Long Island Blues chords by Julian Casablancas

Chords with lyrics

guitar, piano and an organ of some kind. It's a great song if you can find it
somewhere to buy. I recommend it. Enjoy the tab.

Standard tuning.

Chords by JustinS03


Intro: C-Am-F-Em-G

 C majorC
I see a drug bust in your eyes
     FF        C majorC
There are bruises on your thighs
    FF         C majorC       FF   A minorAm    G+G
I can tell you’re trying to hide, all the darkness in your mind
  C majorC
You got saw dust on your toes
     FF          C majorC
From that sports bar down the road
     FF          C majorC      FF   A minorAm   G+G
You have beer glass in your feet, you say kiss me on the cheek

   C majorC
Some people get paid to talk
   FF         C majorC
Some people get paid to listen
   FF        C majorC      FF   A minorAm    G+G
Some people buy a ticket and can’t wait for intermission

   C majorC
Just like some will love you blindly
   FF          C majorC
Some will love you with conditions
   FF          C majorC         FF  A minorAm  G+G
Some will love you like an unborn child loves family tradition

  C majorC
Now she is tainted by the syringe
     FF         C majorC
Trying to rhyme a word with orange
    FF        C majorC         FF  A minorAm  G+G
I’m a cheap and ugly sinner, to who soul love is foreign

       FF
So if you’re sideways
          C majorC
And if you wanna go my way
          G+G
Before a meteoric shower
                C majorC
Decides the earth should be devoured
                FF
Whether you’re locked up in a tower
              C majorC
Or you’re charging by the hour
              G+G
In mama’s eyes you are a flower
                  C majorC
Forget the after taste if life got sour
              FF
Will you finish what you started
              C majorC
Travel the seas you never parted
             G+G
Remember things you disregarded
            C majorC
Communicate with the departed
                    FF
Believe in things you thought weren’t founded
            C majorC
Prepare to always be astounded
                 G+G
Or keep your dreams and visions grounded
              C majorC
It took a while but then I found it.

 C majorC
No one inspired you in time
    FF        C majorC
So you left your love behind
    FF         C majorC          FF    A minorAm   G+G
In a world that can discourage one who is young and full of courage

  C majorC
You said you’d start at the bottom
  FF            C majorC
But instead you start at the top
  FF           C majorC          FF   A minorAm    G+G
Be careful what you wish for because on your lap it might just drop

  C majorC
So it’s a lonely life at the bottom
    FF         C majorC
Can be lonely too at the top
    FF         C majorC       FF    A minorAm   G+G
Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops

  C majorC
They’ll say dream but what they mean
  FF        C majorC
Is be specific or obscene
   FF         C majorC        FF     A minorAm    G+G
It’s time to find some time to fail at what makes you most happy

  C majorC
Sometimes you concentrate on lovers
  FF         C majorC
To forget everything else
  FF         C majorC      FF    A minorAm   G+G
Sometimes you hate each other to forget you hate yourself

       FF
So if you’re sideways
           C majorC
And if you wanna come my way
          G+G
Before a meteoric shower
                C majorC
Decides the earth should be devoured
                FF
Whether you’re locked up in the tower
               C majorC
Or if you charge 'em by the hour
               G+G
To me you’ll always be a flower
                  C majorC
Forget the after taste if life got sour
             FF
Will you finish what you started
                C majorC
Before you celebrate with a cigar lit
             G+G
Remember things you disregarded
            C majorC
Communicate with the departed
            FF
Prepare to always be astounded
                    C majorC
Believe in things you thought weren’t founded
                   G+G
Don’t keep those dreams and visions grounded
              C majorC
It took a while but now I found it.

Outro: C-Am-F-C-G C-F-Am-G