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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  | > | |

  | > | > |

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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