Surfer Rosa Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

D A C G... Through whole song....

Slow bit: D C F G

Lead Guitar:

bend bend

This is a song for Carol

You're into Japanese fastfood

And I drop you off with your Japanese lover

And you're going to the beach all day

You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me

You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me

You're looking like

You've got some sun

Your blistered lips

Have got a kiss

The days are lit like everyone

Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh

Your bones got a little machine

You're the bone machine

I was talking to peachy-peach about kissy-kiss

You buy me a soda

You buy me a soda

You buy me a soda and you try to molest me in the parking lot

Yep, yep yep YEP!

I make you pray

You make me hard

Your Irish skin

Looks Mexican

Our love is rice and beans and horses lard

Your bones got a little machine

You're the bone machine

Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh (3x)

Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh

BREAK MY BODY

Verse

G A♯ avec un D parfois

for the chorus the rhythm plays :

Abreak Gmy Fbody A♯hold my Gbones Chold my Abones

Lead guitar

Intro

play above pattern through chorus and then

then play note on 5th fret in similar

way to the pattern on the 8th fret.

At the end of the song play

B D D♯ x 2

B D D♯ B

Lyrics :

I'm a hard loser

You'll find me crashing through my mother's door

I am the ugly lover

You'll find us crawling on the dirty floor

Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones x 3

I'm a belly dancer

I'll shake forever and I'll never care

I'm a building jumper

Roof to roof you see me flying in the air

Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones x 3

Somebody got hurt

Somebody got hurt

Somebody got her

SOMETHING AGAINST YOU

Intro

(Barred chords)

B D♯m G♯m D♯m

Same riff thru the whole song with solo guitar

I have something against you

I have something against you

I have something against you

Break

F♯/F♯/E/E/ B/D♯m/G♯m/D♯m *2

B-11-12-11-11-12-11-11-12-11-11-|

I have something against you

I have something against you

And I'm gonna use it

I am one happy prick

BROKEN FACE

I got a broken face

I got a

I got a broken face

AI got broken face *2

AThere was this boy who had two

Children with his sisters

They were his Adaughters

They were his Cfavourite Glovers

AI Dgot no Blips, I Egot no Atongue

Where Dthere were Beyes there's Eonly Aspace

I Dgot no Blips, I Egot no Atongue

AI got a broken face, uh-hu, uh-hu

I got a broken face

There was this man who snapped his poke

In little pieces

And then they drilled holes

And then they put 'em back in there

I got no lips, I got no tongue

Where there were eyes there's only space

I got no lips, I got no tongue

I got a broken face

Uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, ooo

I got a broken face

The little thing who loves my mother

Speaks no English

But if you saw her

You'd say "Hey isn't she lovely"

I got no lips, I got no tongue

Where there were eyes there's only space

I got no lips, I got no tongue

GIGANTIC

main riff (on bass):

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And this I know

His teeth as white as snow

What a gas it was to see him

Walk her every day

Into a shady place

With her lips she said

She said

Feedback sur G

Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, let's have a ball (3x)

G5GigantD5ic, gigantE5ic, gigantB5ic

A C5big big lD5ove

Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic

A big big love

Lovely legs they are

What a big black mask

What a hunk of love

Walk her every day into a shady place

He's dark, but I'd want him

Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, let's have a ball (3x)

Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic

A big big love

Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic

A big big love

Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic

A big big love

Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic

A big big love

after the second verse, there is a guitar break that goes:

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(bass) rest

G5 E5 D5 |\ four times, then back to chorus main riff

RIVER EUPHRATES

Intro

Bend to 5

F♯Ride, ride, ride, ...B B C

F♯Stuck here out of gas

BOut here on the GCaza Strip

F♯From driving in too fast 2,3,4

Let's rBide a F♯tire down Driver EF♯uphrates

ERide Aride,

F♯Ride, ride, ride, ...B B C

Dead sea make it float

One sip from the salty wine

Dead sea make you choke

Let's ride a tire down river Euphrates

WHERE IS MY MIND?

E C♯m G♯m A [twice, then add this:]

With your Efeet in the air and your C♯mhead on the ground G♯m A

E Try this trickC♯m and sG♯mpin it YeAah,

E Your head will collC♯mapse but there's G♯mnothing in it

And you'll Aask yourself

EWhere is my C♯mmind?

G♯m Where is my mind?A

EWhere is my C♯mmind? G♯m A

E C♯m G♯m A

EWay G♯mout in the Awater see it Amswimmin' C♯ B

I was swimmin' in the Carribean

Animals were hiding behind the rock

Except the little fish

But they told me, he swears

Tryin' to talk to me to me to me

Chorus

[Repeat first verse]

Chorus

[Repeat E C#m Abm A ad lib to finish]

CACTUS

^^^ ^^^

[Blues it up in the first verse by adding these

where appropriate]

E5Sitting here wishing a the cement floor

Just G5wishing that I had just E5something you wore

G5Put it E5on when I G5go loneE5ly

Will you Amtake off your Cdress and Dsend it to E5me?

I miss your kissin' and I miss your head

And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead

Run outside in the desert heat

Make your dress all wet and send it to me

I miss your soup and I miss your bread

And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead

So spill your breakfast and drip your wine

Just wear that dress when you dine

Sitting here wishing on a cement floor

Just wishing that I had just something you wore

Bloody your hands on a cactus tree

Wipe it on your dress and send it to me

Sitting here wishing on a cement floor

Just wishing that I had just something you wore

Outro

TONY'S THEME

This is a song about a superhero named Tony

It's called: Tony's Theme

She put tEmhe oil in the cGhain for a rAide todEmay, no bolAoney

EmRide aroGund on my bAicyclEme like a Apony

EmI'm waGvin hi hAi hi Emhi hiA

Em G A

G-G-G-gimme the speed

Gimme giEmmme the Abeat

Oh Tony

To-ny (4x)

I can talk to my bicycle tire

I'm racin', speed by, turn and pop a wheelie and burn

People chasin'

I'm wavin' bye bye bye bye bye

I got a card in my spokes

I'm practicin' my jokes

I'm learnin'

DThGisA is a song about a superhero named Tony

It's called: Tony's Theme

I can get by this sort

If you give me some pass

Some glasses on the back of the road

He was even dressed like a toad

That's what class is

OH MY GOLLY

DmDemtro las pi~nones y las holas 'rique~na.

OGh my Dmgolly! GOh my gDmolly!

DmCaminamos bagala luna caribe

OGh my gDmolly! OhG my gDmolly!

DmBesando, chichando con Surfer Rosa

Oh my golly! Oh my golly!

DmEntonces se fue Amen fus A♯madera

Oh my golly! Oh my golly!

DmRosCa, oh oh ooh CRoDmsa!

Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa!

Yo soy playero pero no hay playa

Oh my golly! Oh my golly!

Bien perdida la Surfer Rosa

Oh my golly! Oh my golly!

La vida total es un porqueria

Oh my golly! Oh my golly!

Me hecho menos m'as que vida

Oh my golly! Oh my golly!

Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa! Huh Huh

Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa! Huh Huh

Translation:

Walkin under the Carribean moon

Kissing and hissing with Surfer Rosa

And then, she fled into the woods

Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa

I'm a beachgoer but there is no beach

Totally lost without my Surfer Rosa

All of life is a pigsty

???

VAMOS

You fucking die" I said, to her

I said "YOU FUCKING DIE", to her

Huh? What?

No, no! I was talking to Kim

I said "you fucking die"

No, I was just- we were just goofing around

No, no. It didn't have anything to do with anything

She said: "Don't tou- anybody touch this is my stuff"

And I said "You fucking die" like that

I was finishing her part for her

You know what I mean?

Rhythm guitar

ad lib on above throughout entire song except

for chorus which goes :

BmThat maid Maria she is Greally OK

Vamos a Ejurgar Gpor la Aplaya B

Lead guitar

repeat above 5 times

Chorus

repeat above 4 times??

keep notes bent to pitch of fifteenth

until playing open notes.

Esta pensando sobre viviendo con mi sister en New Jersey

Echo me dijo que es una vida buena

Enrique bien chevere

We'll keep well bred

We'll stay well fed

We'll have our sons

They will be all well hung

They'll come and play

Their friends will say

Your daddy's rich

Your mamma's a pretty thing

That maid Maria she is really OK

Vamos a jurgar por la playa

I keep gettin' friends

Looking like lesbiens

If we get bored

We'll move to California

They'll come and play

Their friends will say

Your daddy's rich

Your mamma's a pretty thing

That maid Maria she is really OK

Vamos a jurgar por la playa

I'M AMAZED

-...girls and fucked 'em at school

All I know is that

There were rumours he was into field hockey players

There were rumours

-So he applied basically

-He was gone the next day

-And went off with the team

-It's like - he was go-they just like

It was so hush hush

They were so... quiet about it

And then the next thing you know...

Intro bass

EmThe day before

I was wed

She went upstairs

And then she cut her head away

EmI'm amazed (4x)

And when I was

A little boy

A ball of string

Might get up to the rain

Solo

Before I died

I took my Honda

And cranked it up up up

Too bad it don't have no brakes

I'm amazed (4x)

BRICK IS RED

Intro

harm

GA fAist is fGast

And JAimmy's cGast

CHang Bmme

A white moon's hot

The other side's not

Hang me

BmIt's not time for me for me toC go

It's not time for me for me to go

No Chords

My eyes have turned

Just the color of

GdiamonAd CJust the color

GThe frayed Acolor of Bmice

CARIBOU

Intro

^whammy down

G Cm G Cm

GI liveCm cement, GI hate Cmthis street

GGive dCmirt to me, GI bite Cmlament

GThis hCmuman form,G Where CmI was born,

GI now Cmrepent, G Cm

Chorus

Cari-boGu Cm G Cm CariG-bouCm G Cm

Cari-boGu D♯ A♯ B C♯ G D♯ A♯ B C♯

D♯ REPBENT C♯ D♯ REPBENT C♯

Give me white, Ground to run

And foregone, Lets me naive

Nothing lets, I will get

What I like

ISLA DE ENCANTA

Through verses: B A♯ A C

"Isla De Echanta" part: B E

Je, Monito vien comigo (2x)

Hay aviones cada hora

Isla de Encanta

Irme hoy (3x)

Donde no hay sufrimiento (2x)

No pidas rumpassa por la calle

Isla de Encanta

Irme hoy (3x)

Nuestro proprio animal

Cantala henta pragati

Hey babe, what are we doing here?

Laaaa

Laaa

Patria

Isla de Encanto

Irme hoy (3x)

Translation:

Hey, Monita, come with me

There are planes each hour

Enchanted island

I'm leaving today

Where there is no sufferng

Don't ask for rooms next to the stree

???

ED IS DEAD

G Her head is in a bitter waCy

Her brain's on fire

She's just looking for the perfect wave

It's her brain's desire

I'll think of her when I walk the strand

On this true hormos a night

Ed is dead (4x)

She's just rotting in stupid bliss

With music on her bars uh

Her face burning in the L.A. sun

She got no got no fear of cars

I better kick my strand cruiser

To the friendlier oh oh oh oh oh oh

Ed is dead (4x)

Ed is dead

Ed is, yeah Ed is

Ed is dead (3x)

E.I.D. (3x)

No, no, no, no, no

Lead guitar bits are just a high G note with a little string bending.

HOLIDAY SONG

Intro

the chords for the verse go:

Awell sit right Cdown my wiFcked sCon and lAet me tCell you a stFory C

Aabout the bCoy who feFll from glCory and hAow heF was Ca wickedF son

Chorus

Gthis ain't no hFoliday A C no, Fno C

Gbut it always Fturns out this way

Dhere F♯i aGm AwiGthF♯ my hands

He took his sister from his head

And then painted her on the sheets

And then rolled her up in grass and trees

And they kissed 'till they were dead

This ain't no holiday

But it always turns out this way

Here I am, with my hand

Well sit right down my evil son

And let me tell you a story

About the boy who fell from glory

And how he was a wicked son

This ain't no holiday

But it always turns out this way

Here I am, with my hand

This ain't no holiday

But it always turns out this way

Here I am, with my hand

NIMROD'S SON

Intro

C♯ G♯ G F♯ F♯/E [repeats]

[Solo starting third measure]

[Continue intro chords]

One night I upon my motorcycle

through the desert spead

And smashed my body so that

All my friends thought I was dead

My sister held me close

and whispered to my bleeding head

[Tacet]

'You are the son of a mother-fucker'

one two three four

I F♯shook all night and held her hand

InG tropic heat well I'll be damned C♯ G♯ G F♯ F♯ E

F♯Land of plenty, land of fun

GTo find out I'm Nimrod's Son C♯ G♯ G F♯ F♯ E C♯ G♯ G F♯ F♯ E

B Oh bury Ame far away Gplease

Bury F♯me

[And then add the chords:]

C♯ D B C♯ C♯ D B C♯

The joke has come upon me

In my motorcycle mirror

I think about the life I've led

And how my soul's been asking

all the holes where I had bled

My image spoke to me

Yes to me and often said

'You are the son of incestuous union'

One two three

Now my head is clear

My luke hands washed

My daughter's pure

My son is whole

Land of plenty, land of fun

To find out I'm Nimrod's Son

Oh bury me far away please

Bury me

The joke has come upon me

I'VE BEEN TIRED

Intro bass

G A C

Rythm guitar: G

One two three

She's a real left winger 'cause she's been down south

And held peasants in her arms

She said "I could tell you stories that could make you cry"

"What about you?"

I said "Me too"

"I could tell you a story that would make you cry"

And she sighed "Aaahh"

I said "I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed"

"I like Lou Reed" she said sticking her tongue in my ear

"Let's go, let's sit, let's talk"

"Politics go so good with beer"

"And while we're at it baby, why don't you tell me one of your biggest fears?"

I said "Loosing my penis to a whore with disease"

"Just kidding" I said "Loosing my life to a whore with disease"

I said "Please... I'm a humble guy with a healthy desire"

"Don't give me no shit because..."

GI've been tAired IC've been tiGred

AI've been tCired IG've been tiAred

CI've been tGired IA've been tiCred

I tell a tale of a girl, but I call her a woman

She's a little bit older than me

Strong legs, strong fase, voice like milk, breasts like a cluster of grapes

I can't escape the ways she raise me

She'll make you feel like Solomon be one of your babies even if you had no one

(And while we're at it baby, why don't you tell me one of your biggest fears?)

I don't wanna sleep after setting my loins on fire

But that's OK because...

I've been tired (9x)

T-i-r-E-D spells it

Spells it

LEVITATE ME

Intro

E

Give me help

Give me help

You can... levitate me

Then take off them rings

Off them hose

Levitate me

Higher place

G♯mLevitate Ame

Elevator lady (4x)

LEady lG♯mevitate Ame

BIf all in all is true (3x)

BIf all is true

Won't you pClease fawn Bover mEe (4x)

Solo guitar

Shaky shake... Shakey

Levitate me

Come on Pilgrim

You know he loves you

Levitate me

Higer place

He kicked a baby

Elevator lady (3x)

Lady

Elevator Lady

Lady. Lady. Levitate me

If all in all is true (3x)

If all is true

Won't you please run over me (5x)

Me, me, me, me, ...