Discovering Japan chords by Graham Parker

Chords with lyrics

(This song can be found on the album "Squeezing Out Sparks" by Graham Parker
 and the Rumour. Some of the best lyrics ever written!)

          DISCOVERING JAPAN   by Graham Parker

Intro: /Bm  /D  /A  /A  /3x  lead gtr riff; D MajorD C#C# D MajorD E, D MajorD C#C# A augmentedA E MajorE 3x

D MajorD                         G+G
Her heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking.
D MajorD                         A augmentedA
The Tokyo taxi's braking,   it's screaming to a halt.
G+G         A augmentedA       B minorBm         G+G
There's nothing to hold on to, when gravity betrays you,
A augmentedA           D MajorD     B minorBm
And ev'ry kiss enslaves you.....

D MajorD                             G+G
She knows how hard her heart grows,  under the nuclear shadows,
D MajorD                          A augmentedA
She can't escape the feeling,   repealing in her head.
G+G         A augmentedA       B minorBm      G+G
When after all the urges,    some kind of truth emerges,
A augmentedA              B minorBm  A augmentedA    G+G D MajorD A augmentedA       G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
We felt the deadly surges, Discovering Japan,  Discovering Japan.

                (BB F#F# G+G F#, BB F#F# G+G F#, BB B)

D MajorD                     G+G
The G.I.'s only use her, they always ram right through her,
D MajorD                      A augmentedA
Giving an eastern promise,  that they could never keep.
G+G      A augmentedA        B minorBm       G+G
See-ing the million miles,  between their jokes and smiles,
A augmentedA          D MajorD     B minorBm
She heard their hard denials.......
  B minorBm                      A augmentedA
  As the tears drop sideways down her face,   face,
  B minorBm                       A augmentedA
  I wake up taling in the tongue of a diff'rent race,  race,
     B minorBm             G+G
  And as the flight touches down, my watch says Eight-O-Two,
    A augmentedA           B minorBm   A augmentedA       B minorBm
  But that's me at night to you,  me at night to you,
  A augmentedA         B minorBm        D MajorD  A augmentedA   G+G   A augmentedA
  Me at night to you.......................

D MajorD                     G+G
I dream in long collisions, in jet-lagged pana-visions,
D MajorD                    A augmentedA
I shouted "Sayonara",    It didn't mean good-bye.
G+G      A augmentedA     B minorBm       G+G
But lovers turn to poses,  show up in filmed exposures,
A augmentedA                B minorBm  A augmentedA    G+G D MajorD  A augmentedA     G+G D MajorD  A augmentedA
Just like in travel brochures,  Discovering Japan,  Discovering Japan,
       G+G D MajorD A augmentedA         G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
 Discovering Japan,   Discovering Japan,
       G+G D MajorD A augmentedA         G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
 Discovering Japan,   Discovering Japan.