1. _ Haunted Episodes
pre>capo at 3 /c /b etc mean passing bass notes
G c /c /b
I wonder what you are thinkin'
Am7
Under the rooftops there
D
Pullin' tangles from your hair
G c /c /b
I wonder if the water you're drinkin'
Am7
Comes from a purer stream
D
The one where sunlight gleams
Bm am7
Things round here don't get any clearer
Bm am7 d
Stuff that once seemed in reach is not any nearer
I wonder if that house is still standin' or did they knock it flat
Well that's progress that's that i wonder who was more demanding
We were just young i guess neither would settle for less
Still it's not a whole life story is it
It's just a page i turned and there you were in it
I wonder how you are farin' not sliding down a slope
Takin' the knocks i hope
I wonder where your eyes are starin'
Not into some emptiness into someone's i guess
But that still won't make things any clearer
People seem to drift apart instead of getting nearer
I wonder what you are doin' under the evening sky
Watchin' your life go by
I wonder if that place is in ruins and all the doors are closed
That's just the way it goes
I wonder what there is worth keepin' from haunted episodes
That briefly woke us from sleepin' /pre>
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2. _ Cruel Stage
Take me for what i'm worth though it may not amount to much
Take me from this abyss and put me back in touch
Though i have strayed from you though i have fallen from grace
I am back on higher ground up from that lonely place
Chorus
Cos i have found the going tough and you have suffered long enough
And i am undoin' this cruel stage that i've been going through
These words they come hard i've tried to make them live
I carve them from a humbleness i'm not familiar with
And though i have built a world made out of panes of glass
I won't shatter yours no more with a pain that lasts
Chorus
And i have found the going tough
But i will find the strength enough
And i am undoin' this cruel stage
That i've been going through
I didn't mean to hurt you
No that's not what i meant
Now i mean to alert you of my true intent
Take me for what i'm worth though it may not amount to much take me from this abyss and put me back in touch
Repeat 1st chorus
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3. _ Pollinate
pre>c dm7 c f c
I can feel it in the air i can smell you everywhere
C dm7 c f c
I don't know if you're receptive so l will play the love detective
C
Cos when the bees buzz in the apple blossoms
Dm7 f
They don't think about their fate
C f
Wake up now don't hibernate
C f
The birds are singin' on the garden gate
C f
The fruit is sweet upon your plate
C f c f
Come on baby don't berate me let me in you know you sate me
Dm7 c
When we pollinate
Let me know your fickle heart i only wanna play my part
And we will be resurrected and in the sweetest way infected
And when the bees buzz in the cherry blossoms
They don't analyse their fate
Don't think i'm a degenerate
If i want to consummate
People think i'm filled with hate
They've got it wrong that's out of date i only live to be your mate
Baby let's pollinate
I stood beneath your balcony i unleashed a symphony
Juliet was not at home she took a train and went to rome
But i will follow anyway and try not to be late
My ticket will not terminate
While the birds are singing on the garden gate
And the fruit is sweet upon your plate
Come on baby don't berate me you must know you fascinate me
When we pollinate
Don't think i'm a degenerate if i want to consummate
Baby i'm not filled with hate
That's all wrong that's out of date
I only live for that perfect state
When we pollinate /pre>
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4. _ Partner For Life
pre>this is reported to be played with open tuning but what tuning
Exactly i don't know. i have created a simple version which
Gets me by. it involves sliding the cadd 9 up but leaving
The other strings open. in the chorus there is a flourish
Which i play as em9 054030 and em7(2) 050430 to get back
To the g
Intro: g repeated to get the rhythm
G
From china to chinatown new york to tokyo
030010 050030
C cadd9 em7
Upstate to down island from here to there
From the backyard to the wide wide open spaces
From the steel mills to the wind in your hair
From the claustrophobic beat of my heart
To the openness of your smile
We're in this together going the distance
Right down to the last mile
Chorus
G
Cos you're my partner you are my partner
C em9 em7 em9
You're my partner for life
(twice, then twice with just chords)
Up the coast of africa to the straits of gibraltar
Through that tunnel where the birds migrate
In a hotel room without running water
And all the clocks are running one hour late
And on the wall are paintings of couples intertwined
Locked in embraces as if fighting for their lives
And the warm night air breathes through the open window
And husbands cling to their wives
Chorus repeat
Bridge
050050
Em7(3) em7
Well i know i know i know
030010 030030
C cadd9 cadd9(2)
Why it just has to be just has to be
Well l know l know l know why
I'm with you and baby you're with me
Let's get out of here and drive up to the ocean
Out of the city and up the coast of maine
Feel the spray and the ancient motion
Watch the children in the sand watch them play
From the backyard to the wide wide open spaces
From the pounding of the surf
To the gentleness of your smile
We're in this together going the distance
Right down to the last mile
Chorus repeat /pre>
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5. _ Honest Work
As long as you give me my pay you'll get your moneys worth
I'll be there 8 hours a day i won't hide and i won't shirk
I got a way with a hammer and a nail a dovetail and a tongue and groove
Put up a wall in half a day guarantee it'll never move
Chorus
Shouda li li li dum dum a day honest work
I'm gonna build a strong foundation marble walls like grand central station
Not gonna feel any more frustration do enough work for an entire nation
Gonna get a chisel and an awl and a saw carve my name out on your door
A block and tackle and a spirit level take your heart of glass and put on a bevel
Chorus repeat
Got to build a strong foundation strong enough to hold up a nation
Strong enough to put your faith in the roof won't leak and the floor won't cave in
Gonna get a lathe and a capstan press take an old claw hammer to this mess
Gonna knock down the walls of denial wear 'em down with a pick and a file
Chorus repeat
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6. _ Loverman
pre>i can take those riff raff
And get them out of your hair
Clean up your doorstep and polish your chair
I could move your house slightly to the left
Squeeze you till you're breathless
Then breathe you full of breath
I can give the zulu's a point to their spears
I can give the lechers a reason for their leers
I can give the angels a need to be alive
I can get the bees a buzzin' in their hive
Chorus
I can get you flyin' baby higher than a kite
You know i can oh baby i can
I would stop my cryin' if you'd only let me
Be your loverman
The people that you hang with
Well you know they're not my style
I'd like to sort of kill them at least for a short while
They treat me like a lackey they call me a yob
They made me build their outhouse
Though they know that ain't my job
I know i seem edgy but that's because i'm sharp
I know i could pluck you like the strings of a harp
I know i seem jumpy but it's not amphetamine
It's just that certain parts of me are gettin' out of line
Chorus
I could press your buttons i can fly you like a kite
You know i can, oh baby i can
I could be a glutton for you
If you let me be your loverman
I know you don 't think much of me
But these jerks you're attracted to
I'll make 'em look like monkeys hangin' up in the zoo
Cos i could charm the birds right out of the sky
At least if they were flightless and couldn't really fly
Did i tell you i was lucky did i tell you i was charmed
Did i tell you you'd look perfect hangin' on my arm
Did i tell you i had money in a safe deposit
Did i tell you last night i found elvis hangin' up in my closet
Well maybe i'm borin' you it looks like you're bored
Well it hurts to be crucified but it's worse to be ignored
Repeat 1st chorus /pre>
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7. _ Next Phase
pre>capo at 4 intro: g c g c g c g c
G c g c
You have always struck a chord in me
G c g c
One that resonates within like ancient chemistry
G c g c
You have always rung the bell my love
G c g c
Taken it upon yourself to lift my spirits high above
G c g c
When i work you know it's just my job
G c
Something that i do to pass the time
G c
Before the next phase of our love
D d g c
Before the next phase, before the next phase of our love
G / c / g / c / g / c
G c g c
You have always filled my empty cup
G c g c
Laid the food upon my plate for me to eat it up
G c g c
You have always flown a higher plane
G c g c
Taken it upon yourself to drive the engine of my train
D d g c
Into the next phase, to the next phase of our love
G / c / g / c / g / c / g / c / g / c
Hey hey
G c g c
When i work you know it's just for pay
G c
Something that i do to pass the time
G c
Before the next time that you say
D d g c
You'll be right there anyway for the next phase of our love
G c
Hey hey
G / c / g c g / c / g
For the next phase hmmmm /pre>
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8. _ Fly Graham Parker
pre>
Intro am c (twice)
(c) am c
As you look into an invisible landscape
Dm7 c
And the waves of time part behind your back
G
As your life crumbles and turns into fiction
Dm7 c
And the end of it becomes a fact
Am c
The ghosts of children will run in your garden
Dm7 c
And play with an imaginary ball
G
You will be released and pardoned
Dm7 c
Now there's nowhere left to fall
Dm7 c dm7 c
Chorus good bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye
Dm7 (add g) c dm7 c
Now fly fly fly fly fly fly fly fly fly
Am c
A steam rises out of the water
Dm7 c
And a mist hangs over the field
G
The tears of your wife and daughter
Dm7 c
Have all but released their yield
Am c
The ghosts of lovers will walk toward you
Dm7 c
And beckon you into their arms
G
And the mighty bells of chaos
Dm7 c
Will no longer sound their alarms
Chorus repeat (plus way way way way way)
Dm7 g
Shake off your carcass leave us in the dark
C c
That's us fumbling 'round like ants on the ground
Dm7 g
In palaces and hovels reading mystery novels
C c
But we never get the plot maybe you got it now
Dm7 g
Shake that mortal coil leave us to toil
C c
Take off that weight take off that weight
Dm7 g
Listen to the silence know the end of violence
C c
Is a clean slate is a clean slate
Chorus repeat /pre>
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9. _ Disney's America
pre>capo at 4 intro: e a e a
Verse
A amaj7 d a
I knew virginia once she was a pretty girl
D a d e
She walked in the wild fields and swam the wild streams
A amaj7 d a
I took her out one day to the civil war battlefield
D a d e
Way down in manassas where i told her my dreams
Chorus
A amaj7 d a
But now it's disney's america a long way from anywhere
D a d e
With a brand new coat to wear with a brand name on the seams
A amaj7 d a
Just disney's america virginia she chose to stay
D a e a
And we drifted apart like runoff into the chesapeake bay
Verse
Then i had a family virginia, i guess she forgot about me
She lives near the concrete sea or so people say
I don't remember much about her gentle touch
My skin just turned so hard and my feet turned to clay
Chorus
It was in disney's america a long long way from anywhere
You get what you pay for there man you get it in spades
Just disney's america virginia she chose to stay
And we drifted apart like runoff into the chesapeake bay
Bridge
D f#m a e
You can't get too excited you can't get too enthused
D f#m a e
From dismal land to the tragic mountain we are not amused
Yeah i knew virginia once she, she was a pretty thing
She walked in the wild fields and swam in the wild streams
Chorus
But now it's disney's america that's where we collect our pay
Where we drifted apart like runoff into the chesapeake bay
A
Yeah we drifted apart like runoff into the chesapeake bay
Amaj7 d a e a /pre>
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10. _ First Day Of Spring
pre>capo at 4
A b
The sky might be massive up above
E/a asus2
But it is not as blue as love
A b
The stars might shine brightly in the night
C#m7 asus2
But that is not the only light
A b
No that is not the only light
E/a asus2
Illuminating us tonight
Come out of the bitter wind
Tomorrow is bound to bring
The first day of spring
The world might look smaller from the sky
But the beauty of it makes me cry
The ocean is deeper than my tears
But it is not a thing to fear
No it is not a thing to fear
It's only tides turning dear
So come out of the bitter wind
Melt that ice deep within
On the first day of spring
The sky might be massive up above
But it is not as blue as love
The rain might fall down on us
But hey that is not the deepest grey
No that is not the deepest grey hanging over us today
Come out of the bitter wind
Tomorrow is bound to bring
The first day of spring /pre>
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11. _ See Yourself
pre>surupa nile <grovecenter@saber.net> wrote with some corrections
For this one. it is played inm open tuning (how i don't know)
But surupa worked out that the weird chord was adim/e 0x1212
Based on what surupa said the chords were this is my version.
C c
Can you crawl out of the darkness of that dungeon where you're hangin'
F c
Can you dismantle the cross you've had to bear
C c
Can you prize the lid right open on all that fancy footwork
F g
And set fire to the shoes you've had to wear
C adim/e
Just because the mud's there doesn't mean you have to wallow
F c
Doesn't mean you have to be hollow in the head
C adim/e
And just because your mouth's full doesn't mean you have to swallow
F g
Doesn't mean you have to believe what you just said
Chorus
C adim/e
You should see yourself baby you lack vision
F c
You should see yourself get a pair of eyes
C adim/e
You should see yourself go to your optician
F c
You should see yourself through that framework of lies
C f c c f c
See yourself see yourself
Can you find that little dictator that's living in your basement
Can you stage a coup to take that idiot out
Can you organise your senses as if they were an army
And march them off to off that little lout
Just because you're english doesn't mean you have to be narrow
Doesn't mean you have to be shallow and uptight
Just because you're pale it doesn't mean you have to be callow
Doesn't mean you have to believe you're always right
Chorus
You should see yourself baby you lack vision
You should see yourself through the eyes of the world
You should see yourself and your clockwork ambition
You should see yourself or would you rather go blind
See yourself see yourself
Can you take this little megaphone and push it in your eardrum
Can you try to listen very carefully
Can you stare up at that wall chart and look at those red letters
Can you try to read them through from a to z
Just because it's funny doesn't mean you have to be foolish
Doesn't mean you have to wish you ruled this world
And just because it's sunny
Doesn't mean you have to blot the sun out
Doesn't mean your lips always have to curl
Repeat 1st chorus
Chorus
You should see yourself everybody else can
You should see yourself it's not a pretty sight
You should see yourself through those crocodile tear glands
You should see yourself or would you rather go blind
See yourself see yourself /pre>
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12. _ Force Of Nature
pre>this little shuffle climbs and climbs over the circular chord progression.
It's fun to play. when i look at the lyrics it makes me think this woman
Is one of gp's fictional favourites - the sloane ranger he loves to despise.
It's probably not a real person, but no doubt he knows the type.
Intro: bb eb bb eb bb eb bb bb
Verse
Bb c
She's got everything she needs and it isn't you
Eb f
A cosmetic arsenal a bucket of glue
Bb c
Signs on her back that say keep on the grass
Eb f
Powerful liquor in a hip flask
Bb c
Coins from the commonwealth doubloons from the sea
Eb f
A knife in her boot heel a bonsai tree
Bb c
Ice cream in her pocket diamonds from her fence
Eb f
It all works like clockwork it all makes sense
Chorus
Bb eb bb eb bb eb
To a force of nature, force of nature, force of nature
Bb bb
That's what she is
With her clouded leopard on a leash in the shed
A vicious black rodent she calls fred
She keeps her diary under the bed
But there's nothin' in it cos it's all in her head
Walkin' round london with foreign banknotes
Throwin' silver nunchucks at cab drivers throats
Being invisible being obscene
Being the person you wish you'd been
Chorus repeat
Bridge
Dm cm7
But inside her heart there's a kid locked away in a room
Dm cm7
Who throws a grenade at your feet that explodes with such force
F bb eb bb
That it bursts your balloon like a force of nature
Bridge
But inside her heart there's this kid locked away in a room
Who peeks through the door every now and again
And says hey i'm coming out soon
Verse
Her raincoat jingles your mercury soars
Every last move defies gravity's laws
Her computer's connected directly to the stars
Keeps her emotions in mason jars
Stored in the attic in the roof near the sky
Up in the rafters where the bats fly
Being impossible being on a roll
Being like something you can't control
Chords barred:
Bb 6-8-8-7-6-6
C 8-10-10-9-8-8
Eb 6-6-8-8-8-6
F 8-8-10-10-10-8
Dm 5-5-7-7-6-5
Cm7 8-10-8-8-8-8 /pre>
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