Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

She's not a flower

she isn't growing in your garden today

you couldn't cultivate her anyway

you're not a king bee

you like honey and you're packing a sting

but there really isn't such a thing

you're in flight, and she smells all right

 but she's not a flower

As intro x4

She's not an o cean

that you're an island in the middle of

and there isn't any prison of love

you're not a freebird

 hey you, up on that mountain peak

can't you hear what's coming out of your beak?

you can say you'll fly away

 but you're not a freebird

As intro x4

Love's not a poison

you better find a better reason why

you feel like you want to die

 a broke heart won't kill you

you might suffer till the end of your days

but that was gonna happen anyways

 and even if the love you mourn

 is equal to the love you scorn

 and fortune mocks the love you gave

 and someone lays her on your grave

she's not a flower

Outro = intro x2

FUCKED UP ON LIFE

 I don't have many friends

just some pretty loose and dead ends

 even one can be a bit much for me

 and they call me but I never end up calling them back

they lose patience as I lose track

 I don't care anymore

 if I ever did before

 but I'm not really paying attention

 people say what reflects well on them

 and everyone's lying like rugs

 and everyone thinks I'm on drugs

 but I'm just

fucked up on life

cause it doesn't add up

 and I never know what should be done

I know I'm far from the only one

 I stay out of the fray

 I figure I do less damage that way

I'm outstanding in my field

 and all I ever want to do is just get plowed

I always feel outnumbered in a crowd

 and if the truth be known

 I feel outnumbered when I'm all alone

 if you're wondering why there's no affect

 when I speak, when you look in my eyes

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I couldn't begin to explain

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I'm almost perfectly sane

 but I'm just

fucked up on life

I'm just fucked up,

fucked up on life

 oo oo oo

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ah na na na na

 dum dum day

I never know what I should do or say

 when words fail me

 I react reciprocally

I'm just

fucked up on life

I'm just fucked up,

fucked up on life

OH, JUST HAVE SOME FAITH IN ME

Intro

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 You didn't make my crucifixion

 I know you had a lot on your plate

 but from what I read and what everyone said

I handled it just great

 I'm even kind of disappointed

 cause I really couldn't feel it at all

 well I'll come down to you when I get around to you

all you gotta do is crawl

oh, just have some faith in me

smart things come in stupid packages

when all you hear is the crying

 you read a lot into each other's sobs

 we're going through a spell

 but we're aging well

even if we don't have jobs

 and we can't even leave the apartment

 cause we live on such a scary street

but I don't mind

 I'll risk my life just to try to get you something to eat

oh, just have some faith in me

 pure love gets sent in mixed messages

oh, just have some faith in me

smart things come in stupid packages

 so come on

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bop bop bop...

oh, just have some faith in me

 I'll guide you through the obscure passages

oh, just have some faith in me

smart things come in stupid packages

Intro as outro x2

BIG, STRANGE, BEAUTIFUL HAMMER

Intro

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 Discretion is a must, rising from the dust,

 on your feet but just a bit unsteady

 you want to close your eyes, be taken by surprise

 but not before you're absolutely ready

 so lay low, as time permits

 and you'll know it when it hits:

 it's gonna sound like a big

 it's coming down like a big

 it's gonna pound like a big, strange, beauti ful

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hammer

 You're feeling like a saint, powerful but faint

 like you want to call for an attendant

 heavy in your hand, courage on demand

 you feel safe, and strangely independent

 once baptized in pain and light

 you'd be advised to hold on tight

 when you collide with a big

 you coincide with a big

 filled inside with a big, strange, beauti ful

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hammer

 it's coming down on you

 it's gonna drive you home

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hammer, hammer,

 big hammer, strange hammer

 Discretion is a waste, now you've had a taste

 you see yourself as well-maintained and polished

 existence is a test, we try to do our best

 but we're on a quest to be demolished

 it's your right, so don't be shy

 day and night you're smitten by

 the might of a big

 the blinding light of a big

 in the night of the big, strange,

beauti ful hammer

hammer, hammer,

big hammer, strange hammer

SORRY FOR FREAKING OUT ON THE PHONE LAST NIGHT

Intro

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 I'm sorry for freaking out on the phone last night

 I don't know how it happened but I'm basically all right

 even though you never really know

 before you start to wonder like I'm pretty sure you do

 how a man can be so fragile and so easy to see through

 while remaining so inflexible

 I've noticed that one, too

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but let's keep the freaking out to a min imum

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 I'm sorry for freaking out when you freak out on me

 things don't always come out how you wanted them to be anyhow

 including now

 are we just being normal?

 it's so difficult to tell

 and love can be so simple and impossible as hell

 I've devised a little system you can implement as well:

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let's keep the freaking out to a min imum

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 I'm sorry now

 I'm always sorry

 you're always sorry in return

 and I'm with you

 I always mean well, too

 you can mean well and never learn

 but I'm still sorry for freaking out in the car today

 I can't always see straight when I don't know what to say

 there's still so many questions that the chances could be slim

 that we'll lay them all to rest before our lights begin to dim

 when you let love move a mountain you endanger life and limb

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but let's keep the freaking out to a min imum

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but let's keep the freaking out to a min imum

oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo

THE BOYFRIEND BOX

 How many times can you read that letter,

and what do you need it for?

Can't you see that the salutation

has no meaning anymore?

 And you can't resurrect the body,

and the closing's out of date

 and if you stumble upon an answer

 it will always be too late--

 you better take that letter, put it in the boyfriend box.

 Are you still staring at that picture

of someone who doesn't care?

just like you're looking through a window

at a world that isn't there?

 If you're trying to reconstruct it,

it will only fall apart

 'cause there's really nothing in it

 but your late, great, heart--

 you better take that picture, put it in the boyfriend box.

ooh la la, ooh la la, ooh la la

 There's something dark and dead buried in your head,

 and underneath your bed.

You're still tempted to believe the world is true.

 You even almost do. [E7#9]

 Your little world is a little empty,

but the memories never stop

organizing themselves in layers,

the most recent at the top.

 If you need to go any deeper

you can dig them out again,

 just in case you need to be reminded

 of what a fool you've been--

 you're gonna take those memories, put them in the boyfriend box,

ooh la la, ooh la la, ooh la la

Take those letters, put them in the boyfriend box

 the boyfriend box, the boyfriend box

LONDON

You have to hate the world

it's required by your clothes

consistency is everything

as everybody knows

 it's so cold, baby

 you're losing your hold, baby

 and you're gonna fold, baby

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before too long

 but don't tell me your secret lies in London

I already know

I can see your secret lies in London

everywhere I go

There is a sun somewhere

extremely far away

your tired eyes, reflecting the sky,

a drizzly steel grey

 there's no light in there

 and there's no sight in there

 I get right in there, and it's all

dark

 but don't deny your secret lies in London

it's not worth your while

you can lie back and think of England

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and miss it by a mile ya na na na na

 you can't conceal your secret lies in London

obvi ous ly not

I can feel your secret lies in London

etc.

deeper than you thought ya na na na na

ELIZABETH OR FIGHT!

liz beth,

 don't look to me

 you can be yourself or find some other way to be

 but time won't wait

 and even if it does

it's unlikely to go back to how it was

 so my advice is to not think twice:

 Elizabeth or fight

stick to your guns

 it won't be long before

 surrendering won't be an option a ny more

 so in the end I recommend:

 Elizabeth or fight

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peace whenever justice will allow

peace forever

 Elizabeth for now

if that means eternally

fighting for Elizabeth and Li ber ty

 or the reverse

 you could do much worse:

 Elizabeth or fight.

EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU'RE CRYING

Intro

Everybody says you shouldn't cry

 everybody's standing by

 and everybody's gonna roll their eyes

 if you ever do

everybody says it's not too late

 and you can still participate

 you take everybody's bait

 and everybody laughs at you

they'll leave you crying all alone

they'll say they wouldn't have if they had only known

 but you see the reality behind their indulgent stares--

everybody knows you're crying

no one ever really cares

Intro part

everybody thinks you're a little slow

 everyone wants you to know

 they went through the same thing long ago

 and it wasn't that hard to do

everybody says they sympathize

 you stand by while they describe

 someone you don't even recognize

 that's supposed to look like you

but they never can explain

how to live with such spectacular pain

 and when you're at your weakest

 they advise you to be strong

everybody says they've been there

everybody must be wrong

ooh ooh ooh ooh everybody knows you're crying

 they send their love

and love is loud

 they feel it's greatly to their credit

 and they're proud

 of their compassion,

 and it's true

 but it doesn't have a lot to do with you

 and you can't escape the conclusion

 though you don't like what it was:

everybody says they love you,

no one ever really does.

ooh ooh ooh ooh everybody knows you're crying

everybody knows you're crying

everybody knows you're crying

JILL

 I was here when the call came through, Jill

 and I screened it like I always do, Jill

 and they hung up on the machine

 just like you, Jill

 well, that sounds like one of your stunts, Jill

 and I'm only gonna say this once, Jill

 you haven't left a message for me

 in a couple of months, Jill

 I'm not blaming you, Jill

 this is hard to do, Jill

 but I still don't know why I always feel like crying, crying, crying

 I'm still having some trouble tying up your loose ends, Jill

 and I still see life through the same distorted lens, Jill

 and I think I may have said some things about you

 in front of some of your friends, Jill

 well, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, Jill

 but these are not normally people with whom I have dealings, Jill

 I still spend most of my time in silence alone

 staring at ceilings, Jill

 but you know all that, Jill

 what I'm getting at, Jill

is I can't stop not knowing

 why I never don't feel like crying, crying, crying

SHINING

She, shining like a star, like a sun, like a moon

 and all that other stuff you know

I wanted everything, she gave me everything

 but everything is never enough

what I mean is, she, my kind of fluff.

Like a star or a sun or a moon

 like the surface of a still lagoon

 like a stainless steel spoon she's shining

reach out to turn her on

 she fills the room and hijinks ensue

in dark nights of the soul

 I don't mind saying that I think I've had one or two

tried to tell her, she already knew

like an incandescent wish

 like a silverplate chaffing dish

 like a Siamese fighting fish she's shining

like a blinding brilliant thing

 like a turned on electric ring

 like a novel by Stephen King she's shining

ooh ah, ooh ooh ooh ah

glowing in her jar

 just like a little piece of star

Guitar solo, as verse

ooh ooh ooh ooh ah

like a blue electric shock

 like a radioactive rock

 like the hands of a digital clock she's shining

like the Thames or the Rhine or the Nile

 like a luminescent radio dial

 like a brand new ceramic tile she's shining

ooh she's shining, ooh she's shining

in this endless night

 she's my little misguiding light

INSTITUTIONALIZED MISOGYNY

I'm not complaining, I'm just figuring out

 how everything left us behind

I got my problems, I'm aware of them

I'll take care of them, never you mind

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you're still repeating pre-recorded things

 they used to say in universities

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and books on left wing politics and law

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about underlying structures

 that so far as they mean anything

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still won't support the personal

 connections that you draw

In sti tutional ized

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mis o gy ny

that's all that stands between

my baby and me

 now science tells us I'm hard-wired to, I'm required to

do it with you

 'cause I'm a man, and you're a woman

 and that's what those kind of people do

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I stole that line from Woody Allen

isn't it amusing

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I wish I could make you understand

 what Woody Allen meant.

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If there's no such thing as objective reality

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why can't we quit our jobs and just imagine

 we won't have to pay the rent?

In sti tutional ized

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mis o gy ny

that's why they're charging rent

to my baby and me

Michelle, ma belle:

 ton beau, Michel Foucault

a Foucault dependent is always ready to go

I think we're alone

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I might have known

she's got Chomsky on the phone

In sti tutional ized

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mis o gy ny

that's all that stands between

my baby and me

 my baby and me my baby and me

TAKE ALL THE TIME YOU NEED

Intro

x4

If you had wanted to see me today

I assume you could have found a way

 but that's not how today went

 God only knows what today meant

Take all the time you need

I'm not going anywhere

we're unsafe at any speed

take all the time you need

 If I had the chance to say how I feel I would

even though it wouldn't make me look good

 that's ammu ni tion you lost

 while you were try ing to exhaust

each possibility

until you've exhausted me

the last of a dying breed

take all the time you need

and I will love you still

 but you're hardly even needed now

 as a lesson to us all

 and I want you back again

 but I don't know what I'd do then

Take all the time you need

I haven't prepared my case

I wouldn't know how to plead

so take all the time you need

take all the time you need

take all the time you need

etc.

and I'll follow your lead