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The Charm Of Innocence chords by Momus

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Chord diagramC majorC                      Chord diagramD MajorD
I was born with the charm of innocence
      Chord diagramA augmentedA           Chord diagramBb majorBb
On my back like a cross
Chord diagramC majorC                  Chord diagramD MajorD
Thorns upon my forehead
Chord diagramA augmentedA               Chord diagramBb majorBb
Round my neck I wore it
            Chord diagramC majorC
Sometimes a rabbit's claw
             Chord diagramE MajorE
Sometimes an albatross

     Chord diagramA augmentedA                           Chord diagramC# minorC#m
It began at a school that turned boys into gentlemen
Chord diagramG+G                      Chord diagramB minorBm
Then turned them on to debauchery
      Chord diagramA augmentedA                     Chord diagramC# minorC#m
I was forced to my knees in front of these gentlemen
Chord diagramG+G                       Chord diagramB minorBm
If I refused they would torture me
   Chord diagramA augmentedA                       Chord diagramC# minorC#m
On Sundays I'd stalk the Botanical Garden
    Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramB minorBm
And under my uniform something would harden
   Chord diagramFF                               Chord diagramE MajorE
Whenever I passed a girl of my own age

   Chord diagramA augmentedA                    Chord diagramC# minorC#m
Or did it begin with au pair girls from Germany
Chord diagramG+G                        Chord diagramB minorBm
Paid by the hour to look after us?
Chord diagramA augmentedA                      Chord diagramC# minorC#m
Did it begin with that first opportunity
   Chord diagramG+G                      Chord diagramB minorBm
To corner a stranger with nakedness?
Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramC# minorC#m
Maybe the clinical way they undressed me
Chord diagramG+G                   Chord diagramB minorBm
Stayed with me and deeply distressed me
Chord diagramFF                                     Chord diagramE MajorE
I think, at heart, I'm something of a prude

      Chord diagramC majorC                      Chord diagramD MajorD
I was born with the charm of innocence
      Chord diagramA augmentedA           Chord diagramBb majorBb
On my back like a cross
Chord diagramC majorC                  Chord diagramD MajorD
Thorns upon my forehead
Chord diagramA augmentedA               Chord diagramBb majorBb
Round my neck I wore it
            Chord diagramC majorC
Sometimes a rabbit's claw
             Chord diagramE MajorE
Sometimes an albatross

Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramC# minorC#m
Then at eighteen I decided I wanted
   Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramB minorBm
To be a commercial photographer
   Chord diagramA augmentedA              Chord diagramC# minorC#m
I rented a studio down by the docks
        Chord diagramG+G                      Chord diagramB minorBm
Which I shared with a friendly pornographer
  Chord diagramA augmentedA                      Chord diagramC# minorC#m
I photographed models in fluorescent light
      Chord diagramG+G                            Chord diagramB minorBm
Whose veins were so blue and whose breasts were so white
     Chord diagramFF                                    Chord diagramE MajorE
I assumed, like the moon, women were blue cheese

Chord diagramA augmentedA                    Chord diagramC# minorC#m
When I left home I already had five years
   Chord diagramG+G                   Chord diagramB minorBm
Of self abuse under my belt
  Chord diagramA augmentedA                         Chord diagramC# minorC#m
I found certain women who'd let me try anything
Chord diagramG+G                       Chord diagramB minorBm
Just to find out how it felt
        Chord diagramA augmentedA                      Chord diagramC# minorC#m
In some garish hotel room with vile decoration
    Chord diagramG+G                      Chord diagramB minorBm
The wallpaper witnessed my first pollination
Chord diagramFF                                 Chord diagramE MajorE
The paisley patterns witnessed an abortion

      Chord diagramC majorC                      Chord diagramD MajorD
I was born with the charm of innocence
      Chord diagramA augmentedA           Chord diagramBb majorBb
On my back like a cross
Chord diagramC majorC                  Chord diagramD MajorD
Thorns upon my forehead
Chord diagramA augmentedA               Chord diagramBb majorBb
Round my neck I wore it
            Chord diagramC majorC
Sometimes a rabbit's claw
             Chord diagramE MajorE
Sometimes an albatross

       Chord diagramA augmentedA                      Chord diagramC# minorC#m
In the army they taught me to share the abuse
         Chord diagramG+G                      Chord diagramB minorBm
That I'd kept up 'til then to myself
        Chord diagramA augmentedA
There's nothing like killing
    Chord diagramC# minorC#m                  Chord diagramG+G                     Chord diagramB minorBm
For coaxing a shy boy of twenty-one out of his shell
       Chord diagramA augmentedA                     Chord diagramC# minorC#m
In the dark continent with a peace-keeping force
       Chord diagramG+G                    Chord diagramB minorBm
I fell in with a bunch of Algerian whores
Chord diagramFF                                     Chord diagramE MajorE
And promised them I'd try and keep in touch

Chord diagramBB                      Chord diagramEbmEbm
We met up again in the eighteenth arrondisement
Chord diagramA augmentedA               Chord diagramC# minorC#m
I remember them well
      Chord diagramBB                           Chord diagramEbmEbm
Their lank stringy hair and their big bulbous noses
      Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramC# minorC#m
Their unmistakable smell
       Chord diagramBB                      Chord diagramEbmEbm
I'd approach all the ugliest, seediest jerks
    Chord diagramA augmentedA                       Chord diagramC# minorC#m
And ask them to keep a young model in work
Chord diagramG+G                                             Chord diagramF#F#
Some men, thank Christ, don't discriminate at all

      Chord diagramC majorC                      Chord diagramD MajorD
I was born with the charm of innocence
      Chord diagramA augmentedA           Chord diagramBb majorBb
On my back like a cross
Chord diagramC majorC                  Chord diagramD MajorD
Thorns upon my forehead
Chord diagramA augmentedA               Chord diagramBb majorBb
Round my neck I wore it
            Chord diagramC majorC
Sometimes a rabbit's claw
             Chord diagramE MajorE
Sometimes an albatross

       Chord diagramA augmentedA                    Chord diagramC# minorC#m
I will pass my old age by a pale two-bar fire
Chord diagramG+G                    Chord diagramB minorBm
Patiently waiting to die
Chord diagramA augmentedA                         Chord diagramC# minorC#m
Twitching the lace as the schoolgirls go past
Chord diagramG+G                   Chord diagramB minorBm
Tracing a page of Bataille
    Chord diagramA augmentedA                        Chord diagramC# minorC#m
And if you catch sight of my secondhand coat
Chord diagramG+G                         Chord diagramB minorBm
Leaving behind it a faint whiff of goat
         Chord diagramFF                    Chord diagramE MajorE
Remember both of us are naked underneath

  Chord diagramBB                             Chord diagramEbmEbm
I thought it would end with the first obscene phone call
    Chord diagramA augmentedA                   Chord diagramC# minorC#m
The second professional kill
    Chord diagramBB                        Chord diagramEbmEbm
But somehow detached from my actual behavior
     Chord diagramA augmentedA                    Chord diagramC# minorC#m
This innocence burdens me still
Chord diagramBB                 Chord diagramEbmEbm
Up in the attic I pick up the brush
 Chord diagramA augmentedA                        Chord diagramC# minorC#m
Paint in the crow's feet, paint out the blush
    Chord diagramG+G                                 Chord diagramF#F#
The face this portrait is of is still capable of
    Chord diagramG+G                                                Chord diagramF#F#
The face this portrait is supposed to be of is still capable of
    Chord diagramG+G         G/F#     Chord diagramG/EG/E   G/F#     Chord diagramF#F#
The face this portrait is of is still capable of (Paint out the blush of shame)
    Chord diagramG+G         G/F#            Chord diagramG/EG/E        G/F#        Chord diagramF#F#
The face this portrait is supposed to be of is still capable of (Paint out the blush of shame)
    Chord diagramG+G         G/F#     Chord diagramG/EG/E   G/F#     Chord diagramF#F#
The face this portrait is of is still capable of (Paint out the blush of shame)
    Chord diagramG+G         G/F#            Chord diagramG/EG/E        G/F#        Chord diagramF#F#
The face this portrait is supposed to be of is still capable of (Paint out the blush of shame)
    Chord diagramG+G         G/F#     Chord diagramG/EG/E   G/F#     Chord diagramF#F#
The face this portrait is of is still capable of (Paint out the blush of shame)
    Chord diagramG+G         G/F#            Chord diagramG/EG/E        G/F#        Chord diagramF#F#
The face this portrait is supposed to be of is still capable of (Paint out the blush of shame)

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