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….

Intro: G C

C A D G
When you raise your pencil skirt like a veil before my eyes
C A D G
Like the look upon his face as he’s zipping up his flies, oh
C A D G
But I know that you’re engaged to him, oh
C A D G
But I know you want something to play with baby

Em
I’ll be around when he’s not in town, oh
C
Yeah I’ll show you how you’re doing it wrong, oh
Em
I really love it when you tell me to stop, oh oh
D G
Oh it’s turning me on

C A D G
Now you can tell some lies about the good times that you’ve had
C A D G
But I’ve kissed your mother twice and now I’m working on your dad, oh baby

Em x4
I’ll be around when he’s not in town, oh
C
Oh yeah, I’ll show you how you’re doing it wrong, oh
Em x4
I really love it when you tell me to stop, oh oh
D G
Oh it’s turning me on

C A D G (x2)

C A D G
If you look under the bed then I can see my house from here
C A D G
So just lie against the wall and watch my conscience disappear, now baby oh

Em
Yeah, I’ll be around when he’s not in town, oh
C
Oh yeah, I’ll show you how you’re doing it wrong, oh
Em
I really love it when you tell me to stop, oh oh
D G
Oh it’s turning me on, on, on, yeah

Em
I only come here cause I know it makes you sad
C
I only do it cause I know you know it’s bad.
Em
Oh don’t you know it’s ugly and it shouldn’t be like that.
D G
Oh but oh it’s turning me on, on, on, on, on, on, on.

C A D G

D/Dmaj7 Em/Em7 A/A6 X2

D Em A
The word’s on the street: you’ve found someone new.
D Em A
If he looks nothing like me I’m so happy for you.
C A D F#
I heard an old girlfriend has turned to the church –
C A D
she’s trying to replace me, but it’ll never work.

Bm
‘Cos every touch reminds you of just how sweet it could have been
Em G
And every time he kisses you it leaves behind the
D
bitter taste of saccharine.

D Em A
A bad cover version of love is not the real thing.
D Em A
Bikini-clad girl on the front who invited you in.
C A D F#
Such great disappointment when you got him home –
C A D
the original was so good; the one you no longer own.

Bm
And every touch reminds you of just how sweet it could have been
Em G
And every time he kisses you, you get the taste of saccharine.
Bm
It’s not easy to forget me, it’s so hard to disconnect
Em G
When it’s electronically reprocessed to give a more life-like effect.

G
Aah, sing your song about all the sad imitations that
D
got it so wrong
D Em
It’s like a later “Tom & Jerry” when the two of them could talk
A G
Like the Stones since the Eighties, like the last days
D
of Southfork.
D Em
Like “Planet of the Apes” on TV, the second side of “‘Til the Band Comes in”
A
Like an own-brand box of cornflakes: he’s going to let
D
you down my friend.

F Bb
Don’t Bother saying you^?re sorry
F Bb
Why don’t you come in
F Bb C
Smoke all my cigaretts… again

F Bb
Every time I get no further
F Bb
How long has it been
F Bb C
Come on in now, wipe your feet, on my dreams

F Bb
You take up my time
F Bb
Like some cheap magazine
F Bb
When I could have been learning something
C
Oh, Well you know what I mean

F Bb
Oh, Iv’e done this before
F Bb
And I will do it again
F
Bb C
Come on and kill me baby, oh while you smile like a friend
F Bb C
Oh, and I’ll come running
F
Just to do it Again…

F Bb C
You are the last drink I never should have drunk
You are the body hidden in the trunk
You are the habit I can’t seem to kick
You are my secrets on the front page every week
You are the car I never should have bought
You are the dream I never should have caught
You are the cut that makes me hide my face
You are the party that makes me feel my age
Like a car crash I can see but I just can’t avoid
Like a plane I’ve been told I never should board
Like a film that’s so bad but I’ve got to stay till the end
Let me tell you now: it’s lucky for you that we’re friends.