Struck By Lightning

pre>intro: a em a em gm
A em g d
The ringmaster looked a bit pasty and down dying as he was to get out of town
A em
The lions and the tigers had gnawed at his feet
G d
But the lion tamer's whip hurt much more than their teeth
A em g d
The giovanni sisters performed in a sweat someone cut holes in the safety net
A em
The ritzo brothers cancelled at the last minute
G d
But no one missed their act there wasn't much in it

Chorus
A em d a
And after the show that night the clowns had the makeup wiped from their faces
A em d a
When somebody pulled a knife and cut off coco's bright red braces
A d a e a d a e
They murdered the clown they wiped that grin right off his face
A d a e a d a e
They murdered the clown still the world's not a funnier place
Em gm
Funnier place (first and last time only)

The kids rode the elephant heavy as lead
I think he'd much rather have sat on their heads
They're ripping the horn from the rhino tonight
So some fat sheik can fuck all night
And watch out for coco when he's had a drink
He'll tickle the children right where they're pink
You might run away with the circus for fun
But it looks more like somewhere that you'd run from (repeat chorus)

You should see the fear on the dancing bears' faces
Take off their muzzles and check out the view
The gypsy boys seem such colourful characters
But you wouldn't want them moving in next to you
And after the whole lot has pulled out of town
The ringmaster still looks like he's going to drown
He pulls out a long knife that bears his initials
And buries it deep before he blows the whistle

A em
She looked at him sideways she looked at him dark
G d
She pulled at her beard and she started to bark
A em
He told her before not to mess with the staff
G
But she fell for the clown because she said he made her laugh (repeat chorus) /pre>

pre>
G
It's not right the way that you deal with her
She's not something you handle like cash
To be undressed like sunday's leftovers
G d g
To be picked on monday and tuesday in the trash
D g
That's where she ends up

It's not right the way that you don't listen
She's not something you hang on a wall
To be moved at the earliest convenience
Well you say that you love her
You don't love her at all you don't love her at all

Bridge
C
One day you'll look round and she won't be there
G d c
She'll disappear in front of your face
C
She'll walk over you as if you weren't there
G d c
You never really were there anyway (instrumental verse)

You can buy her a slice of the good life
But you're buying time that's all
One day she'll pull out the big knife
Well you say that you love her
You don't love her at all you don't love her at all

Bridge
One day she'll get wise and drop the big one
And disappear in front of your face
That's what comes from lies and living in one
She never really was there anyway she never really was there anyway
D g c g g d c
That's where she ends up never really there anyway (5 times) /pre>

pre>intro: (a) b a e e a a (to get to the first b)

B a b a
She said she just wanted a friend and then she'd be good
B a b a
Something to play with now again and give lots of food
C#m a b c#m
We've got a yard that's big enough she says he's like a dream
A e b a b
But they've got us running round in circles like a pair of clowns it seems

Chorus
E a e a
Children and dogs will always win everyone knows that
E a e a
I won't work with either one again it's not in our contract
E a (another a first time, 2nd time rpt last line))
Children and dogs

Now i'm outside freezing to death just walking the dog
Instead of throwing myself at my wife i'm throwing a log
We haven't slept for two nights he howls out at the moon
The kid says sometimes he bites can you bring a bunny rabbit home soon

Chorus
A b
Make you trip over your ankles do all kinds of things that rankle
A b e
Make you wanna go and drink a tankful and remember when you were single

Instrumental chorus including "children and dogs"

C#m a b c#m
The bedroom's got two carpets and one sticks to your clothes
A e a b
Let's take a photo of all of us fixed grins in a family pose

Chorus key change up 2 semitones (f# b ) /pre>

pre>intro f bb c c f bb c c f bb dm dm

F c bb f
I once read the story of somebody's life i had a few moments to spare
F c bb f
He was a good man who lived with his wife with the usual kids in his hair
Dm g dm g
There was happiness a lot of weirdness and a sprinkle of tragedy
Dm g
I pulled it by chance from a second hand bin
Bb c
But it could've been written just for me

Chorus
F bb f bb
Because the words came out not twist and shout
F bb c
Cause that's not what a grown man writes about
F bb f bb
That chapter's over, let it blow over
F bb c c f
I found that i've become the owner of a brand new book
F bb c f
A brand new book (then)
F bb c dm

I've travelled far and i've travelled wide and i guess i'll be travelling on
Fill another suitcase up with possessions and put on a badfinger song
I've got much more than most people have and a little less than a few
But you can't measure these things by weight
They either drag you down or they lift you

Repeat chorus (then) bridge
Dm bb f bb
I don't read between the lines i'm not ready for what i'll find
Dm bb
I don't believe that love is blind
G g c
It just can't see straight, it just can't see straight oh yeah
C c d
Read all about it, read all about it yeah
F bb c f
A brand new book (twice)

I read that book for an hour or two and then i looked up at the night sky
I saw the big dipper and then the big bopper and i realised how much time had gone by
Every page had something to say but one thing that struck me as true
The clock just keeps ticking as if you're not there
Man it either drags you down or it lifts you chorus
/pre>

pre>capo at 2 intro: ??

G g c em
When i was king i was not really the man i am now
G am g c
I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china
G g c em
When i was king i had already abdicated
C am g c
Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap
C
But they'd run the first run of stamps
D g
People had cashed in their post office savings
C d c
To buy some and lick the back of my neck
(c) d
I just let them get on with it arrange the coronation
G c
I just didn't turn up, i just didn't turn up

You became queen to a regime of fixed ideas
The subjects just outlines like figures in a shadow cabinet
And then we ruled over some green and pleasant land
With a frog and a princess not necessarily in that order

But if you want it to be what you want it to be
You'll have to dethrone me or have me decapitated
I didn't want to be king anyway i always preferred to hang out
With the servants, the servants
When i was king
When i was king there was no country left to rule
Jesters and fools were leaders all of them a royal pain
Now i'm a serf but i'm still trying to be a king
But putting the crown on is like putting a silk purse on a sow's ear
And if i want it to be like i want it to be
I'll have to assassinate someone with a guitar as a gun
On it's good to be king i know that i've been there
G g
Many, many, many, many kingdoms ago when i was king

Repeat when i when i over g and c /pre>

pre>intro: (fiddle over) g / c / d / d (twice)

G c g c g
She walks through the field, walks in the heat through the field
G c g c d
She swings with her arm, but can what she catches be real
Em c em c
And when you look into her eyes, you see what you want
C bm c bm c d
When everything was undone, every field was open nothing was impossible yet
G bm c g c g
For the kid with the butterfly net the kid with the butterfly net. (intro once)

There's a stream runs through this land runs through the heart of this land
There's a heart beats in this home beats in the heart of this home
And when you see her by the water you see what you want to
And all the chains around you cannot keep you prisoner they haven't been made yet
For the kid with the butterfly net the kid with the butterfly net. (intro)

Bridge
Em c em c
And when you close your eyes you don't see a thing
Em c c d
You just remember that you were meant to have wings
G bm c g c g
For the kid with the butterfly net the kid with the butterfly net.

She runs through the field runs through the grass in the field
She swings with her arm but can what she catches be real
And when you look into her eyes you see what what you want to
C bm c bm
And all the darkness in you flies out through the window
All the sunlight outside burns down inside you
All the chains around you could not keep you prisoner
C d g bm c
They haven't been forged yet for the kid with the butterfly net
G bm c g bm c
For the kid with the butterfly net for the kid with the butterfly net
G c g
The kid with the butterfly net. (repeat intro)
D g
The kid with the butterfly net. (fiddle over) g / c / d / d (3 times)
/pre>

A man smokes and a dog stretches a woman works and a kid kvetches
I'm ridin' on a road that stretches over the border to america
Over the border to america (intro)

I got nothin' but lonesome time a backyard and a religious shrine
There must be something better over there
Over the border to america (inro

There's a lot of versions of the honest truth
One for them and baby one for you
One for the rich one for the poverty stricken
One for the healthy and one for the sick and
One for the tortured and one for the slave
One they tell you when they put you in your grave
One for the businessman with someone else's money
One for the beggar with nothing in his belly (intro)

We got one room to live in wife, child and man
Not much bigger than an ice cream van
Sometimes we walk a mile and stand and stare
Over the border to america (intro)

I stood and watched as the wall came down
Heard the freedom bell begin to sound
Watched the hammer as it hit the ground
Saw the sickle spinning round and round
Now don't make us out to be peons or fools
We're into zeppelin and paula abdul
Now we're all gonna live in that cultural mecca
Order everyone a triple decker
We're gonna buy a thousand pair of nylons
Come and live on staten island
Oh liberty let me walk in there
Where law and justice are always fair
There's only one place to get your share
Over the border to america
Over the border to america

pre>(struck by lightning)

She wants so many things (g. parker)
Capo 2

Intro: em / d/ a/ d (3 times)

G d a d
She wants so many things you can't give to her
G d a g
She wants so many things you don't have much
She wants so many things you can't deliver to her
She wants so many things all at once

Verse (chords: g / a / g / a)
Like a brick wall that'll keep her from crumbling
And a camouflage jacket to hide from herself in
And a system of worship like a powerful magnet
That'll draw in the heathens pick them up in a dragnet
And pull them underwater till they all go stagnant

Bridge (chords: d / a / d / a)
She wants so many things beamed in on a satellite
Served up on a silver tray a wasp and parasite

G d a d
She wants so many things where you gonna find them all
G d a g
She wants so many things get up and run
She wants so many things you're at her beck and call
You're the puppet she pulls the strings just for fun

Verse (chords: g / a / g / a)
Like a blue ocean that's devoid of fishes
Cause they're all on her table prepared into dishes
Like an army of lieutenants all standing to attention
And a book about you where you don't get a mention
With her hand on a bible she's right in your face
She's a living example of god's bad taste
And with him for an ally she can't be a heretic
But her heart's from a laboratory spun from a synthetic

Bridge (chords: d / a / d / a)
She wants so many things brought without question
The gardens of babylon hanging and festooned
A ship in the desert your soul on a plate
She can't wait any longer don't make her wait

G d a d
She wants so many things you can't negotiate
G d a g
She wants so many things you feel the crunch
She wants so many things don't make her reiterate
She wants so many things all at once


Verse (chords: g / a / g / a)
A collection of clowns who were dragged up in public school
Who dream up the rhythms that she dances in the disco to
They all surround her and yes her to death
With their hands on their mouths to hide their bad breath
And she lives in a fortress at the back of a project
And she'll let you in soon but not now and not yet
And she likes to see you immersed in greed
Confusing what you want with what you need

Bridge (chords: d / a / d / a)
She wants so many things split up into atoms
She owns the crown jewels but you can't get at 'em

Chorus 2 repeat then instrumental verse with doo dooo doos
Then intro repeat

G d a d
She wants so many things you can't keep up with her
G d a g
She wants so many things at the same time
She wants so many things you can't keep it up her
She wants so many things you'll never find

Verse (chords: g / a / g / a)
Like three million shoes and a closet full of whips
And two dozen hats and then everyone fits
And the kind of acceptance that needs a lobotomy
That'll help you accept every single contradictory
Statement that hits you like a force nine gale
And makes you go pale every time that you fail
To bring home the bacon and bring in the goods
Get the musk from the deer and the shell from the turtle
And the gold from the fools and the shells from the sea
She says load them in a caravan bring them to me

Bridge (chords: d / a / d / a)
She wants so many things brought to her feet
Cover every inch of the world in concrete
You better do it it's only your fate
She can't wait any longer don't make her wait

G d a d
She wants so many things you can't give to her
G d a g
She wants so many things you don't have much
She wants so many things you can't deliver to her
Everything's attached to strings you can't touch
(fade on) she wants so many things /pre>