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This
Is A Test - London's Brilliant
- Basement Kiss
- Puppet Girl
- Earthbound
- Do You Know What I'm Saying?
- We Despise You
- Fill In The Blanks
- The Nameless One
- I Want To Stand Forever
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(written for Wendy James) |
This
Is A Testfrom: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany
e-mail: Christian_Korbanka@msn.com
A G D E
I didn't want to be some satellite clown
D E D E
So I went up to London 'cuase I heard it's falling down
A G D E
Found the Denis the Menace of Little Venice
D E D E
Still digging up the bones of Strummer and Jones
F#m
Revolutionary day were sadly over
A
And a cool profile down Ladbroke Grove
D E
Won't make it no more
D E
You could wake up in a doorway
A D A E
London's brilliant when it's raining
A E D
Everybody's moaning and complaining
A E D A
London's dismal and divine
D E
And I know one day, one day
It's going to be...
F#m
Mine eyes have seen the gory
A
Faces of those bitter men
D E
And their bawdy talk
A
And that's not all
F#m A
Every night before I close my eyes
D
I'd say a prayer to my desires
Hung up on the poster on the wall
Don't let me grow up to fail and fall
E
If I must grow up at all
A G D E
Well the night's got chilly and he swore he'd love me silly
D E D E
But he couldn't raise a spark in the dark in Hyde Park
A G D E
With a bite and a bark, he tried to make his mark
D E D E
Now he's getting fucked silly somewhere in Picadilly
F#m
He said I could be a little Madam in Mayfair
A
But I'd rather wakle up in a doorway somewhere
D E
`Cos in the long run
D E
I'll propably be someone
A D A E
London's brilliant when it's raining
A E D
Everybody's moaning and complaining
A E D A
London's dismal and divine
D E
And I know one day, one day
It's going to be...
F D
London's brilliant
from: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany
e-mail: Christian_Korbanka@msn.com
F
Lucy Grace can't show her face
C
Down in the North End Road
Dm
For in Belgravia
Eb
Rumors have been whispered
C
And suggestions have been made
F
Did you sell your frieds out
C
When the heat got too intense?
Dm
You say you like the danger
Am
But it's only a pretense
Eb
You say you need the money
Gm
When everybody knows you can always
Csus C
Fall back on you inheritance
Bb C F Bb
Did you bruise your arms on those false alarms
Bb C F Bb
Did you bruise your pride on his smile so wide?
Bb C F Dm
Only fingertips from forbidden bliss
Bb C F
Did you bruise your lips in this basement kiss?
F
Who's that sneaking 'round the door?
C
You can't come here no more
Dm
Can't you go home again?
Eb
She used to sit alone for hours
C
Spend her evening watering dried flowers
F
When her mother came to stay
C
And finally went to bed
Dm
Lucy Grace was in the frontroom
Am
Shooting through your
Eb
She tried to take your breath away
Gm C
And give you something else instead
Bb C F Bb
Did you bruise your arms on those false alarms
Bb C F Bb
Did you bruise your pride on his smile so wide?
Bb C F Dm
Only fingertips from forbidden bliss
Bb C F
Did you bruise your lips in this basement kiss?
Bb
Next year she'll serve her function
C
In that Audrey Hepburn hat
Bb
It still won't suit her much
F
But she'll get over that
Bb
She'll be pale and feign indifference
C
As they're handing out the prizes
Bb
Spilling Daddy's pearls of wisdom
C
And her ugly sister's tranquilisers
Bb C F Bb
Why were you so tardy putting up your guard?
Bb C F Bb
When you hurt so easily and you try so hard
Bb C F Bb
Did you bruise your arms on these false alarms
Bb C F Bb
Did you bruise your pride on his smile so snide?
Bb C F Dm
Only fingertips from forbidden bliss
Bb C F
Did you bruise your lips in this basement kiss?
tabbed by: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany
e-mail: Christian_Korbanka@msn.com
G A
Hey there little puppet girl
G A
How'd you learn to talk that way?
G A
Hey there little puppet girl
G A G
Who put the mouth in all the things you say
D A
Hey little puppet girl
G D A
Now it's time to dance and sing
G D A D G
We built your reputation to fade away the very day
A D
You cut, cut, cut, cut, cut your string
G A
I looked in the office mirror
G A
And I saw that our faces matched
G A
I looked at their offer
G A
And I saw the strings attached
G A
They said any girl
G A
Could be impressed but still
G A G
It's better than being tied to the kitchen sink
A G
Or stuck at the checkout 'till
D A
Hey little puppet girl
G D A
Now it's time to dance and sing
G D A D G
We built your reputation to fade away the very day
A D
You cut, cut, cut, cut, cut your string
G A
I ran out screaming
G A
And of course it commenced to rain
G A
My ears were ringing
G A
And my cheeks were tear-stained
G A
Then her words came back to me
G A
She said "judge me if you dare"
G A
"When I look in the mirror
G A G
I don't see a puppet I see a millionaire"
D A
Hey little puppet girl
G D A
Now it's time to dance and sing
G D D G
We'll ruin your reputation on the day you break away
A D
And try to cut, cut, cut, cut, cut your string
G A
Hey there little puppet girl
G A
Hey there, ... cut, cut, cut, cut it!