The Mona L

pre>esus4 e (strummed, then) intro:

Esus4 e b c#m7
Oooh ooooh oooh ooooh ooh ooooh (twice)
Followed by notes: e eb c# b e e f# g#

A b g#m a
The dreams and hopes of men are powered by addiction
A b g#m a
And who am i to say that this is an affliction
A b e a
When everybody gets suckered in and lives their lives like fiction
A b e
Writing their own stories of success

They say they want you for your colourful evocation
The way you turn a cliche into a sensation
But all they ever wanted was that same vibration
The one that shimmers round success

Chorus
Esus4 e b c#m7
Success success success success
Esus4 e b c#m7
Success success success success
E a e
All you ever need... success

[repeat intro]

You can't be happy while some one else has a fistful
They glow from tv screens healthy strong and fiscal
And everybody slaps their back while you're alone with a wristful
Jerking to the rhythm of success

[chorus]

Esus4 022200 /pre>

pre>e^ as 0 14 14 13 12 0
A~ as 0 7 7 6 5 0

Intro: e^ / a~ / e^ / a~ / e

E a e a
I'm not a page in history not something that bold
E a g#m b
I'm not the greatest mystery that was ever told
E a e a
I may not be who you wanna spend a whole life with alone
E a g#m f#m
I'm not that fascinating with features carved like stone

Bridge
F#m g#m a a b
But i'll tell you everything before you run away hey
G#m a b e a / e / a
I'll tell you what i am i'm just your man

I'm not a hero or even someone who does good
I'm not made of iron or steel or stone or gold or bronze or wood
I may not notice the little things sometimes i can't see
But i'm not the kind of fool i'm made out to be

Bridge
F#m g#m a a b
But i love you yes i love you you can understand hey
G#m a b e a
Then you'll know what i am, i'm just your man

B g#m7 c#m7
I'm just your ma a an just your man that's all
B g#m7 c#m7 b a
And if i can't be that i'm no man at all

I'm not a burnin comet that fell out of the sky
E a g#m f#m
I know i'm just like the next clown when i get too high

Bridge
But i love you yes i love you and if you understand
Then you'll know what i am. i'm just your man

Outro: same as intro. /pre>

pre>g c
I break a heart in a thousand places, she makes a slur against other races
G c d
He rejects all of the unpretty faces, sticks them full of knives
G c
I take a shot at birds flying south, he takes the gun barrel into his mouth
G c d
She takes a rope and ties up the house, with the kids inside
G c
They just want to curl right up and die
G am d
Them and us are only passing by
G c d em
Hey hieronymous i know where your garden grows
F c d
I know where your bloody roses bloom
G c d em
Hey hieronymous tell me what delights there are
F c d
Right outside this window or inside this room
G c
Just taste the odor of burning skin, the pitchfork tongues and the rot within
G c d
The torture victim's wiped-out grin nothing can erase
G c
Somebody's pouring salt on a wound, scooping out monkey's brains with a spoon
G c d
Working on warfare up on the moon, that's the latest phase
G c
We just want to curl right up and die
G am d
You and me are only passing by (chorus)(guitar solo)
G c
Germans and turks and english nerks spew out of doorways going beserk
G c d
Inside of everyone someone lurks, they don't even know
G
Bring them all in, yeah, they're welcome here
C
You can't sell your work? then cut off your ear
G c d
Put it right on the table there, all tied up in bows

(chorus) (repeat chorus) (outro same as verse) /pre>

pre>intro
A f#m
The girl isn't ready (twice)

A f#m
The girl isn't ready is what her mother says
A f#m
We just put her toys away it seems like yesterday
E d
She has seen something better through the window
E d
She will reach for it even though she doesn't know if she's

Chorus
A f#m
Ready, the girl isn't ready
A f#m
We can never tell her how to take it steady
A e d a
She'll be re a dy one day i know
A f#m
The girl isn't ready (twice)

The girl isn't ready to do what she wants to do
We think that her boyfriend's like something from a zoo
She thinks that she understands what she's feeling
She's going to leave us make no mistake the wounds won't be healing

Chorus then instrumental over e d e d f#m f#m

The girl isn't ready sure she thinks she is
She walks like a grownup but talks just like a kid
She wants to take on the world and his brother
Next thing you know she'll be telling us that she's a mother

Outro - as intro w/ more repeats /pre>

pre>intro em am am7

G em
You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball
C am
And look for the air-raid shelter but it's gone and the cafe seems so
G em
Small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples
C am
Now have small businesses flourishing in cinder blocks
G em am c
Then they will call your name and hand you a gold watch
G em am c
Then they will call your name but it doesn't sound like much
G em c am
And you'll never discover why it's like an old lover
G em am c
You can't touch anymore it doesn't mean much anymore
G em em am am7 em em am am7
When you go back in time back in time

You head down to the local try to find a focal point
A scratch in the wallpaper but it's all been wallpapered over
Down at the newsagents it's all pornography
And you try to get high again but it's like time-lapse photography
Then they will call your name and hand you a medal
Or something more practical like a whistling kettle
And it'll test your metal just try to keep grinning
Knowing that this feeling is indulgence worse than sinning
Trying to go back in time

Instrumental section (chords like verse but not as many.)

G em
Photographs with a glossy finish letters lovers never finished
C am (g)
And there in a dusty drawer a necktie you once wore
G em
And a girl you tried to court made you feel about two feet short
C am
Where is she now today? what would she have to say?
G em am c
Then they will call your name and hand you a pension
G em am c
A bottle of pills that guarantee life extension
G em c am
And give you a mention in the local boy makes good section
G em am c
But all the old news is like print stains across your mind
G em em am em em am
When you go back in time

Yes all this old news is just print stains across your mind
When you go back in time, back in time (repeat and fade) /pre>