Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer, known professionally as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is the vocalist and pianist of The Dresden Dolls. Born in 1976, she grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts and received her B.A. from Wesleyan University. She attended Lexington High School, where she was very involved in the drama department. Amanda sometimes has Lexington High School students perform drama pieces at her shows. Before she was in the Dresden Dolls, she was in a band called &quot;<span title="Unknown artist" class="bbcode_unknown">Amanda Palmer and the Void</span>&quot;. In October of 2000, she met Brian Viglione, a drummer; together they formed the Dresden Dolls. 

Amanda Palmer est une artiste née le 30 avril 1976, chanteuse, pianiste et songwriter des &quot;Dresden Dolls&quot;  (en duo avec Brian Viglione, à la batterie), qui ont 5 albums à leur actif, le dernier étant &quot;No, Virginia...&quot; (2008). En septembre 2008, elle publie son premier opus solo &quot;Who killed Amanda Palmer&quot;.

Amanda Palmer (* 30. April 1976 in New York City) ist eine US-amerikanische Musikerin, Lyrikerin und Kabarettistin. Internationale Bekanntheit erlangte sie vor allem als Mitglied der zweiköpfigen Band The Dresden Dolls.  Werdegang  Amanda Palmer wuchs in Lexington (Massachusetts) auf. Obwohl sie das Notenlesen bis heute nie richtig gelernt hat, spielte sie bereits als Kind Klavier und komponierte erste Melodien. Im Alter von zehn Jahren kreierte sie ihr erstes Musical.

F C Dm Bb

Piece of cake. But here are the lyrics with the chords just in case:


F           C              Dm              Bb
Hearts on a string like an older-fashioned phone can
F          C            Dm                 Bb
BANG ringy ring and you think you're gonna get some
F             C          Dm            Bb
Thing you can bring to a party at your wake not
F               C              Dm                Bb
Thinking of the thing that you pay back when you take it...
Bb
Take it

     F         C               Dm             Bb
Like rats in a cage pushed the button got the shock
trick
F                C
Snickers in your bag
Dm                    Bb
Had your number but I lost it
F            C            Dm           Bb
Bets are all off you're a lily-livered giver indie 
F             C              Dm             Bb
In the hidden costs you're a sucker and you win
 

           F                     C                               
It doesn't matter if you want it back
                Dm
You've given it away
                Bb
You've given it away
           F                     C
It doesn't matter if you want it back
                Dm
You've given it away
Dm
Away, away, away, away, away, oh

 
F    C  Dm          Bb
He's al-ready on the outskirts
F   C     Dm            Bb
I'm still pulling at his sweatshirt
F  C    Dm           Bb
He says fate is not a factor
F   C  Dm             Bb
I'm in love with every actor


So
F                C          Dm            Bb
Once when you're gone and I wanna do it backwards
F             C             Dm             Bb
Just like the song, we're addicted to the L-word
F            C               Dm                Bb              
Up past your head, down your back, around your ankles
F          C              Dm                      Bb
Ready for attack, you're upstaged and then you're strangled

F                   C                Dm               Bb 
Cringe like you're cursed with your wrecking ball-y necklace
F        C           Dm                 Bb
I saw it first and I crushed it with my hamfist
F             C      Dm
High for the contest who's the better
Bb
not see
F             C                  Dm                  Bb
Eye to eye to eye and now you're blind and you can't catch me...
Bb
Catch me


F     C  Dm          Bb
If you can
(he's al-ready on the outskirts)
 F   C     Dm            Bb
If you can
(I'm still pulling on his sweatshirt)
 F  C    Dm            Bb
If you can
(he says fate is not a factor)
 F   C  Dm             Bb
If you can
(I'm in love with every actor)


           F                     C
It doesn't matter if you want it back
                Dm
You've given it away
                Bb
You've given it away
           F                     C
It doesn't matter if you want it back
                Dm
You've given it away
                Bb
You've given it away...


F    C  Dm          Bb
He's al-ready on the outskirts
F    C    Dm            Bb
I'm still pulling at his sweatshirt
F  C    Dm          Bb
He says fate is not a factor
F   C  Dm            Bb
I'm in love with every actor...


I will let you go if you will let some
I will let you go if you will let somebody
I will let you go if you will let somebody love you
I will let you go if you will let somebody love you like 
I will let you go if you will let somebody love you like i do...

Want It Back

C       Em
I wouldn't kill to win a war
                            C       Em
I don't get what they do it for
                      C       Em
It's all so terribly vague
                          D
I see the pictures from a thousand years of battle
                        C       Em
And I think it's such a bore
                          C       Em
I walk New Orleans with a knife
                          C       Em
Like Mackie hidden out of sight
                          C       Em
But I'd be useless if they jumped
                           D
I'm really not the killing type

A5
I'm not the killing type
I'm not the killing type
I'm not, I'm not
I'm not the killing type, I'm not

                           C      Em
I've got a picture of your mum
                            C       Em
Before the war when she was young
                            C       Em
She's got an etching to her right
                              D
I think it's funny that she's looking to the left and it's her son
                           C       Em
I wouldn't kill to get you back
                         C       Em
And I've officially been asked
                          C      Em
I couldn't kill to save a life
                          D
I'd rather die a peaceful piece of shit-bait, shame-filled coward, thanks

A5
I'm not the killing type
I'm not the killing type
I'm not, I'm not
I'm not the killing type, I'm not

                             C       Em
But I would kill to make you feel
                              C       Em
I don't mean kill someone for real
                          C       Em
I couldn't do that, it is wrong
                      A5
But I can say it in a song, a song, a song
  
                  C
And I'm saying it NOW
              Em7
I'm saying it SO
                  D                                   A5
Even if you never hear this song, somebody else would know
              C
I'm saying it NOW
              Em7
I'm saying it SO
                  D                                  A5
Even if you never hear this song, somebody else will know, know, know, know

C
I just can't explain how good it feels
D
I just can't explain how good it feels
C
I just can't explain how good it feels
D
I just can't describe

                          C        Em
I once stepped on a dying bird
                        C
It was a mercy killing, I couldn't sleep for a week
Em
I kept feeling its breaking bones
  C
I heard
Em                           C
   That if you see a star at night
Em                             C
   And the conditions are just right
Em                           C
   And you are standing on a cliff
Em                                  D
   Then you can close your eyes and make a wish, and take a step, and change somebody's life

A5
I'm not the killing type
I'm not the killing type
I'm not, I'm not
I'm not the killing type, I'm not

                            C       Em
But I would kill to make you feel
                              C       Em
I'd kill to move your face an inch
                       C
I see you staring into space
                        D
I wanna stick my fist into your mouth and twist your arctic heart

                             C       Em
Yes, I would kill to make you feel
                              C       Em
I don't mean kill someone for real
                          C       Em
I couldn't do that, it is wrong
                      A5
But I can say it in a song, a song, a song
       
                  C
And I'm saying it NOW
              Em7
I'm saying it SO
                  D                                   A5
Even if you never hear this song, somebody else would know
              C
I'm saying it NOW
              Em7
I'm saying it SO
                  D                                   A5
Even if you never hear this song, somebody else would know, know, know, know

C
I just can't explain how good it feels
D
I just can't explain how good it feels
C
I just can't explain how good it feels
D
I just can't describe, -ibe, -ibe

Em
DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
A5
I'm not the killing type

The Killing Type

G
why you always kickin' up the sand, always kickin' up the sand
C
god man you're angry and it makes my eyes hurt
G
why you always kickin' up the sand, kickin' up the sand
C
you block your sister so the sunbeams miss her

G
why you always raggin' on the man, always raggin' on the man
C
it just makes you lookin' like a sad-sack actor
G
why you always raggin' on the man, raggin' on some system
C
you think you killed him but you're so so backwards

Em            C
why you gotta be like that?
Em                           C
you're never gonna bring him back
Em        G            Am            C
big fish, little fish, fixing in the dark
Em                 G
if i had one wish, just a wish
C               Am
throw me in the water
      C          Am
cuz i wanna be a bottomfeeder

G
why you always hatin' on the cabs, always hatin' on the cabs
C
just means the cabs are comin' that less faster
G
why you always hatin' on the cabs, you shake your fist at god
C
you ain't even noticing that they're all passin'

G
why you gotta bitch about the band, bitch about the band
C
you know he loved 'em and they kept him laughin'
G
why you gotta bitch about the band, you ain't even listening
C
and man, they're not askin'


Em            C
why you gotta be like that?
Em                           C
you're never gonna bring him back
Em        G            Am            C
big fish, little fish, fixing in the dark
Em                 G
if i had one wish, just a wish
C               Am
throw me in the water
      C          Am
cuz i wanna be a bottomfeeder
C          Am
wanna be a bottomfeeder

G
why you always dyin' in the bath, always dyin' in the bath
C
just makes me nervous that the lizard king kissed you
G
why you always dyin' in the bath, dyin' in the bath
C
it's awful quiet and it makes me miss you


Em            C
why you gotta be like that?
Em                           C
you're never gonna bring him back
Em        G            Am            C
big fish, little fish, dying in the dark
Em                 G
if i had one wish, just a wish
C               Am
throw me in the water
Em                 Am
cuz the cabs ain't comin'
         Em        Am
yeah the sun's not shinin'
         Em         Am
yeah the bath keeps runnin'
        Em       Am
yeah it keeps on rainin'

        G          C
but the band keeps playin'
         G          C
yeah the band keeps playin'
         G          C
yeah the band keeps playin'
         G          C
yeah the band keeps playin'

Bottomfeeder

Bm                                Em
We are friends in a sleeping bag, splitting the heat
        G                    C              G              C
We have one filthy pillow to share and your lips are in my hair
G                      Bm 
Someone upstairs has a rat that we laughed at
    Em
And people are drinking
    G                     C           G       C
And singing Van Halen and Slayer on a ukulele tear

G
Bm        
Well, we found an apartment
Em
It's not much to look at
G            C
A futon on a floor
         G             C
Torn-off desktop for a door
G                       Bm
All the decor's made of milk crates and duct tape
Em
And if we have sex
         G                   C
They can hear us through the floor
             G          C
But we don't do that anymore
       
    G                      Em
And I lay there wondering, what is the matter?
G                   Em
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
G                        Em
You took the blanket, so I took the bedsheet
G                            Em
But I would have held you if you'd only
C
Let me

G
Bm
Look how quaint
                  Em
And how quiet and private
                   G                    C
Our paychecks have bought us a condo in town
         G           C
It's the nicest flat around
G                         Bm
You picked a mattress and had it delivered
    Em
And I walked upstairs
        G                         C
And the sight of it made my heart pound
      G               C
And I wrapped my arms around me
       
    G                        Em
And I stood there wondering, what is the matter?
G                   Em
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
G                            Em
You walked right past me and straightened the covers
G                                 Em       C
But I would still love you if you wanted a lover


        C                           Em    D      G  Cdim    Am      Bm       C     
But you said, 'All the money in the world won't buy a       bed so big and wide,
                           Em D    G     Cdim    Am       Bm     C                           
to guarantee that you won't acci - dentally      touch me in the night.' 

G
Exhibit D
Bm
Now we're both mostly paralyzed
Em                             G             C
Don't know how long we've been lying here in fear
      G            C
Too afraid to even feel
G                     Bm
I find my glasses and you turn the light out
       Em
Roll off on your side
            G               C
Like you've rolled away for years
        G                    C
Holding back those king-size tears

    G                      Em
And I still don't ask you, what is the matter?
G                   Em
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
G                  
You take the heart failure
Em
I'll take the cancer
G                           Em            C
I've long stopped wondering why you don't answer

G
Exhibit E
        Bm                   Em
You can certainly see how fulfilling a life
         G                C            G             C
From the cost and size of stone of our final resting home
G                           Bm
We got some nice ones right under a cherry tree
Em                   G           C
You and me lying the only way we know
        G                  C
Side by side and still and cold

    G                  Em
And I finally ask you, what was the matter?
G                  Em
Was it a matter of worse or of better?
G                             Em
You stretch your arms out and finally face me
        G                           
You say I would have told you
   Em         C
If you'd only asked me
   Em         C
If you'd only asked me
   Em         C
If you'd only asked me

The Bed Song

G
Smile
                          C
You can forget about your life
G
Smile
                          C
You can forget about your life

     F         C
The truth will follow you
     F         C
The truth will follow you
    F          C
The proof will swallow you up
F
Holy shit, you got some action

Pictures or it didn't happen

G
Smile, smile
                                  C
Your teeth are broke and it's all right
G
Smile, smile
                                  C
Your teeth are broke and it's all right

        F         C
They'll break the best of you
        F         C
They'll break the best of you
   F         C
It makes you beautiful
F
So fists into the lips of fashion

Pictures or it didn't happen

C                              D
I had such an awful dream last night
C                          D
Everybody's faces were too tight
C                                       D
Please don't leave me in this nightless light
C              D
God, I'm gonna miss you when you

G
Smile
                              C
The end is near and it's high time
G
Smile, smile, smile
                              C
The end is near and it's high time

    F        C
The light's amazing, man
   F         C
So time your Instagram
    F       C
The rapture swallowing the
F
Land, but we're the last ones laughing
Pictures or it didn't happen

Get it 'cause we'll all be dead
And no one dead can use a camera

C                              D
I had such an awful dream last night
C                          D
Everybody's faces went all white
C
Everybody in the world was either
Getting killed or getting footage of the killing
                                          D
That they sent to surgeons working in the sky

C
I don't wanna
              D
I don't wanna go to
                    C
I don't wanna go to Cali
                    D
I don't wanna go to California

                C    D
I don't want to die
                C    D
I don't want to die
                C    D
I don't want to die

Smile Pictures Or It Didn't Happen

F
I never met a lady
C        Bb
Quite as pretty as Melody Dean
F
And when I laid my head down on her 
C        Bb
heart it beated out your name
F
And so I had to 
C
listen to her
Bb 
heart beat several hundred times and
F
She was very 
C
nice about it
Bb
Held my hand and didn't mind
F
I never put my foot in the same 
C        Bb
River twice I don't like getting wet
F
You take the good you take the bad
C        Bb
You take it all and that is all you get
F
The fact is you would rather I be 
C        Bb
lonely in a bathtub with a book
F
The fact is you would rather I sat 
C        Bb
Pining on our pictures from New York

New York, New York, New York

But

F C Bb
I get torn to pieces
F C Bb
For the stupidest reasons
F C Bb
All I want's to love the one I'm with
Just like the song says

F
I don't like picking sides I don't like
C        Bb 
Sticking my Sharona in a box
F
I like to spread her out on different 
C        Bb
Crackers, yeah I like the way she looks
F
And when I go to bed at night with 
C Bb
Melody undressing in my head
F
To get tot sleep you know that I would 
C        Bb
Rather be undressing you instead
Instead, instead, instead

F
I never met a lady quite as 
C
Pretty as Melody Dean and
Bb
Even though I know you are a little bit angry with me
F
You know that it is you I love
C
And you I want to get me off
Bb
But you can only do that when you're here
And right now you are not
F

F
I never cross the Continental 
C        Bb
Divide without thinking about you
F
I am a tree that's carved up with her
C        Bb 
Name she is a warrior tattoo
F
And the fact is you're selective about 
C        Bb
what you can remember for a start
F
The fact is you're just jealous as all 
C        Bb
Get out we can do it in the dark
The dark, the dark, the dark

But

F C Bb
I get torn to pieces
F C Bb
For the stupidest reasons
F C Bb
All I want's to love the one I'm with
Just like Steven Stills says

F
I never met a lady quite as 
C
Pretty as Melody Dean and
Bb
Even though I know you are a little bit angry with me
F
You know that it is you I love
C
And you I want to get me off
Bb
But you can only do that when you're here
And right now you are not

Melody Dean

# For the sake of simplicity, you can use the unmodified chords,
but some substitutions are more accurate to the original. 

Bb C Am Bb x2

Bb                 
They've been circling
C
They've been circling
Am                      Bb
Since the day they were born 
Bb
It's disturbing
C
How they're circling
Am                  Bb
Fifty feet from the pond

Bb
Pretty often
C
Pretty often
Am                 Bb
I don't want to be told
Bb
It's a problem
C
It's a problem
Am               Bb
It's a problem I know

Bb                    C                Am                Bb
And I won't keep what I can't catch in my bare hands without a net
     Bb             C                Am               Bb
It's hard enough to walk on grass so conscious of the consequences

Bb C Am Bb x 2

Bb                  
They've been jerking
C
They've been jerking
Am               Bb
In a pail by the dock
Bb           
I know that oxygen might
C
Make them blossom and die
Am                   Bb
But I'm not going to talk

Bb       
Feed them details
C
Feed them emails
Am                 Bb
They'll eventually grow
Bb    
But it's not working
C
It's not working
Am              Bb
Not as far as I know

    Bb                C                Am                 Bb
And killing things is not so hard it's hurting that's the hardest part
    Bb              C              Am           Bb
And when the wizard gets to me I'm asking for a smaller heart

Bb C Am Bb x 2

Bbsus2
And I got you
  C
I thought that I got you
Am7              Bbsus2
now I'll ruin it all
Bbsus2
Feeling helpless
C
Acting selfish
Am7             Bbsus2
Being human and all

Bbsus2
And they're jumping
C
And they're jumping
Am7                   Bbsus2
But they'll never get out
Bbsus2
Just keep touring
C
Just keep on ignoring
Am7             Bbsus2
Be a good little trout

        Bb                C                 
And the butcher stops and winds his watch
    Am                    Bb
And lays their lives down on the block
   Bb            c               Am                 Bb
He raises up his hatchet and the big hand strikes a compromise

Bb          C          G
Wait, we'll trade you, wait
Bb          C        G
Please just one more day
    Bb         C
And then we'll go with 

  Bb*
A|-1-|
E|-0-|
C|-2-|
G|-3-|

G5 G6  G7 G
No complaining
Bb Bb* Bb5 Bb6
No complaining
G5 G6 G7  G
No complaining
Bb   Bb*
Stop come...

Bb C Am Bb x2

Bb 
And they're cutting
C
And they're cutting
Am                 Bb
And I think that I know
Bb
And they're gutting
C
And they're gutting
Am                 Bb
And I think that I know
Bb
And it's beating
C
Look, it's beating
Am                  Bb
And I don't want to know
Bb
And it's beating
C
Look, it's still beating
Am                   Bb
God, I don't want to know

Bb                    C
And killing things is not so hard 
     Am                 Bb
It's hurting that's the hardest part 
    Bb              C
And when the wizard gets to me
    Am           Bb 
I'm asking for a smaller heart 
    Bb             C
And if he tells me "no"
             Am             Bb 
I'll hold my breath until I hit the floor 
 Bb            C
Eventually I'm know I'm doomed 
   Am            Bb
To get what I am asking for

       Bb          C
Now my heart is exactly the size
     F                    Bb 
Of a six-sided die cut in half
        F                Bb
Made of ruby red stained glass
      Bb                       C              
Can I knock you unconscious as long as I promise
     F                          Bb
I'll love you and I'll make you laugh? 

       Bb          C
Now my heart is exactly the size
     F                    Bb 
Of a six-sided die cut in half
        F                Bb
Made of ruby red stained glass
      Bb                       C              
Can I knock you unconscious as long as I promise
     F                          Bb
I'll love you and I'll make you laugh?

Trout Heart Replica

Theatre Is Evil

Verse 1:
                  G                D
When i got to the party they gave me a forty
    C
and I must have been thirsty
D
'cause i drank it so quickly
G
When i got to the bedroom
D
there was somebody waiting
C                     D
and it isn't my fault that the barbarian raped me

                   G                         D
When I went to get tested I brought along my best friend
              C                          D
Melissa Mahoney (who had once been molested)
                    G
and she knew how to get there
                 D                            C
she knew all the nurses; they were all really friendly
                      D
but the test came out positive

Refrain:
     Em              C              D
I've had better days but I don't care
         Em               C        D
'cause I just sent a letter in the mail

Verse 2:
When I got my abortion I brought along my boyfriend
We got there an hour before the appointment
and outside the building were all these annoying
fundamentalist christians; we tried to ignore them

Refrain:
I've had better days but I don't care
Oasis got my letter in the mail

Chorus: G D C D

Verse 3:
When vacation was over
The word was all over that I was a crackwhore
Melissa had told them
and so now we're not talking except we have tickets
to see Blur in october and i think we're still going

Refrain:
I've seen better days but I don't care
oh, I just got a letter in the mail
Oasis sent a photograph it's autographed and everything
Melissa's gonna wet herself I swear

Oasis

F                           Am
my friend has problems with winter and autumn
F                           Am
they give him prescriptions they shine bright lights on him
F                           Am
they say its genetic they say he cant help it
F                           Am
they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it

F                           Am
my friend has blight he gets shakes in the night
F                           Am
and they say there is no way that they could have caught it in
F                           Am
time takes its toll on him it is traditional
F                           Am
it is inherited predisposition

Dm                          E                    F   
all day i've been wondering what is inside of me who can i blame for it
G
i say:

Dm                         F
it runs in the family this famine that carries me
              C                  Bb
to such great lengths to open my legs
Dm                        
up to anyone who'll have me
               F                   C
it runs in the family i come by it honestly
            Bb                            Dm   F    C    Bb 
do what you want cause who knows it might fill me up

F                           Am
my friends depressed she's a wreck she's a mess
F                           Am                                     F
they've done all sorts of tests and they guess it has something to do with her grandmother
Am                       F
grandfathers grandmother civil war soldiers who
Am
badly infected her
F                      Am                    F                          Am
my friend has maladies rickets and allergies that she dates back to the 17th century
F                     Am              F  
somehow she manages - in her misery - strips in the city
    Am
and shares all her best tricks with

F                         Am                          F
me? well, i'm well. well, i mean i'm in hell. well, i still have my health
          Am
(at least that's what they tell me)
   F                         Am
if wellness is this, what in hells name is sickness?
     F
but, business is business!

and business

            Dm                       F
runs in the family we tend to bruise easily
           C                     Bb
bad in the blood i'm telling you 'cause
i just want you to know me
Dm             F
know me and my family
                C
we're wonderful folks
                  Bb                          Dm          F       C       Bb
but don't get too close to me cause you might knock me up

F                   Am 
mary have mercy now look what i've done
          F                       Am
but don't blame me because i cant tell where i come from
    F                         Am
and running is something that we've always done
         F                   Am
well and mostly i can't even tell what i'm running from

Dm    
i run from their pity
     E
from responsibility
F
run from the country
    G
and run from the city

      Dm
i can run from the law
      E
i can run from myself
      F
i can run for my life
      G
i can run into debt

      Dm
i can run from it all
      E
i can run 'till i'm gone
      F
i can run for the office
    G
and run from the cause

      Dm              E
i can run using every last ounce of energy
F
i cannot
i cannot
G
i cannot
            Dm
run from my family
               F
they're hiding inside me
           C
corpses on ice
                 Bb
come in if you'd like
                       Dm
but just don't tell my family
             F
they'd never forgive me
                     C
they'll say that i'm crazy
                   Bb
but they would say anything if it would
Dm        F       C        Bb
shut me up.....

Runs In The Family

[Intro]
C G Am F* x4

C         G        Am      F
I have to drive
C         G        Am      F
I have my reasons, dear
C         G        Am      F
It's cold outside
C          G       Am      F
I hate the seasons here

C        G                Am
I suffer mornings most of all
          F            C
I feel so powerless and small
         G                 Am
By ten o'clock I'm back in bed
             F         C     G   Am F
Fighting the jury in my head

C            G     Am    F
You learn to drive
C         G        Am    F
It's only natural, dear
C             G    Am    F
You drive all night
C          G        Am   F
We haven't slept in years

C         G                Am
We suffer mornings most of all
F*                      C
We saw you lying in the road
            G            Am
We tried to dig a decent grave
               F
But it's still no way to behave

C       G          Am
It is a delicate position
         F
Spin the bottle
         A#
Pick the victim
        D#
Catch a tiger
         Am
Switch directions
      A#
If he hollers
          C
Break his ankles
      Dm
To protect him

              F       C
We'll have to drive
                Dm      A#
They're getting closer
           F      C
Just get inside
            Dm      A#
It's almost over

F       C         Dm
We will save your brothers
A#       F         C
We will save your cousins
Dm      A#          F    C
We will drive them far away
     Dm          A#
From streets and lights
F        C        Dm     A#
From all signs of bad mankind

F C Dm A# x2

F         C                Dm
We suffer mornings most of all
            A#               F
Wake up all bleary eyed and sore
           C             Dm      A#
Forgetting everything we saw

(I'll meet you in an hour
                F
at the car)

Have To Drive

D
we watch you
     C             G
your expert double x's
          D
it's just like you
   C                  G
to paint those whiter fences
     A#
it's so polite, it's so polite
     F               G
it's offensive, it's offensive
     A#
it's so unright, it's so unright
       F          G
it's a technical, accept it
A#
Who needs love
             F       G
when there's Law and Order?
A#
Who needs love
             F        G
when there's southern comfort?
A#
Who needs love at all?

Leeds United

Who Killed Amanda Palmer

its pretty much this all the way through..



G                   C              D
she is a part.......of the .... continuum 
G                   C              D
and shes.........   diff..........world
G.                   .C                  D 
and she.........   made.........aluminium 
C
She ...
D
she...
C
she..
D
And..

Gaga,palmer,madonna

G  		 Dm
when i was six years old my sister alyson
      F			  C	
asked for a stove for her birthday
  G			  Dm		
a miniature one you could actually cook with
    F			    C
and my mom was nice and she bought one

G                      Dm
alyson needed a reason to bake something
F                     C
barged in my room and she grabbed me, she said:
G                  Dm
"i made a cake and we're going next door
F                      C
to sam weinstein's and you're getting married"

G
the cake was burned
   Dm
it tasted gross
    F
she made me kiss him
C
on the mouth

G
now i am 33
Dm
unmarried happily
F                    C                       G
no plans in life and i'm planning to keep it that way
             Dm
i do kissing with only one mission
F                    C
do you like to kiss? then you have my permission

[Follow same pattern for the rest of the verses]

[Chorus: Use Single Chords]
         G               Dm
and i have already spent too much time
F            C
doing things i didn't want to
                     G                 Dm
so if i just want to make out all the time
        F                  C
you can bet your black ass that i'm going to

[Bridge: Strum Slowly]
G               Dm
yes i come here often
F              C
sure i'll have another one
G               Dm
yes i come here often
F              C
sure i'll have another one
but i don't have to talk to you

[End]

    G            Dm
and i've already spent too much time
F               C
doing things i didn't want to

G                        
so if i want to drink alone
Dm 
dressed like a pirate
   F
or look like a dyke
   C
or wear high heels and lipstick
   G
or hide in a convent
   Dm
or try to be mayor
   F
or marry a writer
   C
smoke crack and slash tires
     G
make jokes you don't like
     D
or paint ducks and retire
        F                  C
YOU CAN BET YOUR BLACK ASS THAT I'M GOING TO

Do You Swear To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth, So Help Your Black Ass

C                       Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in
C                          Fsus2
I know they're gonna leave you any day
C                         Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in
G                             Fsus2
can't you find a way to make em stay?


Fsus2
and all the girls I went to school with
walked downtown with all the cool kids
     C
I was staked out in your cellar
making friends with dead umbrella
         Fsus2
and every creak of every floorboard
                                    G
tells the story of the girl I stuck inside
and if they move away
                        Fsus2         Fsus4
I?ll have no place to ? hide

C                         Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in
G                       Fsus2
I?ve never really been in love
C                           Fsus2
you took my heart when I was a child
               G                            Fsus2
noises wrapped around my little body like a winter glove
you're just a random set of objects
in a town that's filled with sadness
       C
in the armpit of the world
you're chopped down trees and rotting soil
         Fsus2
and if I wanted to I?d keep you
I?d fill you up and heat you
         G
with the market how it is, Amanda
                                Fsus2    Fsus4
well you know, the price of ... oil
B-maj             Em                  C                G
Goodbye stairs, and goodbye stars on painted walls
B-maj            Em               C               G
attic door, and banister, I?ll miss you most of all
B-maj                 Em                 C                  G
I were supposed to keep you safe, this wasn't supposed to end
B-maj           Em            C        G        Fsus2
does it sound ridiculous, to call you my best friend?

C                         Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in
G                           Fsus2
I know I haven't visited that much
C                                         Fsus2
but, every lifeless hotel and apartment I walk into
     G                                         Fsus2
just reminds me of the doorknobs that I want to touch
I won't miss you, when they sell you
to some evil yuppie couple
         C
with the child who'll put Miley Cyrus posters in my bedroom

Fsus2
I am a native of the north
I am a rockstar on the road
I am now permanently located in each place I am known
       G
but it doesn't feel like anywhere
                          Fsus2          Fsus4
when you can't go back... home

C                         Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in
G                               Fsus2
I know it isn't your fault this went down,
C                                Fsus2
please don't take it personally,Love Amanda, PS,
         G
Tell the evil yuppie couple
Fsus2                       C
When I'm rich, I'll buy them out.

Dear Old House

Intro: G7
 
           G7     
I Google you
                                                    Csus4
late at night when I don't know what to do
          Bb          
I find photos
                                    F
you've forgotten you were in
                G7
put up by your friends
G7
I Google you
                                                 Csus4
when the day is done and everything is through
                Bb
I read your journal
                                       F
that you kept that month in France
                        G7
I've watched you dance
            C
And I'm pleased your name is practically unique
            Fm
it's only you and a would-be PhD in Chesapeake
                C                                        Fm
who writes papers on the structure of the sun
            G7
I've read each one
                C
I know that I should let you fade
                      Fm
but there's that box and there's your name
                C
somehow it never makes the pain
                 Fm
grow less or fade or disappear
                C
I think that I should save my soul and
            Fm
I should crawl back in my hole
                C
But it's too easy just to fold
                    Fm
and type your name again I fear
 
            G7
I google you
                                         Csus4
Whenever I'm alone and feeling blue
             Bb
And each scrap of information
           F
That I gather
                                    G7
says you've got somebody new
         C
And it really shouldn't matter
            Fm
ought to blow up my computer
        G
but instead....
            C
I google you

I Google You

G                  C            D
She is a part of the music continuum
 G                  C            D
and she's a part of this difficult world
 G                  C            D
and she wears outfits made of aluminium
C
she is a 23
D
she is a 23
C            D
she is a 23 and a half year old girl

 G               C           D
I am a part of the music continuum
 G               C           D
and I'm a part of this difficult world
 G               C           D
I'm often naked and play the accordion
C
I am a 33
D
I am a 33
C          D
I am a 33 and a half year old girl

 G               C           D
She is part of the music continuum
 G               C           D
and also part of this difficult world
 G                   C              D
she was the first one to often have no clothes on
C
she is not 53
D
she's only 50
C
but I used her anyway
D
'cause she fits well in this song

 G               C           D
Art is great; that way you can do anything
 G               C           D
you can make pop music
 G               C           D
you can paint ducks
 G               C           D
but if you're a pop star and you're a woman
 G               C           D
than it's much more likely that
 G               C           D
people will say your art sucks.

 G               C           D
Making pop music isn't for everyone
 G               C           D
Actually that's wrong it technically is
 G               C           D
That's why it's pop music
 G               C           D
now I've confused myself
 G               C           D
I'm gonna start a new verse and I'll say it like this

 G               C           D
Some artists focus on love and simplicity
 G               C           D
some artists focus on fashion and fame
 G               C           D
then sometimes some artists try to do everything
 G    C     D
which is impossible
 G               C           D
I think those people are brave.

G
Art is simple
C          D
just ask Andy Warhol
 G                          C              D
if he weren't dead he would tell you the truth
G
Call it a masterpiece
C         D
call it a urinal
G
it doesn't matter
       C                  D
It's art so there's nothi
ng to prove

 G                    C           D 
I'm not sure what the point of this song was
 G                            C           D
and I know this song doesn't actually have to have
D
any point at all
G        C          D
even good rhymes in it
C               D
like Lady GaGa and also Madonna
C                                    D
I'm just trying to entertain people, make a living and pay my rent,
C                                      D
without having to get a job I hate and hopefully find an audience 
C
who'll love and accept me
D
and not think I'm a narcissist
C
for wanting to be a performer and 
D
find true inner peace and that's it.


 G               C           D



 G               C           D
Now a question to further our dialogue
 G               C           D
Is all art real art and is pop art art?
 G               C           D
If someone talented wants to make pop music
 G               C           D                 G
why should we worry when there's so much other shit wrong?

Gaga Palmer Madonna

An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer

# Transcribed from the YouTube video of the performance at 
# Coachella: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BugnDCvFgU.
# Also fits the version you can get at 
#  http://music.amandapalmer.net/album/amanda-palmer-performs-the-popular-hits-of-radiohead-on-her-magical-ukulele

# There are a couple of unusual chords, but they match 
# Amanda's fingering and sound so I think they are correct 
# fingerings, even if the names are not strictly right.
# Cm(Maj7) is just like G (which it is always played with) but 
# with the finger lifted from the C string: the frets are 0032.
# FM9 is just like Csus4 (which it is always played with) but 
# with the finger lifted from the A string: the frets are 0010 

# Intro:
G  Cm(Maj7)  G  Cm(Maj7)

# verse
G                          Em
Her xxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx can
                            C
xxx xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx plant
        G        C
xx xxxx plastic  earth
C6  C  C6  C  G

G                             Em
That xxx xxxxxx xxxx x xxxxxx man
                         C
Xx x xxxx xxxx xx xxxxxr plans
       G      C      C6  C
Xx xxx rid xx itself

# Chorus:
             FM9   Csus4
Xx xxxxx xxx out
             G
Xx xxxxx xxx out
             FM9   Csus4
Xx xxxxx xxx out
             G   Cm(Maj7)  G  Cm(Maj7)  G 
Xx xxxxx xxx out

Fake Plastic Trees

# Radiohead's "High and Dry", as perfomed by Amanda Palmer at the Butterfly Club (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr-oYrQyJMA)

# It's basically Em-G-D repeated, but with some variations on these chords during the chorus.

Em                             G                                     D
Two jumps in a week, I bet you think that's pretty clever, don't you boy?
Em                         G                                   D
Flying on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop
      Em                             G                           D
You'd kill yourself for recognition. kill yourself to never ever stop
    Em                           G                              D
You broke another mirror. you're turning into something you are not

               Em    G
Don't leave me high,   
               D
don't leave me dry
               Em    *  **
Don't leave me high,   
               D
don't leave me dry

# * is Em but with the finger lifted off the A string
# ** is G but with a finger on the fifth fret of the A string.

# The EP version which you can hear and buy here:
# http://music.amandapalmer.net/album/amanda-palmer-performs-the-popular-hits-of-radiohead-on-her-magical-ukulele
# is a bit different - instead of Em-G-D the uke plays D-Dsus2-D
# while the piano plays E,G,D bass notes on each chord change.

High And Dry

# Amanda Palmer's ukulele interpretation of Radiohead's "Creep", 
# as can be heard and bought here:
# http://music.amandapalmer.net/album/amanda-palmer-performs-the-popular-hits-of-radiohead-on-her-magical-ukulele
# and seen in many YouTube recordings

                      G
When you were here before
                         B
Couldn't look you in the eye
                    C
You're just like an angel
                   Cm
Your skin makes me cry
                 G
You float like a feather
               B
In a beautiful world
                 C
And I wish I was special
                  Cm
You're so fucking special

          G
But I'm a creep
      B
I'm a weirdo
                         C
What the hell am I doing here?
               Cm
I don't belong here

# etc...

Creep

# Amanda Palmer's ukulele interpretation of Radiohead's "No Surprises", 
# as can be heard and bought here:
# http://music.amandapalmer.net/album/amanda-palmer-performs-the-popular-hits-of-radiohead-on-her-magical-ukulele

Intro:
   G       G         G       Cm6
# ||-2-------2-------|-2-------------0-|
||-----3-------3---|-----3-------3---|
||---2---2---2---2-|---2---2-0-3-----|
||-----------------|-----------------| x2

Verse:
  G       G         G       G        
# |-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|
|-----3-------3---|-----3-------3---|
|---2---2---2---2-|---2---2---2---2-|
|-----------------|-----------------|

  Em      Em        Em      Em       
# |-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|
|-----3-------3---|-----3-------3---|
|---4---4---4---4-|---4---4---4---4-|
|-----------------|-----------------|

  C       C         D7      D7    
# |-3-------3-------|-3---0---3---0---|
|-----3-------3---|-----------------|
|---4---4---4---4-|---2---2---2---2-|
|-----------------|-----------------|

  G       G         G       Cm6
# |-2-------2-------|-2-------------0-|
|-----3-------3---|-----3-------3---|
|---2---2---2---2-|---2---2-0-3-----|
|-----------------|-----------------| 

# After the first two verses the piano takes over, but you can use the above
# tabs to play the rest of the song: the "No alarms and no surprises"
# part repeats the C-D7 bars, but apart from that it's just like the verse.

No Surprises

D#7M   Gm  Gm(2)  Gm7
E|--3-----3-----6-----3--|
B|--4-----3-----3-----6--|
G|--3-----3-----3-----3--|
D|--5-----5-----5-----5--|
A|--5-----5-----5-----5--|
E|--3-----3-----3-----3--|

Intro:
D#7M   Gm  Gm(2)  Gm7

Verse:
D#7M               Gm
Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker?
Gm(2)              Gm7
Women and children first and the children first and the children   
  D#7M           Gm
I laugh until my head comes off
Gm(2)            Gm7
I swallow till I burst  until I burst until I
D#7M               Gm
Who's in a bunker, who's in a bunker 
Gm(2)           Gm7
I have seen too much I haven't seen enough you haven't seen it   
  D#7M           Gm
I laugh until my head comes off
Gm(2)              Gm7
Women and children first and children first and children

Chorus:
D#7M               Gm
Here I'm allowed... everything all of the time
Gm(2)              Gm7
Here I'm allowed... everything all of the time

Verse 2(the same chords):
Ice age coming 
Ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both
Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobile's working
Mobile's chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run 
Take the money

Chorus (2x)

Idioteque

Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele

Intro starts: G,C,D,C,D7
# G
# In my mind, xx x xxxxxx 5
# C
# Years from xxx, xx xxx hundred
# D
# 20 xxxxx, xxx I
# C
# Never xxx xxxxxxxx
# G
# Because I xxxx xx xxx xxxxxx of
# C 
# Discipline never xxxxxxx what
# D
# State xx xx xxx xxx be
# C 
# Someone x admire
# D
# And its xxxxx xx imagine xxxx x could
# C
# Be xxxx xxxxxx now, xxx it does
# D
# Not xxxx xx  xxxx happened xxxxx xxx just
# C
# Forgoten xxx xx
# D
# See xxx xxxx be
# C
# The  xxxxxx xxxx x xxxxxx xx
# G
# Be.

# Continue with  G C D C D7

# The rest of the song continues in this fashion

In My Mind

empty strings and D are played alternating during the whole song - that's all!

Map Of Tasmania

G            Bm       
I have a little house
Em       D               G        Bm    Em
Close to town but not to the city
         D                 G      Bm    Em
Far from home but near my family
         D                  G      Bm    
No water views but so close to the sea
  Em            D            G          Bm     Em  D
I see, this is how my little life could be
                G             Bm     Em
And I'm filling it with things
          D           G        Bm      Em
Like furniture I find on the street
             D                 G        Bm    Em
And all the special things I'd like to eat
            D               G       Bm          Em      
Pictures of people that I'd like to meet, I'll meet them
           D            Em
While I'm orbiting the world
              D              Em     D 
And it's so pretty and so lonely
           G      Bm  Em         D                  G   Bm      Em
My lovely love affairs are all scheduled 'round the TV guide
           D                  G     Bm      Em
And my sex life has all been plagiarized
       D                 G        Bm    Em   D
In an attempt to meet a harsh deadline
            G          Bm   Em
I'd like to rent a wife
             D               G          Bm  Em
Then rent a husband to keep her for life
             D               G       Bm
The three of us, we could be so happy
Em              D               G   Bm
Them with each other, me with company
      Em               D                   Em
I'll see them off on a flight around the world
             D              Em   D
And it's so pretty and so lonely
             Em                D
I could just die, I might just die
             Em                D
I could just die, I might just die
          G      Bm    Em
And at my funeral
               D              G        Bm   Em
They will say Tom he was such a nice guy
             D            G        Bm       Em
He went too early but he went in style
                 D              G        Bm     Em  
They'll play my music and then they will cry
D                    G         Bm      Em
Then they'll have a little wake
                  D                     G        Bm    Em
They'll drink bad wine and they'll eat lemon cake
        D               G          Bm     Em  
And my mother's little heart will break
                D                       G         Bm 
And she'll say "Wait there must be must some mistake.
    Em        D       G      Bm      Em
He can't be dead, take me instead"
D               Em
Oh, but I'm not dead
                      D
They tell me I'm not dead
                          Em
And they say that I'm not dead
                 D
And that I won't die for some time
      G           Bm  Em
In my little house
              D              G          Bm    Em
Just writing little songs to pass the time
           D                G          Bm    Em
Which incidentally is seven forty nine
              D          G          Bm      Em
So don't you worry I'm completely fine, I'm fine
             D           G          Bm       Em
And don't you worry I'm completely fine, I'm fine
           D          G          Bm       Em
Don't you worry I'm completely fine, I'm fine
          D          G           Bm       Em
Don't you worry I'm completely fine, I'm fine
            D        G          Bm         Em
Don't you worry I'm completely fine, I'm fine
    D               G
I'm just so fucking fine.

Bad Wine And Lemon Cake

Intro: D

Verse:
     G                                 C
You tell me that you love me when i'm lying by your side
     D                         G                     D      Em
you tell me that i am the only one who understands your fragile mind
                      Am
that i'm blind to any evil you could do
           D
and that i love you like any other girl could ever do

    G
you love the things that i love
         C
you love art and you love books
             D
and you love love as much as i do
        G
and you lovee my dirty looks
     D      Em        Bm
and you love me right now
   D
so how

Single notes: C#   C      D
             can   you   love

Chords:  G
        vegemite?
               C
it tastes like sadness
               D
it tastes like batteries
               G
it tastes like asses
   D      Em           G7                     C      
       Cm
i cannot hold a man so close who spreads this cancer on his toast
           D                          G
it is the vegemite my darling, or its me

G           D                G
you have to make the fucking choice
                         C
i cannot sit with you at breakfast
         D                          G
the very smell of it obliterates my senses
            D          Em                               Am
and if that weren't bad enough you also eat the shit for lunch
                               D
which means we can't spend any time together
what kind of relationship is that

         G             C
the choice is yours, my heart is in your hands
                 D
please wash your hands
               G                    D       Em
you just had vegemite for lunch you selfish bastard


Throughout this bit is just Am and D and Am again


it's all about you isn't it, it's just take, take, take, take
 what about me? what about my feelings?

        G
I'm Sorry

story chords are: G C D G Em Am D (same as verse)

   G
I love you
        C                              D
and no matter what you eat i'll always love you completely
  G                 D                Em
i might just always leave the room at meal times
                  Am
or refuse to touch or kiss you for a week
            D
if you insist on putting that foul death paste in your mouth

            G                 C
you're in my heart but put yourself inside my shoes
          D                   G
i have to know, it shouldn't be that hard to choose
            G7                             C             Cm
i know it's tearing you apart but it's the way it has to be
          D
it is the vegemite my darling,
            E7
it is the vegemite my darling
          D
put down the vegemite fucker
          Cm          G
or i'll leave.

Vegemite The Black Death

Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under

Intro
C x2   C7 x2   F x2   Fsus2   G7

Verse 1
    C                                   C7
sid vicious played a four-string fender bass guitar and couldn?t sing 
    F                     Fsus7             G7
and everybody hated him except the ones who loved him 
  C                             C7 
a ukulele has four strings, but sid did did not play ukulele 
F                                    Fsus7            G7
he did smack and probably killed his girlfriend nancy spungen 

   C                     C7                             F
if only sid had had a ukulele, maybe he could have been happy 
                        Fsus7           G7
maybe he would not have suffered such a sad end 
   C                                  C7
he maybe would have not done all that heroin instead 
         F                                Fsus7             G7
he maybe would?ve sat around just singing nice songs to his girlfriend 

   C                                C7
so play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong 
     F                               Fsus7               G7
?cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn?t mean you?re failing 
C
do your homework with a fork 
    C7
and eat your fruit loops in the dark 
    F
and bring your etch-a-sketch to work 
    Fsus7        G7
and play your ukulele 

F
ukulele small and forceful 
G7
ukulele brave and peaceful 
C                        F
you can play the ukulele too it is painfully simple 
F                        G7
play your ukulele badly, play your ukulele loudly 
Gm
ukulele banish evil 
Gm
ukulele save the people 
Gm
ukulele gleaming golden on the top of every steeple 

Verse 2
C                              C7
lizzie borden took an axe, and gave her father thirty whacks 
     F                               Fsus7         G7
then gave her mother thirty-one, and left a tragic puzzle 
   C                          C7 
if only they had given her an instrument, those puritans 
     F
had lost the plot completely 
         Fsus7            G7
see what happens when you muzzle 
  C
a person?s creativity 
    C7
and do not let them sing and scream 
    F                                    Fsus7     G7
and nowadays it?s worse ?cause kids have automatic handguns 
   C                            C7
it takes about an hour to learn how to play the ukulele 
 F                             Fsus7            G7
about same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb 
G7
YOU DO THE MATH 

   C                                C7              
so play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong 
     F                               Fsus7               G7
?cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn?t mean you?re failing 
C
do your homework with a fork 
    C7
and eat your fruit loops in the dark 
    F
and bring your flask of jack to work 
    Fsus7        G7
and play your ukulele 

F
ukulele, thing of wonder 
G7
ukulele, wand of thunder 
C                         F
you can play the ukulele, too 
F
in london and down under 
F
play joan jett, and play jacques brel 
    G7                        Gm
and eminem and neutral milk hotel 
Gm
the children crush the hatred 
Gm
play your ukulele naked 
Gm
and if anybody tries to steal your ukulele, let them take it 

Verse 3
 C                           C7
imagine there?s no music, imagine there are no songs 
        F                               Fsus7         G7
imagine that john lennon wasn?t shot in front of his apartment 
 C                            C7                        F
imagine if john lennon had composed ?oeimagine? on the ukulele 
F                           Fsus7           G7
maybe folks would have more clearly got the message 

    C                               C7
you may think my approach is simple-minded and naïve 
            F                                   Fsus7             G7
like if you want to save the world then why not quit and feed the hungry 
    C                         C7
but people for millennia have needed music to survive 
    F                                  Fsus7           G7
and that?s why i?ve promised john that i will not feel guilty 

   C 
so play your favorite beatles? song 
    C7
and make the subway fall in love 
        F                   Fsus7        G7
they?re only $19.95, that?s not a lot of money 
C
play until the sun comes up 
    C7
and play until your fingers suffer 
F                          Fsus7      G7
play LCD soundsystem songs on your ukulele 
C
quit the bitching on your blog 
    C7
and stop pretending art is hard 
     F
just limit yourself to three chords 
    Fsus7           G7
and do not practice daily 
       C
you?ll minimize some stranger?s sadness 
C7
with a piece of wood and plastic 
F                            Fsus7      G7
holy fuck it?s so fantastic, playing ukulele 
C
eat your homework with a fork 
    C7
and do your fruit loops in the dark 
F
bring your etch-a-sketch to work 
     F
your flask of jack 
     F
your vibrator 
     F
your fear of heights 
     F
your nikon lens 
     C
your mom and dad 
     C
your disco stick 
     C7  
your soundtrack from ?oekarate kid? 
     F
your ginsu knives 
     F
your rosary 
     Fsus7       G7
your new rebecca black CD 
     C
your favorite room 
     C
your bowie knife 
     C7
your stuffed giraffe 
     C7
your new glass eye 
     F
your sousaphone 
     F
your breakfast tea 
     Fsus7
your nick drake tapes 
     G7
your giving tree 
     C
your ice cream truck 
     C
your missing wife 
     C7
your will to live 
     C7
your urge to cry 
  F
remember we?re all going to die 
   F            C
so PLAY YOUR UKULELE

Ukulele Anthem

Ukulele Anthem - Single

Verse 1:
           B
I'm going back to the time when we owned this town
      E
Down Powder Mill Lane, in the battlegrounds
C#m        B                   G#m  B     F#
We were friends and lovers and clueless clowns


Verse 2:
                      B       
I didn't know I'd be finding out now I was torn from you
         E
When we thought about things we were gonna do
C#m      B                    G#m B  F# 
We were wide eyed dreamers and wiser too


Chorus:
               E              B 
Go down to the rides on East Parade,
        G#m                   F#
by the lights of the Palace Arcade
                    E                     G#m   F#   
Watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café


Verse 3:
                          B
I'm begging you for some sign, but you've still got nothing to say
        E
Don't turn your back on me, don't walk away
C#m     B                   G#m  B   F#
I'm a better man now than I was that day


Chorus:
                      E              B 
Let's go down to the rides on East Parade,
        G#m                   F#
by the lights of the Palace Arcade
                    E                     G#m   F#   
Watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café

                 E               B
Go down to the bandstand on the pier
           G#m                    F#
Watch the drunks and the lovers appear
                      E                     G#m   F#     
Take time, just the stars at the Sovereign Light Café


Bridge:
   E        B           F#
I wheel my bike off the train,
        F#
Up the North Trade Road,
 E        B             F# 
Look for you on Marley Lane
                          G#m
In every building, every streetlight
                   E               F#  G#m  B  F#
Oh why did we ever go so far from home?


Verse 4:
                        B
You keep on leaving me mile long traces of who you are
         E
You can get a big house and a faster car
C#m      B                    G#m   B  F#
You can run away boy, but you won't go far


Chorus:
                      E              B
Let's go down to the rides on East Parade,
        G#m                   F#
by the lights of the Palace Arcade
                    E                     G#m   F#   
Watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café

                    E                B
Stroll down to the bandstand on the pier
           G#m                    F#
Watch the drunks and the lovers appear
                     E                      G#m   F#
Take time, just the stars at the Sovereign Light Café 

      E            B    G#m
La la la la la la la la Yeah, 
     F#                      E       B   F#
I'm going where the people know my name


Outro:
E B G#m F#
E B G#m F# B

Sovereign Light Cafe

strumming pattern
D-DUD-D

F,G,C,Em7

mmmmm mmmm mmmm 

F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting


[Verse 1: Rihanna]

F              G
Dry! ...Me a desert
C                 Em7
Nuh time to have ya lerkin'
F                        G
Him ago act like him nuh like it
C                           Em7
You know I dealt with you the nicest
F                        G
Nuh body touch me in the righteous
C                     Em7
Nuh botha, text me in a crisis 
           F                    G
I believed all of your dreams, adoration
            C                    Em7
You took my heart and my keys and my patience
            F                        G
You took my heart on my sleeve for decoration
                C                          Em7
You mistaken my love I brought for you for foundation
           F             G
All that I wanted from you was to give me
C            Em7
Something that I never had
F                   G
Something that you've never seen
C                     Em7
Something that you've never been!
F     G
Mmmmm!
      C                          
But I wake up and act like nothing's wrong
D
Just get ready fi...


[Hook: Rihanna]
F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting
F             G
Ner ner ner ner ner ner!
               C           Em7
When you a guh ner ner ner ner ner ner!
                  F                 G
Before the tables turn turn turn turn turn turn!
C             Em7
Beg you something please


[Verse 2: Rihanna]

F            G
Baby don't you leave
               C                 Em7
Do''t leave me stuck here in the streets, 
   F                  G
uh huh If I get another chance to
       C                Em7
I will never, no never neglect you
      F                         G
I mean who am I to hold your past against you?
       C                    Em7
I just hope that it gets to you
  F           G
I hope that you see this through
  C                      Em7
I hope that you see this true
F          G
What can I say?
       C          
Please recognize I'm tryin', baby!!!
 Em7
I have to


[Hook: Rihanna]

F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting


[Verse 3: Drake]

N.C.
Yeah, okay
F        G        C                   Em7
You need to get done, done, done, done at work, come over
F               G
We just need to slow the motion
C                   Em7
Don't give that away to no one
F            G
Long distance, I need you
C                          Em7
When I see potential I just gotta see it through
F                        G
If you had a twin, I would still choose you
C                           Em7
I don't wanna rush into it, if it's too soon
      F      G               C              
But I know you need to get done, done, done, done
   Em7
If you come over
F            G
Sorry if I'm way less friendly
C                    Em7
I got n____s tryna end me,
F G           C                 Em7
oh,     I spilled all my emotions tonight, I'm sorry
F               G
Rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'
C                                Em7
How many more shots until you're rollin'?
F              G
We just need a face to face
C                    Em7            F
You could pick the time and the place
               G
You spent some time away
C                Em7
Now you need to forward and give me all the...


[Hook: Rihanna]

F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting

mmm mmm mmm..


[Outro: Rihanna]

work work work work work work

F G C D
F G C D

Work

Intro: C D C D (x2)


C D
Si es que no puedes hablar
C D
no te atrevas a volver
C D
si te quieres ocultar
C D
tal vez te podria ver
Em D C G C
y el amor que no sabe a quien y que
G C
hablará si tu verdad
Em F
te abrazara otra vez

Em C
Habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G C
y te hace feliz

C D


C D
Si no puedes escuchar
C D
aunque insistas hablaré
C D
si lo quieres mírame
C D
y tus ojos hablaran tal vez
Em D C G C
sentiras el amor e iras tras el
G C
hablaras si tu verdad
Em F
te abrazará otra vez

Em C
Habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y te hace feliz
Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita si temes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y te hace feliz


Em G C G
.(CUERDAS)... abrazaméeeeeeeee..
C Em F
quiero despertarme y entender

Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita si temes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y que haces aquì
Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G C
y te hace feliz
G C
y te hace feliz

C D
(fin)

Habla si puedes

(Chorus)
G
You xxxx X xxx'x smile xxxx xxx
Em
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Am7
I xxx'x xxxxx xxx X xxx'x sing
D7
I'm xxxxxxx xx xxxx xx xx xxxxxxxx
(1st Verse)
G
You xxx X xxxx xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
Em
X feel xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Am7
If xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx X'x xxxxx through
D7                              G Em G Em
X just xxx'x xxxxx without xxx
(2nd verse)
G
You xxxx along xxxx xxxx x song
Em
Xxx brightened xx xxx
Am7
Whod've xxxxxxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xx x dream
                  D7
Xxx xx xxx xxxxx light xxxxx xxxx
(Chorus)
         G 
Xxx now xxx xxx X xxx'x smile xxxx xxx
Em
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Am7
I xxx'x xxxxx xxx X xxx'x sing
D7                          Eb
I'm xxxxxxx xx xxxx xx xx anything
(3rd Verse)
Ab
You xxx X xxxx xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
   Fm
X feel xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Bbm
If xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx X'x xxxxx through
Ebm
X just xxx'x xxxxx
Ebm                                 Ab               C#
Now xxxx xxxxxx xxx happiness xxxxx so xxxx xxxx xx find
C#m                                         Eb     E
Well, X'x xxxxxxx xx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx behind me
A
And xxx xxx X xxx'x smile xxxxxxx xxx
F#m
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Bm
X xxx'x laugh xxx X xxx'x sing
E
X'x finding xx xxxx xx xx xxxxxxxx
Bb
You xxx X xxxx xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Gm
X feel xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
Cm
If xxx xxxx knew xxxx X'x xxxxx through
F
X just xxx'x smile xxxxxxx xxx

Can't Smile Without You

LA RE
Jo et duré a casa si fa mal temps
MI FA#m
Jo t’empararé si un cas tens por
SIm MI
Jo te cuidaré si estàs malalta
RE LA
De tot cor, de tot cor
RE REm LA
De tot cor

MI RE DO#m-SIm-LA

FA#m DO#m
Estic a punt d’anar-me’n
RE LA RE
Mes abans de partir et diré
REm LA
Que et duc dins es pensament

FA#m DO#m
No deix de recordar-te
RE LA RE
I alen els teus alens tot calents
REm SIm MI
De lluny i de prop me tens


Jo et duré...

FA#m DO#m
I a dalt de s’escenari
RE LA RE
Quan estic concentrat cantant
REm MI
Jo sempre te tenc present

FA#m DO#m
Perquè m’ets necessari
RE LA
Com s’aire que respir
RE REm SIm MI
Necessit estar amb tu en tot moment


Jo et duré... ( bis )

De tot cor

Intro: Em  A  Em  A

       Em               A                Em                   
 A
Verse: Be on my side or be on your side, there is no reason for you to hide,
       Em                 A
       Its so hard for me stayin' here all alone, when you could be takin'
       A                Em                                             A
       Me for a ride... She could drag me, over the rainbow, send me away


        G     D         A    G  D          A
Chorus:  Down by the ri-ver,  I shot my ba-by

 Em        A
 Ooh, Ooh, shot her dead


Verse 2:You take my hand I'll take your hand, together we may get away,

        This must madness is too much sorrow, its impossible to make it

        today... She could drag me, over the rainbow, send me away


(Chorus)

(Verse 1)

Down By The River

Intro: D-A-Bm-Em-A  x4

         D                 A                          
I'll confess tonight your all thats on my mind
        Bm            A                   D
I know these roof top nights could last forever.
              A                            Bm
we watched the seasons change, we saw the distance pull us away,
           A
from all we shared together.

D                       A
Right now is all we have you better make this count
Bm                       A
these are the moments i wish i could forget you.

D                            A                                          Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
    Em    A
lets run away.
D                             A                             Bm
its 9am the sun wont rise for 3 more hours pacific time you said
    Em    A
lets run away.

play intro  x2

D                    A
I picked apart every word that you said
  Bm                              A
I dissected each sentence but kept coming up empty
D                         A
the way you are leaves me counting the days
        Bm                            A
till the next time this distance will be a memory


D                        A        
Right now is all we have you better make this count
Bm                     D
these are the moments i wish i could forget you.


D                            A                                          Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
     Em   A
lets run away.
D                            A                              Bm
its 9am the sun wont rise for 3 more hours pacific time you said
     Em   A
lets run away.

D-A-Bm-A

where have you been


                                                                        Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
     Em   A
lets run away.
D                            A                                          Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
     Em   A
lets run away.
D                            A                              Bm
its 9am the sun wont rise for 3 more hours pacific time you said
     Em   A
lets run away


American Dream 

G Bm Em A
Well everybody's lookin' for something they can't find,
Walking straight ahead blind-folded production line,
Only taking time for one type of shoe-shine.
Don't look left/right now you got a street fine.
Everybody lookin' for just a little more.
Working late-nights trying to fight off the day glow.
Waiting for the come-around but it is a no show.
Driving in the fast lane lookin' for the slow-mo...

C D A
Oh whats in store I don't know anymore.
Oh what's inside 'cos I can't hide from it no more.
Oh what you see well it's not me anymore.
Oh I don't know well I don't know man anymore because 

G Bm Em A
I tell you once I tell you twice, gonna be a long time
But you don't take no one's advice, gonna be a long time you,
Where were you, you weren't listenin', gonna be a long time
Gonna be a long time.

G Bm Em A
So now you're face down, face lookin like a frying pan.
Hitting up the clubs trying to feel like a real man.
Beating your chest just like you're King Kong but you're just a gui-tar no-string no-song.
Feeling free like ya don't even know it, man you're towing the line hoping you just don't blow it.
Man ya stuck in the mainframe trying to win the big game so much potential it even makes it more of a shame, shame, shame...
Here we go again, same old shit just another name.
Looking at the destiny there in your palm,
But now you got your strings but you got no song.
So sing, sing, sing - shake it like a chicken wing.
It's not what you get it's about what you bring-bring-bring.
So bring it, bring it to the table, not because you have to 'cos you're willing and you're able!

C D A
Oh what's in store I don't know anymore.
Oh what's inside 'cos I can't hide from it no more.
Oh what you see well it's not me anymore.
Oh I don't know, I don't know anymore because 

G Bm Em A
I tell you once I tell you twice, gonna be a long time.
But you don't take no one's advice, gonna be a long time.
You, where were you, you weren't listening, gonna be a long time.
Gonna be a long time.

Gonna Be A Long Time

[intro x2]
A  E  D A

A                                        E
when there's no place you feel at home
              D                               A
and you think you'd be better off alone
A                                          E
when you think there's no reason to try
               D                           A
and you hate yourself and wanna die

A                                      E
when you're filled with anxiety
             D                   A
and everyone's your enemy
A                                        E
when you wish you were someone else
                 D                        A
and you wanna go out and kill yourself

[chorus]

E D                 A
ooh you're overreacting

(you can change your mind)
E D                A
ooh you're overreacting

(take your time)


A                       E
when you get yourself depressed
                      D                   A
because you think you can't do your best
A                                         E
when you write yourself a stupid song
           D                        A
to remind yourself that you forgot

[chorus]

E D                 A
ooh you're overreacting

(you can change your mind)
E D                A
ooh you're overreacting

(take your time)


[BRIDGE]
# chords x2:
A  E  D  A

A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|-0-2--------------------------------------------------|
C|------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----2-4-2---2-4-2-1---1-1-2-2-1-2-4-2-1-22-----------|     x2



[chorus]

E D                 A
ooh you're overreacting

(you can change your mind)
E D                A
ooh you're overreacting

Overreacting

C#
There's a portrait
     Ab
In a back room
           F#
Which I'll keep for days upon
          C#
Which I relent 
              B
And gaze for hours on
    Bbm                  F#
The muscle, skin and bone
         Ab
Of some imaginary friend

F# Ab F#

        C#
So how about it 
        Ab
Show me please 
           F#
How I will look in twenty years
           C#
And let me please 
          B
Interpret history 
       Bbm        F#
In every line and scar 
               Ab                  
That's painted there in front of me

F# Ab F# Ab F# Ab

           C#
It doesn't matter
         Ab
What I'm thinking
       F#
What I tell myself to do
         C#      F#
I end up calling

       C#
I stay in to
                   Ab
Defrost the fridge
        F#
Now the kid has gone to bed
             C#
A feeling of dread
              B         
At least when she's around
    Bbm
The trouble's there
     F#                        Ab
It's worse to wake up with her falling 'round the room

F# Ab F# Ab F# Ab

       C#
Listen Johnny
              F#
You're like a mother
       C#                     F#
To the girl you've fallen for
                 C#
And you're still falling

       C#
Listen Johnny
              Ab
You're like a mother
       F#
To the girl you've fallen for
                 C#
And you're still falling

            B
And if they come tonight
       Bbm
You'll roll up tight
     F#             Ab
And take whatever's coming to you next (oh, oh oh oh)

 F# Ab to end.

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