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from Graham Parker - Not If It Pleases Me (2006)
Lead Guitar intro Em Bm A Em Bm D A Bm then Bm G
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A D A D I been doing my homework now for a long long time A D A D And everything that I look for I know I will one day find E D E D I'm a fool so I'm told I get left in the cold E D A Cause I will search the world for that fool's gold, D A D A fool's gold Oh the world may be full of girls with their charms on show But the one that I seek will have much more than any I know People say heaven knows see what comes I suppose But I will search the world for that fool's gold, fool's gold E A D Huh I eye eye eye eye eye eye eye E A D E A D I eye eye eye eye eye eye eye Oh yeah Instrumental verse (A D A D A D A D A D)then Oh E D E D People say heaven knows heaven knows heaven knows see what comes I suppose E D A But I will search the world for that fool's gold (sax) D A D A Oh yeah fool's gold oh ho yeah fool's gold D A D Fool's gold fool's gold fool's gold A D A D (Just A and D to the end) Fool's gold fool's gold fool's gold fool's gold Keep searching in the mountains in the valleys, In the deep blue sea I will search I will search I will search for fool's gold Go oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh-acap |
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from Graham Parker - Not If It Pleases Me (2006)
When the lights are low you know I'm going to go to my hotel chambermaid
I'm going to jump the garden and come on hard all right While the river's rolling outside the window Going to see her going to get love Going to shut the bellboy out tonight VERSE When the world is dead I'm going to make the bed with that hotel chambermaid She'll bring the coffee in the morning with a smile She don't ask me where I come from I crept in and I soon be done I just want to hide here for a while I ain't got a million dollars, no-one I can call mine But I'll push on cushion me in some way Ain't got no future at least that's what they say This girl is going to take those kind of blues away for a day yeah Uh uh uh uh uh hotel chambermaid hotel chambermaid VERSE Room service can you help me I want a hotel chambermaid I didn't pay my bill but I had my fill all right While the river's rolling outside the window Going to see her going to get love Going to shut the bellboy out tonight While the river's rolling outside the window Going to see her going to get love Going to shut the bellboy out tonight (3 times) |
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G C G C I've got a lady doctor She cure da pain for free G C Bb F G I've got a lady doctor Oh there ain't nothing wrong with me. G C G C I went in with a heart burn into the surgery To my surprise two pretty eyes was running up and down me. Said now be a patient patient stretch right out on that couch Help yourself to the pills cure your ills Bb F G I'm never gonna square it on out. REPEAT CHORUS Well all the cats said go see her it's only just down the road You go in with pneumonia come out with just a heavy cold She won't give you no jargon no medical how-do-you-do Well just get right down under that stethoscope Baby let that lady mess on with you. REPEATR CHORUS (then instrumental chorus) REPEAT CHORUS (twice, sung up an octave) Ain't nothing wrong with Ain't nothing wrong with me Bb F Bb F C Bb F G Ooh ooh ooh ooh lady doctor yeah. |
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D A Manhattan baby with a sing song voice G D she got her place in the human zoo D A I went to living on the boulevard G A now that the revolution's due G A She said I've been around from town to town G A and I learned to love and hate G A But time don't change not a unique game, G A D they just keep herding through that gate CHORUS D A And do the New York shuffle, baby New York scuffle, G D Going to stay awake all night D A Do the New York shuffle, baby New York scuffle, G A D D A D Get yourself uptight, get uptight Stick around kids you're going to see some action better shoot them in the street Grab a gun before the police come, Don't tell me you're too sweet Down in the alley they are hitting harder Not as blown as a ball can be They're burnin flags here and just in drag here It sure is a sight to see REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE Bm E Bm E Mister Mayor give the key, let me lock you up Bm E G A Throw that key down the deepest subway in New York, New York INSTRUMENTAL VERSE (2 lines end on D) Ah primal scream I had electric dream I had to |
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from Graham Parker - Not If It Pleases Me (2006)
A E You want me be someone better A E I just wanna monkey 'round yeah A E You want me to write you a letter A E A E But the words just won't come the right way A E B My pen won't listen to a thing that I say E A E A E A E A Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey A B7 E A Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing A B7 E A E A E A E B7 A Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey. Maybe you're getting sloppy Under the midday sun oh yeah. You come on like a carbon copy But I just wanna hang to the way you live. Don't you want the love I got to give Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey. Sax solo A E A E Well I just wanna hang to the way you live. A E B Don't you want the love I got to give Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey. I said you don't-a mean a thing if you ain't got that swing Silly thing hey hey repeat and fade |
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Intro G CG (4 times
VERSE G CG G CG Well I ain't got no worry I ain't in no hurry You better tell your mother, That you're a real soul brother Hey hey! I have to say it's all right About five past midnight And we don't stop a-rollin' Until the floor board cave in. BRIDGE C G Yeah I feel like I've been a-living to die C G D But when that rhythm play I don't know how to cry. CHORUS G CG G CG I got my soul shoes I got my soul shoes G CG G D I got my soul shoes I got my soul shoes on my feet. (Instrumental break) BRIDGE If you wanna leave me go dance with another guy If you wanna grieve me baby just set my soul to die (Instrumental chorus) VERSE Yeah the place is buzzin, please don't let the fuzz in. You better tell your mother, that you're a real soul brother. BRIDGE Oh yeah I said I feel like I've been living to die But when that rhythm play I don't know how to cry CHORUS Repeat x3 |
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Intro C F C F C F C F C F C F
C G F G C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man C F C F C F C F White honey yeah any time I think I can. G C You wake up early in the morning G C A-playing on the clarinet G C Whole town down when the man comes around F G And no one pays their rent It's all spent on C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man C F C F C F C F White honey yeah any time I think I can. G C She's come and laid on a sample G C A little sweet white honey bee G C Tastes so good that the whole town stood F G And stared and looked at me They all see the C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man C F C F C F C F White honey eee any time I think I can. C'mon and (scat to chorus and the chords as in intro) sax break and repeat C G F G as in intro G C But now I ain't wanna criticise G C But let me tell you what I found G C Since they took away the record machine F G White honey don't come around. Get down! C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man Oh oh oh oh oh C F C F C F C F white honey-ee any time I think I can C F C F Said honey what you doing what you doing what you doing C F C F What you're doing downtown tell me baby. C F C F Honey what you do what you do what you doing C F C F You're trying to make me look like a clown. C F C F I said hit white honey when the chips are down C F C F I'm gonna taste white honey when ain't no one around C F C F C F I said honey honey honey honey honey honey honey honey yeah C F C F Wah wah |
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Her heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking
The Tokyo's taxi's braking, it's screaming to a halt And there's nothing to hold on to when gravity betrays you And every kiss enslaves you-oo-oo She knows how hard her heart grows under the nuclear shadows She can't escape the feeling repeating in her head When after all the urges some kind of truth emerges We felt the deadly surges Discovering Japan--an --an Discovering Japan--an --an The GIs only use her, they only ram right through her Giving an eastern promise, that they could never keep Seeing a million miles, between their joke and smiles She heard their hard denials [don't pause] As the tears dropped sideways down her face, face I woke up talking in the tongue of a different race, race And as the flight touches down my watch says 8:02 But that's midnight to you, Midnight to you Midight to you I dreamed headlong collisions in jet lag panavisions I shouted sayonara it didn't mean goodbye But lovers turn to posers show up in film exposures Just like in travel brochures Discovering Japan Discovering Japan (x6 and fade) |
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The dark hand will call you out of nowhere it seems
The black cloud will bust apart shattering your dreams They all put up barricades blank you out at first Then they'll get to you to get to me who'll know what's worse I say Fear not baby fear not Fear not baby fear not Fear not baby fear not baby fear not It's going to end Get your drink knocked over you're thinking that it might be planned But it's just some fool in the crowd tonight What's the name written on his hand I won't give away anything more than the ink from my pen You ought to know when you look at me Love is something you can't offend I say Fear not baby fear not Fear not baby fear not Fear not baby fear not baby fear not It's going to end I said fear not I said fear not I can't stand to leave you to the lions of the world Yeah I know that it seems like we're in a cage but we ain't the animals I won't let them touch you not a hair that's on your head They can rip out bits of me that should keep them fed I say Fear not baby fear not Fear not baby fear not Fear not baby fear not baby fear not It's going to end It's going to end |
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I got a real wooden heart girl, sometimes it's hard to ignite it
I must have water for blood girl, but don't cut me out or write me off You turn stone into flesh baby and I almost get human Yeah and it's always the best baby, I hear your heart pitter patter I feel your love start to shatter CHORUS My glass jaw, and you can break this door and you can take me for, whatever you want I got a head full of rocks girl, shake me around and I rattle I must have ice here in blocks girl, being alive is a battle I, I want to win when you're with me that's when things really happen Yeah even grin when you're with me, you're arms around really bit yeah You know the right place to hit it My glass jaw, and you can break this door and you can take me for, whatever you want OOh you turn stone into flesh baby and I almost get human Yeah it's always the best baby, I hear your heart pitter patter And then your love start to shatter My glass jaw, and you can break this door and you can take me for, whatever you want Oooh glass jaw, and you can break this door and you can take, take me for, whatever you want whatever you want, whatever you want |
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Just like a man, flexing his muscle and not really usin' it
Just like a fool, making her suffer And stuffing her feelings with cotton wool Well, forgive him, forgive him Just like a man, carrying a picture but seeing in the negative Just like a fool, all double standards baby do this but never do that Well, forgive him, forgive him, forgive him He makes her fall, face down into the pillow Climbing the wall, weeping like a weeping willow Hands her a tissue he's already used Just like a man, just like a man Dragging her under for everything he'll never be Ripping her asunder, said he didn't really love her anyway Well, forgive him, forgive him Just like a man, thrashing out blindly way out of his depth Just like a fool, there's no device he won't employ He even cries like a little boy Well, forgive him, forgive him Forgive him Just like a man, just like a man Just like a man, just like a man |
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I used to think that it all stopped happening
by the time you reached twenty one They said there's nothing like the first love you get boy They were wrong, oh so wrong, they hung on and hung on, to their dream, I know CHORUS Life gets better yeah When ever I'm in her arms Just to know I'm not the average fella I'm the one, I'm the one for her Well it's a shame what they do to these young kids Just encourage them to act like clowns And then they think that they don't have much longer Knocked up the first time she let em get down Put four walls around and then scream, but I know REPEAT CHORUS Life stretches before me an endless mystery And nothing can bore me, when she's with me I feel the heartbeat of the world in the hands of this girl But it takes so much time to, to finally see, see, see I get a thrill when I think how it really is Noone can ever take that away They try to put rubber bands around your heart But they're wrong, oh so wrong, they hung on and hung on, to their dream, but I know Life gets better yeah When ever I'm in her arms Just to know I'm not the average fella I'm the one, I'm the one for her Oooh Life gets better yeah, When ever I'm in her arms Just to know I'm not the average sucker, I'm the one, I'm the one for her Oooh Life gets better yeah, Oooh Life gets better yeah Oooh Life gets better yeah |
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E b e ac#m e a e
Love gets you twisted, love gets you twisted all the way The hearts are enlisted, the hearts are enlisted to break each day G#m e I try to straighten out but Im too wrapped up to see C#m ab I dont know how its supposed to be Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted inside out I knew that it existed I knew that it existed I had no doubt When shes in my arms I get tangled up its true I cant see the other point of view A e c#m f# When love gets you twisted love gets you twisted E aba Love gets you twisted B a b a Screw yourself up screw yourself up B b e Screw yourself screw yourself up The solo seems to be c#m (2 bars), b-e-a-b then rpt x1 I try to straighten out but Im tangled up its true I cant see the other point of view Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted love gets you twisted Screw yourself up screw yourself up screw yourself, screw yourself E b ea When love gets you twisted When love gets you twisted When love gets you twisted Repeat and fade /pre> |
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Nothing can be further removed, not everybody wants to be soothed ooooh
they're out there now in their padded cells and armchairs Waiting for the nervous twitch that signals fear Hooked up to a cardiogram set up so it cuts out when you cry or laugh Worked by those who if you screw up treat you to a broken nose If you tap your toes Passive resistance! If it's not for them then it's not for you Passive resistance! Where the only view is the right view Passive resistance! And it breaks my heart to know there's no heart involved Put the demographics away, the directors and consultants have the final say Hired in, take home all the ones who missed for souvenirs, for their kids to play Passive resistance! It's all programmed by programmers Passive resistance! You're just a nail underneath their hammers Passive resistance! And it breaks my heart to know there's no heart in them Nothing can be further removed, not everybody wants to be soothed Oooh they must be real, people that you never meet and never feel And they don't feel you Passive resistance! You get surveyed out of existence Passive resistance! Just one in a million silent listeners Passive resistance! It's all programmed by programmers Passive resistance! You're just a nail underneath their hammers Passive resistance! And it breaks your heart To know there's no heart involved, involved, involved |
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Capo at 2 (intro D Em G Em D
Em G G C So all of you be damned we can't have heaven crammed Am C D So Winston Churchill said I could have smacked his head Em G G C And all of those infected waiting to be collected Am C D I must get out at any price before the feeling gets too nice CHORUS Em C G D Just can't get, just can't get no protection Em C G D Just can't get, just can't get no protection Em C G D G C Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection, G C G C D protection, protection Every bomb is detonated every switch is thrown And everybody tells me don't be scared act as if you never cared So I wear a blank expression to conceal my real impression Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station REPEAT CHORUS Then Em/G Am/C which repeats over BRIDGE So turn off this sound I'm ready to go down I don't know myself, I don't you either You're full of disease it's something I discovered I know you've been mixing with Big Brother's brother It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart It's just the thought of someone It's just the thought of someone Em Em It's just the thought of someone sticking it in, sticking it in So if you think that's funny I'm not really laughng honey Your love letters are confetti I ripped them up my hands were sweaty And then those ghastly faces recur in nightmare places Happy hours come and go much too short and much too long CHORUS Then this rhythm again Em/G Am/C Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station Protection protection protection It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart It's just the thought of someone sticking it in Protection protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off Protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off Protection protection You want to hide? You want to hide? You want to hide, hide, hide? Protection REPEAT AND FADE |
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I got to break this armour, cutting off all the feeling (don't wear it)
It's like a melodrama, everybody's scene stealing (just bear it) It's always the same old number, they never let you out of school (it's nothing) Well I gotta gun that's loaded, I want to hurt some fool (don't shoot it) Well The woods are full of wardens, they are digging up remains It feels like the big stick that smacks of oppression And it sounds like chains I wanna bite the hand, bite off the hand that fed me (don't eat it) I want to turn the knife, turn the knife that bled me (you need it) You've got it all wrong, you never heard what I said (don't worry) Well I got a gun that's loaded, it's not pointing at my head (Don't rush it, don't hurry) No-one can keep these ropes around me, or take the blood out of my veins I'll just pull the trigger back as the volume gets stronger And it sounds like chains Instrumental then "Sounds like chains" 4 times then "Oooh Chains" and more instrumental bits. Nothing hurts me any longer, there isn't room for any pain I'll just pull the trigger back as the volume gets stronger And it sounds like chains Oooh chains, sounds like chains, ooh chains, sounds like chains |
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Did they tear it out, with talons of steel
And give you a shot, so that you wouldn't feel And washed it away, as if it wasn't real It's just a mistake, I won't have to face Don't give it a name, don't give it a place Don't give it a chance, it's lucky in a way It must have felt strange, to find me inside you I hadn't intended to stay If you want to keep it right, put it to sleep at night Squeeze it until it could say You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong Well I ain't gonna cry, I'm gonna rejoice And shout myself dry, and go see the boys They'll laugh when I say, I left it overseas Yeah babe I know it gets dark, down by Luna Park But everybody else, is squeezing out a spark That happened in the heat, somewhere in the dark, in the dark The doctor gets nervous, completing the service He's all rubber gloves and no head He fumbles the light switch, it's just another minor hitch Wishes to God he was dead But you can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong Can't be too hard, too tough, too rough, too right, too wrong And you, can't be too strong Baby you can't be too strong... |
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Took her to a party and danced with the host
Took her to a restaurant and treat her like a ghost Took her to a movie and looked at another screen Paid for entertainment she'd already seen I get so hungry, I'm eating my heart out oooh I felt it go empty I'm wondering what I can be thinking about CHORUS 1 But you can't take love for granted, underneath another skin Can't take love for granted, up behind another grin Demonstrated passion in a grip hard to shake Took up every fashion till everything went fake Pulled a coat over her shoulder, cracked a joke over and over Watch the rain turn the night colder, stared into the headlight beam I get so wired I'm making all the wrong connections And I get so tired I'm picking up bad affections REPEAT CHORUS 1 CHORUS 2 Can't take love for granted, can't take love for granted, Can't take love for granted, can't take love for granted, Watch the swans out on the lake, circle circle circle (circle circle) Talk and talk and talk around it (circle circle) REPEAT CHORUS 1 then CHORUS 2 then CHORUS 1 twice (fade) |
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You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball
And look for the air-raid shelter but it's gone and the cafe seems so small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples now have small businesses flourishing in cinder blocks Then they will call your name and hand you a gold watch Then they will call your name but it doesn't sound like much And you'll never discover why it's like an old lover you can't touch anymore It doesn't mean much anymore 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 yeah Photographs with a glossy finish letters lovers never finished And there in a dusty drawer a necktie you once wore And a girl you tried to court made you feel about two feet short Where is she now today? What would she have to say? Then they will call your name and hand you a pension A bottle of pills that guarantee life extension and give you a mention in the local boy makes good section But all the old news is like print stains across your mind when you try to go back in time Yes all this old news is just print stains across your mind when you try to go back in time Back in time back, back in time |
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The kid's left home, the kid's got a kid of her own
Don't knock that door, don't knock it, nobody's home The mystery sign, turn off and follow it blind The interstate is jammed and crammed with exhaust mist It only leads to somewhere you'll never miss You'll never miss Get on the blue highways, follow the blue highways You know that they're there, you know that they're there Where the real America lies The rusty chrome, the shutters swing open and closed Don't knock that door, don't knock it, nobody's home The blood runs cold, the blood runs cold There must be gold where fools are That's what we are, that's what we are Get on the blue highways, follow the blue highways You know that they're there, you know that they're there Where the real America lies Blue highways, blue highways, blue highways |
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Cupid draw back your bow
And let your arrow go Straight to my lover's heart for me, for me - Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me Now - I don't mean to bother you but I'm in distress There's danger of me loosing all of my happiness For I love a girl who doesn't know I exist And this you can fix, so..... Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow go Straight to my lover's heart for me, Nobody but me - Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me Now - Cupid if your arrow makes her love strong for me I promise I will love her until eternity I know between the both of us her heart we can steal Help me if you will, so..... Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow flow Straight to my lover's heart for me, o nobody but me - Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me Now - Cupid, don't you hear me, I'm calling you, I need you, Cupid help me . . . |
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The mona lisa's sister doesn't smile
She tried to pose but only for a while Leonardo sent her home since then she has lived alone With her few belongings and a copy of a painting of herself unhappy She is going to burn it when she's ready Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Marilyn was lying all alone with an empty bottle by the phone Kennedy was not around she was cold when she was found But she'd gone where the goddesses are sleeping Where the molten tongues of flame are leaping Or where the angel's hearts are beating Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Joan of arc was burning at the stake somebody had made a big mistake She had lit a cigarette in an aiport where you get All your fingers taken off for smoking. Meanwhile up the road a factory's choking The ones who killed her work there I'm not joking Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire |
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from Graham Parker - The Mona Lisa`s Sister (2001)
The dreams and hopes of men are powered by addiction
And who am I to say that this is an affliction When everybody gets suckered in and lives their lives like fiction 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 Success success Success success Success success Success success All you ever need: Success You can't be happy while someone 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 Success success Success success Success success Success success All you ever need: Success |
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from Graham Parker - The Mona Lisa`s Sister (2001)
All the dirt's lying under the carpet
He swallowed a drink and then checked her heartbeat Her wedding gown has been burned to ashes Fanned by the flutter of her false lashes One last chance to kiss again She looked so good he looked so sane Not forever could they last Under the mask under the mask Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness She got colder with each incision No-one knew he had a fatal vision One last chance to kiss again Your mother knows her baby's pain Not forever could they last Under the mask under the mask Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask Look at them walking look at them kiss What a picture of domestic bliss Laughing and laughing like clockwork toys Until they're broken girls and boys One last chance to kiss again she looked so good he looked so sane Not forever could they last Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness |
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from Graham Parker - Master Hits (1999)
You're always kidding me something's happening but it isn't true
You're getting rid of me you know exactly what I'm trying to Oh baby I am drained of colour I can't go anywhere You just left me in another grey area You say you're loving me but it's nothing but a red rag You call this ecstasy but suddenly it's let the stone drag Oh baby I have just discovered I don't belong anywhere Your love left me in another grey area Another grey area When I start thinking can't stop sinking Everybody left me holding the baby Everything's the same no-one took the blame That's the colour of another grey area That's the colour of another grey area I can't follow it the information that is coming through I never swallow it the black feeling that is all blue Oh baby I've just discovered I can't go anywhere Your love left me in another grey area Yeah You left me in another grey area That's the colour of another grey area Another grey area Another grey area Another grey area That's the colour That's the colour |
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from Graham Parker - Master Hits (1999)
Better listen to me, You better stay blind and you better not see
You think it feels alright but you don't have to lie awake all night Fumble with the money and fumble with the keys Somebody has to end up on his knees Go to a funeral dressed in pink Stop to love and not stop to think Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero They all lose their cool They all see the money and they start to drool They all shuffle their feet They shuffle their cards and they turn up the heat They tell you Fumble with the money and fumble with the keys Somebody has to end up on his knees Go to a funeral dressed in pink Stop to love and not stop to think Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero |
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from Graham Parker - Master Hits (1999)
Her heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking
The Tokyo's taxi's braking, it's screaming to a halt And there's nothing to hold on to when gravity betrays you And every kiss enslaves you-oo-oo She knows how hard her heart grows under the nuclear shadows She can't escape the feeling repeating in her head When after all the urges some kind of truth emerges We felt the deadly surges Discovering Japan--an --an Discovering Japan--an --an The GIs only use her, they only ram right through her Giving an eastern promise, that they could never keep Seeing a million miles, between their joke and smiles She heard their hard denials [don't pause] As the tears dropped sideways down her face, face I woke up talking in the tongue of a different race, race And as the flight touches down my watch says 8:02 But that's midnight to you, Midnight to you Midight to you I dreamed headlong collisions in jet lag panavisions I shouted sayonara it didn't mean goodbye But lovers turn to posers show up in film exposures Just like in travel brochures Discovering Japan Discovering Japan (x6 and fade) |
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from Graham Parker - Master Hits (1999)
I used to think that it all stopped happening
by the time you reached twenty one They said there's nothing like the first love you get boy They were wrong, oh so wrong, they hung on and hung on, to their dream, I know CHORUS Life gets better yeah When ever I'm in her arms Just to know I'm not the average fella I'm the one, I'm the one for her Well it's a shame what they do to these young kids Just encourage them to act like clowns And then they think that they don't have much longer Knocked up the first time she let em get down Put four walls around and then scream, but I know REPEAT CHORUS Life stretches before me an endless mystery And nothing can bore me, when she's with me I feel the heartbeat of the world in the hands of this girl But it takes so much time to, to finally see, see, see I get a thrill when I think how it really is Noone can ever take that away They try to put rubber bands around your heart But they're wrong, oh so wrong, they hung on and hung on, to their dream, but I know Life gets better yeah When ever I'm in her arms Just to know I'm not the average fella I'm the one, I'm the one for her Oooh Life gets better yeah, When ever I'm in her arms Just to know I'm not the average sucker, I'm the one, I'm the one for her Oooh Life gets better yeah, Oooh Life gets better yeah Oooh Life gets better yeah |
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from Graham Parker - Master Hits (1999)
A Bm A D Everybody just looks ugly now information don't compute A Bm I draw a blank every time I think E A the football crowd is going to give me a boot CHORUS D A E And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead G It don't matter what they say G A You've got to use your own head some day D A E (intro chords) Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead The ultraviolet light hurts me so it used to be my friend I used to know a good place to go but now it's nothing like it was then CHORUS (WORD VARIATION) And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead It don't matter what they say I'm going to the funeral Sunday Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead BRIDGE A G A G It must have been murder it ain't no accident A Oh no it means nothing to me G The clock goes tick tick tick in my head D Saturday is dead Saturday is dead (solo over A and Bm) A Bm A D I look inside to find a place to hide but there ain't no place I know A Bm A It's just as well that I'm stupified it makes it easy G E D It makes it easy to deliver the fatal blow (Intro chords) Deliver deliver deliver CHORUS (FIRST |
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from Graham Parker - Master Hits (1999)
You have to do your best to come up to par,
from straight off the production line like a car, Till everything you put on is a put-on, and you don't know who's face you're gazing upon Could be anyone you're sending out there tonight, is it any wonder all the lights are too bright? And you need temporary beauty, and hope to God that it doesn't rain You need temporary beauty, even though it might be love in vain The world is full of little people like you They have to read a book to learn what to do They hang around in second hand stores for clothes And every kind of pressures steps on their toes Love doesn't fall out of a magazine You mustn't always believe what you see Ah-ah-ah temporary beauty, ah-ah-ah temporary beauty, Ah-ah-ah temporary beauty You might be the sweetest little girl in your heart But still the world ignores that and tears you apart You think of the parties you'll never attend You dream of someone who's more than a friend Love doesn't jump out of a magazine You mustn't always believe what you see And you need temporary beauty, and hope to God that it doesn't rain You need temporary beauty, even though it might be love, (3 times) |
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from Graham Parker - Master Hits (1999)
Did they tear it out, with talons of steel
And give you a shot, so that you wouldn't feel And washed it away, as if it wasn't real It's just a mistake, I won't have to face Don't give it a name, don't give it a place Don't give it a chance, it's lucky in a way It must have felt strange, to find me inside you I hadn't intended to stay If you want to keep it right, put it to sleep at night Squeeze it until it could say You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong Well I ain't gonna cry, I'm gonna rejoice And shout myself dry, and go see the boys They'll laugh when I say, I left it overseas Yeah babe I know it gets dark, down by Luna Park But everybody else, is squeezing out a spark That happened in the heat, somewhere in the dark, in the dark The doctor gets nervous, completing the service He's all rubber gloves and no head He fumbles the light switch, it's just another minor hitch Wishes to God he was dead But you can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong Can't be too hard, too tough, too rough, too right, too wrong And you, can't be too strong Baby you can't be too strong... |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
There is always some advantage to be wielded and brought to bear
It's a lonely occupation keeping others out of your hair Fingers on all the switches talk in whispers talking soft You know all my favourite bitches you know what gets me off But try to reach a vital part of me My interest level's dropping rapidly It's all excuses baby all a stall I just don't get excited I've been running round in circles and jump jump jumping out of cars They put animals in cages specimens in jars It's summer now there's no temptation and baby nails digging under skin It don't give me the right sensation it's just another thing You try to reach a vital part of me My attention span is dropping rapidly It's all excuses baby all a stall We just don't get excited Don't get excited No Don't get excited Don't get excited Talk about it talk about it all night long Think about it think about it nothing's wrong Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Baby listen without thinking you better be without demands Now don't get edgy and don't start blinking and don't start making any plans You try to reach a vital part of me My interest level's dropping rapidly It's all excuses baby all a stall We just don't get excited Don't get excited No don't get excited Don't get excited |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
There is always some advantage to be wielded and brought to bear
It's a lonely occupation keeping others out of your hair Fingers on all the switches talk in whispers talking soft You know all my favourite bitches you know what gets me off But try to reach a vital part of me My interest level's dropping rapidly It's all excuses baby all a stall I just don't get excited I've been running round in circles and jump jump jumping out of cars They put animals in cages specimens in jars It's summer now there's no temptation and baby nails digging under skin It don't give me the right sensation it's just another thing You try to reach a vital part of me My attention span is dropping rapidly It's all excuses baby all a stall We just don't get excited Don't get excited No Don't get excited Don't get excited Talk about it talk about it all night long Think about it think about it nothing's wrong Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Baby listen without thinking you better be without demands Now don't get edgy and don't start blinking and don't start making any plans You try to reach a vital part of me My interest level's dropping rapidly It's all excuses baby all a stall We just don't get excited Don't get excited No don't get excited Don't get excited |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
When I had you to myself
I didn't want you around Those pretty faces always made you Stand out in a crowd But someone picked you from the bunch One glance was all it took Now it's much too late for me To take second look Oh baby give me one more chance To show you that I love you Won't you please send me back in your heart Oh darlin' I was blind to let you go But now since I see you in his arms I want you back Yes I do now I want you back Ooh ooh baby Yeah yeah, naw Trying to live without your love Is one long sleepless night Let me show you girl That I know wrong from right Every street you walk on I leave tear stains on the ground Following the girl I didn't even want around Oh baby give me one more chance To show you that I love you Won't you please send me back in your heart Abuh buh buh buh All I want! Abuh buh buh buh All I need! Abuh buh buh buh |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
E b e ac#m e a e
Love gets you twisted, love gets you twisted all the way The hearts are enlisted, the hearts are enlisted to break each day G#m e I try to straighten out but Im too wrapped up to see C#m ab I dont know how its supposed to be Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted inside out I knew that it existed I knew that it existed I had no doubt When shes in my arms I get tangled up its true I cant see the other point of view A e c#m f# When love gets you twisted love gets you twisted E aba Love gets you twisted B a b a Screw yourself up screw yourself up B b e Screw yourself screw yourself up The solo seems to be c#m (2 bars), b-e-a-b then rpt x1 I try to straighten out but Im tangled up its true I cant see the other point of view Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted love gets you twisted Screw yourself up screw yourself up screw yourself, screw yourself E b ea When love gets you twisted When love gets you twisted When love gets you twisted Repeat and fade /pre> |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
E b e ac#m e a e
Love gets you twisted, love gets you twisted all the way The hearts are enlisted, the hearts are enlisted to break each day G#m e I try to straighten out but Im too wrapped up to see C#m ab I dont know how its supposed to be Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted inside out I knew that it existed I knew that it existed I had no doubt When shes in my arms I get tangled up its true I cant see the other point of view A e c#m f# When love gets you twisted love gets you twisted E aba Love gets you twisted B a b a Screw yourself up screw yourself up B b e Screw yourself screw yourself up The solo seems to be c#m (2 bars), b-e-a-b then rpt x1 I try to straighten out but Im tangled up its true I cant see the other point of view Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted love gets you twisted Screw yourself up screw yourself up screw yourself, screw yourself E b ea When love gets you twisted When love gets you twisted When love gets you twisted Repeat and fade /pre> |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
Capo at 2 (intro D Em G Em D
Em G G C So all of you be damned we can't have heaven crammed Am C D So Winston Churchill said I could have smacked his head Em G G C And all of those infected waiting to be collected Am C D I must get out at any price before the feeling gets too nice CHORUS Em C G D Just can't get, just can't get no protection Em C G D Just can't get, just can't get no protection Em C G D G C Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection, G C G C D protection, protection Every bomb is detonated every switch is thrown And everybody tells me don't be scared act as if you never cared So I wear a blank expression to conceal my real impression Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station REPEAT CHORUS Then Em/G Am/C which repeats over BRIDGE So turn off this sound I'm ready to go down I don't know myself, I don't you either You're full of disease it's something I discovered I know you've been mixing with Big Brother's brother It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart It's just the thought of someone It's just the thought of someone Em Em It's just the thought of someone sticking it in, sticking it in So if you think that's funny I'm not really laughng honey Your love letters are confetti I ripped them up my hands were sweaty And then those ghastly faces recur in nightmare places Happy hours come and go much too short and much too long CHORUS Then this rhythm again Em/G Am/C Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station Protection protection protection It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart It's just the thought of someone sticking it in Protection protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off Protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off Protection protection You want to hide? You want to hide? You want to hide, hide, hide? Protection REPEAT AND FADE |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
Capo at 2 (intro D Em G Em D
Em G G C So all of you be damned we can't have heaven crammed Am C D So Winston Churchill said I could have smacked his head Em G G C And all of those infected waiting to be collected Am C D I must get out at any price before the feeling gets too nice CHORUS Em C G D Just can't get, just can't get no protection Em C G D Just can't get, just can't get no protection Em C G D G C Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection, G C G C D protection, protection Every bomb is detonated every switch is thrown And everybody tells me don't be scared act as if you never cared So I wear a blank expression to conceal my real impression Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station REPEAT CHORUS Then Em/G Am/C which repeats over BRIDGE So turn off this sound I'm ready to go down I don't know myself, I don't you either You're full of disease it's something I discovered I know you've been mixing with Big Brother's brother It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart It's just the thought of someone It's just the thought of someone Em Em It's just the thought of someone sticking it in, sticking it in So if you think that's funny I'm not really laughng honey Your love letters are confetti I ripped them up my hands were sweaty And then those ghastly faces recur in nightmare places Happy hours come and go much too short and much too long CHORUS Then this rhythm again Em/G Am/C Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station Protection protection protection It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart It's just the thought of someone sticking it in Protection protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off Protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off Protection protection You want to hide? You want to hide? You want to hide, hide, hide? Protection REPEAT AND FADE |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
A Bm A D
Everybody just looks ugly now information don't compute A Bm I draw a blank every time I think E A the football crowd is going to give me a boot CHORUS D A E And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead G It don't matter what they say G A You've got to use your own head some day D A E (intro chords) Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead The ultraviolet light hurts me so it used to be my friend I used to know a good place to go but now it's nothing like it was then CHORUS (WORD VARIATION) And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead It don't matter what they say I'm going to the funeral Sunday Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead BRIDGE A G A G It must have been murder it ain't no accident A Oh no it means nothing to me G The clock goes tick tick tick in my head D Saturday is dead Saturday is dead (solo over A and Bm) A Bm A D I look inside to find a place to hide but there ain't no place I know A Bm A It's just as well that I'm stupified it makes it easy G E D It makes it easy to deliver the fatal blow (Intro chords) Deliver deliver deliver CHORUS (FIRST |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
A Bm A D
Everybody just looks ugly now information don't compute A Bm I draw a blank every time I think E A the football crowd is going to give me a boot CHORUS D A E And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead G It don't matter what they say G A You've got to use your own head some day D A E (intro chords) Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead The ultraviolet light hurts me so it used to be my friend I used to know a good place to go but now it's nothing like it was then CHORUS (WORD VARIATION) And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead It don't matter what they say I'm going to the funeral Sunday Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead BRIDGE A G A G It must have been murder it ain't no accident A Oh no it means nothing to me G The clock goes tick tick tick in my head D Saturday is dead Saturday is dead (solo over A and Bm) A Bm A D I look inside to find a place to hide but there ain't no place I know A Bm A It's just as well that I'm stupified it makes it easy G E D It makes it easy to deliver the fatal blow (Intro chords) Deliver deliver deliver CHORUS (FIRST |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
Did they tear it out, with talons of steel
And give you a shot, so that you wouldn't feel And washed it away, as if it wasn't real It's just a mistake, I won't have to face Don't give it a name, don't give it a place Don't give it a chance, it's lucky in a way It must have felt strange, to find me inside you I hadn't intended to stay If you want to keep it right, put it to sleep at night Squeeze it until it could say You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong Well I ain't gonna cry, I'm gonna rejoice And shout myself dry, and go see the boys They'll laugh when I say, I left it overseas Yeah babe I know it gets dark, down by Luna Park But everybody else, is squeezing out a spark That happened in the heat, somewhere in the dark, in the dark The doctor gets nervous, completing the service He's all rubber gloves and no head He fumbles the light switch, it's just another minor hitch Wishes to God he was dead But you can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong Can't be too hard, too tough, too rough, too right, too wrong And you, can't be too strong Baby you can't be too strong... |
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from Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks / Live Sparks [box] (1979)
Did they tear it out, with talons of steel
And give you a shot, so that you wouldn't feel And washed it away, as if it wasn't real It's just a mistake, I won't have to face Don't give it a name, don't give it a place Don't give it a chance, it's lucky in a way It must have felt strange, to find me inside you I hadn't intended to stay If you want to keep it right, put it to sleep at night Squeeze it until it could say You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong Well I ain't gonna cry, I'm gonna rejoice And shout myself dry, and go see the boys They'll laugh when I say, I left it overseas Yeah babe I know it gets dark, down by Luna Park But everybody else, is squeezing out a spark That happened in the heat, somewhere in the dark, in the dark The doctor gets nervous, completing the service He's all rubber gloves and no head He fumbles the light switch, it's just another minor hitch Wishes to God he was dead But you can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong Can't be too hard, too tough, too rough, too right, too wrong And you, can't be too strong Baby you can't be too strong... |
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