Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Ah________________________________________

Ah________________________________________

V1: How dare the premier ignore my invitations!?

He'll have to go

So too the bunch he luncheons with

It's second on my list of things to do

At the top I'm stopping by your place of work and acting like

I haven't dreamed of you and I and marriage in an orange grove

You are the only thing in any room you're ever in

I'm stubborn, selfish, and too old

Link

Ah________________________________________

V2: I sat you down and told you how the truest love that's ever found

Is for oneself

You pulled apart my theory with a weary and disinterested sigh

So yes i guess i'm asking you to back a horse that's good for glue

And nothing else

But find a man that's truer than

Find a man that needs you more than I

V3: Sit with me a while and let me listen to you talk about

Your dreams and your obsessions I'll be quite and confessional

The violets explode inside me when i meet your eyes

Then I'm spinning and i'm diving like a cloud of starlings.

Darling is this love?

Outro

2) BONES OF YOU

> (slide)

Intro

V1: So I'm there, charging around with a juganaut brow

Over draft speeches and deadlines to make

Cramming commitments like cats in a sack

Telephone burning, purposeful gait

When out of a doorway the tentacles stretch

Of a song that i know, and the world moves in slow - mo

Straight to my head like the first cigarette of the day

C1: And its you, and its me, and we're sleeping through the day

And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away

Link

V2: Do i have time? a man of my caliber stood in the street

Like a sleepwalking teenager, no

And i dealt with this years ago

I took a hammer to every momento

But image on image like beads on a rosary

Pull through my head as the music takes hold

And the sickener hits i can work till i break

But i love the bones of you, that i will never escape

C2: And its you, and its me, and we're sleeping through the day

And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away

And i can't move my arm, through fear that you will wake

And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away

Solo

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C2: Oh, and I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away

And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away

And its you, and its me, and we're sleeping through the day

And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away

(coda)

3) MIRRORBALL

Intro

(This is also played throughout the verses)

V1: I plump the kind of kiss that wouldn't wake a baby

On the self-same face that wouldn't let me sleep

And the street is singing with my feet,

And the dawn gives me a shadow I know to be taller

B1: All down to you, dear____, everything has changed

V2: My sorriness has made it to graffiti

I was looking for someone to complete me

B2: Not anymore, dear____, everything has changed

C1: When we make the moon our mirror ball

The street's an empty stage

The city sirens: violins

Everything has changed

Link

(So)

(So) lift off love

Lift off love

V3: We took the town to town last night

We kissed like we invented it

And now I know what every step is for

To lead me to your door

B3: Know that while you sleep, everything has changed

C2: We made the moon our mirror ball

The street's an empty stage

The city sirens: violins

Everything has changed

Everything has changed

Everything has changed

Outro

(So)

(So) lift off love

Lift off love (Down to)

Lift off love (Down to)

(you dear)

Lift off love (Down to)

(you dear)

Lift off love (Down to)

(you dear)

Lift off love (Down to)

(you dear)

Lift off love (Down to you dear)

4) GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE

I've tried to do this for an acoustic guitar. It looks messy but once

you get the hang of the chord shapes it's really not that bad... honest!

the bass notes below will help with the timing of the verse chords!

(2) Dm --> This sequence will refered to as 'Dm-riff'

Intro

*Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid

V1: I've been work-ing on a cocktail called grounds for divorce

Whoah__________

Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve

Whoah__________

Down comes him on sticks but then he kicks like a horse

Whoah__________

There's a Chinese cigarette case and the rest you can keep

And the rest you can keep, and the rest you can keep

B1: There's a hole in my neighborhood down which of late I cannot help but fall

There's a hole in my neighborhood down which of late I cannot help but fall____

( )

Solo 1

Mon-days is for drinking to the seldom seen kid

Oooo___________________

Oooo___________________

V2: There's this whispering of jokers doing flesh by the pound

To a chorus of supposes from the little town whores

There'll be twisted karaoke at the Aniseed lounge

And I'll bring you further roses but it does you no good

And it does me no good, and it does you no good

B2: There's a hole in my neighborhood down which of late I cannot help but fall

There's a hole in my neighborhood down which of late I cannot help but fall

There's a hole in my neighborhood down which of late I cannot help but fall____

( )

Solo 2

Outro

Some-day we'll be drinking with the seldom seen kid

Oooo___________________

Oooo___________________

5) AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE

Intro

V1: Sweet Jesus I'm on fire, she has the sweetest, darkest eyes

And when it comes into her eyes i know iron and steel couldn't hold me

Good God i'm easy bruised, but so often a moth to her flame

And the things that she's asked me to do

Will see a city of saints forgetting his name

C1: I have an audience with the pope and I'm saving the world at eight

But if she says she needs me, she says she needs me

Everybody's gonna have to wait, uh-huh

Link

V2: (Where could she be?) Was that a minute or an hour?

(Where could she be?) She turns the hours into days

Kill the phone, cover the cage and wait for the doorbell to ring

(Where could she be?) No she won't come running

(Where could she be?) The world is turning at her pace

Gonna kill the phone, cover the cage and wait for the doorbell to ring

C2: I have an audience with the pope and I'm saving the world at eight

But if she says she needs me, she says she needs me

Everybody's gonna have to wait

C3: I have an audience with the pope and I'm saving the world at eight

But if she says she needs me, she says she needs me

Everybody's gonna have to wait, uh-huh

Solo

C4: I have an audience with the pope and I'm saving the world at eight

But if she says she needs me, she says she needs me

Everybody's gonna have to wait

Everybody's gonna have to wait, uh-huh

Outro

6) WEATHER TO FLY

Intro

*Are we having the time of our lives? Are we having the time of our lives?

Are we coming across clear? Are we coming across fine?

Are we part of the plan here? Are we having the time of our lives?

**Are we coming across clear? Are we coming across fine?

Are we having the time of our lives? Are we part of the plan here?

V1: We have the drive and time on our hands

One little room and the biggest of plans

The days were shaping up frosty and bright

Perfect weather to fly, perfect weather to fly

V2: Poundin' the streets where my fathers feet still

Ring from the walls we'd sing in the doorways

Or bicker and row just figuring how

We were wired inside, perfect weather to fly

V3: So in looking to stray from the line

We decided instead we should pull out the thread that was

Stitching us into this tapestry vial

And why wouldn't you try? Perfect weather to fly

V4: (As V1)

V5: (As V2)

V6: (As V3)

Outro

7) The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver

(x32010) or (3x2010)

(x02220) or (00222x)

(x32210) or / (332210)

Intro

V1: Gotta get out of TV

Just pick a point and go

The ticker-tape tangles my feet

As I search for a face that I know

Come on, tower crane driver

There's not so far to go

Link

V2: I must have been working the ropes

When your hand slipped from mine

Now I live off the mirrors and smoke

It's a joke, a fix, a lie

Come on, tower crane driver

Oh so far to fall

Send up a prayer in my na - ame

Just the same, they say I'm on top of my ga - ame

Gentle gentle rose

Send up a prayer in my name

Outro

8) The Fix

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Intro

| Drums | Drums | Drums | Drums |

A|-*3--------6--3--5--6--5--3--5--6--3--5--6--3-| (x2)

V1: The fix is in, there's a nag gonna dance home at Epsom

The fix is in, can't wait to see how it upsets 'em

C1: Too many times we've been postally pipped

We've loaded the saddles, the mickeys are slipped

We're swapping the turf for the sand and the surf and the sin

Cause the fix, the fix is in

Link 1

V2: The fix is in, the odds that I got were delicious

The fix is in, the jockey is cocky and vicious

C2: The redoubtable beast has had pegasus pills

We'll buy him the patch in the Tuscany hills

And the Vino di Vici will flow like a river in spring

Now the fix, the fix is in

Link 2

Solo

V3: The fix is in, the snaps of the steward so candid

The fix is in, yes our pigeons have finally landed

C3: The Donahue sisters will meet us in France

In penguins and pearls, we'll drink and we'll dance

'Til the end of our days, cause it ain't left to chance that we win

Cause the fix, the fix is in

Link 3

Outro

9) SOME RIOT

Intro

V1: A friend of mine grows his very own brambles

They twist all around him till he can't move

Beautiful, quivering, chivalrous shambles

What is my friend trying to prove?

Link

V2: He boosters a tall gentle boy to a terrible totem

And the kids gather round trying to see what's inside

I think when he's drinking he's drowning some riot.

What is my friend trying to hide?

V3: Cause it's breaking my heart, it's breaking my heart.

And it's breaking my heart to pull at the reign.

Brother of mine don't run with those fuckers.

When will my friends start singing again?

When will my friends____ start singing again?

Solo

Oooo___________________________

____________________

Oooo__________________________________

____________________

Oooo__________________________________

____________________

Oooo__________________________________

____________________

Outro

(repeat to fade)

10) ONE DAY LIKE THIS

Intro

V1: Drinking in the morning sun, blinking in the morning sun

Shaking off the heavy one, yeah heavy like a loaded gun

What made me behave that way? Using words i never say

I can only think it must be love

Oh anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day_________

V2: Someone tell me how I feel, it's silly wrong but vivid right

Oh, kiss me like a final meal, yeah kiss me like we die tonight

Cause holy cow i love you eyes and only now i see the light

Yeah lying with you half awake

Oh anyway it's looking like a beautiful day_________

(once) (|-2-2-|, |-0-0-|, |-2-2-|, |-0-|)

When my face is chamois creased

* (once) (|-2-2-|, |-0-0-|, |-2-2-|, |-0-|)

If you think i winked I did

* (once) (|-2-2-|, |-4-4-|, |-2-2-|, |-4-|)

laugh politely at repeats

* (once) (|-2-2-|, |-2-2-|, |-2-2-|, |-2-|)

Yeah kiss me when my lips are thin

Cause holy cow i love your eyes and only now i see the light

Yeah lying with you half awake, stumbling over what to say

Well anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day_________

C1: So throw those curtains wide

One day like this a year, it'd see me right

Throw those curtains wide

One day like this a year, it'd see me right

Throw those curtains wide

One day like this a year, it'd see me right, for life

Throw those curtains wide

One day like this a year, it'd see me right, for life

Holy cow i love your eyes____ and only now i see the light____

Holy cow i love your eyes____ and only now i see the light____

Throw those curtains wide

One day like this a year, it'd see me right

Throw those curtains wide

One day like this a year, it'd see me right

Throw____________________

Throw____________________

Throw___________ one day like this a year, it'd see me right

Throw___________ one day like this a year, it'd see me right

Outro

Throw those curtains wide

One day like this a year, it'd see me right

So throw those curtains wide

One day like this a year, it'd see me right

Throw those curtains wide

One day like this a year, it'd see me right

(fade out)

11) FRIENDS OF OURS

Intro

| | (stop) | (the are played quickly)

V1: Before leaving get to the bar

No one round here makes you pay

Never very good at goodbyes

So gentle shoulder charge, love you made

Link

love you made

| | D/ (*)|

C1: Salford skyline blue, always you, could fly 'round any corner

'till you do.

Outro

Love you made.

WE'RE AWAY (UK BONUS TRACK)

Intro

The headlines drip with horror, beware, beware beware

The news says no tomorrow but how can i be scared

V1: in her arms_______? World do your worst

She and I have closed our eyes____

and lifted every curse

C1: We're away_______ in-caving cocrete military light

is merely rain against the glass

Outro

for lovers in the night