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1. _ Stupefaction
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Another one i find easier to play with
Capo at 2. chords mapped out as if they were open.
Intro a d a d a d f# (twice)
A d a d
The sun is burning it never changes
A d a d
The people look up with nothing in their eyeballs
A d a d
They stare at billboards as if for guidance
A d a d
There's something wrong here i can't but my finger on
E a d a
Same thing same way everyday stupefaction oh yeah
A d a d
Drive out on sunset but nothing's moving
A d a d
The lights are green or is that my imagination
A d a d
The people sit there cameras without action
A d a d
I can't see the point but i see the attraction
E a d a
Same thing same way everyday stupefaction oh yeah
D a d a
We're going to get clear outa this some day
F#m bm e a
Because the comfort's so appealing the bodies so revealing
D e
Just get to feeling like a wheel without traction
A d a
Stupefaction oh yeah
A d a d
I ask the landlord how much you making
A d a d
Don't you get tired of just taking and taking
A d a d
I ask the neighbour why are you so stupid?
A d a d
Giving us those dirty looks and tryin to murder cupid
E a d a
Same thing same way everyday stupefaction ah yeah
Instrumental verse (as intro)
D a d a
We're going to get clear outa this some day
F#m bm e a
Because the comfort's so appealing the bodies so revealing
D e
Just get to feeling like a wheel without traction
A d a
Stupefaction oh yeah
A d a d
Turn up the tv turn up the radio
A d a d
Turn up the volume nothing seems to matter
A d a d
Lay back and slumber bring out the number
A d a d
Ask the operator what spell we are under its the
E a d a
Same thing same way everyday stupefaction ah yeah
A d
Stupid stupid stupid hey hey hey (6 times)
E a d a
Same thing same way everyday stupefaction ah yeah
A d
Stupid stupid stupid hey hey hey (repeat and fade) /pre>
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2. _ Paralysed
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G/b 335433
Intro g g/b c
G g/b c
G g/b c
F g c
G g/b c d
I'll wait for someone to tell me what i already know
G g/b c d
And i'll wait for my grip to fail me then i'll just let it go
Em d em d
She's so hard to please so i just freeze
Em d c bm7
Nailed down by whispers, looks and sighs
C d c d
And i'm so paralysed, i am so paralysed
G g/b c d
I wait for you to disown me when you leave i won't look
G g/b c d
I wait for someone to phone me with the phone off the hook
Em d em d
I get up to leave but i just deceive
Em d c bm7
You all the time pretending i'm
C d c f c
So paralysed i'm so paralysed
G f c g f c d
I'm so paralysed i'm just paralysed
G g/b c d
I wait for mistakes to happen so i can't put them right
G g/b c d
I wait for someone to latch on, but no-one's that bright
Em d em d
I say it can't be done, let's turn and run
Em d c bm7
Completely normal in my own eyes
C d
To be so paralysed
D g g/b c
Got the fear of falling from a great height
D g g/b c
Can't open my parachute stiff with fright
D g g/b c
I woke up naked in the high street
D g g/b c
With lead boots on both feet
F c g f c
I was paralysed i'm so paralysed
G f c d
I'm so paralysed
Instrumental
Em d em d
She's so hard to please so i just freeze
Em d c bm7
Nailed down by whispers, looks and sighs
D e d e
And i'm so paralysed, i am so paralysed
D e d e
Got me so paralysed, i'm so paralysed
D e d e
I am so paralyse, i am so paralysed
Fade /pre>
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3. _ Devil's Sidewalk
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Like no holding back you can get the main melody (riff) in your head
To play over over the intro chords, you're set.
Capo at 2 makes the transitions more manageable for
Solo guitar. chords mapped out as if they were open.
Em c em / / /
Em c em / / /
Em c em d
G c d c
Took a walk down hell's pavement
G c d c
Took a walk down pulled by the tide
G c d c
I had to make some new arrangement
Em c g
Oh i thought i'd reach the other side
D em c g
Then someone opened up their mouth to talk
D em c g d
They said (hey!) you ain't where you think you are
Em c em d
You just landed on the devil's sidewalk
G c d c
Had a minor misunderstanding
G c d c
With a street lamp one night
G c d c
The smell of burning ... rubber hit my senses
Em c g
I thought i'd reach the other side
D em c g
When someone opened up their mouth to talk
D em c g d
They said (hey!) you ain't where you think you are
Em c em d
You're just stranded on the devil's sidewalk
Em c em d
You're just stranded on the devil's sidewalk
F#m am7
And it's cold, so cold
F#m am7
And it's cold, so cold
F#m am7 d
And it's cold, so cold
G d g c
No-one's got names, under the flames
G d g c
Everyone screams, hope its a dream
G d g c f#m
Nothing makes sense, everything's tense
Bm d
Wish i could say what it meant
G c d c
Took a long look down at the mirror
G c d c
Couldn't see my face at all
G c d c
Just those strait lines, leading to nowhere
Em c g
Oh i thought i'd reach the other side
D em c g
When someone opened up their mouth as if to talk
D em c g d
They said (hey!) you ain't where you think you are
Em c em d
You just landed on the devil's sidewalk
Em c em d
You just landed on the devil's sidewalk
Repeat and fade /pre>
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4. _ Jolie Jolie Graham Parker
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Intro: a bm a bm a bm a bm
G a
There's no remedy
G a
I just keep yearning for the sound of your voice
G a
I don't use teardrops as a weapon by choice
Bm
They're just a fall out of my eyes
G a
Keep reminding me
G a
Every last touch is buried under my skin
G a
Every caress keeps up the hunger within
Bm d a
Now i'm in a feeding frenzy of loving you (loving you)
G dm a
Jolie jolie, gets my attention
G d a
Jolie jolie, don't have to mention
G a
I know what you want, and you know what i need
G d
And don't you ever forget it
A bm a bm a bm
Jolie jolie, jolie jol--ie
G a
In the mexican quarter now
G a
The women so hungry that they eat their own kids
G a
I feel out of place in making takeover bids
Bm
But when you get that hungry, rock steady, yeah
G a
And you giving all that love
G a
Nothing so much has ever been mine before
G a
I tried to disguise it in these words for sure
Bm d a
It's just an idiots way of telling you (telling you)
Repeat chorus
Em
Always in the bitter end
F#m
Lovers just become good friends
G c d
Not with you i always want to go for it, and another thing
Em
I'm not losing any sleep
F#m
When i stay awake waiting up for you
G a
In the end i get something to show for it, go for it,
Go go go go go
And there's no remedy
Just keep yearning for the sound of your voice
I don't use teardrops as weapons by choice
They're just a fall out of my eyes
Repeat chorus twice,
End on jolie jolie (7 times) /pre>
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5. _ Endless Night
pre>(e) a e d a d e
Uh, i had the time but i blew it, i had the power and i knew it
D a d e
Had the energy, but outgrew it, the identity but saw through it, yeah
E d a d e
I had the walk, but got trampled, had the taste, it was sampled
D a d e
Had the engine dismantled, had the flame, but no candle
Chorus
D e
I can't bear to see how it all looks in the light, keep it hidden now
D e f#m
If i could only find a switch that turns on the endless night
E d a e f#m
That turns on the endless night, that turns on the endless night
E d e
That turns on the endless night ah ah ah uh
Ah, if there's a wire, must cross it, if there's a coin, must toss it
If it's dirt can't wash it, it's my head, d-don't cosh it
There's a door, but they shut it, we all bleed, they cut it
It's so dark when you don't fit, it's a gauntlet you gotta run it oh baby
A e
Repeat chorus (plus) turn on the endless night
Instrumental verse (then)
B
Turn on the endless, turn on the endless, turn on the endless
If there's a cross, then bear it, if there's a loss, then share it
If it's a risk let's dare it, if it's blindness, outstare it
Repeat chorus (plus)
D a e f#m
That turns on the endless night, (that, just, and) turns on the endless night
E d e
Let's turns on the endless night ah ah ah uh (repeat with variations and fade) /pre>
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6. _ Love Without Greed
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Intro d dsus4 d dsus4 d bm g a
D dsus4 d dsus4
I can see a man, well dressed and tanned
Bm g d a
Collecting you in secret in a long sedan
D dsus4 dsus4
I can hear you laugh at all his jokes
Bm g d a
Taking everything that's offered until it chokes
A d
And it makes me want to get a lock and key
A d
Hold you down in one place for me
G d bm
Can't own the flesh and blood i need
G a d dsus4 d
Can't have love without greed, without greed oh oh oh
D dsus4 d dsus4
He may get your kiss and believe that it's his
Bm g d a
But you know baby i hit your heart where where the others only missed
D dsus4 d dsus4
You can ease your heat in a penthouse suite
Bm g d a
While i'm in a hotel with some hanger-on under those dirty sheets
A d
And it makes me want to get a lock and key
A d
Hold you down in one place for me
G d bm
Can't own the flesh and blood i need
G a d
Can't have love without greed,
D bm
Love without greed would give me some hope
G d
When i reach out in the night and grope
G f#m bm e a
But there's nothing there but the next day coming in
A7 d g
And the alarm bell goes ring ring ring ring ring
A d g
It goes ring ring ring ring ring
A d bm g bm g e a a7
It goes ring ring ring ring ring
D dsus4 d dsus4
You can ease your heat in a penthouse suite
Bm g d a
While i'm in a hotel with some hanger-on under those dirty sheets
A d
And it makes me want to get a lock and key
A d
Hold you down in one place for me
G d bm
Can't own the flesh and blood i need
G a d
Can't have love without greed,
G d bm
Can't own the flesh and blood i need
G a d
Can't have love without greed,
D dsus4
Can't have, love without greed /pre>
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7. _ Empty Lives
pre>this one has bunch of chords that are easy to play if
The capo is at 4. chords mapped out as if they were open.
Intro em cmaj7 em cmaj7
Esus4 em cmaj7
I'm just a tick in a box on a questionnaire
Esus4 em cmaj7
Another moment that flashes into nowhere
Esus4 em cmaj7 c
A brand name on a pill that get's you there, ah ah ah ah
Esus4 em cmaj7
I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion
Esus4 em cmaj7
The past aint even worth livin in
Esus4 em cmaj7 c d7
Its just a nail that keeps being driven in ah ah ah ah
Esus4 em cmaj7
I'm cold blooded and completely relaxed
Esus4 em cmaj7
I'm breaking legs and avoiding the facts
Esus4 em cmaj7 c
On the up escalator going down all the cracks, yeah ah ah ah ah
Esus4 em cmaj7
You are the dummies of another frightened nation
Esus4 em cmaj7
I am a candidate for elevation
Em dsus4 c
But when i woke up this morning i'd lost all sensation
D7
All sensation
Em c am
So get them, get him, but don't get me
Bm em c
Ah uh ah ah can't hear your cries
Am bm c
So don't get me to fill up your empty lives
Em cmaj7 em
I i i i ives empty lives
Cmaj7 em cmaj7 em cmaj7
Your empty lives empty lives
Esus4 em cmaj7
Be obedient, there is no escape
Esus4 em cmaj7
Forms to fill, time to kill love death and rape
Esus4 em cmaj7 c
Sleep baby sleep, don't let nothing awaken you ahhhhhhhh
Esus4 em cmaj7
Don't look for tomorrow, it's given you the slip
Esus4 em cmaj7
That's all contained on a silicon chip
Em dsus4 c
I'm losing shape for the eighties feeling everybody's grip slip
D7
Everybody's grip slip
Em c am
So get them, get him, but don't get me
Bm em c
Ah uh ah ah can't hear your cries
Am bm c
So don't get me to fill up your empty lives
Em d
I i i i ives empty lives
C
Just there waiting to be filled
D
With someone else's stronger will
Am c
Just can't reason to survive with empty empty
D
You got the empty empty, you got the empty empty, empty lives!
Yeah! (solo)
Esus4 em cmaj7
Bring me water, bring me cocaine
Esus4 em cmaj7
Bring me something lethal, something that leaves a stain
Em dsus4 c
But please don't make me feel that emptiness again
D7
Feel the emptyness again
Em c am
So get them, get him, but don't get me
Bm em c
Ah uh ah ah get fat it's your size but
Am bm c
Don't get me to fill up your empty
Am bm c
Don't get me to fill up your empty
Am bm c
Don't get me to fill up your empty lives
Em cmaj7 em
I i i i i i i ives your empty lives
Cmaj7 em
Your empty lives
Repeat andfade with ad libbing on "don't get me" to end on chorus
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8. _ Manoeuvres
pre>b e g a
B e g a
C7 f7 c7 f7
C7 f7 c g7
C7 f7
You let me in and i'll help you win
C7 g7
This chance must be heaven sent
C7 f7
You buy the time i sold you all mine
C7 g7
No-one knows the d. j.'s bent
C7 f7
I don't care if someone gets hurt
C7 g7
When i lose it feels like dirt
C7 f7
Other records, they get played,
C7 g7
Kick some heads in you get paid
F c f c
Man - oeu - vres, man - oeu - vres
C f g c f g
Baby don't ever make me wait fools and angels hesitate
Em g f c7 f7 c7 f7
My whole life is one more move too late
C7 f7
Here comes a man you just got to meet,
C7 g7
Shake his hand and kiss his feet
C7 f7
He claims the time is coming soon,
C7 g7
The first pop music on the moon
C7 f7
The agent of the devil's a hip shakin fool,
C7 g7
If he don't like you that aint cool.
C7 f7
He's left already that's ok
C7 g7
We don't need him anyway
F c f c
Man - oeu - vres, man - oeu - vres
C f g c f g
Baby don't ever don't make me wait fools and angels hesitate
Em g f c
My whole life is one more move too late
Bm e g a bm
Man-oeu----vres,
E g a bm
Man-oeu----vres, man-oeu----vres,
E g a bm
Man-oeu----vres, man-oeu----vres,
E g a bm
Man-oeu----vres, man-oeu----vres,
C7 f7
Downtown l.a. madam wong's,
C7 g7
Someone puts a tape on a couple of songs
C7 f7
Advertising the place next door
C7 g7
Madam finds out she'll sure gets sure
C7 f7
Out come the coolies, swinging their lead
C7 g7
Get those rockers, take their heads
C7 f7
Those poor souls must pay the price
C7 g7
They wind up in tomorrow's fried rice
F c f c
Man - oeu - vres, man - oeu - vres
C f g c f g
Baby don't ever don't make me wait fools and angels hesitate
Em g f c7
My whole life is one more move too late
F c f c
Man - oeu - vres, man - oeu - vres
C f g c f g
Baby don't ever don't make me wait fools and angels hesitate
Em g f c7
My whole life is one more move too late
F7 c7
Too late /pre>
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9. _ No Holding Back
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(capo at 2) intro:
D a d dsus4 d bm gsus4
D a d dsus4 d bm gsus4
Verse 1
D a d
Someone called me from across the ocean
A g
To find a weak link in my devotion
D a d
They can shoot hot knives a' down the line
A g
I just slam it down every time
Chorus 1
F#m g d
I got the telephone jammed in my ear
A g
They're still talking but i don't hear
F#m g d
Oh don't defend when my heart starts to attack
Bm7 g a d
We can face the danger baby no holding back
D a d / d d a g d
There's no holding back
D a d / d d a d
Verse 2
D a d
I cam't swear we'll never get caught
A g
I got scars all over my pass-port
D a d
But we can't give in to every whim and fancy
A g
Coming to crunches is always chancey
Chorus 2
F#m g d
I get it all being rammed down my ear
A g
I'm still talking but i don't hear
F#m g d
Oh don't defend when my heart starts to attack
Bm7 g a d
We can face the danger baby no holding back
D a d / d d a g d
And there's no holding back
D a d / d d a d
Bridge
Bm
When i tell the truth it's like pulling a tooth
F#m
I don't know what i've let myself in for
Bm
My insides are black from years of being slack
D g a d
But we can face the danger and we won't hold back
D a d dsus4 d bm gsus4
D a d dsus4 d bm gm
Chorus 3
F#m g d
I get it all being rammed down my ear
A g
I'm still shaking but not with fear
F#m g d
Oh don't defend when my heart starts to attack
Bm7 g a
We can face the danger
Bm7 g a
We can face the danger
D
And we won't hold back
D a d / d d a g d
Baby there's no holding back
D a d / d d a g d
Baby there's no holding back
Repeat and ad lib on chords to fade /pre>
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10. _ The Beating Of Another Heart
pre>intro g em bm g c d
G d
She comes from the hardest town
Em bm c
They build you up to let you down and
D em g bm d
Leave you with an armour hard as steel
G d
It's not the chaos or the heat
Em bm c
Or the noises from the street but
D
Something inside she has to beat that
Em bm em bm
Shoots out a nerve causes judgements to swerve
C g d
And makes her feel that something must be wrong
Em bm
She'll attempt to resist
C g d
And pretend it don't exist when it does
C d
But if ever her defence drop
C d
Love takes a shot pop
C d
Baby you can't stop
G
The beating of another heart
Em c
The beating of another heart yeah
D em d g
Sometimes she needs the beating of another heart
Em bm g c d
(just chords)
G d
All the steps we seem to take
Em bm c d
Are sometimes stairways to escape from
Em g bm d
All the things that were supposed to come
G d
And there's a threat when letting go
Em bm c
Showing things she'll never show but
D
I won't give in now i know
Em bm em bm
As i ask friend how on earth can i send
C g d
A little bit of me to her
Em bm
She'll attempt to resist
C g d
And pretend i don't exist when i do
C d
But if ever her defence drop
C d
Love takes a shot pop
C d
Baby you can't stop
G
The beating of another heart
Em c
The beating of another heart yeah
D em d em d
Sometimes she needs the beating of another heart
C# d a
The pounding goes on forever
C# d a
At night when we are here together
C# d a d
They say that people get too clever for love
Em c
But i know
Solo
C d
But if ever her defence drop
C d
Love takes a shot pop
C d
Baby you can't stop
G
The beating of another heart
Em c
The beating of another heart yeah
D em d g
Sometimes she needs the beating of another heart
D g d c
She needs the beating of another heart
D g d em bm g c d
She needs the beating of another h-e-a-r-t
Fade on em g /pre>
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