Catch A Fallen Star chords by Marc Almond

Key: G

Intro:

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Verse 1:
       G
Black rings round your eyes
             Dm
And you're spewing your lies
           G                   Dm
That you know is your old routine
              Am
Spilling your drink
                 Em
With a nudge and wink
                    Am           Em
As you boast about people you've been
         G
Smoking your cigarette
Dm
Down to the butt
          G                        Dm
And your teeth are as black as the tar
     Am
You tell them at sex
          Em
You're a stud in the bed
       Am                        Em
As you hang for your life on the bar
        G
And you see your own peak
        Dm
On the top of the mountain
      G                       Dm
Of bodies you trod on to get there
        Am
Shit on me, shit on her
         Em
Shit on you in the end
          Am                          Em
And they won't even lend you the bus fare
           G
Now you're boring the pants off
     Dm
The tart on the dance-floor
         G                           Dm
As you tell her the person you once were
          Am
She just sees you as trash
          Em
But she creams at the cash
           Am                     Em
That you might pay just to grope her

Interlude:
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Verse 2:
          G              Dm
And this town is a potpourri of disease
          G
Can you smell the herpes
                 Dm
from the scum-sucking fucks
            Am                            Em
That hang around the same suckers each mid-night
           Am
You were being your photo
                   Em
And spouting your promo
         G
Flicking back your limp quiff
           Dm
That's as limp as your dick
         G                        Dm
Irritating your greedy cross-eyed sight

      Am                         Em
Oh Christ and you're greasing up now
                   Am
To the creepy old cow
                          Em
That would sell out your mother and besides
G
Your sell-out assured
                   Dm
You were always a whore
             G                        Dm
And you've always been taken for long rides
         Am
At the smell of the bribe
         Em
You go jelly inside
        Am                             Em
As you step up the gold ladder to big time
      G                                      Dm
Kick them on the way up, kick you on the way down
      G                                 Dm
And you'll need them all again in good time
       Am
Your friend is the "yes" man
                  Em
Who sits by your side
          Am                          Em
With his hand in your pocket all the time
           G
And he's messing your head
                    Dm
Tries to get you in bed
          G                      Dm
Well it's all masturbation of a kind

Interlude:
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Verse 3:
          G
What you earn, heaven knows
                          Dm
It goes straight up your nose
         G                           Dm
And you strangle your health in the end
           Am
And you're blinded by bull
                       Em
And you've really been full
            Am                           Em
And it's driving you straight round the bend
             G
And you're told that a smile
                  Dm
is so worth your while
           G                    Dm
Its what "yes" men call diplomacy
       Am
It'll get you the goal
           Em
But while losing the soul
        Am                  Em
You're forgetting the quality
          G
And you heave on your drink
            Dm
As you're starting to think
      G                           Em
That all that shines may not be larme
      Am
But a cheap substitute
         Em
That'll give you the boot
              Am                     Em
You're just a stiff at a funeral party
           G
Where you slouch on the bar
           Dm
With your arm in the beer
          G                      Dm
Wearing yesterday's mascara today
       Am
And it runs when you cry
        Em
about living a lie
         Am                        Em
And the lie's starting to fade away     Fade away

Interlude:
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Fade away