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SIb DO FA SIb/FA FA SIb DO SIb/FA FA
SIb/FA FA SIb
Tell me true, tell me why was Jesus crucified?
DO DO7 FA
Is it for this that daddy died?
SIb/FA FA
Was it you? Was it me?
SIb
Did I watch too much T.V.?
DO FA SIb/FA
Is that a hint of accusation in your eyes?
FA
If it wasn't for the Nips
FA7 SIb
Being so good at building ships,
DO DO9 FA
The yards would still be open on the Clyde.
FA7
And it can't be much fun for them
SIb
Beneath the rising sun
DO DO7 FA
With all their kids committing suicide.
SIb FA
What have we done, Maggie what have we done?
SIb
What have we done to England?
DO FA LA
Should we shout, should we scream,
SIb SIbm FA/DO REm7
"What happened to the post war dream?"
SOLm7 DO7
Oh, Maggie,
DO7+ FA DO SIb FA
Maggie what have we done?
Your Possible Pasts
SOL LAm
They flutter behind you your possible pasts,
DO RE SOL
Some brighteyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
SOL LAm
A warning to anyone still in command
DO RE SOL
Of their possible future, to take care.
SOL LAm
In derelict sidings the poppies entwine
DO RE SOL
With cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time.
MIm
Do you remember me, how we used to be,
RE
Do you think we shoud be closer?
SOL LAm
She stood in the doorway, the ghost of a smile
DO RE SOL
Haunting her face like a cheap hotel sign.
SOL LAm
Her cold eyes imploring the men in their macs
DO RE SOL
For the gold in their bags or the knives in their backs.
SOL LAm
Stepping up boldly one put out his hand.
DO RE SOL
He said, "I was just a child then, now I'm only a man."
MIm
Do you remember me, how we used to be,
RE
Do you think we should be closer?
MIm DO MIm DO MIm RE DO RE DOmaj9
SOL LAm
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand
DO RE SOL
Shown how to feel good and told to feel bad.
SOL LAm
Strung out behind us the banners and flags
DO RE SOL
Of our possible pasts lie in tatters and rags.
MIm
Do you remember me, how we used to be,
RE
Do you think we should be closer?
One Of The Few
N.C.
When you're one of the few to land on your feet,
What do you do to make ends meet?
Teach.
Make them mad, make them sad, make them add two and two.
Make them me, make them you, make them do what you want them to.
Make them laugh, make them cry, make them lie down and die.
The Hero's Return
RE
Jesus, Jesus, what's it all about?
Trying to clout these little ingrates into shape.
When I was their age all the lights went out.
There was no time to whine or mope about.
DOmaj7 RE
And even now part of me flies over
DOmaj7
Dresden at angels one five.
RE DOmaj7
Though they'll never fathom it behind my
RE
Sarcasm desperate memories lie.
RE
Sweetheart sweetheart are you fast asleep? Good.
'Cause that's the only time that I can really speak to you.
And there is something that I've locked away
A memory that is too painful
To withstand the light of day.
DOmaj7 RE DOmaj7
When we came back from the war the banners and
RE
Flags hung on everyone's door.
DOmaj7
We danced and we sang in the street and
RE
The church bells rang.
SOL DO
But burning in my heart,
SOL DO
My memory smoulders on
SOL DO MIm LAdd9
Of the gunners dying words on the intercom.
The Gunner's Dream
SOL SOL+ MIm DO SOL RE MIm
SOL SOL+
Floating down through the clouds
MIm/SOL DO
Memories come rushing up to meet me now.
SOL
In the space between the heavens
RE DO
And in the corner of some foreign field,
SOL MIm DO
I had a dream,
SOL
I had a dream.
SOL SOL+
Goodbye Max, goodbye Ma.
MIm/SOL DO
After the service when you're walking slowly to the car
SOL RE
And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air,
MIm DOmaj7 RE/DO DO
You hear the tolling bell, and touch the silk in your lapel,
SOL RE MIm
And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band,
DO RE
You take her frail hand and hold on to the dream.
SOL SOL+ MIm DO RE SOL RE MIm RE DO RE/DO SOL RE DO SOL MIm DO MIm
SOL SOL+
A place to stay, enough to eat,
MIm DO
Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street.
SOL RE
Where you can speak out loud about your doubts and fears,
MIm
And what's more no-one ever disappears,
DOmaj7
You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door.
SOL RE
You can relax on both sides of the tracks,
MIm DO RE7/DO
And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control,
SOL RE
And everyone has recourse to the law,
DO SOL MIm
And no-one kills the children anymore.
DO SOL
No-one kills the children anymore.
DO RE SOL RE MIm RE
Night after night, going round and round my brain,
DO RE SOL
His dream is driving me insane___________________.
SOL
In the corner of some foreign field,
RE
The gunner sleeps tonight.
MIm DO RE/DO
What's done is done.
SOL RE
We cannot just write off his final scene.
DO SOL MIm
Take heed of his dream,
DO MIm
Take heed.
Paranoid Eyes
SOL DO SOL
Button your lip and don't let the shield slip.
DO SOL
Take a fresh grip on your bullet proof mask.
DO SOL RE DO
And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
SOL RE DO SOL/SI LAm RE LAm
You can hide, hide, hide,
SOL
Behind paranoid eyes.
SOL DO SOL
You put on our brave face and slip over the road for a jar,
DO SOL
Fixing your grin as you casually lean on the bar.
DO
Laughing too loud at the rest of the world
SOL RE DO
With the boys in the crowd.
SOL RE DO LAm RE LAm
You hide, hide, hide,
SOL
Behind petrified eyes.
DO SOL DO SOL DO SOL MIm RE LAm SOL
SOL DO SOL
You believed in their stories of fame, fortune and glory.
DO SOL
Now you're lost in a haze of alchohol soft middle age.
DO SOL RE DO
The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high.
SOL RE DO LAm RE LAm
And you hide, hide, hide,
Behind brown and mild eyes.
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
SOL DO RE SOL
SOL
Brezhnev took Afghanistan.
DO
Begin took Beirut.
RE SOL
Galtieri took the Union Jack.
SOL
And Maggie, over lunch one day,
DO
Took a cruiser with all hands
RE SOL
Apparently to make him give it back.
DO SOL
Mm
The Fletcher Memorial Home
SOL DO SOL/SI LAm
Take all your overgrown infants away, somewhere,
RE SIb+ SIm LA/DO#
And build them a home, a little place of their own.
RE MIm DO RE MIm7 RE/FA# SOL DO
The Fletcher Memorial Home for incurable tyrants and kings.
SOL DO SOL/SI LAm
And they can appear to themselves every day,
RE SIb+ SIm LA/SI SIm
On closed circuit T.V. to make sure they're still real.
DO RE MIm
It's the only connection they feel.
DOmaj7
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Reagan and Haig,
RE
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher and Paisley,
DOmaj7
Mr. Brezhnev and party, the ghost of McCarthy,
RE
The memories of Nixon. And now adding colour,
SOL RE/FA# DO
A group of anonymous Latin-American meat packing glitterati."
MIm RE
Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
SOL RE/FA# DO
They can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles,
SOL RE/FA# DO
And amuse themselves playing games for a while.
SOL RE/FA# DO MIm LAdd9
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead.
SOL RE/FA# MIm RE/FA# SOL RE/FA# MIm RE DOmaj7 RE
SOL RE/FA# DO RE SOL RE/FA# DOmaj7 RE SOL RE/FA# DOmaj7 MIm LAdd9
SOL DO SOL/SI LAm
Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye,
RE SIb+ SIm
With their favorite toys, they'll be good girls and boys.
LA/DO# RE MIm DO RE MIm7 RE/FA# SOL
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial wasters of life and limb.
RE/FA# DO SOL RE/FA# DO LAdd9
Is everone in? Are you having a nice time?
RE/FA# DO MIm LAdd9
Now the final solution can be applied.
Southampton Dock
FA
They disembarked in 45,
SIb
And no-one spoke and no-one smiled
DO FA
There were to many spaces in the line.
Gathered at the cenotaph
SIb
All agreed with the hand on heart,
DO FA
To sheath the sacrificial knives.
FA
But now she stands upon Southampton dock
SIb
With her handkerchief
DO
And her summer frock clings
FA
To her wet body in the rain.
In quiet desperation knuckles
SIb
White upon the slippery reins
DO FA
She bravely waves the boys goodbye again.
SIb SIbm FA
Mm
SIb
And still the dark stain spreads between
FA
His shoulder blades.
SIb FA FA7 SOLm7
A mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves.
FA7 SIb DO REm7 DO7/MI
And when the fight was over
FA LAm7 REm
We spent what they had made.
SOLm7
But in the bottom of our hearts
FA
We felt the final cut.
The Final Cut
FA FA/DO DO
Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes____
SIb LAdd9 FA
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time.
FA FA/DO DO
And far from flying high in clear blue skies___,
SIb LAdd9 FA
I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide.
SIb FA
If you negotiate the minefield in the drive,
SIb FA
And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes,
SIb DO REm
And if you make it past the shotgun in the hall,
SOLm7
Dial the combination, open the priesthole
/DO FA
And if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind the wall.
LAm FA
There's a kid who had a big hallucination
LAm DO
Making love to girls in magazines.
SIb REm
He wonders if you're sleeping with your new found faith.
SOLm7
Could anybody love him
/DO FA FA/DO DO SIb LAdd9 FA
Or is it just a crazy dream___?
FA DO
And if I show you my dark side
SIb FA
Will you still hold me tonight?
FA DO
And if I open my heart to you
SIb
And show you my weak side,
FA
What would you do?
SIb FA
Would you sell your story to Rolling Stone?
SIb
Would you take the children away
FA
And leave me alone?
SIb DO
And smile in reassurance
REm
As you whisper down the phone,
SOLm7
Would you send me packing,
/DO FA
Or would you take me home?
LAm FA LAm DO SIb REm SOLm7 /DO FA
LAm FA
Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings,
LAm DO
Thought I oughta tear the curtain down.
SIb
I held the blade in trembling hands,
REm SOLm7
Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang,
SOL DO SIb LAdd9 FA
I never had the nerve to make the final cut.
Not Now John
SOL RE MIm
Fuck all that we've got to get on with these
SOL RE MIm
Gotta compete with the wily Japanese.
SOL RE
There's too many home fires burning
MIm
And not enough trees,
SOL
So fuck all that
RE MIm
We've got to get on with these.
Can't stop Lose job Mind gone Silicon
What bomb Get away Pay day Make hay
Break down Need fix Big six
SOL RE MIm
Clickity click Hold on Oh no Brrrrrrrrrring bingo!
DO/MI MIm RE/MI MIm
Make 'em laugh. Make 'em cry. Make 'em dance in the aisles.
DO/MI MIm RE/MI MIm
Make 'em pay. Make 'em stay. Make'em feel ok.
SOL
Not nah John
RE MIm SOL
We've got to get on with the film show.
RE MIm
Hollywood waits at the end of the rainbow.
SOL RE
Who cares what it's about
MIm
As long as the kids go.
SOL
Not now John
RE LAsus
Got to get on with the show.
SOL RE MIm
Hang on John we've got to get on with this.
SOL
I don't know what it is
RE MIm
But it fits on here like.....
SOL RE
Come at the end of the shift,
MIm
We'll go and get pissed.
SOL
But now now John
RE
I've got to get on with this.
DO/MI
Hold on John
MIm
I think there's something good on.
RE/MI MIm
I used to read books but.....
DO/MI
It could be the news,
MIm
Or some other abuse,
RE/MI MIm
Or it could be reusable shows.
SOL RE MIm
Fuck all that we've got to get on with these
SOL RE MIm
Got to compete with the wily Japanese.
SOL RE MIm
No need to worry about the Vietnamese.
SOL RE MIm
Got to bring the Russian bear to his knees.
SOL RE
Well, maybe not the Russian bear,
MIm
Maybe the Swedes.
SOL
We showed Argentina
RE MIm
Now let's go and show these.
SOL
Make us feel tough
RE MIm
And wouldn't Maggie be pleased?
SOL RE MIm
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah!
Two Suns In The Sunset
RE LA SOL LA RE
RE SOL LA
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down,
RE SOL LA RE
Sinking behind bridges in the road
SOL LA
And I think of all the good things
RE LA SOL
That we have left undone
RE/FA# MIm
And I suffer premonitions,
SIm
Confirm suspicions,
MIm LA RE LA SOL LA
Of the holocaust to come.
RE
The wire that holds the cork
SOL LA
That keeps the anger in,
RE
Gives way
SOL LA RE
And suddenly it's day again.
SOL LA
The sun is in the east
RE LA SOL RE/FA#
Even though the day is done.
MIm
Two suns in the sunset
SIm
Hmmmmmmmmmm
MIm LA
Could be the human race is run.
LA RE LA SOL LA RE LA SOL LA RE
SIm LA
Like the moment when the brakes lock
SIm
And you slide towards the big truck
SOL LA RE
You stretch the frozen moments with your fear.
SIm LA
And you'll never hear their voices,
SIm
And you'll never see their faces,
SOL LA RE LA
You have no recourse to the law anymore.
SOL LA RE LA SOL LA RE
RE
And as the windshield melts
SOL LA
My tears eveaporate,
RE SOL LA RE
Leaving only charcoal to defend.
SOL LA RE LA SOL RE/FA#
Finally I understand the feelings of the few.
MIm
Ashes and diamonds,
SIm
Foe and friend,
MIm LA
We were all equal in the end.
RE LA SOL LA RE LA SOL LA
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