INTRO – G GF# Em

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[G]It’s [GF#]six o'[Em]clock
[Am]The birds are [D]singing
[G]I’m [GF#]wide a[Em]wake
[Am]Whilst you’re fast a[D]sleep

[Am]I went out[D]side
[G]In[GF#]to your [Em]garden
[Am]The sun was [D]bright
[C]And the [Bm]air was [G]cool as I [Am]stood there [D]listening

Well the [C]birds in your garden
They [D]all started singing this [G]song

Take her [D]now
Don’t be [C]scared
It’s al[D]right
Oh come on, [G]touch her in[Bm]side
It’s a [C]crime against nature
She’s been [D]waiting all night

Come on, [G]hold her
And [Bm]kiss her
And [C]tell her you [D]care
If you [G]wait til to[Bm]morrow
She’ll no [C]longer be [D]there

[Am]Come on and [D]give it to her
[Bm]You know it’s [E]now or never
Yeah the [Am]birds in your garden
Have [C]all started singing this [G]song

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[G]My [GF#]father never [Em]told me
[Am]About the birds and the [D]bees
[G]And I [GF#]guess I never [Em]realised
That I would [Am]ever meet birds as beautiful as [D]these

[Am]I came in[D]side
[C]Climbed [Bm]to your [Em]bedroom
[Am]I kissed your [D]eyes awake
[C]Then I [G]did what I [Bm]knew was [Am]only [D]natural

Well the [C]birds in your garden
They [D]all started singing this [G]song

Take her [D]now
Don’t be [C]scared
It’s al[D]right
Oh come on, [G]touch her in[Bm]side
It’s a [C]crime against nature
She’s been [D]waiting all night

Come on, [G]hold her
And [Bm]kiss her
And [C]tell her you [D]care
If you [G]wait til to[Bm]morrow
She’ll no [C]longer be [D]there

[Am]Come on and [D]give it to her
[Bm]You know it’s [E]now or never
Yeah the [Am]birds in your garden
Have [C]all started singing this [G]song

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Yeah the [Am]birds in your garden
They [C]taught me the words to this [G]song

F Fsus2 G
I am not jesus, though I have the same initials
F Fsus2 G
I am the man who stays home and does the dishes
Bb* G
And how was your day?
Bb* F G
Is that woman still trying to do your head in?

F Fsus2 G
A man told me to beware of 33.
F Fsus2 G
He said, “It was not an easy time for me”
Bb* G
but I’ll get through
Bb* F G
even though I’ve got no miracles to show you.

C F Am G Em F
I’d like to make this water wiiii-nnnne but it’s impossible
C F Am G Em F
I’ve got to get these dishes dryyyy-yyyy

F Fsus2 G
I’ll read a story if it helps you sleep at night.
F Fsus2 G
I’ve got some matches if you ever need a light.
Bb* G
Oh I am just a man
Bb* F G
but i’m doing what I can to help you.

C F Am G Em F
I’d like to make this water wiiii-nnnne but it’s impossible
C F Am G Em F
I’ve got to get these dishes dryyyy-yyyy

F Fsus2 G
And I’m not worried that I will never touch the stars
F Fsus2 G
cos stars belong up in heaven
Bb* G
and the earth is where we are.
Bb* F G
Oh yeah.

C F Am G Em F
And aren’t you happy just to be a-liiiive? Oh yes it’s possible
C F Am G Em F
He’s got no cross to bear tonigh-t igh-t

Am G Em F
No not tonigh-t igh-t

Am G Em F
No not tonigh-t igh-t

F Fsus2 G
I am not jesus, though I have the same initials

Fsus2 (x03213)
Bb* (xx0331)

G Gsus4 G Gsus4

G Bm C
I wrote this song two hours before we met
G Bm C
I didn´t know your name or what you looked like yet
C D Bm E
Oh, I could have stayed at home and gone to bed
C D Bm E
I could have gone to see a film instead
Bm E Am D
You might have changed your mind and seen your friend
Bm E Am D
Life could have been very different but then
Am D
Something changed

D Dsus4 G Gsus4

G Bm C
Do you believe that there´s someone up above?
G Bm C
And does he have a timetable directing acts of love?
C D Bm E
Why did I write this song on that one day?
C D Bm E
Why did you touch my hand and softly say:
Bm E Am D
“Stop asking questions that don´t matter anyway
Bm E Am D
Just give us a kiss to celebrate here today
Am D
Something changed”

G Bm C
G Bm C
C D Bm E
C D Bm E
Bm E Am D
Bm E Am D
Am D

C D Bm E
When we woke up that morning we had no way of knowing
C D Bm E
That in a matter of hours we changed the way we were going
Bm E Bm E
Where would I be now, where would I be now
Am D
If we´d never met?
Bm E Am D
Would I be singing this song to someone else instead?
Am D
I dunno but like you just said
G
Something changed

Cm G7
I spy a boy, I spy a girl,
Cm G7 Cm
I spy the worst place in the world, in the whole wide world.
Fm7 Cm
Oh, you didn’t do bad, you made it out,
Fm7 G7 Gsus4 Cm
I’m still stuck here, oh, but I’ll get out, oh yeah, I’ll get out.

Can’t you see a giant walks among you
G7
Seeing through your petty lives?
Cm
Do you think I do the things for real?
G7
I do these things just so I survive,
Cm
And you know I will survive.
Fm7
It may look to the untrained eye,
Cm
I’m sitting on my arse all day,
Fm7 G7
I’m biding time until I take you on,

My Lords and Ladies I will prevail,
Cm
I cannot fail ‘cause I spy.

Cm
Oh, I’ve got your number, taken notes,
G7
And all the ways your minds work I’ve studied.
Cm
Oh, and your minds are just the same as mine:
G7
Except that you’re clever swines, you never let your masks slip,
Cm
You never admit to it, you’re never hurried. Oh no no no.
Fm7 Cm
And every night I hone my plan – how I will get my satisfaction,
Fm7 G7 Cm
How I will blow your paradise away, away, away, ooh, ‘cause I spy.

Cm
It’s just like in the old days,
F/C
I used to compose my own critical notices in my head:
Ab/C Am/C
“The crowd gasp at Cocker’s masterful control of the bicycle,
Ab/C
Skillfully avoiding the dog turd outside the corner shop.”
F/C G7
Imagining a blue plaque above the place I first ever touched a girl’s chest,
Cm
But hold on, you’ve got to waith for the best.

F/C
You see, you should take me seriously, very seriously indeed,
Ab/C
‘Cause I’ve been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen weeks,
Am/C
Smoking your cigarettes, drinking your brandy,
Ab/C
Messing up the bed that you chose together.
F/C
And in all that time I just wanted you to come home
G7 Cm
Unexpectedly one afternoon, and catch us at it in the front room.

F/C
You see, I spy for a living, and I specialise in revenge,
Ab/C Am/C
On taking the things I know will cause you pain.
Ab/C
I can’t help it, I was dragged up. My favourite parks are car parks,
F/C G7/C
Grass is something you smoke. Birds are something you shag.
Cm
Take your “Year In Provence” and shove it up your ass.

Cm G7
Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, yeah.
Cm
With roach burns in designer dresses,
G7
Skin stretched tight over high cheek bones

And thousands of tiny dryness lines beating a path,
Cm
Beating a path to the corners of your eyes.
Fm7
And every night I hatch my plan,
Cm
It’s not a case of woman v man.
Fm7 G7
It’s more a case of haves against haven’ts,

And I just happen to have exactly what you need,
Cm
Yeah, just exactly what you need, yeah.

C#m
La, la, la, la , la, la, la, la,
G#7
La, la, in the midnight hour.
C#m
La, la, la, la , la, la, la, la,
G#7
La, la, I will come to you,
C#m
I will come to you.
F#m7
I will take you from this sickness,
C#m
Dinner parties and champagne.
F#m7 G#7
I’ll hold your body and make it sing again,
Cm
Come on – sing again, let’s sing again, oh yeah, ‘cause I spy.

Yes, I spy.
G7
I spy a boy, I spy a girl.
Cm G7
I spy a chance to change the world,
Cm
To change your world.

[A] [G] (X 4)

[A]There’s a [Bm]light that [D]shines
On [G]everything and everyone
[A]And it [Bm]shines so [D]bright
[G]Brighter even than the sun

[A]That’s what Minnie thinks
As she [Bm]walks to meet her brother
Who is [D]nearly two years older
On a [G]Saturday night

He’s [A]DJing at some do
On the [Bm]edge of town
On the [D]night that Minnie [G]Timperley died

[A]It’s such a [Bm]beautiful world
[D]And you’re such a [G]beautiful girl
[A]So much that [Bm]you wanna try
[D]The world wants to [G]sleep with you tonight
But [A]Minnie (Minnie)
[Bm]Minnie if I [D]could
I would [G]give you the rest of my [A]life

[A] [G] (X 4)

[A]How can a girl have [Bm]sex
With [D]these pathetic [G]teenage wrecks
[A]Ah footbal scarves
[Bm]The girls drink halves
[D]And her brothers crying
[G]Cos he has lost his decks

[A]Outside the air was cool
An [Bm]older guy sitting in his car
[D]Asked if Minnie [G]needed a ride
He thought he was [A]still dangerous
Paunchy but [Bm]dangerous
On the [D]night that Minnie [G]Timperley died

[A]It’s such a [Bm]beautiful world
[D]And you’re such a [G]beautiful girl
[A]And he only [Bm]did what he did
[D]Cos you looked like [G]one of his kids
But [A]Minnie (Minnie)
[Bm]Minnie if I [D]could
I would [G]give you the rest of my [A]life

[A] [G] (X 8)

[A]Oh Minnie I can feel the [Bm]pain
Oh Minnie I can feel the [D]pain
Oh Minnie I can feel the [G]pain
The pain, the pain, the pain, pain, pain yeah

[A]Oh Minnie I can feel the [Bm]pain
Oh Minnie I can feel the [D]pain
Oh Minnie I can feel the [G]pain
The pain, the pain, the pain, pain, pain yeah

[A]Oh Minnie I can feel the [Bm]pain
Oh Minnie I can feel the [D]pain
Oh Minnie I can feel the [G]pain
The pain, the pain, the pain, pain, pain yeah

[A]Oh Minnie I can feel the [Bm]pain
Oh Minnie I can feel the [D]pain
Oh Minnie I can feel the [G]pain
The pain, the pain, the pain, pain, pain oh [A]yeah
Oh [Bm]yeah
Oh [D]yeah [G]

[A] [G] (X 4)
[A] [G] (X 4)

C

C E
Now if you can stand,
Am F
I would like to take you by the hand, yeah,
C E
And go for a walk,
Am F
Past people as they go to work.
C E
Let’s get out of this place before
Am Fm
They tell us that we’ve just died, oh.

C E
Move, move quick, you’ve gotta move,
Am Fm
Come on it’s through, come on it’s time,
C E
Oh, look at you, you’re looking so confused,
Am Fm C
Just what did you lose, oh.

C E
If you can make
Am F
An order, could you get me one?
C E
Two sugars would be great
Am F
Cos I’m fading fast and it’s nearly dawn.
C E
If they knocked down this place, this place,
Am Fm
It’d still look much better than you, oh now.

C E
Move, move quick, you’ve gotta move,
Am Fm
Come on it’s through, come on it’s time,
C E
Oh, look at you, you’re looking so confused,
Am Fm
Just what did you lose, oh.
C
It’s okay, it’s just your mind.

C E Am Fm x2

C E
If we get through this ali-hi-hive,
Am Fm
I’ll meet you next week, same place same time, oh.

C E
Move, move quick, you’ve gotta move,
Am Fm
Come on it’s through, come on it’s time,
C E
Oh, look at you, you’re looking so confused,
Am Fm
Just what did you lose, oh.

C
That’s what you get from clubbing it,
E
You can’t go home and go to bed
Am
Because it hasn’t worn off yet,
Fm
And now it’s morning.
C
There’s only one place we can go,
E
It’s around the corner in Soho
Am Fm
Where other broken people go.
Bb C
Lets go.

C
Oh is this the way they say the futures meant to feel?
G
Oh just twenty thousand people standing in a field
C
And I just don’t understand quite what this feeling is
G
That’s okay cos we’re all sorted out for E’s and Whizz

C
And tell me when the spaceship lands
G
Cos all this has just got to mean something

Dm
In the middle of the night
F G Bb
It feels alright but then tomorrow morning
Am Bb G G
Ohh ohh when you come down

C
Oh yeah the pirate radio told us what was going down
G
Got the tickets from some messed up bloke in Camden Town
C
And no one seems to know exactly where it is
G
But that’s okay, cos we’re all sorted out for E’s and Whizz
C
At four o’ clock the normal world seems very very very far away
Hey hey

Dm
In the middle of the night
F G Bb
It feels alright but then tomorrow morning
C G
Just keep on moving

C
Everybody asks your name they say we’re all the same
G
And now it’s, Nice One, Geezer – that’s as far as the conversation went
C
I lost my friends I dance alone, it’s 6 o’ clock, I wanna go home
G
But it’s no way not today, makes you wonder what it meant
C
And this hollow feeling grows and grows and grows and grows
G
And you wanna call your mother and say, “Mother,
C
I can never come home again because I seem to have left
G
an important part of my brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire. Alright

Dm
In the middle of the night
F G Bb
It feels alright but then tomorrow morning
Am Bb
Oohh Oohh when you come down
Am Bb
Ooh what if you never come down?

(G C G)

G C G
Without you my life has become
Em C G
A hangover without end
D C G C
A movie made for TV
C D Em
Bad dialogue, bad acting, no interest
C D G
Too long with no story and no sex

G C G
Is it a kind of weakness
Em C G
To miss someone so much?
C D Em
To wish the day would go away
C D Em
Like you did yesterday
C D G
Just like you did yesterday

G C G
Em C G
C D Em
C D Em
C D G

G C
And I can’t think of a way to get through this pain
C G
To be happy again to make it all alright
G
And I know it must be bad
C
Cos sitting here right now

All I know is I can’t even think
Em C D
Can’t even think of anything clever to say
C
To say, so I say

G C G
Why pretend any longer?
Em C G
Cos I need you here with me
C D Em
It’s obvious that I miss you so much
C D Em
So please say you’re gonna stay
C D Em
So please say you’re gonna stay
C D G
So please say you’re gonna stay

G C G
The night is getting darker now
Em C G
And there’s nothing on TV
C D Em
But I’ll sit tight
C D Em
Til morning light
C D G
Yeah, I’ll wait until the day
C D G
Until the day that you say you’re gonna stay

[F#]I took an air-rifle, shot a magpie to the ground
[B]And it died without a [F#]sound
[F#]Your skin so pale against the fallen autumn leaves
[B]And no one saw us but the [F#]trees

[F#]Yeah the trees, those useless trees
Produce the [B]air that I am [F#]breathing
Yeah the [F#]trees, those useless trees
They never [B]said that you were [F#]leaving

[F#]I carved your name with a heart just up above
[B]No swollen, distorted, unrecog[F#]nisable; like our love
[F#]The smell of leaf mould and the sweetness of decay
[B]Are the incense at the funeral pro[F#]cession here, today

[F#]In the trees, those useless trees
Produce the [B]air that I am [F#]breathing
Yeah the [F#]trees, those useless trees
They never [B]said that you were [F#]leaving

[B]You try to shape the world to what you want the world to be
Carving your name a thousand won’t bring you back to me
Oh [F#]no I might as well
I might as well just go tell it to the trees

Oh yeah the [F#]trees, those useless trees
Produce the [B]air that I am [F#]breathing
Yeah the [F#]trees, those useless trees
They never [B]said that you were [F#]leaving

[F#]Go and tell it to the trees yeah
[F#]Go and tell it to the trees yeah
[F#]Go and tell it to the trees yeah
[F#]Go and tell it to the trees yeah
[F#]Go and tell it to the trees yeah

Am
She doesn’t have to go to work
Am
but she doesn’t want to stay in bed
Em [E]
`cause it’s changed from something comfortable
Am
to something else instead

Am Em
This bed has seen it all from the first time to the last
G Dmaj7
the silences of now and the good times of the past
D7 G
and it only cost ten pounds from the shop just down the road
Fmaj7 E Am
Mind you, that was seven years ago and things were very different then

Am Em
It didn’t get much rest at first the headboard banging in the night
G Dmaj7
The neighbours didn’t dare complain, Oh everything was going right
D7 G
Now there’s no need to complain `cause it never makes a sound
Fmaj7 E Am
Something beautiful left town and she doesn’t even know it’s name

F D
Now every night she plays a silent game (ooh ooh ooh)
F D
called pretending nothing’s going wrong
G Fmaj7
but she knows if this show was televised
E Am
no-one would watch it, not tonight But seven years ago…

Am Em
G Dmaj7
La la lala lala la…
D7 G
Now there’s no need to complain `cause it never makes a sound
Fmaj7 E Am
Something beautiful left town and she never even know it’s name

Am
She doesn’t have to go to work
Am
but she doesn’t want to stay in bed
Em [E]
`cause it’s changed from something comfortable
Am
to something else instead