I've tried to line up the chords as best as possible, as always, listen to the
song for best comparison. I'm sure this is right, then again, I have just spent an
hour I should've spent in bed working this out. I've actually worked out a lot of
the new album, will likely add them soon. The lyrics are makeshift, based on what
I could decipher, will update when the album comes out :D Enjoy! Sounds best
played on open chords!
IntroFGEF x3
FEFGVerseDmA
Through the rain and all the clutter
FCG
Under the Freemont bridge I saw a the pigeon fly
DmFCA
Fly in fear from the raptor come to take its life
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DmA
And as it dove in for the capture
FCG
Funnelled the fear through my ancient eyes
DmF
Seeing flight, what I know are
CA
The bitter mechanics of life
FGEF
Under my hat it breathes the lines are all imagined
FGEFA fact of life I know to hide from my little girl
FGEF
I know my place amongst the bugs and all the animals
FE
And this from these ordinary people
FG
You were longing to be free
DmA
My hotel and on the TV
FCGA picture on the stage like a buzzard cries
DmFCA
Our a warning phony sorrow is trying to get a rise
DmA
Cyanide of an almond
FCG
Let him look at your hands, get the angles right
DmFCA
Ace of spades, Port of Morrow, life is death is life.
FGEF
I saw a photograph of Cologne in ‘27
FGEFA then a postcard after the bombs in ‘45
FGEF
Must have been a world of evil clowns that let it happen
FE
But now I recognise in these eyes
FG
That you were there and so was I
Instrumental break
DmFDmCADmFCA
(whole break x2)
FGEF
Under my hat it breathes the lines are all imagined
FGEFA fact of life I must impress on my little girl
FGEF
I know my place amongst the creatures in the pageant
FE
And there are flowers in the garbage
FG
And a skull under your curls
Instrumental break
DmFDmCADmFCA
Repeat instrumental break until fade.
Note: I initially had the verse second part of the verse chords as
DmACA
Ace of spades, Port of Morrow, life is death is life.
for example, with another A in place of the F. It sounded right to me, but I went
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