"The Bends"
the bends
high and dry
fake plastic trees
[nice dream]
my iron lung
bullet proof..i wish i was
sulk
street spirit [fade out]
intro: D, C, B, C, B, C (x4)
verse: E, G, C (x2)
then:
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then: E, G, C again
chorus: D, C, B, C
palm muted chord after
"i wish, i wish, i wish, that something would happen": E
Les paroles :
where do we go from here?
the words are coming out all weird
where are you now when I need you?
alone on an aeroplane
falling asleep beside the window pane
my blood will THICKEN.
I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain
i'd be scared that there's nothing underneath
and who are my real friends?
have they all got the bends?
am i really sinking the low?
my baby's got the bends
we don't have any real friends
i'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen
and i wish it was the sixties
i wish i could be happy i wish
i wish i wish that something would happen..
where do we go from here?
the words are coming out all wierd
where are you now when I need you?
they brought in the CIA the tanks and the whole marines
to blow me away
to blow me sky high.
my baby's got the bends
we don't have any real friends
i'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen
and i wish it was the sixties
i wish i could be happy i wish
i wish iwish that something would happen..
i want to live and breath
i want to be part of the human race.
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Intro:
F# Asus2 E ( les accords sont les mêmes durant toute la chanson )
F#
two jumps in a week
Asus2
I bet you think that's pretty clever
E
don't you boy?
Flying on your motorcycle
watching all the ground beneath you drop
You'd kill yourself for recognition,
kill yourself to never ever stop
You broke another mirror,
you're turning into something you are not
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Drying up in conversation,
you will be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there wishing
you could still make love
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry...
Solo: (sur une seule corde)
B-5-5-4-5-5--4-5-5--4-5s7s5-4--5-5-4-5-5-2-0----2---4-
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It's the best thing that you ever had,
best thing that you ever ever had
It's the best thing that you ever had,
the best thing you ever had is going away
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry...
A............................F#m
Her green plastic watering can
.............................E.. D
For her fake chinese rubber plant
...............A .......D
In the fake plastic earth
A .................................F#m
That she bought from a rubber man
........................E ....D
In a town full of rubber plants
..............A D
To get rid of itself
Bm
It wears her out..
A
It wears her out..
Bm
It wears her out..
A
It wears her out
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins
And it wears him out..
It wears him out..
It wears him out..
It weeeeeaaaars
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And it wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out
And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time..
All the time..
A /F#m / D / A
intro : C-B-Bb-A (x2)
A............................. D
they love me like i was a brother
..........................E
they protect me, listen to me
they dug me my very own garden
gave me sunshine, made me happy.
Bm ............ E .................A
nice dream, nice dream, nice dream.
i call up my friend the good angel
but she's out with her answerphone
she says she would love to come help but
the sea would electrocute us all.
Bm E A F#m
nice dream, nice dream, nice dream, nice dream
nice dream
nice dream
nice dream [if you think that you're strong enough]
nice dream [if you think you belong enough]
nice dream [if you think that you're strong enough]
nice dream [if you think you belong enough]
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faith your driving me away
you do it everyday
you don't mean it but it hurts like hell
my brain says im receiving pain
a lack of oxygen from my life support
my iron lung.
we're too young to fall asleep
too cynical to speak
we are losing it can't you tell?
we scratch our eternal itch
our twentieth century bitch
and we are grateful for our iron lung.
suck suck your teenage thumb
toilet trained and dumb
when the power runs out
we'll just hum
this this is our new song
just like the last one
a total w.a.s.t.e of time.
my iron lung.
Couplet : C Bm G D
limb by limb and tooth by tooth
tearing up inside of me
everyday everyhour wish that I was bullet proof
wax me, mould me,
heat the pins and stab them in
you have turned me into this
just wish that it was bullet proof
Refrain : G D C
bullet proof
so pay me money and take a shot
lead-fill the hole in me
i could burst a million bubbles
all surrogate and
bullet proof
bullet proof
D
You bite through the big wall
D
The Big wall bites back
D
You sit there and
C G
sulk
D
Sit there and ball.
(pre-chorus and chorus)
D
G C
Sometime you sulk,
D
sometime ya burn
G C
God rest you soul...
For the end of the song (last chorus) we go up a tone to A-D-E for the
chorus.
FIG A:
E-|---------0---------------0---------------0-------------------------|
B-|-----------------3---------------1---------------0-----------------|
G-|-----2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2---|
D-|-----------------------------------------------------------2-------|
A-|-0-----------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
FIG E:
E-|----------0---------------0---------------0------------------------|
B-|------------------3---------------1----------------0---------------|
G-|-----0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0---|
D-|-----------------------------------------------------------2-------|
A-|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-0------------------------------------------------------------------|
FIG C:
E-|---------0---------------0---------------0-----------------------|
B-|-----------------3---------------1---------------0---------------|
G-|-----0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0---|
D-|---------------------------------------------------------2-------|
A-|-3---------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Intro: A
Couplet : A
Refrain : C E A
rows of houses all bearing down on me
i can feel their blue hands touching me
all these things will one day take control
and fade out again and fade out
this machine will not communicate
these thoughts
and the strain i am under
be a world child form a circle before we all
go under
and fade out again and fade out again
cracked eggs dead birds
scream as they fight for life
i can feel death can see it's beady eyes
all these things into frution
all these things we'll one day swallow whole
and fade out again and fade out again
Immerse your soul in love.