Graham Parker

You're always kidding me something's happening but it isn't true
You're getting rid of me you know exactly what I'm trying to
Oh baby I am drained of colour I can't go anywhere
You just left me in another grey area

You say you're loving me but it's nothing but a red rag
You call this ecstasy but suddenly it's let the stone drag
Oh baby I have just discovered I don't belong anywhere
Your love left me in another grey area
Another grey area

When I start thinking can't stop sinking
Everybody left me holding the baby
Everything's the same no-one took the blame
That's the colour of another grey area
That's the colour of another grey area

I can't follow it the information that is coming through
I never swallow it the black feeling that is all blue
Oh baby I've just discovered I can't go anywhere
Your love left me in another grey area
Yeah You left me in another grey area
That's the colour of another grey area
Another grey area

Another grey area
Another grey area
That's the colour
That's the colour

You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball
And look for the air-raid shelter but it's gone and the cafe seems so
small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples
now have small businesses flourishing in cinder blocks
Then they will call your name and hand you a gold watch
Then they will call your name but it doesn't sound like much
And you'll never discover why it's like an old lover
you can't touch anymore It doesn't mean much anymore
when you go back in time
back in time

You head down to the local try to find a focal point
A scratch in the wallpaper but it's all been wallpapered over
Down at the newsagents it's all pornography
And you try to get high again but it's like time-lapse photography
Then they will call your name and hand you a medal
Or something more practical like a whistling kettle
and it'll test your metal Just try to keep grinning
knowing that this feeling is indulgence worse than sinning
trying to go back in time
yeah

Photographs with a glossy finish letters lovers never finished
And there in a dusty drawer a necktie you once wore
And a girl you tried to court made you feel about two feet short
Where is she now today? What would she have to say?
Then they will call your name and hand you a pension
A bottle of pills that guarantee life extension
and give you a mention in the local boy makes good section
But all the old news is like print stains across your mind
when you try to go back in time


Yes all this old news is just print stains across your mind
when you try to go back in time
Back in time
back, back in time

Better listen to me, You better stay blind and you better not see
You think it feels alright but you don't have to lie awake all night

Fumble with the money and fumble with the keys
Somebody has to end up on his knees
Go to a funeral dressed in pink
Stop to love and not stop to think

Big fat zero
Big fat zero
Big fat zero

They all lose their cool
They all see the money and they start to drool
They all shuffle their feet
They shuffle their cards and they turn up the heat
They tell you

Fumble with the money and fumble with the keys
Somebody has to end up on his knees
Go to a funeral dressed in pink
Stop to love and not stop to think

Big fat zero
Big fat zero
Big fat zero

Big fat zero
Big fat zero
Big fat zero
Big fat zero
Big fat zero
Big fat zero
Big fat zero
Big fat zero

The kid's left home, the kid's got a kid of her own
Don't knock that door, don't knock it, nobody's home
The mystery sign, turn off and follow it blind
The interstate is jammed and crammed with exhaust mist
It only leads to somewhere you'll never miss
You'll never miss

Get on the blue highways, follow the blue highways
You know that they're there,
you know that they're there
Where the real America lies

The rusty chrome, the shutters swing open and closed
Don't knock that door, don't knock it, nobody's home
The blood runs cold, the blood runs cold
There must be gold where fools are
That's what we are, that's what we are

Get on the blue highways, follow the blue highways
You know that they're there,
you know that they're there
Where the real America lies
Blue highways, blue highways, blue highways

Cupid draw back your bow
And let your arrow go
Straight to my lover's heart for me,
for me -
Cupid please hear my cry
And let your arrow fly
Straight to my lover's heart for me

Now - I don't mean to bother you but I'm in distress
There's danger of me loosing all of my happiness
For I love a girl who doesn't know I exist
And this you can fix,
so.....

Cupid draw back your bow
And let your arrow go
Straight to my lover's heart for me,
Nobody but me -
Cupid please hear my cry
And let your arrow fly
Straight to my lover's heart for me

Now - Cupid if your arrow makes her love strong for me
I promise I will love her until eternity
I know between the both of us her heart we can steal
Help me if you will,
so.....

Cupid draw back your bow
And let your arrow flow
Straight to my lover's heart for me,
o nobody but me -
Cupid please hear my cry
And let your arrow fly
Straight to my lover's heart for me


Now - Cupid, don't you hear me,
I'm calling you,
I need you,
Cupid
help me . . .

Her heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking

The Tokyo's taxi's braking, it's screaming to a halt

And there's nothing to hold on to when gravity betrays you

And every kiss enslaves you-oo-oo

She knows how hard her heart grows under the nuclear shadows

She can't escape the feeling repeating in her head

When after all the urges some kind of truth emerges

We felt the deadly surges


Discovering Japan--an --an

Discovering Japan--an --an

The GIs only use her, they only ram right through her

Giving an eastern promise, that they could never keep

Seeing a million miles, between their joke and smiles

She heard their hard denials [don't pause]


As the tears dropped sideways down her face, face

I woke up talking in the tongue of a different race, race

And as the flight touches down my watch says 8:02

But that's midnight to you,

Midnight to you Midight to you
I dreamed headlong collisions in jet lag panavisions

I shouted sayonara it didn't mean goodbye

But lovers turn to posers show up in film exposures

Just like in travel brochures
Discovering Japan Discovering Japan

(x6 and fade)

Her heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking

The Tokyo's taxi's braking, it's screaming to a halt

And there's nothing to hold on to when gravity betrays you

And every kiss enslaves you-oo-oo

She knows how hard her heart grows under the nuclear shadows

She can't escape the feeling repeating in her head

When after all the urges some kind of truth emerges

We felt the deadly surges


Discovering Japan--an --an

Discovering Japan--an --an

The GIs only use her, they only ram right through her

Giving an eastern promise, that they could never keep

Seeing a million miles, between their joke and smiles

She heard their hard denials [don't pause]


As the tears dropped sideways down her face, face

I woke up talking in the tongue of a different race, race

And as the flight touches down my watch says 8:02

But that's midnight to you,

Midnight to you Midight to you
I dreamed headlong collisions in jet lag panavisions

I shouted sayonara it didn't mean goodbye

But lovers turn to posers show up in film exposures

Just like in travel brochures
Discovering Japan Discovering Japan

(x6 and fade)

Lead Guitar intro Em Bm A Em Bm D A Bm then Bm G
Bm G Bm G
Crimson autograph is what we leave behind, Everywhere man set foot.
Em Bm F

There is always some advantage to be wielded and brought to bear

It's a lonely occupation keeping others out of your hair

Fingers on all the switches talk in whispers talking soft

You know all my favourite bitches you know what gets me off

But try to reach a vital part of me My interest level's dropping rapidly

It's all excuses baby all a stall I just don't get excited

I've been running round in circles and jump jump jumping out of cars
They put animals in cages specimens in jars
It's summer now there's no temptation and baby nails digging under skin
It don't give me the right sensation it's just another thing
You try to reach a vital part of me My attention span is dropping rapidly

It's all excuses baby all a stall We just don't get excited

Don't get excited No Don't get excited Don't get excited

Talk about it talk about it all night long
Think about it think about it nothing's wrong
Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited
Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited

Baby listen without thinking you better be without demands
Now don't get edgy and don't start blinking and don't start making any plans
You try to reach a vital part of me My interest level's dropping rapidly
It's all excuses baby all a stall We just don't get excited
Don't get excited No don't get excited Don't get excited

There is always some advantage to be wielded and brought to bear

It's a lonely occupation keeping others out of your hair

Fingers on all the switches talk in whispers talking soft

You know all my favourite bitches you know what gets me off

But try to reach a vital part of me My interest level's dropping rapidly

It's all excuses baby all a stall I just don't get excited

I've been running round in circles and jump jump jumping out of cars
They put animals in cages specimens in jars
It's summer now there's no temptation and baby nails digging under skin
It don't give me the right sensation it's just another thing
You try to reach a vital part of me My attention span is dropping rapidly

It's all excuses baby all a stall We just don't get excited

Don't get excited No Don't get excited Don't get excited

Talk about it talk about it all night long
Think about it think about it nothing's wrong
Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited
Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited Don't get excited

Baby listen without thinking you better be without demands
Now don't get edgy and don't start blinking and don't start making any plans
You try to reach a vital part of me My interest level's dropping rapidly
It's all excuses baby all a stall We just don't get excited
Don't get excited No don't get excited Don't get excited

The dark hand will call you out of nowhere it seems
The black cloud will bust apart shattering your dreams
They all put up barricades blank you out at first
Then they'll get to you to get to me who'll know what's worse

I say Fear not baby fear not Fear not baby fear not
Fear not baby fear not baby fear not It's going to end

Get your drink knocked over
you're thinking that it might be planned
But it's just some fool in the crowd tonight
What's the name written on his hand
I won't give away anything more than the ink from my pen
You ought to know when you look at me
Love is something you can't offend

I say Fear not baby fear not Fear not baby fear not
Fear not baby fear not baby fear not It's going to end

I said fear not I said fear not

I can't stand to leave you to the lions of the world
Yeah I know that it seems like we're in a cage but we ain't the animals
I won't let them touch you not a hair that's on your head
They can rip out bits of me that should keep them fed

I say Fear not baby fear not Fear not baby fear not
Fear not baby fear not baby fear not It's going to end

It's going to end

A D A D
I been doing my homework now for a long long time
A D A D
And everything that I look for I know I will one day find
E D E D
I'm a fool so I'm told I get left in the cold
E D A
Cause I will search the world for that fool's gold,
D A D A
fool's gold

Oh the world may be full of girls with their charms on show
But the one that I seek will have much more than any I know
People say heaven knows see what comes I suppose
But I will search the world for that fool's gold, fool's gold
E A D
Huh I eye eye eye eye eye eye eye
E A D E A D
I eye eye eye eye eye eye eye Oh yeah

Instrumental verse (A D A D A D A D A D)then Oh
E D E D
People say heaven knows heaven knows heaven knows see what comes I suppose
E D A
But I will search the world for that fool's gold
(sax) D A D A
Oh yeah fool's gold oh ho yeah fool's gold
D A D
Fool's gold fool's gold fool's gold
A D A D (Just A and D to the end)
Fool's gold fool's gold fool's gold fool's gold
Keep searching in the mountains in the valleys, In the deep blue sea
I will search I will search I will search for fool's gold
Go oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh-acap

The mona lisa's sister doesn't smile
She tried to pose but only for a while
Leonardo sent her home since then she has lived alone
With her few belongings and a copy of a painting of herself unhappy
She is going to burn it when she's ready

Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire

Marilyn was lying all alone with an empty bottle by the phone
Kennedy was not around she was cold when she was found
But she'd gone where the goddesses are sleeping
Where the molten tongues of flame are leaping
Or where the angel's hearts are beating

Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire

Joan of arc was burning at the stake somebody had made a big mistake
She had lit a cigarette in an aiport where you get
All your fingers taken off for smoking.
Meanwhile up the road a factory's choking
The ones who killed her work there I'm not joking

Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire

Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire

I got a real wooden heart girl, sometimes it's hard to ignite it
I must have water for blood girl, but don't cut me out or write me off
You turn stone into flesh baby and I almost get human
Yeah and it's always the best baby, I hear your heart pitter patter
I feel your love start to shatter

CHORUS
My glass jaw, and you can break this door
and you can take me for, whatever you want

I got a head full of rocks girl, shake me around and I rattle
I must have ice here in blocks girl, being alive is a battle
I, I want to win when you're with me that's when things really happen
Yeah even grin when you're with me, you're arms around really bit yeah
You know the right place to hit it

My glass jaw, and you can break this door
and you can take me for, whatever you want

OOh you turn stone into flesh baby and I almost get human
Yeah it's always the best baby, I hear your heart pitter patter
And then your love start to shatter

My glass jaw, and you can break this door
and you can take me for, whatever you want

Oooh glass jaw, and you can break this door
and you can take, take me for, whatever you want
whatever you want, whatever you want

Thanks to Robert Watson
for a complete revision of this chart.

Robert's chart has the Em over the word

When the lights are low you know I'm going to go to my hotel chambermaid
I'm going to jump the garden and come on hard all right
While the river's rolling outside the window
Going to see her going to get love
Going to shut the bellboy out tonight

VERSE
When the world is dead I'm going to make the bed with that hotel chambermaid
She'll bring the coffee in the morning with a smile
She don't ask me where I come from
I crept in and I soon be done
I just want to hide here for a while

I ain't got a million dollars, no-one I can call mine
But I'll push on cushion me in some way
Ain't got no future at least that's what they say
This girl is going to take those kind of blues away for a day yeah
Uh uh uh uh uh hotel chambermaid hotel chambermaid

VERSE
Room service can you help me I want a hotel chambermaid
I didn't pay my bill but I had my fill all right
While the river's rolling outside the window
Going to see her going to get love
Going to shut the bellboy out tonight
While the river's rolling outside the window
Going to see her going to get love
Going to shut the bellboy out tonight (3 times)

When I had you to myself
I didn't want you around
Those pretty faces always made you
Stand out in a crowd
But someone picked you from the bunch
One glance was all it took
Now it's much too late for me
To take second look

Oh baby give me one more chance
To show you that I love you
Won't you please send me back in your heart

Oh darlin' I was blind to let you go
But now since I see you in his arms
I want you back
Yes I do now
I want you back
Ooh ooh baby
Yeah yeah, naw

Trying to live without your love
Is one long sleepless night
Let me show you girl
That I know wrong from right

Every street you walk on
I leave tear stains on the ground
Following the girl
I didn't even want around
Oh baby give me one more chance
To show you that I love you
Won't you please send me back in your heart

Abuh buh buh buh
All I want!
Abuh buh buh buh
All I need!
Abuh buh buh buh

Just like a man, flexing his muscle and not really usin' it
Just like a fool, making her suffer And stuffing her feelings with cotton wool
Well, forgive him, forgive him

Just like a man, carrying a picture but seeing in the negative
Just like a fool, all double standards baby do this but never do that
Well, forgive him, forgive him, forgive him

He makes her fall, face down into the pillow
Climbing the wall, weeping like a weeping willow
Hands her a tissue he's already used

Just like a man, just like a man
Dragging her under for everything he'll never be
Ripping her asunder, said he didn't really love her anyway
Well, forgive him, forgive him

Just like a man, thrashing out blindly way out of his depth
Just like a fool, there's no device he won't employ
He even cries like a little boy
Well, forgive him, forgive him Forgive him
Just like a man, just like a man
Just like a man, just like a man

G C G C
I've got a lady doctor She cure da pain for free
G C Bb F G
I've got a lady doctor Oh there ain't nothing wrong with me.
G C G C
I went in with a heart burn into the surgery
To my surprise two pretty eyes was running up and down me.
Said now be a patient patient stretch right out on that couch
Help yourself to the pills cure your ills
Bb F G
I'm never gonna square it on out.

REPEAT CHORUS

Well all the cats said go see her it's only just down the road
You go in with pneumonia come out with just a heavy cold
She won't give you no jargon no medical how-do-you-do
Well just get right down under that stethoscope
Baby let that lady mess on with you.

REPEATR CHORUS (then instrumental chorus)

REPEAT CHORUS (twice, sung up an octave)

Ain't nothing wrong with
Ain't nothing wrong with me
Bb F Bb F C Bb F G
Ooh ooh ooh ooh lady doctor yeah.

I used to think that it all stopped happening
by the time you reached twenty one
They said there's nothing like the first love you get boy
They were wrong, oh so wrong,
they hung on and hung on, to their dream, I know

CHORUS
Life gets better yeah
When ever I'm in her arms
Just to know I'm not the average fella
I'm the one, I'm the one for her

Well it's a shame what they do to these young kids
Just encourage them to act like clowns
And then they think that they don't have much longer
Knocked up the first time she let em get down
Put four walls around and then scream, but I know

REPEAT CHORUS

Life stretches before me an endless mystery
And nothing can bore me, when she's with me
I feel the heartbeat of the world in the hands of this girl
But it takes so much time to, to finally see, see, see

I get a thrill when I think how it really is
Noone can ever take that away
They try to put rubber bands around your heart
But they're wrong, oh so wrong, they hung on
and hung on, to their dream, but I know

Life gets better yeah
When ever I'm in her arms
Just to know I'm not the average fella
I'm the one, I'm the one for her

Oooh Life gets better yeah, When ever I'm in her arms
Just to know I'm not the average sucker, I'm the one, I'm the one for her

Oooh Life gets better yeah, Oooh Life gets better yeah
Oooh Life gets better yeah

I used to think that it all stopped happening
by the time you reached twenty one
They said there's nothing like the first love you get boy
They were wrong, oh so wrong,
they hung on and hung on, to their dream, I know

CHORUS
Life gets better yeah
When ever I'm in her arms
Just to know I'm not the average fella
I'm the one, I'm the one for her

Well it's a shame what they do to these young kids
Just encourage them to act like clowns
And then they think that they don't have much longer
Knocked up the first time she let em get down
Put four walls around and then scream, but I know

REPEAT CHORUS

Life stretches before me an endless mystery
And nothing can bore me, when she's with me
I feel the heartbeat of the world in the hands of this girl
But it takes so much time to, to finally see, see, see

I get a thrill when I think how it really is
Noone can ever take that away
They try to put rubber bands around your heart
But they're wrong, oh so wrong, they hung on
and hung on, to their dream, but I know

Life gets better yeah
When ever I'm in her arms
Just to know I'm not the average fella
I'm the one, I'm the one for her

Oooh Life gets better yeah, When ever I'm in her arms
Just to know I'm not the average sucker, I'm the one, I'm the one for her

Oooh Life gets better yeah, Oooh Life gets better yeah
Oooh Life gets better yeah

E b e ac#m e a e

Love gets you twisted, love gets you twisted all the way

The hearts are enlisted, the hearts are enlisted to break each day

G#m e

I try to straighten out but Im too wrapped up to see

C#m ab

I dont know how its supposed to be



Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted inside out

I knew that it existed I knew that it existed I had no doubt

When shes in my arms I get tangled up its true

I cant see the other point of view



A e c#m f#

When love gets you twisted love gets you twisted

E aba

Love gets you twisted

B a b a

Screw yourself up screw yourself up

B b e

Screw yourself screw yourself up



The solo seems to be c#m (2 bars), b-e-a-b then rpt x1



I try to straighten out but Im tangled up its true

I cant see the other point of view

Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted love gets you twisted

Screw yourself up screw yourself up screw yourself, screw yourself

E b ea

When love gets you twisted

When love gets you twisted

When love gets you twisted



Repeat and fade /pre>

E b e ac#m e a e

Love gets you twisted, love gets you twisted all the way

The hearts are enlisted, the hearts are enlisted to break each day

G#m e

I try to straighten out but Im too wrapped up to see

C#m ab

I dont know how its supposed to be



Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted inside out

I knew that it existed I knew that it existed I had no doubt

When shes in my arms I get tangled up its true

I cant see the other point of view



A e c#m f#

When love gets you twisted love gets you twisted

E aba

Love gets you twisted

B a b a

Screw yourself up screw yourself up

B b e

Screw yourself screw yourself up



The solo seems to be c#m (2 bars), b-e-a-b then rpt x1



I try to straighten out but Im tangled up its true

I cant see the other point of view

Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted love gets you twisted

Screw yourself up screw yourself up screw yourself, screw yourself

E b ea

When love gets you twisted

When love gets you twisted

When love gets you twisted



Repeat and fade /pre>

E b e ac#m e a e

Love gets you twisted, love gets you twisted all the way

The hearts are enlisted, the hearts are enlisted to break each day

G#m e

I try to straighten out but Im too wrapped up to see

C#m ab

I dont know how its supposed to be



Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted inside out

I knew that it existed I knew that it existed I had no doubt

When shes in my arms I get tangled up its true

I cant see the other point of view



A e c#m f#

When love gets you twisted love gets you twisted

E aba

Love gets you twisted

B a b a

Screw yourself up screw yourself up

B b e

Screw yourself screw yourself up



The solo seems to be c#m (2 bars), b-e-a-b then rpt x1



I try to straighten out but Im tangled up its true

I cant see the other point of view

Love gets you twisted love gets you twisted love gets you twisted

Screw yourself up screw yourself up screw yourself, screw yourself

E b ea

When love gets you twisted

When love gets you twisted

When love gets you twisted



Repeat and fade /pre>

D A
Manhattan baby with a sing song voice
G D
she got her place in the human zoo
D A
I went to living on the boulevard
G A
now that the revolution's due
G A
She said I've been around from town to town
G A
and I learned to love and hate
G A
But time don't change not a unique game,
G A D
they just keep herding through that gate

CHORUS
D A
And do the New York shuffle, baby New York scuffle,
G D
Going to stay awake all night
D A
Do the New York shuffle, baby New York scuffle,
G A D D A D
Get yourself uptight, get uptight

Stick around kids you're going to see some action
better shoot them in the street
Grab a gun before the police come,
Don't tell me you're too sweet
Down in the alley they are hitting harder
Not as blown as a ball can be
They're burnin flags here and just in drag here
It sure is a sight to see

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE
Bm E Bm E
Mister Mayor give the key, let me lock you up
Bm E G A
Throw that key down the deepest subway in New York, New York

INSTRUMENTAL VERSE (2 lines end on D)

Ah primal scream I had electric dream
I had to

Nothing can be further removed, not everybody wants to be soothed ooooh
they're out there now in their padded cells and armchairs
Waiting for the nervous twitch that signals fear
Hooked up to a cardiogram set up so it cuts out when you cry or laugh
Worked by those who if you screw up treat you to a broken nose
If you tap your toes
Passive resistance! If it's not for them then it's not for you
Passive resistance! Where the only view is the right view
Passive resistance! And it breaks my heart to know there's no heart involved

Put the demographics away, the directors and consultants have the final say
Hired in, take home all the ones who missed for souvenirs, for their kids to play

Passive resistance! It's all programmed by programmers
Passive resistance! You're just a nail underneath their hammers
Passive resistance! And it breaks my heart to know there's no heart in them

Nothing can be further removed, not everybody wants to be soothed
Oooh they must be real, people that you never meet and never feel
And they don't feel you

Passive resistance! You get surveyed out of existence
Passive resistance! Just one in a million silent listeners
Passive resistance! It's all programmed by programmers
Passive resistance! You're just a nail underneath their hammers
Passive resistance! And it breaks your heart
To know there's no heart involved, involved, involved

Capo at 2 (intro D Em G Em D
Em G G C
So all of you be damned we can't have heaven crammed
Am C D
So Winston Churchill said I could have smacked his head
Em G G C
And all of those infected waiting to be collected
Am C D
I must get out at any price before the feeling gets too nice

CHORUS
Em C G D
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
Em C G D
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
Em C G D G C
Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection,
G C G C D
protection, protection

Every bomb is detonated every switch is thrown
And everybody tells me don't be scared act as if you never cared
So I wear a blank expression to conceal my real impression
Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station

REPEAT CHORUS Then Em/G Am/C which repeats over BRIDGE

So turn off this sound I'm ready to go down
I don't know myself, I don't you either
You're full of disease it's something I discovered
I know you've been mixing with Big Brother's brother
It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart
It's just the thought of someone
It's just the thought of someone
Em Em
It's just the thought of someone sticking it in, sticking it in

So if you think that's funny I'm not really laughng honey
Your love letters are confetti I ripped them up my hands were sweaty
And then those ghastly faces recur in nightmare places
Happy hours come and go much too short and much too long

CHORUS Then this rhythm again Em/G Am/C

Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station
Protection protection protection
It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart
It's just the thought of someone sticking it in
Protection protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off
Protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off
Protection protection You want to hide? You want to hide?
You want to hide, hide, hide? Protection REPEAT AND FADE

Capo at 2 (intro D Em G Em D
Em G G C
So all of you be damned we can't have heaven crammed
Am C D
So Winston Churchill said I could have smacked his head
Em G G C
And all of those infected waiting to be collected
Am C D
I must get out at any price before the feeling gets too nice

CHORUS
Em C G D
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
Em C G D
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
Em C G D G C
Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection,
G C G C D
protection, protection

Every bomb is detonated every switch is thrown
And everybody tells me don't be scared act as if you never cared
So I wear a blank expression to conceal my real impression
Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station

REPEAT CHORUS Then Em/G Am/C which repeats over BRIDGE

So turn off this sound I'm ready to go down
I don't know myself, I don't you either
You're full of disease it's something I discovered
I know you've been mixing with Big Brother's brother
It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart
It's just the thought of someone
It's just the thought of someone
Em Em
It's just the thought of someone sticking it in, sticking it in

So if you think that's funny I'm not really laughng honey
Your love letters are confetti I ripped them up my hands were sweaty
And then those ghastly faces recur in nightmare places
Happy hours come and go much too short and much too long

CHORUS Then this rhythm again Em/G Am/C

Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station
Protection protection protection
It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart
It's just the thought of someone sticking it in
Protection protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off
Protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off
Protection protection You want to hide? You want to hide?
You want to hide, hide, hide? Protection REPEAT AND FADE

Capo at 2 (intro D Em G Em D
Em G G C
So all of you be damned we can't have heaven crammed
Am C D
So Winston Churchill said I could have smacked his head
Em G G C
And all of those infected waiting to be collected
Am C D
I must get out at any price before the feeling gets too nice

CHORUS
Em C G D
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
Em C G D
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
Em C G D G C
Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection,
G C G C D
protection, protection

Every bomb is detonated every switch is thrown
And everybody tells me don't be scared act as if you never cared
So I wear a blank expression to conceal my real impression
Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station

REPEAT CHORUS Then Em/G Am/C which repeats over BRIDGE

So turn off this sound I'm ready to go down
I don't know myself, I don't you either
You're full of disease it's something I discovered
I know you've been mixing with Big Brother's brother
It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart
It's just the thought of someone
It's just the thought of someone
Em Em
It's just the thought of someone sticking it in, sticking it in

So if you think that's funny I'm not really laughng honey
Your love letters are confetti I ripped them up my hands were sweaty
And then those ghastly faces recur in nightmare places
Happy hours come and go much too short and much too long

CHORUS Then this rhythm again Em/G Am/C

Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station
Protection protection protection
It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart
It's just the thought of someone sticking it in
Protection protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off
Protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off
Protection protection You want to hide? You want to hide?
You want to hide, hide, hide? Protection REPEAT AND FADE

A Bm A D
Everybody just looks ugly now information don't compute
A Bm
I draw a blank every time I think
E A
the football crowd is going to give me a boot

CHORUS
D A E
And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead
G
It don't matter what they say
G A
You've got to use your own head some day
D A E (intro chords)
Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead

The ultraviolet light hurts me so it used to be my friend
I used to know a good place to go but now it's nothing like it was then

CHORUS (WORD VARIATION)
And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead
It don't matter what they say I'm going to the funeral Sunday
Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead

BRIDGE
A G A G
It must have been murder it ain't no accident
A
Oh no it means nothing to me
G
The clock goes tick tick tick in my head
D
Saturday is dead Saturday is dead (solo over A and Bm)

A Bm A D
I look inside to find a place to hide but there ain't no place I know
A Bm A
It's just as well that I'm stupified it makes it easy
G E D
It makes it easy to deliver the fatal blow
(Intro chords)
Deliver deliver deliver

CHORUS (FIRST

A Bm A D
Everybody just looks ugly now information don't compute
A Bm
I draw a blank every time I think
E A
the football crowd is going to give me a boot

CHORUS
D A E
And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead
G
It don't matter what they say
G A
You've got to use your own head some day
D A E (intro chords)
Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead

The ultraviolet light hurts me so it used to be my friend
I used to know a good place to go but now it's nothing like it was then

CHORUS (WORD VARIATION)
And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead
It don't matter what they say I'm going to the funeral Sunday
Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead

BRIDGE
A G A G
It must have been murder it ain't no accident
A
Oh no it means nothing to me
G
The clock goes tick tick tick in my head
D
Saturday is dead Saturday is dead (solo over A and Bm)

A Bm A D
I look inside to find a place to hide but there ain't no place I know
A Bm A
It's just as well that I'm stupified it makes it easy
G E D
It makes it easy to deliver the fatal blow
(Intro chords)
Deliver deliver deliver

CHORUS (FIRST

A Bm A D
Everybody just looks ugly now information don't compute
A Bm
I draw a blank every time I think
E A
the football crowd is going to give me a boot

CHORUS
D A E
And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead
G
It don't matter what they say
G A
You've got to use your own head some day
D A E (intro chords)
Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead

The ultraviolet light hurts me so it used to be my friend
I used to know a good place to go but now it's nothing like it was then

CHORUS (WORD VARIATION)
And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead
It don't matter what they say I'm going to the funeral Sunday
Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead

BRIDGE
A G A G
It must have been murder it ain't no accident
A
Oh no it means nothing to me
G
The clock goes tick tick tick in my head
D
Saturday is dead Saturday is dead (solo over A and Bm)

A Bm A D
I look inside to find a place to hide but there ain't no place I know
A Bm A
It's just as well that I'm stupified it makes it easy
G E D
It makes it easy to deliver the fatal blow
(Intro chords)
Deliver deliver deliver

CHORUS (FIRST

A E
You want me be someone better
A E
I just wanna monkey 'round yeah
A E
You want me to write you a letter
A E A E
But the words just won't come the right way
A E B
My pen won't listen to a thing that I say

E A E A E A E A
Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey
A B7 E A
Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing
A B7 E A E A E A E B7 A
Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey.

Maybe you're getting sloppy
Under the midday sun oh yeah.
You come on like a carbon copy
But I just wanna hang to the way you live.
Don't you want the love I got to give

Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey
Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing
Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey.

Sax solo

A E A E
Well I just wanna hang to the way you live.
A E B
Don't you want the love I got to give

Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey
Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing
Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey.
I said you don't-a mean a thing if you ain't got that swing
Silly thing hey hey repeat and fade

Intro G CG (4 times
VERSE
G CG G CG
Well I ain't got no worry I ain't in no hurry
You better tell your mother, That you're a real soul brother Hey hey!

I have to say it's all right About five past midnight
And we don't stop a-rollin' Until the floor board cave in.

BRIDGE
C G
Yeah I feel like I've been a-living to die
C G D
But when that rhythm play I don't know how to cry.

CHORUS
G CG G CG
I got my soul shoes I got my soul shoes
G CG G D
I got my soul shoes I got my soul shoes on my feet.

(Instrumental break)

BRIDGE
If you wanna leave me go dance with another guy
If you wanna grieve me baby just set my soul to die

(Instrumental chorus)

VERSE
Yeah the place is buzzin, please don't let the fuzz in.
You better tell your mother, that you're a real soul brother.

BRIDGE
Oh yeah I said I feel like I've been living to die
But when that rhythm play I don't know how to cry

CHORUS Repeat x3

I got to break this armour, cutting off all the feeling (don't wear it)
It's like a melodrama, everybody's scene stealing (just bear it)
It's always the same old number, they never let you out of school (it's nothing)
Well I gotta gun that's loaded, I want to hurt some fool (don't shoot it)

Well The woods are full of wardens,
they are digging up remains
It feels like the big stick that smacks of oppression
And it sounds like chains

I wanna bite the hand, bite off the hand that fed me (don't eat it)
I want to turn the knife, turn the knife that bled me (you need it)
You've got it all wrong, you never heard what I said (don't worry)
Well I got a gun that's loaded, it's not pointing at my head
(Don't rush it, don't hurry)

No-one can keep these ropes around me, or take the blood out of my veins
I'll just pull the trigger back as the volume gets stronger
And it sounds like chains
Instrumental then "Sounds like chains" 4 times then "Oooh Chains" and
more instrumental bits.

Nothing hurts me any longer, there isn't room for any pain
I'll just pull the trigger back as the volume gets stronger
And it sounds like chains

Oooh chains, sounds like chains, ooh chains, sounds like chains

The dreams and hopes of men are powered by addiction
And who am I to say that this is an affliction
When everybody gets suckered in and lives their lives like fiction
Writing their own stories of success

They say they want you for your colourful evocation
The way you turn a cliche into a sensation
But all they ever wanted was that same vibration
The one that shimmers round success

Success success
Success success
Success success
Success success
All you ever need:
Success

You can't be happy while someone else has a fistful
They glow from TV screens healthy strong and fiscal
And everybody slaps their back while you're alone with a wristful
Jerking to the rhythm of success

Success success
Success success
Success success
Success success
All you ever need:
Success

You have to do your best to come up to par,
from straight off the production line like a car,
Till everything you put on is a put-on,
and you don't know who's face you're gazing upon

Could be anyone you're sending out there tonight,
is it any wonder all the lights are too bright?
And you need temporary beauty,
and hope to God that it doesn't rain

You need temporary beauty,
even though it might be love in vain

The world is full of little people like you
They have to read a book to learn what to do
They hang around in second hand stores for clothes
And every kind of pressures steps on their toes
Love doesn't fall out of a magazine
You mustn't always believe what you see

Ah-ah-ah temporary beauty, ah-ah-ah temporary beauty,
Ah-ah-ah temporary beauty

You might be the sweetest little girl in your heart
But still the world ignores that and tears you apart
You think of the parties you'll never attend
You dream of someone who's more than a friend
Love doesn't jump out of a magazine
You mustn't always believe what you see

And you need temporary beauty,
and hope to God that it doesn't rain
You need temporary beauty,
even though it might be love, (3 times)

All the dirt's lying under the carpet
He swallowed a drink and then checked her heartbeat
Her wedding gown has been burned to ashes
Fanned by the flutter of her false lashes
One last chance to kiss again
She looked so good he looked so sane
Not forever could they last
Under the mask under the mask
Under the mask of happiness
Under the mask of happiness

She got colder with each incision
No-one knew he had a fatal vision
One last chance to kiss again
Your mother knows her baby's pain
Not forever could they last
Under the mask
under the mask
Under the mask of happiness
Under the mask of happiness

Under the mask, Under the mask,
Under the mask, Under the mask,
Under the mask, Under the mask

Look at them walking look at them kiss
What a picture of domestic bliss
Laughing and laughing like clockwork toys
Until they're broken girls and boys

One last chance to kiss again
she looked so good he looked so sane
Not forever could they last
Under the mask, Under the mask,
Under the mask, Under the mask,
Under the mask, Under the mask,

Under the mask of happiness
Under the mask of happiness
Under the mask of happiness

Intro C F C F C F C F C F C F

C G F G

C F C F C F C F
White honey get it from the candy man
C F C F C F C F
White honey yeah any time I think I can.
G C
You wake up early in the morning
G C
A-playing on the clarinet
G C
Whole town down when the man comes around
F G
And no one pays their rent It's all spent on
C F C F C F C F
White honey get it from the candy man
C F C F C F C F
White honey yeah any time I think I can.
G C
She's come and laid on a sample
G C
A little sweet white honey bee
G C
Tastes so good that the whole town stood
F G
And stared and looked at me They all see the
C F C F C F C F
White honey get it from the candy man
C F C F C F C F
White honey eee any time I think I can.

C'mon and (scat to chorus and the chords as in intro)
sax break and repeat C G F G as in intro
G C
But now I ain't wanna criticise
G C
But let me tell you what I found
G C
Since they took away the record machine
F G
White honey don't come around. Get down!
C F C F C F C F
White honey get it from the candy man Oh oh oh oh oh
C F C F C F C F
white honey-ee any time I think I can
C F C F
Said honey what you doing what you doing what you doing
C F C F
What you're doing downtown tell me baby.
C F C F
Honey what you do what you do what you doing
C F C F
You're trying to make me look like a clown.
C F C F
I said hit white honey when the chips are down
C F C F
I'm gonna taste white honey when ain't no one around
C F C F C F
I said honey honey honey honey honey honey honey honey yeah
C F C F
Wah wah

Did they tear it out, with talons of steel
And give you a shot, so that you wouldn't feel
And washed it away, as if it wasn't real

It's just a mistake, I won't have to face
Don't give it a name, don't give it a place
Don't give it a chance, it's lucky in a way

It must have felt strange, to find me inside you
I hadn't intended to stay
If you want to keep it right, put it to sleep at night
Squeeze it until it could say

You can't be too strong You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong

Well I ain't gonna cry, I'm gonna rejoice
And shout myself dry, and go see the boys
They'll laugh when I say, I left it overseas

Yeah babe I know it gets dark, down by Luna Park
But everybody else, is squeezing out a spark
That happened in the heat, somewhere in the dark, in the dark

The doctor gets nervous, completing the service
He's all rubber gloves and no head
He fumbles the light switch, it's just another minor hitch
Wishes to God he was dead

But you can't be too strong You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong
Can't be too hard, too tough, too rough, too right, too wrong
And you, can't be too strong
Baby you can't be too strong...

Did they tear it out, with talons of steel
And give you a shot, so that you wouldn't feel
And washed it away, as if it wasn't real

It's just a mistake, I won't have to face
Don't give it a name, don't give it a place
Don't give it a chance, it's lucky in a way

It must have felt strange, to find me inside you
I hadn't intended to stay
If you want to keep it right, put it to sleep at night
Squeeze it until it could say

You can't be too strong You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong

Well I ain't gonna cry, I'm gonna rejoice
And shout myself dry, and go see the boys
They'll laugh when I say, I left it overseas

Yeah babe I know it gets dark, down by Luna Park
But everybody else, is squeezing out a spark
That happened in the heat, somewhere in the dark, in the dark

The doctor gets nervous, completing the service
He's all rubber gloves and no head
He fumbles the light switch, it's just another minor hitch
Wishes to God he was dead

But you can't be too strong You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong
Can't be too hard, too tough, too rough, too right, too wrong
And you, can't be too strong
Baby you can't be too strong...

Took her to a party and danced with the host
Took her to a restaurant and treat her like a ghost
Took her to a movie and looked at another screen
Paid for entertainment she'd already seen

I get so hungry, I'm eating my heart out
oooh I felt it go empty I'm wondering what I can be thinking about

CHORUS 1
But you can't take love for granted, underneath another skin
Can't take love for granted, up behind another grin

Demonstrated passion in a grip hard to shake
Took up every fashion till everything went fake
Pulled a coat over her shoulder, cracked a joke over and over
Watch the rain turn the night colder, stared into the headlight beam

I get so wired I'm making all the wrong connections
And I get so tired I'm picking up bad affections

REPEAT CHORUS 1

CHORUS 2
Can't take love for granted, can't take love for granted,
Can't take love for granted, can't take love for granted,

Watch the swans out on the lake, circle circle circle (circle circle)
Talk and talk and talk around it (circle circle)

REPEAT CHORUS 1 then CHORUS 2 then CHORUS 1 twice (fade)

Did they tear it out, with talons of steel
And give you a shot, so that you wouldn't feel
And washed it away, as if it wasn't real

It's just a mistake, I won't have to face
Don't give it a name, don't give it a place
Don't give it a chance, it's lucky in a way

It must have felt strange, to find me inside you
I hadn't intended to stay
If you want to keep it right, put it to sleep at night
Squeeze it until it could say

You can't be too strong You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong

Well I ain't gonna cry, I'm gonna rejoice
And shout myself dry, and go see the boys
They'll laugh when I say, I left it overseas

Yeah babe I know it gets dark, down by Luna Park
But everybody else, is squeezing out a spark
That happened in the heat, somewhere in the dark, in the dark

The doctor gets nervous, completing the service
He's all rubber gloves and no head
He fumbles the light switch, it's just another minor hitch
Wishes to God he was dead

But you can't be too strong You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong
Can't be too hard, too tough, too rough, too right, too wrong
And you, can't be too strong
Baby you can't be too strong...

Did they tear it out, with talons of steel
And give you a shot, so that you wouldn't feel
And washed it away, as if it wasn't real

It's just a mistake, I won't have to face
Don't give it a name, don't give it a place
Don't give it a chance, it's lucky in a way

It must have felt strange, to find me inside you
I hadn't intended to stay
If you want to keep it right, put it to sleep at night
Squeeze it until it could say

You can't be too strong You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong

Well I ain't gonna cry, I'm gonna rejoice
And shout myself dry, and go see the boys
They'll laugh when I say, I left it overseas

Yeah babe I know it gets dark, down by Luna Park
But everybody else, is squeezing out a spark
That happened in the heat, somewhere in the dark, in the dark

The doctor gets nervous, completing the service
He's all rubber gloves and no head
He fumbles the light switch, it's just another minor hitch
Wishes to God he was dead

But you can't be too strong You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong
You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong
Can't be too hard, too tough, too rough, too right, too wrong
And you, can't be too strong
Baby you can't be too strong...