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She (Tous Les Visages de L'Amour)
(Tema do Filme Um Lugar Chamado Notting Hill)
Tom: C
Intro: C Ebdim F G
Ebdim = Ebo
C 
She 
                         Ebdim 
May be the face I can't forget 
                           F 
A trace of pleasure or regret 
                            C              A7 
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
 Dm                             Fm6 
She may be the song that summer sings
                              C
May be the chill that autumn brings
                            Dm7 
May be a hundred different things
             G7         C      F   Dm7   G
Within the measure of a day.
 
C
She
                         Ebdim 
May be the beauty or the beast
                          F 
May be the famine or the feast
                          C           A7 
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell
 Dm                           Fm6
She may be the mirror of my dreams
                        C
A smile reflected in a stream
                             D7 
She may not be what she may seem 
  G7        C    G7  C Ebdim F C A7 Dm Fm6 C Dm G7 C
Inside her shell
 
Ab                                  Eb
She who always seems so happy in a crowd
                                      Db 
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
                                        C 
No one's allowed to see them when they cry
 Fm             Bb                      Eb 
She may be the love that cannot hope to last
            C                       D7
May come to me from shadows of the past
                                   G 
That I'll remember till the day I die
 
C 
She
                      Ebdim 
May be the reason I survive
                            F 
The why and wherefore I'm alive 
                         C                   A7 
The one I'll care for through the rough and ready years
Dm                                Fm6
Me I'll take her laughter and her tears 
                      C
And make them all my souvenirs
                               D7 
For where she goes I've got to be
             G7        
The meaning of my life is
F    C   Dm7  Gsus7           C
She, she,          (ohhhhh)  she 
Almost Blue
Tom: Am
Intro:  Am     Dm9   E+
Am
Almost blue 
       Bm7-5 E7         Am
Almost doing things we     used to do 
          Bm7 -5               C            F
There's a girl here and she's        almost you 
E       Dm    Am      Adim 
      Almost all the things that your eyes once promised
C       Bb6       A
    I see in hers too
                  Dm       Bm7-5    E+
Now your eyes are red from cry   -  ing 
Am    B7   Am
    Almost blue 
F             Bm7-5           C       C#dim
Flirting with this disaster became me 
Dm              Bm7-5           E
    It named me as the fool who only aimed to be 
Am
Almost blue 
            Bm7-5    E7      Am
It's almost touching it will     almost do 
          Bm7-5             C          F    E     Dm
There's a part of me that's     always true.....always 
Am                  Adim                     C          Bb6    A
Not all good things come to an end now it is     only a chosen few 
               Dm         Bm7-5   E+
I've seen such an unhappy cou  -  ple 
Am
Almost me 
Bm7-5
Almost you 
       Am
Almost blue 

 

B Movie
Tom: E
 
E               A             B            E
I found America hiding in the corner of my wallet
                                                   B
It's a well kept secret, thought that I had better swallow it
  F#m               D
Before they make me spit out the truth
  G                     C                B
Before they find you're lying about your youth
Chorus:
E               A           B  E
B movie, that's all you are to me
 
Just a soft soap story
                        B
Don't want the woman to adore me
          F#m                        B
You can't stand it when it goes from real to reel
    F#m             B
Too real too real
          F#m                   A                    C
You can't stand it when I throw punch lines you can   feel
        C#m             F#m                C#m
All the time, there's a rule book in Brittania
     F#m             C#m
That no one ever waives
           E     
And everybody's on the make
                          B
It's not your heart I want to break
E      
Turn out the lights
    A               B             E
I'm thinking that I want to go to sleep now
                                            B
Just give me a promise that I'm supposed to keep now
  F#m                  D
I don't want some fool asking me why
G                  C                 B
When I find you're finally making me cry
**Chorus
         C
You can   feel. you can feel. you can feel. . . . 

 

 

Charm School
Tom :G
Intro:  G  Dm  G  D
G  
Men made out of monkeys
D
Men made into mice
G
Happy days are here again
    F                   D
And all the drinks half price
  C           Am          Em         C   Em    B7
A girl with a trick and a man with a calling
Em                             B7
Trying to make a living out of your downfalling
Chorus:
Em                             E7
Trying to make a living out of anything at all
Am                               F
Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel
        C            F  C
In that charm school
G
You and I as lovers
     D
Were nothing but a farce
G
Trying to make a silk purse
F              D
Out of a sow's arse
C           Am
Saying 'Why don't you watch me'
Em              C
Hardly speaking sotto voce
**Chorus
Em
I've got a notion
Em
I've got an angle
Asus4
Take your dreams and promises
Asus4
And put them through the mangle
Dm
They say it's hell to finance too
                           Gsus4  G
And I just want to romance you
G
In this perpetual nightclub
D
I'll be yours eternal
G
Though the hours are long
F               D
And the noise infernal
C                 Am               Em
Just one shameful act or sometimes two
        C                    Em
We make believe we're making do
**Chorus
define:

 

Different Finger
Tom: A7
 
A7              D                                  A7
Please put your rings on a diff'rent finger if you meet me tonight
                 A7
'Cause I can't stand those suspicious glances
                                            D
'Cause I know the things they're saying are right
        D7     G
They're saying why don't you straighten up
                 G
And see what you've got to lose
C                                                            G
Put it all down to fate but you still got the chance to choose
G                         F          C
I don't want to hear your whole life story
    A                                       D       D7
Or about my strange resemblance to some old flame
G                 F        C
All I want is one night of glory
D                                  G 
I don't even know your second name
Instrumental:  A7   D   A     D D7 G  D   A7    D
B7              E
Please put your rings on a diff'rent finger 
             B7
'Cause we've got so much at stake
            B7
I can't stand those suspicious glances
                                       E
'Cause they seem to cover ev'ry move I make
E7       A                        E
But if I can be alone with you completely tonight
               B    
Put your rings on a diff'rent finger
                      A  E  F#m7 (XX2222) E
Before I turn out the light

 

The Element Within Her
Tom: F
 
F           Am         E
La la la la la la la la la la la
         E
It's the element within her
          C#m       B
Something under her skin
        E                       A               B
That is shining out through the face of the girl
A             B                    A
Two sapphires and couple of rows of pearls
D           G
It's just a part of it
Em             A
Like your fine tresses
F                Bb
You know what my guess is
C          Em           B
La la la la la la la la la la la
         E
It's the element within her
          C#m       B
Something under her skin
        E                       A               B
That is shining out through the face of the girl
A             B                    A
Two sapphires and couple of rows of pearls
D        G
He was a PLAYBOY
Em                          A
Could charm the birds right out of the trees
F                 Bb
Now he says 'What do I do with these?'
C           Em          B
La la la la la la la la la la la
F            C
This love in my heart
G               C
Let no-one set asunder
G         C
Sometimes I wonder
F           C           Dm7         C      F
La la la la la la la la la la la . . . .
G               C
But back in the bedroom
Am        D
With her electric heater
Bb             Eb
I say 'are you cold?'
                  F
She says 'no, but you are LA'
     Am        E
La la la la la la la la la la la
         E
It's the element within her
F           C           Dm7    C   F
La la la la la la la la la la la
G           Bm          F#
La la la la la la la la la la la
         E
It's the element within her  (and so on . . .)

 

Fish 'n' Chip Paper
Tom: E
 
E
When Sunday morning dandruff turns out to be confetti
                                                              D
And the cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty
E
The girl in your dreams would have you up on an under age charge
                                                D   E
And the man of the moment is the lifer at large
Chorus:
A                                F#m
If you've got something to hide, if you've got something to sell
D                              E
If you've got somebody's pride she might kiss and tell
A                 F#                  G          E
Or wind up with a fight fan in the Hammersmith Hotel
           C                      A
You better speak up now if you want your piece
           D
You better speak up now
         G
It won't mean a thing later
F                     G                      C
Yesterday's news is tomorrow's fish and chip paper
E
Your girl says she's leaving and this time she really means it
E
You can just look at the pictures, you don't actually have to read it
D                         
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
E
There's a man in the launderette and he's looking through your underwear for clues                                                  D
And the milkman is working through the News of the Screws
E
He says...
**Chorus
From A Whisper to A Scream
Tom: E
Intro:  E  D  A  F#
              E (alternate between E & E/D)
Oh it's not easy to resist temptation
          E
Walking around looking like a figment of somebody else's imagination
D
Taking ev'ry word she says just like an open invitation
        A                         F#m
But the power of persuasion is no match for anticipation
Chorus:
       E              Bbdim      A E
Like a finger running down a seam
E                   Bbdim   A  E
From a whisper to a scream
E    D
So I whisper and I scream
A         E   D    E    D  E
But don't get me wrong
D            A           B
Please don't leave me waitin' too long
    Bm
Waitin' too long
    F#m
Waitin' too long
    F
Waitin' too long
      E D E
Hey
   D     E     D  E
Oh oh oh oh oh
E     D   E (alternate between E & E/D)
Oh if the customers like it then they'll keep on paying
          E
If they keep on drinking then they'll end up staying
D
I heard someone say where have we met before
        A                                 F#m
But the one over the eight seem less like one or more like four

 

Human Hands
Tom: G
Intro: Dsus4    F6
G                                           D
I've been talking to the wall and it's been answering me 
Em         B
Oh darling how I miss you 
    C                          G
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness 
Am7                    D
I crave the silhouette of your kiss 
     G                          D
With only the blue light of the TV on 
Em                      B
Lip reading threats and false alarms 
              C                       G
There's a boy somewhere holding hands with himself 
      Am7                     D
And a girl in a window on the Reeperbarn
    C             C#dim            G          B
Whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt 
Em                     A
That it's you that I'm dreaming about 
     Cm                    C
Do I have to draw you a diagram? 
    C#dim       G               Am                    Em
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands 
G                                D
With the kings and queens of the dance hall craze 
Em                       B
Checkmate in three moves in your heyday 
        C                          G
But the girls don't listen to your line anymore 
Am7                D
Now you're part of someone else 
       G                     D                     Em
On the factory floor and you still say "Wheres the action?" 
        B                C
Now you manufacture happiness 
             G                               D
And get sold on the cheap for someone's satisfaction 
**Chorus
G                        D
All you toy soldiers and scaremongers 
Em                           B
Are you living in this world sometimes I wonder 
     C                   G                 Am7                   D
In between saying you've seen too much and saying you've seen it all before
G                     D
Tighter and tighter I hold you tightly 
Em  
You know I love you more than slightly 
         G          Am7               D
Although I've never said it like this before 
**Chorus

 

Kid About It
Tom: G
 
G                      F#m  B
He saw no tears in her eyes 
Em
Say you wouldn't kid about it 
G                          F#m  
She's telling all of those lies 
    B                        Em
She swore she'd never told before, but I doubt it 
   C 
So he bit his tongue 
    Bm                        Am
And tried hard to capture his breath 
                              C
When she said I waited all my life 
               C
For just a little death 
Chorus:
D                G            F#m
Say you wouldn't kid about it 
B                Em
Say you wouldn't kid about it 
A                G            F#m
Say you wouldn't kid about it 
B                Em           Eb7 (XX1323)
Say you wouldn't kid about it
C                          Em
Sometimes he takes himself so seriously 
C                          Em
She makes her movements mysteriously 
             F         Dm   Eb7
Slow fast or    furiously
C
It's a big responsibility 
       Em
With a face full of mixed ability 
C
Big dreams of elegance 
Em           F          C
Singing "The Leaving of Liverpool"
    D                        D9 (XX1232)
And turning into Americans 
D                G
Say you wouldn't kid about it
G                          F#m    B
So what if this is a man's world 
  Em
I want to be a kid again about it 
G                  F#m
Give me back my sadness 
  B                Em
I couldn't hide it even if I tried girl 
C
We fight so frail 
Bm                    Am
Making love tooth and nail 
                           C/D
You gave me the kiss of my life 
                                    D
I might even live to tell the tale 
**Chorus

 

Little Savage
Tom: G
Intro: Dm  C  G  Dm  C  G
  
F G          D
I would have waited all my life 
D                                  G          A
Just to make love out of something other than spite 
C       G        Gm         A 
But the beauty is the beast you're baiting 
Dm                         G
Should really be worth the waiting 
Em                   A    
You do something ver - y special to 
Em      A
Mr. Average 
Em                B
Now the lamb lies with the lion 
F    A      Dm    C   G        Dm C G
He's just a lit - tle savage 
F   G      D                     G A 
And so you turn your back on me 
D               F#m        Gm        C              G
And all the hot air that only echoes stale tobacco 
F G           D
Actions speak louder now than words (By just a fraction)
D                                   G        A              C
What's the use of saying I love you when I'm drinking to distraction 
            G      Gm
We save our sanity 
   A                    F
By saying such and such 
          Db+
After all its been discussed 
F           G
You say you must be touched 
**Chorus
The Long Honeymoon
Tom: Bb 
Intro: Cm  Bb  Cm  Bb
Bb         Cm
All the bedroom lights go out 
       Bb
As the neighborhood gets quiet 
Fm                                       Cm
Everything in heaven and earth is almost right 
              Cm                            Bb
But there's a wife who's wondering where her husband could be tonight 
             Fm                              Cm
And when the phone rang only once she took a dreadful fright 
       Cm                                Bb
Little things just seem to undermine her confidence in him
Fm                         Cm
He was late this time last week 
Cm                           Bb
Who can she turn to when the chance of coincidence is slim 
           Fm                        G+      G9  G
'Cause the baby isn't old enough to speak 
G              Edim Eb       
There's been a long honeymoon
Bb                  Edim Eb        Gm 
She thought too late and spoke too soon
           Ab                             Gm
There's no money back guarantee on future happiness 
               Edim Eb
There's been a long honeymoon 
Db                    Dbm                B
If he's out on a date then her life's in ruins 
    Bm                F#         Bm   A     G#m       Gm
She never thought her love could ever be as strong as this 
Bb      Cm
All the movies and the papers 
            Bb     
Feature the murders of lonely women 
      Fm                             Cm
If he isn't in by ten she'll call up her best friend 
Cm   
Why doesn't he come home 
             Bb
Why does her friends phone keep on ringing 
Fm                        G+ 
 . . . . Maybe she should just pretend 
**Chorus

Love Went Mad
Tom: C
 
     C                        G
I've looked at it every way I can
F               C
From under and above
    F
And every chance I've had
   Dm        C
My love went mad
G             C              Am
Love went mad love went mad
G                   Bm
You you feel like I feel?
Am
Do you have a heart?
F#dim                  F        C6
Do you have a heart of iron and steel?
Am
Are you a man now you wear a man's hat?
Am
Are you a man now or are you a rat?
F
You go to church quiet as a mouse
Bb                      Bdim
You're a big cheese now in the workhouse
C6
With these vulgar fractions of the treble clef
C6
I wish you luck with a capital 'F'
F
A self-made mug is hard to break
  Bb                Bdim              Bm
A silent partner in someone else's mistake
Am
Every day goes by without a hitch
Am
You feel the urge becoming an itch
F
The boys in blue are hard to catch
        Bb
They're busy turning Piccadilly
Bdim
Into Brands Hatch
              C6
But with your fingers in your ears
              C6
Feeling bright as a button
              C6
Thinking 'Thank God there'll be no more
              C6
Lamb dressed as mutton'
F
Playing family favourites on a tissue and a comb
Bb 
Dying a thousand deaths
       Bdim                 Bm
In the safety of your own home
     C                        G
I've looked at it every way I can
F               C
From under and above
    F
And every chance I've had
   Dm        C
My love went mad
G             C              Am
Love went mad love went mad
G                   Bm
You you feel like I feel?
Am
Do you have a heart?
F#dim                  F        C6
Do you have a heart of iron and steel?

 

Miracle Man
Tom: E
Intro: E    C#m     E    C#m
E                  C#m           E
You never asked me what I wanted. You only asked me why.
C#m   E                    C#m                  E          B    E
I never thought that so much trouble was a restin' on my reply,
        A                            E         
I could say it was the nights when I was lonely 
    A                          C#m
And you were the only one who'd come.
        A                         E
I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,
     F#                              B
When you know it's the way that you walk.
A                                     E
Why do you have to say that there's always someone 
        A                        E
Who can do it better than I can?
    A                                E
But don't you think that I know that walking on the water
      B   n.c.               B
Won't make me a miracle man?
E                     C#m
Baby's gotta have the things she wants.
               E                                C#m
You know she's gotta have the things she loves.
           E                C#m
She's got a ten-inch bamboo cigarette holder 
        E            B       E
and her black patent leather gloves.
        A                           E
And I'm doing everything just tryin' to please her,
     A                     C#m
Even crawling around on all fours.
      A                          E
Oh, I thought by now that it was gonna be easy,
        F#                      B
But she still seems to want for more.
A                                     E
Why do you have to say that there's always someone 
        A                        E
Who can do it better than I can?
    A                                E
But don't you think that I know that walking on the water
      B   n.c.               B
Won't make me a miracle man?   Oh yeah
E                         C#m                   E     
Yeah they're givin' you a bad reputation just because you've never been denied.     
   C#m            E                   C#m                   E
You try to say you've done it all before. Baby, you know that you 
B        E          A                     E
just get tired. Yet everybody loves you so much, girl.
       A                           C#m              A                 E
I just don't know how you stand the strain. Oh, but I'm the one who's here
                     F#                 B
tonight, and I don't wanna do it all in vain.
A                                     E
Why do you have to say that there's always someone 
        A                        E
Who can do it better than I can?
    A                                E
But don't you think that I know that walking on the water
      B   n.c.               B
Won't make me a miracle man?   Oh yeah
               B
A miracle man?   Oh yeah
               B
A miracle man?   Oh yeah
               B
A miracle man?   Oh yeah

 

Pay it Back
Tom: G
 
G   
Stop thief; you're gonna come to grief 
       C
If you don't take a little more care.
             G        Em7      C      G 
You're gonna get more than the family plan
                  C        G
From this one shoestring affair.
Em      A                   C       G          F
  I may be crazy but I can't contemplate being trapped between the doctor 
       C      Bm
And the magistrate. 
Chorus:
G 
One of these days I'm gonna pay it back, pay it back,
C
One  of these days.
G
One of these days I'm gonna pay it back, pay it back,
C
One  of these days.
G
And then they told me I could be somebody
     C
if I didn't let too much get in my way.
      G        Em7          C    G
And I tried so hard just to be myself,
              C      G
but I keep on fading away.
         Em          A              C            G
Until the lights went out, I didn't know what to do.
           F                      C             Bm
If I could fool myself, then maybe I'd fool you too.
**Chorus
G               
I wouldn't say that I was raised on romance.
C
Let's not get stuck in the past. 
           G    Em7       C            G
I love you more than everything in the world.
               C         G
I don't expect that will last.
Em                           C      G
They told me everything was guaranteed.
F                          C        Bm
Somebody somewhere must've lied to me.
**Chorus (Repeat And Fade)

Pidgin English
Tom: D
Intro: D D7 G D D7 G

D                             D7            G           D
There's a young girl with her old man who's too sick to mention
          D                D7         G                 D
She'll be turning twenty seven as she draws her widow's pension
       D                D7             G                 D
But he couldn't catch a common cold he couldn't get arrested 
    D            D7
Too terrified to answer back 
    G                D7
Too tired to have resisted
G               C
Many hands make light work
     G
Shorthand makes life easy 
                 C
When he's out on night work
     G
Make sure no one sees me
   D
It all ends up in a slanging match with body talk and bruises
  A7
A change is better than a rest
Silly beggars can't be choosers
Chorus:
G                                  D
One of a thousand pities you can't categorize
          G      A            Bm
There are ten commandments of love
G             D
When will you realize
There are ten commandments of love
A                                G                  Em        Em7
I believe, I trust, I promise, I wish love's just a throwaway kiss
D
In this Pidgin English
                      
If you're so wise use your lips and your eyes
                          C
Take it to the bridge she sighs
D                  D7                 G         D
You go cheep cheep cheep between bulls-eyes and bluster
D               D7
Stiff as your poker face
G              D
Keener than mustard
          D        D7          G         D
From your own back yard to the land of exotica
         D        D7          G       D7
From the truth society to neurotic erotica
G             C
Silence is golden
            G
Money talks diamonds and ermine
          G       C
There's a word in Spanish 
   G
Italian and German 
   D
In sign language, morse code, semaphore and gibberish
     A7
Have you forgotten how to say it
In your Pidgin English?
**Chorus
D
PS I love you 

Pretty Words
Tom: G
 
G
I ask you nicely
                    D     Em      F  C
Get my face slapped under wraps
G
What's going on precisely
                   D        Em
Is there something wrong perhaps?
C         D7  G    
Surprise, surprise (surprise, surprise)
D C                D7 G         D               Em  D
    It's more like a booby trap than a booby prize
G                                        D     Em     F C
Civil disobedience from a soldier with a dirty rifle
G                                                    D     Em
You're loosening all the screws that hold the hinges of my life
C         D7 G
Fat cats and army brats
C        D7 G       D              Em       F C
Hep cats in dog tag pawing over girly mags
Chorus:
G                  F            Bm  C#m  D  E6
Pretty words don't mean much anymore
G                  Bb                Em F#m 
I don't mean to be mean much anymore
G             C
All I see are snapshots, bigshots, tender spots
(1) mug shots, machine slots
(2) machine slots, mug shots
'Till you don't know what's what
                             Em F C
You don't know what you got
G                              D    Em  F C
Curious women running after curious men
G
Curiosity didn't kill the cat
         D        Em
It was a poisoned pen
C               D7  G                      D
But there's not much choice (it's Hobson's choice)
C       D7 G          D              Em   D 
Between a cruel mouth and a jealous voice
G
Got back to London
               D        Em
Picked a paper from the man
G
No words of consolation
                  D      Em
Just cartoons and titter tatter
C         D7 G
Well well, fancy that
C                 D7 G                C
Millions murdered for a kiss me quick hat
             G
No backbone, blood and guts
D                   Em     F
Better keep your big mouth shut
**Chorus
F              C             G
You don't know what you got . . . . 
(The Angels Want to Wear My) Red Shoes
Tom:E
Intro: E   B   E   B E
E                                    G#m
Oh I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
                E7
But since their wings have got rusted,
              A            B           E    
you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
              A                                  E
But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain,
              A                     E
that's when I knew that I could not refuse.
            B                      A            B           A      E
And I won't get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
     A                            B        E
Oh,   I was watching while you're dancing away.
B                             A        E
Our love got fractured in the echo and sway.
A                           B       E
How come everybody wants to be your friend?
    G#m                                 B
You know that it still hurts me just to say it.
      E
Oh, I know that she's disgusted (oh why's that)
            G#m
Cause she's feeling so abused. (oh that's too bad)
         A
She gets tired of the lust, (oh I'm so sad)
           B
but it's so hard to refuse.
            A
How can you say that I'm too old,
         E           B             A       E   
when the angels have stolen my red shoes.
    A                     B       E
Oh, I said "I'm so happy, I could die."
B                                      A     E
She said "Drop dead," then left with another guy.
A                             B              E
That's what you get if you go chasing after vengeance.
     G#m                                         B
Ever since you got me punctured this has been my sentence.
E                                    G#m
Oh I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
                E7
But since their wings have got rusted,
              A            B           E    
You know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
              A                                  E
But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain,
              A                     E
That's when I knew that I could not refuse.
            B                      A            B           A      E
And I won't get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
A              E                          A                
Red shoes, the angels want to wear my red shoes 
                E
Red shoes, The angels want to wear my red (A)shoes  (Repeat And Fade)

Riot Act
Tom: A
 
A   Dm    A               Dm   A
         Forever 
        Dm      C            F
Doesn't mean forever anymore
A Dm        A     
I said forever
               Dm                      C                 F
But it doesn't look like I'm gonna be around much anymore
D                  G
When the heat gets so tropical
Bm               Em
And the talk gets  so topical
Chorus:
D          D/C                 Bm7 (can use B5)
Riot act - you can read me the riot act
Bbmaj7            Em7
You can make me a matter of fact
     A    
Or a villain in a million
  Em7                         A
A slip of the tongue is gonna keep me civilian
C#m             C              Bm
Why do you talk such stupid nonsense
            Bb               A
When my mind could rest much easier
C#m        C                  Bm
Instead of all this dumb dumb insolence
           Bb              A
I would be happier with amnesia
A    Dm         A
They say forget her
                         Dm                c                F
Now it looks like you're either gonna be before me or against me
A  Dm          A
I  got your letter
               Dm                 C             F
Now they say I don't care for the color that it paints me
D               G
Trying to be so bad is bad enough
Bm            Em
Don't make me laugh by talking tough
D              G
Don't put your heart out on your sleeve
Em
When your remarks are off the cuff
Chorus . . . . . . 
D/C   =  x20232
Shabby Doll 
Tom: Em
Intro: Em   Em6  C/E  Em
Em
Giving you more of what for
            Em
Always worked for me before
          D            Em
Now I'm a shabby doll
Em                                   D
What's going on behind the green elevator door
Em          D             Em
With just a shabby doll
          Am
There's a hit man facing
    Am
A compromising situation
              Em
With just a shabby doll
                                        D
And a very neat line in character assassination
Em           D             Em
She's just a shabby doll 
Chorus:
D            A
She's just a shabby doll
      D                   A
She's putting him off and putting you on 
D              A           D               A
She's just the shabby doll, she's just the shabby doll
       D              A                      D
You're swearing upon, you know in your heart
D              A                     Em
She's gone you know in your heart
                 Em
She's just a shabby doll
Em
There's a girl in this dress
                 Em
There's always a girl in distress 
             D              Em
She's just a shabby doll
                 Em
She's so sure she's self-possessed
      D                         Em
Then again she's half undressed
             D             Em
She's just a shabby doll
    Am
The boy that I used to be
    Am
Showed no sign of sympathy
           Em
For just a shabby doll
                 Em
I have betrayed you and me
            D                 Em
And paid for my own bribery
            D           Em
With just a shabby doll
**Chorus
Bridge:
A/E                      Dmaj7 
He's the tired toy that everyone enjoyed
   A/E                              D
He wants to be a fancy man but he's nothing but a nancy boy
C                     B
He's all pride and no joy
Em
And being what you might call a whore
                 Em
Always worked for me before
          D           Em
Now I'm a shabby doll 
                 Em
Untie the gag the cat's out of the bag 
    D                    Em
But won't show his claws
            D
He's just a shabby doll
Am     
She said you must be joking
                 Em
Some things are left unspoken 
              Em
You're just a shabby doll
                 Em
He's lying limp and soaking
           D         Em
He was openly broken
          D
By just a shabby doll
**Chorus

Shot With His Own Gun
Tom: Am
Intro: Dm  Am  Dm  Am
Am                          F      C
How does it feel now you've been undressed
     Dm         C             G      C
by a man with a mind like the gutter press
E       Am         D         G      D
So disappointed to find it's no big sin
G     D       G     G#dim
Lying skin to skin
Chorus:
Little Riff:
e-----------
B-----------
G-----------
D-----------
A-0-----3---
E----0------
Dm   Am   Dm  Am       (lil' riff)
Shot with his own gun
Dm  Am  Dm Am       (lil' riff)
Now dad is keeping mum
Dm   Am           C      (end riff)  
Shot with his own gun    e--0-0-0--1---
                         B--1-1-1--1---
                         G--1-1-1--1---
                         D---------0---
                         A-------------
                         E-------------
Ab  F#  Ebm         F#          D           D+ Bb   F
Now somebody has to pay for the one who got away
Am                        F        C
What's on his mind now is anyone's guess
Dm         C          G       C
Losing his touch with each caress
E              Am              D    G
Spending ev'ry evening looking so appealing
   D             G
He comes without warning
D              G   G#dim
Leaves without feeling
**Chorus
Ab F#   Ebm                F#            D             D+ Bb   F
On your marks, man, ready, set Let's get loaded and forget
Am                      F      C
The little corporal got in the way
    Dm     C          G        C
And he got hit by an emotional ricochet
E          Am            D           G
It's a bit more now than dressing up dolly
D       G           D       G  G#dim
Playing house seems so melancholy
**Chorus
**Chorus
Ab F#   Ebm           F#             D                D+  Bb   F
Oh it's too sad to be true your blue murder's killing you
**Instrumental Interlude
**Chorus
Sneaky Feelings
Tom: C
Intro: G Em7  C F C G Em7 C F C
C   G                           C                G
Now everybody's breakin' up somebody else's home,
                            C                     G
Before somebody else starts breaking up their own.
          C      G
I get you in my dreams.
                    C          G
You should hear the things you say.
                   C       G
It's not that it's so much fun,
         Am7        G  F F#
But it's safer that way.
Chorus:
G              C       G
Sneaky feeling, sneaky feelings,
                                    Am7
You can't let those kind of feeling show.
            G                          C         G
I'd like to get right through the way I feel for you, 
         Am7                         G  Em7
But I've still got a long way to go.
    C        G                         C            G
Why don't we call it a day, and we can both confess.
                                  C         G
You can force me to use a little tenderness.
C     G     C  G    C                               G
White lies, alibis, anything but say that it's true.
    C                 G               c                    G
Now we could sit like lovers, staring in each other's eyes,
        Am7                         D                      G
But the magic of the moment might become too much for you.
Chorus:
G                  C      G
Sneaky feelings, sneaky feelings,
                                    Am7
You can't let those kind of feeling show.
            G                           C         G
I'd like to get right through the way I  feel for you, 
      Am7                        G     Am7                        G
But I still got a long way to go, Oh I still got a long way to go . .
Strict Time
Tom: G
Intro:  G C G C G C G C
G
There's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth
           G
I can hear you knocking but I'm not coming out
      C                                      
Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist
                                                 G
'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list
D                                    C
Fingers creeping up my spine are not mine to resist
G
Strict time
Chorus:
D                      
Toughen up, toughen up
                            C
Keep your lip buttoned up
                   G
Strict time
G
Oh the muscles flex and the fingers curl
           G
And a cold sweat breaks out on the sweater girl
    G
Strict time
C
Oh he's all hands, don't touch that dial
                C
The courting cold wars weekend witch trial
G
Strict time
D                                       C
All the boys are straight laced and the girls are frigid
                                                          G
The talk is two-faced and the rules are rigid 'cause it's strict time
      G
Strict time
**Chorus
G
You talk in hushed tones, I talk in lush tones
      G
Try to look Italian through the musical Valium
      G
Strict time
C
Thinking of grand larceny
                                         D
Smoking the everlasting cigarette of chastity
          D
Cute assistants staying alive
C                                 G
More like a hand job than the hand jive
      G
Strict time
**Chorus
**Chorus

 

Two Little Hitlers
Tom: A
A                 E
Why are we racing to be so old?
A                             E
I'm up late pacing the floor I won't be told
A                          E             D
You have your reservations I'm bought and sold
D
I'll face the music I'll face the facts
E
Even when we walk in polka dots and chequer slacks
A                    E
Bowing and squawking Running after titbits
A                     E7
Bobbing and squinting Just like a nitwit
Chorus:
D
Two little Hitlers will fight it out until
E                                      A
One little Hitler does the other one's will
  D       E            D           E
I will    return     I will    not burn
       E
Down in the basement
A                       E
I need my head examined I need my eyes excited
A                          E7
I'd like to join the party But I was not invited
A                       E7
You make a member of me I'll be delighted
D
I wouldn't cry for lost souls, you might drown
E
Dirty words for dirty minds Written in a toilet town
A                   E7
Dial me a Valentine She's a smooth operator
A                      E7
It's all so calculated She's got a calculator
A                              E7
She's my soft touch typewriter And I'm the great dictator
**Chorus
                      A
A simple game of self-respect
E                          A
You flick a switch and the world goes off
E                     A
Nobody jumps as you expect
E                                   F#m           E
I would have thought you would have had enough by now
A                         E7
You call selective dating For some effective mating
A                                E7
I thought I'd let you down, dear But you were just deflating
A                           E7
I knew right from the start We'd end up hating
D 
Pictures of the merchandise Plastered on the wall
E
We can look so long as we don't have to talk at all
A                             E7
You say you'll never know him He's an unnatural man
A                             A
He doesn't want your pleasure He wants as no one can
A                             E7
He wants to know the names of All those he's better than
**Chorus
  D      E
I will return
  D        E
I will not burn  . . . . . 
Watch Your Step
Tom: C
Intro: C F Em     C F G  (Repeat)
C           F   Em  C         F   Cm 
Don't say a word,   don't say anything
C           F     Em  C        F     G
Don't say a word, I'm not even listening
C             Dm          Em
I read in the papers about their escape
F            C                      Em          F  C      F Em C
They're just two bit of kids from a bunch of so-ur grapes
C          F         G     C   F Em C F G
You better watch your step
C           Bm          Am          F
Watch who's knocking on your front door
        C                 Bm
Now you know that they're watching
             Am      F
What are you waiting for?
             C          Bm
Think you're young and original
Am        F        C F Em 
Get out before...
C           F          G    C F Em C F G
They get to watch your step
C           F   Em  C          
Ev'ry day is full   of fun,   
F   Cm  C           F     
And     family spies,       
Em  C        F     G  C             Dm     
They're making heroes out of fall guys     
     Em            F            C
They say it's good for business 
     Em          F  C      F Em C
From Singapore to Widnes
C          F         G     C   F Em C F G
You better watch your step
C      Bm            Am     F
Broken noses hung up on the wall
C             Bm                 Am           F
Back slapping drinkers cheer the heavy weight brawl
C        Bm               Am   F            C F Em 
So punch drunk they don't understand at all
C          F          G    
You better watch your step
Instrumental: Am  F Em C G F Em Dm  G C Bb F
C           F 
Ev'ry night 
   Em  C    F   Cm  C           F   
Go out  full of  carnival desires 
  Em  C     F  G  C             Dm          
End up in the    closing time choirs
Em          F                        C 
When you're kicking in the car chrome  
Dm         Em                F
And you're drinking down the Eau de Cologne
 C Dm       Em               F          C F Em C
And you're spitting out the Kodachrome
C          F         G     C   F Em C F G
You better watch your step
C   Bm
Bye
  Am           F
I send you all my regards
C         Bm
You're so tough
Am        F
You're so hard
C             Bm          Am         F         G    C
Listen to the hammers falling in the breaker's yard
C          F          G    C
You better watch your step
C          F          G    C
You better watch your step
C          F          G    C
Ooh, watch your step
You Little Fool
Tom: G
Intro: G  C  G
G            C                    D
Daddy's best girl in the world is not supposed to have a boyfriend
C               Bm              Am7
But she's never wanted at home
C           G           Am7
Other girls are allowed to wear their makeup
           C                Bm               D
She sneaks out her lipstick powder and comb
D                           G                  C
She surrounds his name with hearts and flowers
G                          C     G   C6
Talks on the telephone for hours and hours
   
But with the bird in his hand
G   D        G
And two on a string
    C                     D
The words of love have an imitation ring
Chorus:
D   C
You little fool
G         D           C           G
I suppose that your going to stay all night
D   C
You little fool
G                D        C           G
Don't look at me that way you know it isn't right
D   Bsus4        G                D   C
You little fool, you little fool, you little fool
Bridge:
E        A       A7      D
They say no news is good news
    E      A          A7     D
The little girl wants information
D           C         G    E        A
Mother just gives her some pills to choose
    F           Bb       C
And says go and use your imagination
G            C                 D
Daddy's best girl in the world says just look what I have got
       C               Bm                Am7
As she sits beside him on the high stools
C             G                Am7
With his arms around her neck, snowball in one hand
        C             Bm7       D
And the other full of imitation jewels 
              D   
She fingers a string of pearls
G                C     G     C6
An imitation but he'll never know it 
          G      D        G
Imitation lashes flutter above
C                 D         Em
Looking for an imitation of love 
**Chorus


You'll Never Be A Man
Tom: A
Intro: Bm  G C B Fadd9 G
A                                                    Bm    A D
You need protection from the physical art of conversation
A                                                            Bm   A D
Though the fist is mightier than the lip, it adds the aggravation
Bridge And Chorus:
Bm        G
I got the password
C           Am
I got persuasion
F        Am         F              Am
A proposition for invasion of your privacy
         F             Dm7              C
Give yourself away and find the fake in me
       A
You'll never be a man
                   D              E   A         D A
No matter how many foreign bodies you can take
       A               D A
You'll never be a man
A           D                       A
When you're half a woman and you're half awake
           Bm7                      A
(1) With a face full of tears and a chemical shake
(2) Under the table with a chemical shake
      D   
Given half a chance, that I can take
F                            C
Are you so superior, are you in such pain
    Dm7             C
Are you made out of porcelain?
     F                  C
When they made you they broke the cast
      Dm7                            G
Don't wanna be first, I just want to last
A                                                 Bm    A D
You strike a profile on the low side of my imagination
A                                                        Bm    A D
My eyes climbed down to find the point of possible saturation
(Bridge And Chorus)

 

After The Fall
Tom :Am
                              Am                 E
                                In an anonymous rendez-vous
                                                            Am
                              where the forbidden lovers repair
                                       C                         G
                              They're burning down another damn candle
                                       E                      Fmaj7
                              they're melting the tables and chairs
                               
                                 Am                           E
                              Beneath them applause from the balcony
                                                                 Am
                              whenever they accomplished making love
                              C                                    G
                              Other times they thought they heard laughter
                               E                       Fmaj7
                              coming from the balcony above
                               
                                     G                         D
                                She lies to his right and she carelessly resites
                                Em                        D
                                All of her brand new appetites
                                           G                          D
                                She seems brittle and small it don't sound like her at all
                                Em                         E
                                Since she came back to him After the fall
                               
                                       Am                     E
                              She said You never visited the countryside
                                                            Am
                              So I've made you a country to order
                                   C                           G
                              She put up a little tent in the bedroom
                                E                         Fmaj7
                              Crickets played on a tape recorder
                               
                                  Am                           E
                              The ceiling was festooned with phosphorous stars
                                                           Am
                              She noticed his skin turning cold
                               C                              G
                              Burning all his clothes on the bonfire
                                          E                         Fmaj7
                              Relax she whispered and tightened the blindfold
                               
                                     G                         D
                                She lies to his right and she carelessly resites
                                Em                        D
                                All of her brand new appetites
                                           G                          D
                                She seems brittle and small it don't sound like her at all
                                Em                         E
                                Since she came back to him After the fall
                               
                                      Am                      E
                              You've changed but not for the better, babe 
                                                              Am
                              I'd tell you why but what's the use
                               C                            G
                              'Cause it's the same kind of pity
                                  E                     Fmaj7
                              a drunkard gives as his excuse
                               
                              Am                             E
                              You were sharp and ideal as a bobby pin
                                                              Am
                              Now your eyes are deserted and quiet
                                       C                              G
                              We both look like those poor shattered mannequins
                                       E                       Fmaj7
                              Thrown through the window in the riot
                               
                                     G                       D
                                She lies in his arms and without any qualms
                                Em                   D
                                Revels in shallow delights
                                           G                          D
                                She seems brittle and small it don't look like her at all
                                Em                         E
                                Since she came back to him After the fall

 

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