Ultimate Collection lyrics

Candellabras light your ancient eyes, well hope may live but passion lies, upon

your lips scratched out in blue, all loves lies are impromptu, but all of the

stars in the darkness-

give me a sign, a sign of love, give me a sign, a sign of love

Twenty thousand midnight trains will run, past your window, tears will come, do

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*** intro:
D g d g d g

*** verse 1:
D g d
I’m taking it back I’m making a pact
G d c2 em
I will make you indispensable
D g d
I spoke to myself, oh I might as well
G d c2 em

And let you just be made sensible

A
Tell me your thoughts so I can
Em g d g d
Love you in spite of them
A
But now I’m happy if i
Em c2 em c2 a

I'm a Superball
You can bounce me once and I'll ricochet
Around the room
I'm a Superball
If I pick up speed get out of my way
I'm a sonic boom
And I warn you now
The velocity I'm gathering
Will knock you down
Send the chairs and lamps all scattering
'Cause I'm a Superball
If you think there'll be no aftershocks
Well, I'm a Superball
Read the fine print on the back of the box

(one two three once again go)
There is nothing that competes with habit
And I know it's neither deep nor tragic
It's simply that you have to have it
So you can make a killing
Oh you can make a killing
Oh you can make a killing
I wish I was both young and stupid
Then I too could have the fun that you did
Till it was time to pony up what you bid
So you could make a killing

Today's the fourth of July
another June has gone by
and when they light up our town I just think
what a waste of gunpowder and sky
I'm certain that I am alone
in harbouring thoughts of our home
it's one of my faults that I can't quell my past
I ought to have gotten it gone
Oh, baby, I wonder - if when you are older -
someday-
you'll wake up

Though I let you steer
You were cavalier
Inch became a light year
It was pathetic
Well you can write the play
That every word I say
But I don't have to stay
To see the credits
'Cause it's all over now
Yes it's all over now
And I'm free
I was one of few
Who'd stick up for you
And so you never knew
You were a punch line
I could not convince
Or trust you
To pick up all my hints

Well, I guess that this is now the end
who'd have thought
my old friend
we signed the papers and we capped the pen
But I remember you from way back when
'Good evening, ladies and gentlemen
welcome David-what's-his-name-again'
Things change -
the old cliche
if we knew now what we knew yesterday
oh, we couldn't give it away.
I was working at a record store
I knew you,
you knew the score

Pre>chords:
G5 3x0033
Gma9 3x0232
D/c# x4023x
Bm/a x04432
G2 3x023x
D2 xx0230
F#m7 2x2220

*** intro:

G5 | g5 | g5

*** verse 1:
Gma9 d
He’s infinitely wise
D/c# bm bm/a g
But he infinitely lies
Em /g d g2 d-d2
We’re no longer just plain folks
Gma9 d
No, we’re old and sad and bored
D/c# bm bm/a g
And we’re not funny anymore
F#m7 em d g2 d-d2

I'm told the case is now closed
So I can come to my senses
But when the question is posed
I'll have this meager defense
I was hoping that you'd know better than that
I was hoping but you're an amateur
I was hoping that you'd know better
But I've been wrong before
Despite conclusions I drew
There was a chance you'd surprise me
And you'd be better than you
'Cause I'd have left otherwise

Well, today a friend told me this sorry tale
as he stood there trembling and turning pale
he said each day's harder to get on the scale
sort of like Jacob Marley's chain.
But it's not like life's such a vale of tears
it's just full of thoughts that act as souvenirs
for those tiny blunders made in yesteryears
that comprise Jacob Marley's chain.
Well, I had a little metaphor to state my case

All you want to do is something good
So get ready to be ridiculed and misunderstood
'Cause don't you know that you're a fucking freak in this world
In which everybody's willing to choose swine over pearls
And maybe everything is all for nothing
Still you'd better keep it to yourself
'Cause God knows it's not safe with
Anybody else
You can take your own advice and try again

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(thanks to tony varnas for providing the chords!)

Baby blue (pete ham)

Transcriber’s note: chord changes at beginning
Of each line precede lyric by a 2/4 measure
Unless indicated by an asterisk (*)

Chords: a9 = 002200
Bmmaj7 = 224332

*** introduction:
D (with riffs)

*** verse 1:
A a9 g
Guess I got what I deserved
C g d
Kept you waiting there too long my love

Ray, as of today
I can't say
Things will ever be the same
And that could be a shame
'Cause, though
I think I know
Another lonely exile when I see one
And you appear to be one
Still ?
I'm playing down 'cause I could really be found
If you've got it to spare
I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel
'Cause I ought to be there
And Ray, what can I say
You don't know me

You see me as a judge
though I deny it
and hold me like a grudge
then justify it
But when you make such claims
in searching for something that explains
please take a good look at our remains
'Cause if you were everything you say
things would be different today
and maybe there's room for compromise
but signs that I get say otherwise

I know there's a word for this
I know there's a word for the way I'm feeling
I know there's a word for this
I know it, and it's on the tip of my tongue
and it won't go any further.
I know there's a word for this
I know, 'cause it's in the dictionary
and when I find what it is
I'll write it down in case it comes up again
I'll be certain to avoid it.
So, take this down:

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*** verse 1

F#m e
You asked me to dinner
B f#m
You brought me stuff
E b
Now what do I make of that
F#m b
You made me an offer

E a
I called your bluff
E b
Now you’re an amnesiac

*** chorus:

A e b
Driving with one hand on the wheel
A e b
Ordering luck with every meal
A e
Feeding on hope again never mind how
B
Small a portion

Capo 3: Eb maps as C

C2 | C2

*** Verse 1:
C2 G D G
Shall we agree that just this once
Em D
I'm gonna change my life
C2 G D G
until it's just as tiny or
Em F
important as you like
C2 G D C2
and in time, we won't even recall that we spoke
G D C2

G Bb C :||

Verse 1:
Bb C G
In the dark, I like to read his mind
Bb C G
but I'm frightened of the things I might find
Bb F
Oh, there must be something he's thinking of
G
to tear him away
Bb F
when I tell him that I'm falling in love