Note: This is a fairly complicated version of the song but sounds great when you get your head around it.
It's harder than it looks.
Standard tuning, capo 4.
Chords:
C: 032013, G:320003, Fmaj9:133010, G6: 320000, Em:022000, F9: XX3213, A7:4X554X, Am:X02213, G*:32220X,Em*:X22203
F#m7:2X221X, C9:X32030, D7sus2:XX0210, Am*:X02010, F:133211, F*:3X3211, D9:X54530, Fm:133111
CGFmaj9G6
On the high-rise estate
EmCF9G6
What's at the back of your mind?
CGFmaj9G6
Oh, the three day debates on a high-rise estate
EmCF9G6
What's at the back of your mind?
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CGF9G6
Two icy-cold hands conducting the way
EmCF9G6
It's the Eskimo blood in my veins
CG
Amid concrete and clay
F9G6
And general decay
EmCF9G6
Nature must still find a way
CGF9G6
So ignore all the codes of the day
EmCF9
Let your juvenile influences sway
CG
This way and that way
F9G6
This way, that way
EmCF9G6
God, how sex implores you
A7
To let yourself lose yourself
AmC
Stretch out and wait
AmG
Stretch out and wait
AmCF9G6
Let your puny body, lie down, lie down
F9G*
As we lie, you say
Em* F#m7
As we lie, you say
C9 D7sus2
Stretch out and...
AmC
Stretch out and wait
AmG
Stretch out and wait
AmCF9G6
Let your puny body lie down, lie down
F9G*
As we lie, you say:
Am* D7sus2
Will the world end in the night time?
F9G*
(I really don't know)
Am* D7sus2
Or will the world end in the day time?
F9G*
(I really don't know)
Am* D7sus2
And is there any point ever having children?
F9G*
Oh, I don't know
D7sus2 FF*
All I do know is we're here and it's now
CG
So... Stretch out and wait
FG
Stretch out and wait
EmCF9G6
There is no debate, no debate, no debate
CGF9G6
How can you consciously contemplate
EmCF9G6
When there's no debate, no debate?
CG
Stretch out and wait
CG
Stretch out and wait
F9G6CG
Stretch out and wait
F9G6CGF9G6
Wait, wait, wait
Am* D9Fm
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