Lyrics
Wire
Chairs Missing
Practice Makes Perfect
[tabulated by cngrannell@yahoo.com]
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[Cm] Practice makes perfect, yes I can prove it
Business or pleasure, the more that you [F#] do it
Please dress in your best things, this course was unplanned
'Cos you see up in my bedroom I've got Sarah Bernhardt's hand
Practice makes perfect, I've done this before
Never for money, always for love
Please dress in your best things, and don't make a fuss
'Cos you see up in my bedroom Sarah's waiting for us
French Film (Blurred)
[tabulated by qwerty@cmu.edu]
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[D5 G#5 E5 G#5 G5]
I didn't understand your plea to live
Or the guy's wish to take or give
However, as backing away, he fell and lay dead amongst the fireworks display
It's not quite the way to say your goodbyes
It's not quite the way to behave
Secured you a concrete grave beneath a motorway
[C/G] Gold scissors [E] cut the [A] ribbon and [E] set them [C/G] loose
On the [F] opening day the [E] vibrations will shake your [A] bones
I suppose [C/G] that's just the [E] disadvantage
Of not [A] speaking a second language
(The problems of bad reception resulting in blurred perception)
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Another the Letter
[tabulated by cngrannell@yahoo.com]
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[A]
[keyboard arr. guitar]
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Passed to hand, behind the curtain
The letter brings change, now things are uncertain
Hand to hand, the letter moves on
Like a series of shocks, but the contents are known
[C# A E]
Oh faint heart, when the letter arrives
You suddenly find things getting life-size
Once the air rang with things unsaid
Now cruel outlines are easily read
Behind the curtain in the yellow bulb light
The letter reads I took my own life
Men 2nd
[tabulated by qwerty@cmu.edu]
[E5]
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B|---8------------|
G|-9-------9-9----|
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Sailing under a false flag
We're crossing the IDL
Becalmed where no creature lives
[G5]
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Lost, forsaken, cursed
Holed below the water line
A shift in the plimsoll line
Pumps in the engine room
[A]
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E|-----3---5--5--|
Women and children first
Hysterical, no humour
Sabotage, a rumour
Captain-less and captionless
[Eb5 D5]
Injury, hunger, thirst
Reptile, prehensile, servial, editorial, gentile, fatal
Marooned
[tabulated by cngrannell@yahoo.com]
[Dm]
[Em] An unwilling sailor [Bm] adrift from Arctic [G] waters [Em]
As the water gets warmer, my iceberg gets smaller
As he [Bm] pours more petrol on, he [F#] feels no fear
As the [Em] flames get nearer, his [Am] thoughts get [D] clearer [Em]
A blue-white polar bear arrives at the end
Diverting his attention, his feelings froze over
I'm only a runaway AWOL at the logical start
Not present in the present, overboard with limited future
And I'm standing alone still getting a thrill
While the ship is afloat, he's losing his boat
Sand in my Joints
[tabulated by qwerty@cmu.edu]
[G5]
[A D]
I've got sand in my joints
I'm counting the grains
And they're so sharp
I'm feeling the pain
[A5 E5 B5 A5]
[D5 E5 A5]
[G5]
I'm like King Canute's daughter
A lamb to the slaughter
My feet in the water
It's not what they think
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It's not what it seems
Being Sucked in Again
[tabulated by qwerty@cmu.edu]
[keyboard arr. guitar]
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A|----------|
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[Bb5 A5]
[A5] A dorsal fin breaks the water
Salted meat a sudden relapse
[Ab5] Inference drawn from every word [A5]
[E F#]
Being sucked in again
[C#5] Feeling numbed from anaesthetised flesh
Avoid disgrace, ideas still fresh
[C5] The gaping mouth, a fish-wive's dream [C#5]
[D#5] Bound and gagged your labour's saved
The cost minute, the rules are waved
[D5] No hand, no step, your labour's in vain [D#5]
Heartbeat
[tabulated by qwerty@cmu.edu]
[E A]
I feel icy
I feel cold
I feel old
Is there something there behind me?
I'm sublime
I feel empty
I feel dark
I remark
I am mesmerized
By my own beat
Like a heartbeat
(In it's own beat)
Mercy
Crooks lay in a weighted state waiting for the dead assassin while the rust pure powder puffs, a shimmering opaque red. Papers spread no one driving we hurled direct ahead, the windows dark green tinted the hearse a taxi instead. Snow storms forecast imminently in areas Dogger, Viking, Moray, Forth, and Orkney. Keeping cover in denuded scrub, the school destroyed raised the club, panic spreading with threat of fire. Crowding beneath a layer of foam, refugees intertwined, alone. Within the institution walls in pastel blue, clinical white slashed red lipsticked walls, mercy nurse tonight. Seem like dark grey stockinged in the raking torchlight with 4 AM stubble, a midnight transvestite.
Outdoor Miner
[tabulated by michaelh@auck.irl.cri.nz]
[E]
[A] No blind spots [C#m] in the leopard's eyes
[B] Can only help [A] to jeopardise
[C#m] The lives of lambs, [B] the shepherd cries [A]
An outdoor life for a silverfish
Eternal dust less ticklish
Than the clean room, a houseguest's wish
[E] He lies on his side, is he [A] trying to hide?
In [G] fact it's the earth, which he's [B] known since birth
Face worker, a serpentine miner
A roof falls, an underliner
Of leaf structure, the egg timer
I am the Fly
[tabulated by qwerty@cmu.edu]
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A|-7-7-----7-7-----|
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E|-0-0-----0-0-----|
Crawling
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A|-----7-7-----7-7-|
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Over your window you think I'm confused
I'm waiting for the divergent wasp
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To complete my current ruse
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You use a plate-glass screen
To protect my chosen target
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But there's an air-pellet hole
I can crawl through to you
I am the fly in the ointment
I can spread more disease than the fleas
Which nibble away at your window display
Yes I am the fly in the ointment
I shake you down to say please as you
Accept the next dose of disease
I Feel Mysterious Today
Always cause for concern
When you're feeling quite bright
And your filament burns
I feel mysterious today
Everything is humming loudly
I feel mysterious today
Everything is coming this way
Is it ever appealing
To stand on a ceiling?
Observe the tension grow
Going walking abroad
Minus hat before dawn
Bats in profusion there
Did you ever conceive
That you too can leave
Exactly when you like?
From the Nursery
So truly jolly, an Xmas dolly
I talk on request, I'm never depressed
I'll wink a good time till someone pokes me
One big blue eye out
So simply heady, a birthday teddy
Punches make me bleat, this bare soul is sweet
Keeping you warm at night till someone rubs me
Hey, a fun-filled toy
Free on a tightrope lives the animal soap
Safe, used, been tested, body molester
Amphibious charm, scum in several baths
Has blurred my features
Would you like to say
What that silence was meant to intend?
Would you like to see
What violence these eyes can send
To your heart
From the nursery
Used to
[tabulated by cngrannell@yahoo.com]
[C5 D5 A5]
Does the pain remain when the head is turned
And the body walks away you used to know?
Does nausea ensue when you chance upon a memory
Of someone you used to know?
Does warmth increase when the pulse is strong
But the response is weak you used to know?
[D5 C5 G5]
I just lay down guidelines in front of me
It's similar to the things you do to me
I'll give you an example typically
It's less complicated than it simply should be
Too Late
Oh you should miss her, she says she's my sister
She's never hard to find
She's tender-trusting, she's everlasting
Can I change my mind?
Is it too late to change my mind?
Mirror, mirror, icy sister
Love is never blind
She's slowly turning, mouth gently burning
Can I change my mind?
She pisses icy water on poetic mornings
Got to be cruel to be kind
Is this real life, is it for life?
Can I change my mind?
Question of Degree
[tabulated by cngrannell@yahoo.com]
[E G]
Once a question of degree
Now circumstances corner me
Demanding my attention
Leaving little choice
[A]
Posing several questions
[E G]
Distilling in one voice
Confusion not in words
I didn't want a problem
I didn't simply fall out
I was thrown at great speed
From a passing car
I didn't touch the ground
Till I landed at your door
Oh don't touch my luggage
[E]
[F E]
I can easily (surely) manage
To struggle inside
I hide my shaking
Thus protect my pride
I can surely manage
To tremble inside
Gathering myself
And spreading it around
Rivers are submerging
Flowing underground
[F#] Can I really [G] manage
[G#] To survive [A] outside?
[A#] Can I really [B] manage
[C] To survive [C#] outside?
[D] Can I?
[D#] Can I?
[E] Can I?
[E] Can I?
Former Airline
[tabulated by cngrannell@yahoo.com]
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When you reach the point
Is it different enough?
Tell me what it's like when you reach the point
When you draw the line
Is it straight enough?
Tell me what it's like when you draw the line
When you go too far
Is it near enough?
Tell me what it's like when you go too far
When you've seen too much
Is it almost the same?
Tell me what it's like when you've seen too much (jump in the flames)
When you know it all
Is it really there?
Tell me what it's like when you know it all
When you've had enough
Is it just the start?
Tell me what it's like when you've had enough
