Chords with lyrics
Intro:
FF / C#C# / FF / C#C# / FF / C#C#
FF / C#C# / FF / C#C# / FF / C#C#
FF / C#C# / FF / C#C# / FF / C#C#
FF / C#C# / FF / DmDm / A augmentedA
Verse 1:
FF DmDm A augmentedA FF DmDm A augmentedA
Welcome to your weekend in Malibu
FF DmDm
Summer mother
A augmentedA Eb MajorEb
Atomic bummer in the big black light
Bb majorBb E7E7
Tonight's the night
FF DmDm
Plug in the
A augmentedA FF DmDm A augmentedA
Romantic sugar-talk
FF DmDm
To take your mind off
A augmentedA
We turn your mind off
FF C#C#
We give you pleasure
Chorus:
FF
Begin the Winter of Lightning
DmDm
Totally frightening
Gm/Bb
Terror in uniform
A7b9A7b9
Solar decay
FF
Winter in Yonkers
DmDm
Totally bonkers
G minorGm
I build the totem pole
A7b9/C#
But what do we say?
Verse 2:
Amin E MajorE C majorC A minorAm E MajorE
C majorC A minorAm E7E7 C majorC A minorAm E MajorE
T-shirts and parking in Malibu
C majorC A minorAm
Sell the water
AbAb C/GC/G F#7F#7 FF AbAb
Everyone is nuts in Malibu!
C/GC/G F#7F#7 FF E7E7
Ride a wave down the ave- nue!
(instrumental section in C majorC)
C majorC
Open up your coffers ! Open !
C majorC DmDm
We make you want to keep it open
C majorC
Blue Umbrella
C majorC
Hide me from the sun
C majorC C->Bb
Wind in the willow whipping wildly
(instrumental section)
Eb MajorEb C minorCm
Fm/Ab Bb majorBb E7E7
Eb MajorEb C minorCm C majorC
Chorus:
FF
Happy and underfed
DmDm
Love is the word you spread
G minorGm
Call it sensational
A augmentedA A7b9/G
Float in mid-air
FF
Happy and underfed
DmDm
Sad isn't truth, you said
C majorC
Zombies of capital
C#C# C majorC
Don't hear, they're asleep
FF
Winter of lightning
DmDm
Terribly frightening
Gm/Bb
I ask the wiseman
C#C# C# minorC#m
Why you so brave?
FF
'I know the ostridge,
DmDm
Excellent posturing,
C7C7 C7/EC7/E
I know the zebra,
C#C# C#dimC#dim
Stripes never fade
FF DmDm Gm/Bb
Until the lightening…
C# minorC#m
Now let us pray!
FF DmDm
Weekend enlightening…
C7C7
Until the lightening
C#min
takes us away…'
FF DmDm Gm/Bb C# minorC#m
Winter of lightening…