1. |
Let me down gently
05:01
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[C-G-C-F-C-E]
When your dead, from the waist down
That’s your choice they say now
I know your curious
I’m not a curiosity
A drive-by car crash for you to see...
I know ------ just what you are thinking
Your brain waves like radio
I am receiving...
It’s not hard to resist your obvious charm
And I’d be a liar if I hadn’t dreamed of you in my arms
It’s just I didn’t come off the farm…
I know ------ I am an acquired taste
There’s no need to let that show on your face
Well, I recognize the quality of your fear…
You don’t let yourself get too close - or be too near
I’ve met your kind too many times before
There’s nothing new here for me to see any more
Make sure you turn the key
As you close my front door….
I know ---- it's not me it's you…
I know --- it's not you I think it is me
I know --- it's not you I know it is me
It’s only you ------ that you are deceiving
I could have given you ------ something new believe i
If you're dead, from the waist down
its either break thru or break down
Don’t let me down so gently
Don’t let me down too gently
Please let me down so gently
Please let me down too gently
Don’t let me down – (hang on it)
Main Riff
[12-12-0-11-0-0]
[7-7-0-6-0-0]
[5-5-0-4-0-0]
Talky Bit
[2-2-1-0-0]
[0-0-0-2-0-0]
[Bridge]
0-6-6-0]
[0-5-5-0]
[0-4-5-0]
[0-0-0-2-0-0]
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2. |
May soft winds blow
03:01
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[D G D G B D]
We always fight I’ve
had my fill
And If you go, then I'll
be on my way
Who
Will I turn/run to?
Without you…
From out of the clouds across
the mile-high sky
every inch of her love, I
won't deny her
In this town of
broken dreams
The night stinks of burning red wine and the
Sirens scream that
the boys are
thinly disguised
he's got more talent than
style or taste or grace combined…
He already speaks
with just one eye opened
his tongue is cut and dried
cut and dried
his tongue is cut and lied
cut and lied
There was no need to lie
to me
Your fire extinguished
every part of me
But may soft winds
blow
in your soul x3
forever in your soul…
Verse Chords
[O]pen
[2010]
[4030]
[9080]
Chorus Chords
[X55030]
[X44030]
[O][pen
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3. |
Wires laid bare
04:38
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Standard Pitch, Half Capo on [222200]
I have lived here for too long
I can hardly hear
All the voices
of all promises
that come chanting so soft
and so low and so near
I have lived in this house too long
it has been haunted since you have gone
And some will suggest
that the fury of truth is this
I made all the moves
you expected me to make
You took all the moves
I expected you to take
There are many dangers here
Wires laid bare… here
In an ugly house of hell fire
We got tuned up and lost our chains
There was no mercy for the man
For Walking with the transvestites with the dirty hands
And From these windows, I have seen
faces red with blood
Lines of men looking for scapegoats
and heroes in the mud
And the man who sold me has no shame
Because if he could, he would buy me a job
And If you want to be in my world
You’ll have to watch every film I've ever seen
For the foggy and the wounded
Without sound, there can no mercy
Will the work of the world
be done so lately?
Verse
[300003]
[200005]
[022000]
[022002]
Pre-Chorus
A7
B7
Chorus
[300033]
[200035]
[022002]
[032010]
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4. |
Into a world of light
05:14
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[D-G-D-G-B-D] with partial capo on 6th fret on the 1st 5-Strings
And they say true love conquers all
well it even conquered me
It was a kind of jealous love
No one else could have
But you didn’t want me X2
didn’t me to be me…
So now is the time for the lonely therapy
Living the Hollywood lifestyle
On Fish and chip money
I won’t ask for that
which I know I'm unworthy of
But won’t learn to be grateful
For crumbs off your table
For crumbs off your table
You blew into my life
Like a plastic bag caught in a tree
And you decided to call my bluff
Well clearly Lord felt I hadn’t suffered enough
Well clearly Lord felt I hadn’t suffered enough
Do you walk past the sheds
painted with a rictus smile
will the algorithms of the sea
always pass you by?
When you let ice into your heart
it's not me that you are hurting
when you let ice in your heart
all the valves they stop working
all the valves they stop working
Goodbye then,
To all things, I used to know
Winter can bring you down to such a low
So low, she tells you where to go
I will visit your grave
When your gone
Even though
I know
You won’t/don’t me to be there
When you are all gone into the world of light…
We are all gone onto a world of light
They are all gone onto a world of light
Ah, she is all gone into her world of light…
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5. |
Song for Holly
07:08
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[D-A-D-F#-A-D] with capo on 2nd fret makes [E-B-E-G#-B-E]
Holly never came from Miami, FLA
She came from a small place outside of Dunblane
And she was homesick for a place
she never lived…
homesick for a place
She never ever been…
16 in ’86
She made her way to the A66
Thumbed a lift down
To that London Town
Soho. Peep Show
Tainted love. Still playing on the radio
There was really nowhere left…. for her to go
Down to a bedsit flat
Beneath the launderette
There was really nowhere/no place for her to go
She says to me, don’t follow me this way in
I’m going to where the light ends and the darkness begins
You see I’m all shade and no light
not afraid to sit alone/don’t want to sit alone
in the dark at night
And If that’s their idea of admiration then I’d rather be despised…
Let me take just half of what they are saying,
and I’ll spit the rest into their eyes
And some people never let it in
Because if they did where would they begin
And some people never let in
Because if they did where would it end…
So she learned how far your tolerance goes
As long she stayed behind her four walls
And some say she’s still behind four walls
Where a part of her just died
there’s no need for shows
No need for half-baked lies
She’s on the inside/outside
She wants to be on the outside/inside
Won’t you please just let her in
Won’t you please just let her out…
46 years later
she’s heading for her door
46 years later
She’s not staying inside anymore
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6. |
Northern star
04:38
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[D-G-D-G-B-D]
She was my Northern Star,
My angel of North
And I fell in love with her
Simply because her name was Claire
Only she knew “The Secret”
“The Secret” I would never let others see
I know was not easy to love
No matter how hard I tried to be
We were just kids in our early 20s
Just finding love in our way
And I just ran out too early
Scared I’d run out of words to say
She read me from the beginning
She leafed thru every page to the end
they should be a penalty
For repetition of the things I did not say
[Bridge] x2
She still lights my way
All the way home
Wherever I am bound
She is my lost and my found
These days she asks me why
The men behave the way do,
I smile
Cos I must be the least qualified
My door will always be open to you
wherever ever you are, wherever you may be
And all that I do is think fondly of you
And the way things used to be…
May my superficial stars
forever light your way
Through whatever darkness you driving thru
To the break of the next day
She is my Northern Star,
She is my angel of North
And I fell in love with her
Simply because her name is Claire
Verse1
[0-0-0-0-8-0]
[0-0-9-0-8-0]
[0-0-10-0-8-0]
Verse2
[0-0-5-0-3-0]
[0-4-5-0-3-0]
[0-5-5-0-3-0]
Bridge
[5-0-5-0-3-0]
[3-0-3-0-1-0]
[2-0-2-0-1-0\
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7. |
The Robin
05:09
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[D-A-D-F#-A-D] with capo 2
I know I wasn’t an easy read
As ploughed your way thru Ulysses
I remember that it took me
More than five goes to complete
We both knew the rules of this game
Though it’s the first time we’ve played
Through all the turns that we will make
I wished you would stay
[So, I gave away my partial heart
Paid my dues to the mistress of the arts
Each time break we part
We’d always arrive at the start
So I will sing you this song
Though words I will never understand
They don’t mean a thing to me
They weren’t written by these hands
It would be a crime
To pass them off as mine
When they only come from birds
Now I see you in the tree
Why must you fly from me
Ah You’re just a bird on the wing
Following the way of the winds
And so, you if you must go away
And I here I must forever remain
And I don’t know if you will return
But I hope to see you once again - in the spring
And though you are now so far away
I think of you more every day
I love you more than words could ever say
But will go on saying them anyway
And I begged you not to go
Not while you were
feeding my soul
I cannot think of other birds
Because birds only
make me think of you
Main Verse
[220100]
[330200]
[990800]
[020300]
End of Verse
[x02300]
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8. |
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[D-A-D-F#-A-D]
I can’t get over strange I am
Little Miss Queen Knute
I’m watching these tides recede
Got no sentences left to commute…
There's someone out there for everyone
but not for me, not for me
All I know is I can’t live here anymore
I got to pack my bags and just leave
This time the darkness wins X3
I’ll let know when it’s safe to the light back in…
You was just a bird in a cage
That would not sing
You’re leaving spaces between my words
Because they need time to sink in
All The answers you are looking for
Aren’t found in this book
Plough your own furrow
And cast your own hooks
Cos This time the darkness wins
Will you let me know when to let the light back in…
If all that we have is each other
What if that isn’t enough?
Because I know how it will turn out
So please don’t take any more photographs
So In dribs and drabs
We were so am dram
Now we sit here waiting
Claiming to do the best that we can
Cos This time the darkness ends
It must be time to let the light back in again…?
If love could have saved you
You would have lived forever
Verse1
[xx0550]
[xx0340]
[xx0120]
[000000]
[x04300]
[x02100]
Verse2
[xx0550]
[xx0340]
[x00120]
[x00000]
Chorus
[0-12-0-10-0-0]
[0-10-0-8-0-0]
[0-5-0-3-0-0]
[0-3-0-3-0-0]
[0-2-0-1-0-0]
[0-0-0-0-0-0-0]
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Michelle Laverick Music Matlock, UK
original music working the nu-folk genre... born in the north-east of England, now residing in the Peak District of Derbyshire.
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