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

G
Help the aged
C
One time they were just like you
G
Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue

G
Help the aged
C
Don’t just put them in a home
G
Can’t have much fun when their all on their own

C
Give a hand if you can
G
Try and help them to unwind
C
Give them hope and give them comfort
G
Cos they’re running out of time

G
In the meantime we try
B
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever
C D
No big deal – so give us all a feel
C G
Funny how it all falls away

G
When did you first realise
B
It’s time you took an older lover baby?
C D
Teach you stuff – although he’s looking rough
C G
Funny how it all falls away

G
Help the aged
C
Cos one day you’ll be older too
G
You might need someone who can pull you through

C
And if you look very hard
G
Behind those lines upon their face
C
You may see where you are headed
G
And it’s such a lonely place

G
In the meantime we try, ha
B
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever
C G
No big deal – so give us all a feel
C G
Funny how it all falls away

G
When did you first realise
B
It’s time you took an older lover baby?
C G
Teach you stuff – although he’s looking rough
C G
Funny how it all falls away

Oh
C
You can dye your hair
G D C
But it’s the one thing you can change
D
Can’t run away from yourself
Yourself
Your se-se-se-se-se-se-se-se-se-se-se-seooohh

G
In the meantime we try (ooh ooh ooh ooh)
B
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever
C G
No big deal – so give us all a feel
C G
Funny how it all falls away

G
When did you first realise
B
It’s time you took an older lover baby?
C G
Teach you stuff – although he’s looking rough
C G
Funny how it all falls away
C G
Oh it’s funny how it all falls away
C G
Funny how it all falls away
C G
Oh it’s funny how it all
C G
It all falls away

G
So help the aged

F Fsus4 Bb Bbsus4

F
Well we were born within an hour of each other

Our mothers said we could be sister and brother
Bb
Your name is Deborah. Deborah – it never suited you

F
Oh and they said that when we grew up

We4d get married and never split up
Bb
We never did it, although I often I thought of it

Cm [Csus2]
Oh Deborah, do you recall?
Cm Cm
Your house was very small with wood-chips on the wall
Cm F
When I came around to call you didn4t notice me at all

Bb
And I said “Let4s all meet up in the year 2000
Dm Gm
Won4t it be strange when we4re all fully grown?
Cm Fsus4 F
Be there two o4clock by the fountain down the ro—–ad”

Bb
I never knew that you4d get married
Dm Gm
I would be living down here on my own
Cm F
On that damp and loney Thursday years ago

F
You were the first girl in school to get breasts

Martyn said that you were the best
Bb
The boys all loved you but I was a mess

I had to watch them try to get you undressed

F
We were friends that was as far as it went

I used to walk you home sometimes but it meant
Bb
Oh, it meant nothing to you – cos you were oh so popular
Cm
Oh Deborah, do you recall?

Your house was very small with wood-chips on the wall
F
When I came around to call you didn4t notice me at all

Bb
And I said “Let4s all meet up in the year 2000
Dm Gm
Won4t it be strange when we4re all fully grown?
Cm F
Be there two o4clock by the fountain down the road”

Bb
I never knew that you4d get married
Dm Gm
I would be living down here on my own
Cm F
On that damp and loney Thursday years ago

F Bb

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Cm
Oh Deborah, do you recall?

Your house was very small with wood-chips on the wall
F
When I came around to call you didn4t notice me at all

Bb
And I said “Let4s all meet up in the year 2000
Dm Gm
Won4t it be strange when we4re all fully grown?
Cm F
Be there two o4clock by the fountain down the road”

Bb
I never knew that you4d get married
Dm Gm
I would be living down here on my own
Cm F
On that damp and loney Thursday years ago

Bb
Oh, what are you doing Sunday, baby?
Dm
Would you like to come and meet me maybe?
Gm Cm F
You can even bring your baby, oh.

Bb
Oh, what are you doing Sunday, baby?
Dm
Would you like to come and meet me maybe?
Gm Cm F
You can even bring your baby, oh. ooh oh oh oh….