderman is always hungry...
INSTRUMENTAL
(*) Begin to play the Intro tabs and chords.
C#m A
e|-----------------------0-0-|2-2-4-----0-2-2-4----------|
B|--2--0-2-2-0-2---0-2-2-----|------2-----------2--2--0--|
G|---------------------------|---------------------------| x 2
D|---------------------------|---------------------------|
A|---------------------------|---------------------------|
E|---------------------------|---------------------------|
[Ending]
C#mFrom The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
INTRO
(The main lead riff that plays through out the song)
e|----------------5---2-2----3---0-0-----7---10-10-----------|
B|---5--3-3---------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
Em D
Em Dsus2/F# G Asus2
VERSE
Em Dsus2/F#
Every time we do this
G Asus2
I fall for her
Em Dsus2/F#
Wave after wave after wave
G Asus2
It's all for her
Em Dsus2/F#
I know this can't be wrong I say
G
and I'll lie to keep her happy
Asus2
As long as I know that you
Em Dsus2/F#
know today I belong
G
Right here with you
Asus2
Right here with you...
Em Bm Cadd9 Asus2
Em
And so we watch the sun come up
Dsus2/F# G Asus2
From the edge of the deep green sea
Em Dsus2/F#
And she listens like her head's on fire
G Asus2
Like she wants to believe in me
Em
So I try
Dsus2/F# G Asus2
Put your hands in the sky
Em
Surrender
Dsus2/F#
Remember
G
We'll be here forever
Asus2 Em Bm Cadd9 Asus2
And we'll never say goodbye...
INSTRUMENTAL
Em Bm Cadd9 Asus2
[Pre-Bridge]
Em Bm
I've never been so
Cadd9 Asus2
Colourfully-see-through-head before
Em Bm
I've never been so
Cadd9 Asus2
Wonderfully-me-you-want-some-more
Em Bm Cadd9
And all I want is to keep it like this
Asus2
You and me alone
Em
A secret kiss
Bm
And don't go home
Cadd9
Don't go away
Asus2
Don't let this end
Em Dsus2/F# G Asus2
Please stay
Em Dsus2/F# G Asus2
Not just for today
INSTRUMENTAL
Em Dsus2/F# G Asus2 x2
BRIDGE
Em Bm Cadd9 Asus2
Never never never never never let me go she says
Em Bm Cadd9 Asus2
Hold me like this for a hundred thousand million days
Em
But suddenly she slows
Bm
And looks down at my breaking face
Cadd9 Asus2
Why do you cry? What did I say?
Em Bm
But it's just rain I smile
Cadd9 Asus2
Brushing my tears away...
CHORUS
Bm Cadd9
I wish I could just stop
Dsus2 Em
I know another moment will break my heart
Bm
Too many tears
Cadd9
Too many times
Dsus2 Em
Too many years I've cried over you
Asus2
Over you Over you
Em Dsus2/F#
How much more can we use it up?
Em
Drink it dry?
Dsus2/F#
Take this drug?
Em Dsus2/F#
Looking for something forever gone
Em
But something
Dsus2/F#
We will always want?
INSTRUMENTAL
Em Dsus2/F# G Asus2 x2
BRIDGE
Em Bm Cadd9 Asus2
Why why why are you letting me go? She says
Em Bm
I feel you pulling back
Cadd9 Asus2
I feel you changing shape...
Em Bm
And just as I'm breaking free
Cadd9 Asus2
She hangs herself in front of me
Em Bm
Slips her dress like a flag to the floor
Cadd9
And hands in the sky
Asus2
Surrenders it all...
CHORUS
Bm Cadd9
I wish I could just stop
Dsus2 Em
I know another moment will break my heart
Bm
Too many tears
Cadd9
Too many times
Dsus2 Em
Too many years I've cried for you
Bm
It's always the same
Cadd9
Wake up in the rain
Dsus2
Head in pain
Em
Hung in shame
Bm
A different name
Cadd9
Same old game
Dsus2
Love in vain
Dsus2
And miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Dsus2
Away from home again...10-15 Saturday Night
1st play- Main Riff: Dm, C, Bb, C (x4)
2nd play- Riff 1: A, G (x4)
3rd Verses Chords: F, Em
F
10.15
Em
Saturday night
F
And the tap drips
Em
Under the strip light
F
And I'm sitting
Em
In the kitchen sink
F
And the tap drips
Em
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip...
Repeat Main Riff: Dm, C, Bb, C (x2)
Repeat Riff 1: A, G (x4)
F
Waiting
Em
For the telephone to ring
F
And I'm wondering
Em
Where she's been
F Em
And I'm crying for yesterday
F
And the tap drips
Em
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip...
It's always the same...Disintegration
VERSE
C D Em Em7
Oh i miss the kiss of treachery the shameless kiss of vanity
C D Em Em7
The soft and the black and the velvety up tight against the side of me
C D Em Em7
And mouth and eyes and heart all bleed and run in thickening streams of greed
C D Em Em7
As bit by bit it starts the need to just let go my party piece
INSTRUMENTAL (2x)
C D Em Em7
VERSE
C D Em Em7
Oh i miss the kiss of treachery the aching kiss before i feed
C D Em Em7
The stench of a love for a younger meat and the sound that it makes when it cuts in deep
C D Em Em7
The holding up on bended knees the addiction of duplicities
C D Em Em7
As bit by bit it starts the need to just let go my party piece
C D Em Em7
But i never said i would stay to the end so i leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
C D Em Em7
Screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy screaming me over and over and over
C D Em Em7
I leave you with photographs pictures of trickery stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery
C D Em Em7
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams when we both of us knew how the ending would be ...
INSTRUMENTAL (2x)
C D Em Em7
VERSE
Cmaj7 Dsus2 Em7
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again breaking apart like I'm made up of
glass again
Cmaj7 Dsus2 Em7
Making it up behind my back again holding my breath for the fear of sleep again
Cmaj7 Dsus2 Em7
Holding it up behind my head again cut in deep to the heart of the bone again
Cmaj7 Dsus2 Em7
Round and round and round and it's coming apart again over and over and over
VERSE
C D Em Em7
Now that i know that I'm breaking to pieces I'll pull out my heart and I'll feed it to anyone
C D Em Em7
Crying for sympathy crocodiles cry for the love of the crowd and the three cheers from everyone
C D Em Em7
Dropping through sky through the glass of the roof through the roof of your mouth
through the mouth of your eye
C D Em Em7
Through the eye of the needle it's easier for me to get closer to heaven than ever feel
whole again
VERSE
C D Em Em7
I never said i would stay to the end i knew i would leave you with babies and everything
C D Em Em7
Screaming like this in the hole of sincerity screaming me over and over and over
C D Em Em7
I leave you with photographs pictures of trickery stains on the carpet stains on the memory
C D Em Em7
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams when we both of us knew how the end always is . ..
OUTRO
C D Em Em7
How the end always is
The Lovecats
INTRO
| Am | Am G | F | F G | x4
VERSE 1
Am G
We move like cagey tigers
G F
Oh, we couldn't get closer than this
G Am
The way we walk, the way we talk
G F
The way we stalk, the way we kiss
G Am
We slip through the streets while everyone sleeps
G F
Getting bigger and sleeker and whiter and brighter
G Am
We bite and scratch and scream all night
G F
Let's go and throw all the songs we know
CHORUS
C
Into the sea, you and me
Dm
All these years and no one heard
C
I'll show you in spring, it's a treacherous thing
Dm
We missed you, hissed the
Am G F G
Lovecats we missed you, hissed the
(Bah da bah bah bah bah bada, Bah ba bah, bah ba ba bada)
Am G F
Lovecats
(Bah da bah bah bah bah bada, Bah ba bah, bah ba ba bada)
VERSE 2
G Am G F
You're so wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty
G Am G F
Oh, you know that I'd do anything for you
G Am
We should have each other to tea, huh?
G F
We should have each other with cream
G Am
Then curl up in the fire and sleep for a while
G F
It's the grooviest thing, it's the perfect dream
CHORUS
C
Into the sea, you and me
Dm
All the years and no one heard
C
I'll show you in spring, it's a treacherous thing
Dm
We missed you, hissed the
Am G F G
Lovecats we missed you, hissed the
Am G F
Lovecats we missed you, hissed the
Am G F G
Lovecats we missed you, hissed the
(Bah da bah bah bah bah bada, bah ba bah, bah ba ba bada)
Am G F
Lovecats we missed you, hissed...
VERSE 3
G Am G F
You're so wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty
G Am G F
You know that I'd do anything for you
G Am
We should have each other to dinner
G F
We should have each other with cream
G Am
Then curl up in the fire, get up for a while
G F
It's the grooviest thing, it's the perfect dream
BRIDGE
Em
Hand in hand is the only way to land
F
And always the right way round
Em
Not broken in pieces like hated little meeces
F
How could we miss someone as dumb as...
Am G F G
This? (how can we miss someone as dumb as) We missed you, hissed the
Am Fmaj7
Lovecats
REFRAIN
Am G F G
(Bah da bah bah bah bah bada, bah ba bah, bah ba ba bada)
Am G F
I love you, let's go
(Bah da bah bah bah bah bada, bah ba bah, bah ba ba bada)
[Bass Instrumental]
Am F Am F
(ooh, solid gold)
[Instrumental - Jazz Scat]
| Am | Am G | F | F G | x4
OUTRO
Em F Em F Em F Am
The love cats... love... love... huh, lovecats
[Riff]
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B|-----0-1--3--------1----------1--3---1----3-----|
G|--2---------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------|Boys Dont Cry
INTRO
A Bm C#m D D C#m Bm (x4)
VERSE
A Bm
I would say I'm sorry
C#m D
If I thought that it would change your mind
A Bm
But I know that this time
C#m D
I have said too much, been too unkind
REFRAIN
C#m Bm C#m Bm
I try to laugh about it cover it all up with lies
C#m Bm C#m Bm
I try to laugh about it hiding the tears in my eyes
[Chorus I]
A Bm C#m D D C#m Bm
'Cause boys don't cry
A Bm C#m D D C#m Bm
Boys don't cry
VERSE
A Bm
I would break down at your feet
C#m D
And beg forgiveness plead with you
A Bm
But I know that it's too late
C#m D
And now there's nothing I can do
REFRAIN
C#m Bm C#m Bm
So I try to laugh about it, cover it all up with lies
C#m Bm C#m Bm
I try to laugh about it, hiding the tears in my eyes
[Chorus I]
A Bm C#m D D C#m Bm
'Cause boys don't cry
A Bm C#m D D C#m Bm
Boys don't cry
VERSE
A Bm
I would tell you that I loved you
C#m D
If I thought that you would stay
A Bm
But I know that it's no use
C#m D
And you're already gone away
BRIDGE
E F#m7
Misjudged your limits
E F#m7
Pushed you too far
E F#m7
Took you for granted
D E
I thought that you needed me more more more
VERSE
A Bm
Now I would do most anything
C#m D
To get you back by my side
A Bm
But I just keep on laughing
C#m D
Hiding the tears in my eyes
[Chorus II]
A Bm C#m D D C#m Bm
'Cause boys don't cry
A Bm C#m D D C#m Bm
Boys don't cry
A Bm C#m D D C#m Bm
Boys don't cry
OUTRO
A Bm C#m D D C#m Bm AFire In Cairo
Capo: 1st fret
Verse 1:
Am G C
Slowly fading blue
G F F/C F
The eastern hollows
Am G C
Catch the dying sun
G F F/C F
Night-time follows
Am G C
Silence and black
G F F/C F
Mirror pool
Am G C
Mirrors the lonely place
G F F/C F
Where I meet you
CHORUS
E F
See your head
E F
In the fading light
E F
And through the dark
E F
Your eyes shine bright
Chorus 2:
Am G
And burn like fire
C G F F/C F
Burn like fire in Cairo
Am G
And burn like fire
C G F F/C F
Burn like fire in Cairo
VERSE
Am G C
Shifting crimson veil
G F F/C F
Silken hips
Am G C
Slide under my hand
G F F/C F
Swollen lips
Am G C
Whisper my name
G F F/C F
And I yearn
Am G C
You take me in your arms
G F F/C F
And start to burn
E F G
f i r e i n c a i r o
E F G
f i r e i n c a i r o
E F G
f i r e i n c a i r o
E F
And the heat disapear and the mirror fades away
Am G C G F x4
E F G
f i r e i n c a i r o x8
Am G C G F x4
CHORUS
Am G C
Burn like a fire in Cairo
G F F F
Burn like a... fire fire fire
Am G C
Blaze like a fire in Cairo
G F F F
Blaze like a... fire fire fire
Am G C G F F/C F
Flare
Am G
And burn like fire
C G F F/C F
Burn like fire in CairoJust Like Heaven
INTRO
A E Bm D x4
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VERSE 1
A E
"Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
Bm D
The one that makes me scream" she said
A E
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
Bm D
And threw her arms around my neck
A E
"Show me how you do it
Bm D
And I promise you, I promise that
A E
I'll run away with you
Bm D
I'll run away with you"
INSTRUMENTAL *
A E Bm D x4
VERSE 2
A E
Spinning on that dizzy edge
Bm D
I kissed her face and kissed her head
A E
And dreamed of all the different ways
Bm D
I had to make her glow
A E Bm
"Why are you so far away?" she said
D A E
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
Bm D
That I'm in love with you"
CHORUS
F#m
You
G
Soft and only
F#m
You
G
Lost and lonely
F#m
You
G
Strange as angels
D
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
A E
You're just like a dream
Bm D
You're just like a dream
INSTRUMENTAL
A E Bm D x3
VERSE 3
A E
Daylight licked me into shape
Bm D
I must have been asleep for days
A E
And moving lips to breathe her name
Bm D
I opened up my eyes
A E
And found myself alone, alone
Bm D
Alone above a raging sea
A E
That stole the only girl I loved
Bm D
And drowned her deep inside of me
CHORUS
F#m
You
G
Soft and only
F#m
You
G
Lost and lonely
F#m
You
G D
Just like heavenLovesong
INTRO
Am G F Em7 x4
VERSE 1
Am G F Em7
Whenever I'm alone with you
Am G F Em7
You make me feel like I am home again
Am G F Em7
Whenever I'm alone with you
Am G F Em7
You make me feel like I am whole again
INSTRUMENTAL
Am G F Em7 x2
VERSE 2
Am G F Em7
Whenever I'm alone with you
Am G F Em7
You make me feel like I am young again
Am G F Em7
Whenever I'm alone with you
Am G F Em7
You make me feel like I am fun again
CHORUS
F G
However far away
Am C
I will always love you
F G
However long I stay
Am C
I will always love you
F G
Whatever words I say
Am C
I will always love you
F G
I will always love you
INSTRUMENTAL
Am G F Em7 x4
VERSE 3
Am G F Em7
Whenever I'm alone, with you
Am G F Em7
You make me feel like I am free again
Am G F Em7
Whenever I'm alone, with you
Am G F Em7
You make me feel like I am clean again
CHORUS
F G
However far away
Am C
I will always love you
F G
However long I stay
Am C
I will always love you
F G
Whatever words I say
Am C
I will always love you
F G Am
I will always love youPrimary
CHORDS FOR VERSE:
E A E D D/C# D
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B---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--3-3-3---3--3----|
G---1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1--2-2-2---2--2----|
D---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--0-0-0------0----|
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E A E D D/C# D
E A E D D/C# D
The innocence of sleeping children Dressed in white and slowly dreaming
E A E D D/C# D
Stops all time
E A E D D/C# D
I slow my steps and start to blur So many years have filled my heart
E A E D D/C# D
I never though I'd say those words
E A E D D/C# D
Further we go And older we grow The more we know The less we show x2
E A E D D/C# D
The very first time I saw your face I thought of a song and quickly changed the
E A E D D/C# D
tune
E A E D D/C# D
The very first time I touched your skin I thought of a story and rushed to reach the
E A E D D/C# D
end too soon
C A C A
Oh remember Please don't change
E A E D D/C# D
And so the fall came thirteen years A shiny ring and how I could forget your
E A E D D/C# D
name
E A E D D/C# D
The air no longer in my throat Another perfect lie is choked But it always
E A E D D/C# D
feels the same
G A
So they close together
G A
Dressed in red and yellow
G A
Innocent forever
C G A
Sleeping children in their blue soft rooms Still dream
E A E D D/C# D repeat Lament
Dm Em
Today there was a tragedy
F Gm
Underneath the bridge
Dm
A man walked
Em
Cold and blue
F Gm
Into La Ment
Dm Em
The sky coloured perfect
F Gm
As the man slipped away
Gm Em Bb
Waving with a last vanilla smile
Dm Em
Somewhere at a table
F Gm
Two drowned fools
Dm
Smoking
Em F Gm
Drinking water as they talked
Dm Em
Of how they loved our lady
F Gm
And oh the smell as candles die
Gm Em Bb
One more ice cream river body
Gm Em Bb
Flowed underneath the bridge
Gm Dm
Underneath the bridge High
(C#m Bm A Bm) 4x
C#m Bm A Bm
When I see you sky as I kite as high as I might, I can't get that high
C#m Bm A Bm E
The how you move The way you burst the clouds It makes me want to try
(C#m Bm A Bm) 2x
C#m Bm A Bm
When I see you sticky as lips as licky as trips I can't lick that far
C#m Bm A Bm E
But when you pout the way you shout out loud it makes me want to start
C#m Bm A Bm
And when I see you happy as a girl that swims in a works of magic show
C#m Bm A G
It makes me bite my fingers through to think I could've let you go
C#m G A G
And when I see you take the same sweet steps you used to take I say
C#m G A D
I'll keep holding you my arms so tight I'll never let you slip away
(C#m Bm A Bm) 4x
C#m Bm A Bm
And when I see you kitten as a cat yeah as smitten as that I can't get that small
C#m Bm A Bm
The way you fur the how you purr it makes me want to paw you all
C#m Bm A Bm
And when I see you happy as a girl that lives in a world of make believe
C#m Bm A Bm
It makes me pull my hair all out to think I could've let you leave
C#m G A G
And when I see you take the same sweet steps you used to take I say
C#m G A D
I'll keep holding you my arms so tight I'll never let you, let you goThe Same Deep Water As You
4 x Em F#m G F#m
Em F#m G F#m
Kiss me goodbye, pushing out before I sleep
Em F#m G F#m Em
Can't you see I tried Swim in the same deep water as you is hard
Em F#m G
The shallow drowned lose less than we"
F#m Em
you breathe the strangest twist upon your lips
F#m G F#m Em
and we shall be together and we shall be together..."
2 x Em F#m G F#m
Em F#m G F#m
Kiss me goodbye bow your head and join with me
Em F#m
and face pushed deep reflections meet
G F#m
the strangest twist upon your lips
Em F#m G F#m
and disappear the ripples clear and laughing break against your
feet
Em F#m G F#m
and laugh break the mirror sweet so we shall be together ...
Em F#m G F#m
Kiss me goodbye, pushing out before I sleep
Em F#m G F#m
it's lower now and slower now the strangest twist upon your lips
Em F#m G F#m
but i don't see and i don't feel but tightly hold up silently
Em F#m G F#m
my hands before my fading eyes and in my eyes your smile
Em F#m G F#m
the very last thing before i go the very last thing before i go
Em F#m G F#m
the very last thing before i go …
Em F#m G F#m
i will kiss you i will kiss you i will kiss you forever on nights like this
Em F#m G F#m
i will kiss you i will kiss you and we shall be together...
4 x Em F#m G F#mMint Car
INTRO
(Play this twice, you can also play it 12 strings up)
(on strings 14 and 15)
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VERSE
D
The sun is up
D/B G A
I'm so happy I could scream!
D D/B G A
And there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be
D D/B
Than here with you It's perfect
G A
It's all I ever wanted
D D/B G A
I almost can't believe that it's for real
INSTRUMENTAL
D D/B G A
D D/B G A
VERSE
D D/B G A
I really don't think it gets any better than this
D
Vanilla smile
D/B G A
And a gorgeous strawberry kiss!
D D/B
Birds sing we swing
G A D
Clouds drift by and everything is like a dream
D/B G A
It's everything I wished
CHORUS
A Bm
Never guessed it got this good
A Bm
Wondered if it ever would
A Bm
Really didn't think it could
G
Do it again?
A
I know we should!!!
INSTRUMENTAL
D D/B G A
D D/B G A
D D/B G A
D D/B G A
VERSE
D
The sun is up
D/B G A
I'm so fizzy I could burst!
D D/B G A
You wet through and me headfirst
D D/B
Into this is perfect
G A
It's all I ever wanted
D D/B G A
Ow! it feels so big it almost hurts!
CHORUS
A Bm
Never guessed it got this good
A Bm
Wondered if it ever would
A Bm
Really didn't think it could
G
Do it some more
A
I know we should
BRIDGE
Em F#m G
Say it will always be like this
F#m Em
The two of us together
Em F#m G
It will always be like this
A D
Forever and ever and ever...
INSTRUMENTAL
D D/B G A
Ever and Ever and Ever
D D/B G A
CHORUS
D D/B
Never guessed it got this good
G A
Wondered if it ever would
D D/B
Really didn't think it could
G
Do it all the time
A
I know we shouldIn Between Days
VERSE
A Dmaj7 A D
Yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die
A D A D
Yesterday I got so old it made me wanna cry
A D
Go on go on just walk away
A D
Go on go on your choice is made
A D
Go on go on and disappear
A D
Go on go on away from here
CHORUS
Bm9 E
And I know I was wrong when I said it was true
Bm E A
That it could've been me and with her in between without you (*)
VERSE
Yesterday I got so scared I shivered like a child
Yesterday away from you it froze me deep inside
Come back come back don't walk away
come back come back come back today
come back come back why can't you see
come back come back come back to me
And I know...
Version 2
In Between Days
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[...]
A D A D
Yesterday I got so scared I shivered like a child
It sounds better if all the D's in the entire song are replaced with D
major 7th chords. The following shows the difference on the guitar.
For those of us with keyboards, a D major 7th is D,F#,A,C#. Enjoy!!!
D: D Major 7th:
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(Note: I don't remember all the lyrics very well, don't laugh!)
(intro is like verses)
VERSE
A D A D
Yesterday I got so scared I shivered like a child
A D A D
Yesterday away from you it made me want to cry
A D
Go on go on don't walk away
A D
Go on go on your choice is made
A D
Come back come back why can't you see
A D
Come back come back come back to me
CHORUS
Bm E
And I know I was wrong when I said it was true
Bm E
That it couldn't be me and be her in between
A D
Without you
A D
Without youClose To Me
INTRO
B G#m F# x3
VERSE
B
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
G#m
I wish I'd stayed
F#
asleep today
B
I never thought this day would end
G#m
I never thought tonight could ever be
F#
this close to me
VERSE 2
B
Just try to see in the dark
just try to make it work
G#m F#
to feel the fear before you're here
B
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out
G#m F#
hold my breath and wait until I shake...
BRIDGE
E
But if I had your faith
B
then I could make it safe and clean
E
If only I was sure
B
that my head on the door was a dream
INSTRUMENTAL
(There's a part here with horns but the underliner is the B G#m F# progression)
VERSE
B
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
G#m F#
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
B
I never thought this day would end
G#m
I never thought tonight could ever be
F#
this close to me
BRIDGE
E
But if I had your face
B
then I could make it safe and clean
E B
if only I was sure that my head on the door was a dream
Repeat B G#m F# progression until you want it to end.Fascination Street
INTRO
Csus2 D#sus2 Csus2 D#sus2 G# Fsus2 G G# A#
VERSE You can also pay the intro over the verse, but this is an easier strumming version
Cm
Oh, it's opening time down on Fascination Street
G# G A#
So let's cut the conversation and get out for a bit
Cm
Because I feel it all fading and paling and I'm begging
G# G A#
To drag you down with me to kick the last nail in
Cm
Yeah, I like you in that like I like you to scream
G# G
But if you open your mouth then I can't be responsible
A# Cm
For quite what goes in or to care what comes out
G# G A#
So just pull on your hair, just pull on your pout
Cm
A#nd let's move to the beat like we know that it's over
G# G A#
If you slip going under, slip over my shoulder
CHORUS
Cm
So just pull on your face, just pull on your feet
G# G A# Cm
A#nd let's hit opening time, down on Fascination Street
INSTRUMENTAL
Csus2 D#sus2 Csus2 D#sus2 G# Fsus2 G G# A# (x6)
CHORUS 2
Cm
So pull on your hair, pull on your pout
G# G A#
Cut the conversation, just open your mouth
Cm
So just pull on your face, just pull on your feet
G# G A# Cm
A#nd let's hit opening time, down on Fascination Street
OUTRO
Csus2 D#sus2 Csus2 D#sus2 G# Fsus2 G G# A# (x4)
Down on Fascination Street Charlotte Sometimes
Verse
Dsus2 Fmaj7 C Am
All the faces, all the voices blur
Dsus2 Fmaj7 C Am
Change to one face, change to one voice
Dsus2 Fmaj7 C Am
Prepare yourself for bed, the light seems bright and glares on white walls
Dsus2 Fmaj7 C Am
All the sounds of Charlotte sometimes
Dsus2 Fmaj7 C Am
Into the night with Charlotte sometimes
Dsus2 Fmaj7 C Am
Night after night she lay alone in bed
Dsus2 Fmaj7 C Am
Her eyes so open to the dark, the streets all looked so strange
Dsus2 Fmaj7 C Am
They seemed so far away but Charlotte did not cry
Pre Chorus
Fmaj7 Am
The people seemed so close playing their expressionless games
Fmaj7 Am
The people seemed so close so many other names
Chorus
Dsus2 Fmaj7
Sometimes I'm dreaming
C Am
Where all the other people dance
Dsus2 Fmaj7
Sometimes I'm dreaming
C Am
Charlotte sometimes
Dsus2 Fmaj7
Sometimes I'm dreaming
C
Expressionless the trance
Am
Sometimes I'm dreaming
Fmaj7 Am
So many different names
Fmaj7
Sometimes I'm dreaming
Am
The sounds all stay the same
Fmaj7
Sometimes I'm dreaming
Am
She Hopes to open Shadowed Eyes On a Different World
Fmaj7
Come to Me Scared Princess
G
Charlotte sometimes...
Verse 2
Dsus2 Fmaj7
On that bleak track
C Am
See the sun is gone again
Dsus2 Fmaj7 C Am
The tears were pouring down her face
Dsus2 Fmaj7
She was crying and crying for a girl
C Am
Who died so many years before...
Chorus
Fmaj7
Sometimes I dream
Am
Where all the other people dance
Fmaj7
Sometimes I dream
Am
Charlotte sometimes
Fmaj7
Sometimes I dream
Am
The sounds all stay the same
Fmaj7
Sometimes I'm dreaming
G
There are so many different names
Dsus2
Sometimes I dream Sometimes I dream...
Verse 3
Fmaj7 C Am
Charlotte sometimes crying for herself
Dsus2 Fmaj7 C Am
Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself
Dsus2
But it's always with love
Fmaj7
With so much love it looks like
C Am
Everything else
Dsus2
Of Charlotte sometimes
Fmaj7
So far away
C Am
Glass sealed and pretty
Dsus2
Charlotte sometimesClose To Me
INTRO
B G#m F# x3
VERSE
B
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
G#m
I wish I'd stayed
F#
asleep today
B
I never thought this day would end
G#m
I never thought tonight could ever be
F#
this close to me
VERSE 2
B
Just try to see in the dark
just try to make it work
G#m F#
to feel the fear before you're here
B
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out
G#m F#
hold my breath and wait until I shake...
BRIDGE
E
But if I had your faith
B
then I could make it safe and clean
E
If only I was sure
B
that my head on the door was a dream
INSTRUMENTAL
(There's a part here with horns but the underliner is the B G#m F# progression)
VERSE
B
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
G#m F#
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
B
I never thought this day would end
G#m
I never thought tonight could ever be
F#
this close to me
BRIDGE
E
But if I had your face
B
then I could make it safe and clean
E B
if only I was sure that my head on the door was a dream
Repeat B G#m F# progression until you want it to end.A Letter To Elise
VERSE
A E
oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
F#m
I just can't stay here every yesterday
D
like keep on acting out the same
the way we act out
A
every way to smile
forget
E
and make-believe we never needed
F#m
any more than this
D
any more than this
VERSE 2
A E
oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do
F#m
I know I'll never really get inside of you
D
to make your eyes catch fire
the way they should
A
the way the blue could pull me in
E
if they only would
if they only would
F#m D
at least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else
that hides away
A
from me and you
there're worlds to part
E
with aching looks and breaking hearts
F#m
and all the prayers your hands can make
D
oh I just take as much as you can throw
A
and then I throw it all away
E
oh I throw it all away
F#m
like throwing faces at the sky
D
like throwing arms around
E
yesterday
I stood and stared
F#m
wide-eyed in front of you
E
and the face I saw looked back
F#m
the way I wanted to
E
but I just can't hold my tears away
F#m
the way you do
BRIDGE
G F#m
Elise believe I never wanted this
G F#m
I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises
G F#m
I thought you were the girl always dreamed about
G
but I let the dream go
F#m
and the promises broke
E
and the make-believe ran out...
VERSE 3
A
so Elise
E
it doesn't matter what you say
F#m
I just can't stay here every yesterday
D
like keep on acting out the same
the way we act out
A
every way to smile
forget
E
and make-believe we never needed
F#m
any more than this
D
any more than this
OUTRO
A E
and every time I try to pick it up
like falling sand
F#m
as fast as I pick it up
D
it runs away through my clutching hands
A
and there's nothing else I can really do
E
there's nothing else I can really do
F#m
there's nothing else I can really do
D
at all...Hanging Garden
Dm C Dm C
Creatures kissing in the rain
Dm C Dm Bb
Shapeless in the dark again
Dm C Dm C
In the hanging garden please don't speak
Dm C Dm Bb
In the hanging garden no one sleeps
Riff: Dm, C, Dm, Bb, C (x2)
Catching haloes on the moon
Gives my hands the shapes of angels
In the heat of the night
The animals scream
In the heat of the night
Walking into a dream...
Am
Fall fall fall fall
Bb
Into the walls
Am Bb
Jump jump out of time
Am
Fall fall fall fall
Bb
Out of the sky
Am Bb
Cover my face as the animals die
Dm C Dm, C,
In the hanging garden
Dm Bb
In the hanging garden
Creatures kissing in the rain
Shapeless in the dark again
In a hanging garden
Change the past
In a hanging garden
Wearing furs and masks...
Fall fall fall fall
Into the walls
Jump jump out of time
Fall fall fall fall
Out of the sky
Cover my face as the animals die
In the hanging garden
In the hanging garden
The Walk
Em Am G Em
I called you after midnight
Am G Em
then ran until I burst
Am G Em
I passed the howling woman
C D Em
and stood outside your door
Am G Em
We walked around a lake
Am G Em
and woke up in the rain
Am G Em
and everyone turned over
C D Em
troubled in their dreams again
Am G Em
Visiting time is over
Am G Em
and so we walk away
Am G Em
and both play dead then cry out loud
C D Em
why we always cry this way?
Am G Em
I kissed you in the water
Am G Em
and made your dry lips sing
Am G Em
I saw you look like a japanese baby
C D Em
in an instant I remembered
Am G Em
e---very---thing... (x3)
C D Em
e---very---thing...
C D Em (x4)
Em Am G Em
I called you after midnight
Am G Em
then ran until my heart burst
Am G Em
I passed the howling woman
C D Em
and stood outside your door
C Bm
I kissed you in the water
C Bm
and made your dry lips sing
Am G Em
I saw you look like a japanese baby
C D Em
in an instant I remembered
Am G Em
e---very---thing... (x3)
C D Em
e---very---thing...
Am G Em
Take me for a walk
Am G Em
Take me for a walk
Am G Em
Let's go in the water
C D Em
Take me for a walk.One Hundred Years
INTRO
(drums)
(riff 1) x2
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B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-1-0-| x2 |-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--|
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D||----------------------------------------------------------|
A||----------------------------------------------------------|
E||----------------------------------------------------------|
VERSE 1 0’36”
Cm B
It doesn’t matter if we all die
Cm B
Ambition in the back of a black car
Cm B
In a high building there is so much to do
Cm B
Going home time a story on the radio
INSTRUMENTAL 1’06”
Cm B
Cm B
VERSE 2 1’20”
Cm B
Something small falls out of your mouth, and we laugh
Cm B
A prayer for something better, a prayer for something better
Cm B
Please love me, meet my mother, but the fear takes hold
Cm B
Creeping up the stairs in the dark, waiting for the death blow
Bb
Waiting for the death blow
Bb
Bb
Bb Cm
Waiting for the death blow
(riff 1)
(riff 2)
e||---------------------------|
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D||---------------------------|
A||---------------------------|
E||---------------------------|
e||-----------------------------------3-3-4-4-6-6-|
B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
G||-----------------------------------------------|
D||-----------------------------------------------|
A||-----------------------------------------------|
E||-----------------------------------------------|
VERSE 3 2’32”
Cm B
Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
Cm B
Fighting for freedom on the television
Cm B
Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
Cm B
Have we got everything? She struggles to get away...
Cm B
The pain and the creeping feeling, a little black haired girl
Cm B
Waiting for Saturday, the death of her father pushing her
Cm B
Pushing her white face into the mirror, aching inside me and turn me round
Cm B
Just like the old days, just like the old days
Bb
Just like the old days
Bb
Bb
Bb Cm
Just like the old days
(riff 2)
(riff 3)
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B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-6--6-6-8--6--3--6-6-8--6--3--|
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D||------------------------------------------------------|
A||------------------------------------------------------|
E||------------------------------------------------------|
e||-----------------------------------|
B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-1-0-| x2
G||-----------------------------------|
D||-----------------------------------|
A||-----------------------------------|
E||-----------------------------------|
VERSE 4 4’14”
Cm B
Caressing an old man and painting a lifeless face
Cm B
Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
Cm B
The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
Cm B
All shadows and deliverance under a black flag
Cm B
A hundred years of blood crimson the ribbon tightens round my throat,
I open my mouth and my
Cm B
head bursts open, a sound like a tiger thrashing in the water, thrashing in the water
Cm B
Over and over we die one after the other
Cm B
Over and over we die one after the other
Bb
One after the other, one after the other
One after the other, one after the other
OUTRO 5’25”
F#
It feels like a hundred years, a hundred years
A hundred years, a hundred years
[final solo, 10th fret string e]
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