Love Chronicles
by Al Stewart
Part I
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C# B F# C#
I can remember the first girl that I did love
B F#
It was Stephanie
C# B F# C#
In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used to
B F#
Sit next to me
C# B F#
I'd pass her sticky sweets under the table
C# B F#
Where the teacher couldn't see
C# B
Although she wouldn't remember me now
F# C# B F#
Sometimes I wonder where she can be.
C# B F# C# B F# C# B F#
C# B F#
I can remember the first girl I kissed it was
C# B
Christine when I was ten.
C# B F#
I'd been told we were moving away
C# B F#
I thought I'd never see her again
C# B F#
Oh don't forget me
C# B F#
I'll be back when they let me
C# B F#
Before you learn how to lie when you're leaving
C# B F#
Love is so much easier then
C# B F# C# B F#
G#7 C# F# C#
And at school would you believe three hundred boys
G#7 C#
And no girls at all
G#7 C# F#
But you're a fool if you should leave
F# C# G#7 C#
Just think of the joys of rugby football
F# C# G# F# C#
And prep in the morning and Brylcream and acne
F# C# B G#
And cross-country running to kill evil thoughts
C# F#
I'm surprised that I survived
C# G#7 B F#
I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall.
C# B F# C# B F#
C# B F# C#
I can remember the first girl that I made love to
B F#
It was in a park
C# B F#
In the lower pleasure gardens in Bournemouth
C# B F#
In summer just after dark
C# B F# C# B F#
My mind was reeling. Oh what a feeling.
C# B F#
I missed the bus and walked twelve miles home
C# B F# C# B F# C# B
And it really didn't seem far.
F# C# G# F# C#
And all through my seventeenth summer
C# G# F# G#7 C#
Running together from crowds and ties
C# G# F# G#7 C#
Taking our clothes off and feeling each other
C# G# F# G#7 C#
With fingers and senses and mouths and eyes,
F# C# F# C#
Incurring the glances of old disapproval
F# C# B G#7
From elderly local inhabitant's eyes
C# G# F# G# C#
Oh time time we hardly even knew you
C# G#7 F# G#7 C#
You didn't touch us with your lies.
B F# C# B F#
C# B F#
In the halcyon days of my late adolescence
C# B F#
My goal seemed clearly in sight
C# B F#
Playing electric guitar with a beat group
C# F#
We set the ballrooms alight
C# B F#
Camping it up for the dyed blonde receptionists
C# B F#
Who told us we were al-ri-yi-yight
C# B F#
On an ego trip for a teenage superstar
C# B F# C# B F# C# B F# C# B F#
On thirty shillings a night.
C# B F#
And so it fell that I came up to London
C# B F#
To look for fortune and fame
C# B F#
Starry eyed in my seaside successes
C# B F#
And much too sure of the game.
C# B F#
First girl I met there
C# B F#
I thought I'd get there
C# B F#
But the first girl was nearly the last girl
C# B F#
She left my eyes in the drain.
Part II (slower)
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G#7 C# G#7 C#
She sat on my floor in the dead of the night
F# C# G#7
Rolling a joint and looking round for a light
F# C# F# C#
Her clothes were so black and her face was so white
G#7
How could I know what was right?
F# G#7 C#
And I sat all huddled upon my bed
F# G#7
Watching her in my innocence
F# G#7 C#
And it was no sense at all, but too much sense
G# F# C# G#7 F# C#
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
G#7 C# G#7 C#
Oh Artaud's anthology lay spread on the floor
F# C# G#7
And the thoughts that she gave me, I'd not met before
F# C# F# C#
And stranded half hypnotised, I watched her in awe
G#7
Of everything that she stood for.
F# G#7 F# C#
And I wanted more than anything to be like her with every sense
F# G#7 C#
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
G# F# C#
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
G#7 C# G#7 C#
She came over to me and kissed me in play
F# C# G#7
Taking my hands between her legs as she lay
F# C# F# C#
And she looked in my eyes but I turned them away
G#7
Finding no words fit to say.
F# G#7 F#
And I hated myself, but could not move
G#7
Shattered in my confidence,
F# G#7 C#
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
G# F# C#
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
G#7 C# G#7 C#
Now the stare of the lightbulb tore holes in my brain
F# C# G#7
As she got up in silence that hung like a stain
F# C# F# C#
And I wanted to speak, or call out her name,
G#7
But how could I begin to explain?
F# G#7 F#
And my prosecuting room still holds a strand of her hair
G#7
In evidence,
F# G#7 C#
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
G# F# C#
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
G#7 C# G#7 C#
Oh I still think about her when the night fills with rain
F# C# G#7
And speaks with its voices uneasy and vain
F# C# F# C#
And I think were I maybe to find her again,
G#7
Oh I'd probably see her more plain.
F# G#7 F#
And I should have known she was just like me,
G#7
It was after all only commonsense,
F# G#7 C#
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
G# F# C#
That took me to the bridge of impotence...
Segue to part 3.
The chords for each verse are the same.
Part III (faster, tempo 1)
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C# B F# (repeat)
C# B F#
At first I didn't go out much at all
C# B F#
I just stayed home in my chains.
C# B F#
Picking over the threads of my confidence
C# B F#
And searching for the remains.
C# B F#
And when I couldn't stand any more of it
C# B F#
Going down to a club.
C# B F#
Mixing in with the sounds and the crowds
C# B F# C# B F# C# B F#
I let the music cover me up.
C# B F#
And so it came that I stood disillusioned
F# B F#
By everything I'd been told.
C# B F#
I just didn't believe love existed
C# B F#
They were all just digging for gold.
C# B F#
Widows and bankers and typists and bus'nessmen
C# B F#
Loved each other they said.
C# B F#
But all it was though was just a manoeuvre
C# B F# C# B F# C# B F#
The quickest way into bed.
F7 C# G#7 C# G# A#m G#
And only, lonely, the harlequins and painted phonies
A#m F7 A#m F7
Pick their ways, through the haze
C# G#7 C#
Of highs and lows and blues
F# F F# F
And all that I could do was to pick my way to you
F# F
Though I didn't tell you
F# F
You were just a thing to prove
Bm Bb+ Bm7 Bm6 Em G Bm
But I was hungry when found you, but I'm al-right now.
F7 C# G#7 C# G# A#m G#
They sigh, they lie, the refugees and superhe-roes
A#m F7 A#m F7 C# G#7 C#
On ice, so nice to see you, what's your name?
F# F F# F
And all that I could do was to say the same to you
F# F F# F
Take you for the moment, though the moment wasn't true
Bm Bb+ Bm Bm6 Em G Bm
But I was hungry when I found you and I'm al-right now.
D#m G#7 C#
Though the street lamp cut through the curfew
D#m G#7 C#
It shed no light on our mind
D#m G#7 C#
It would have been so easy to love you
F#7 F7
At any other time.
F7 C# G#7 C# G# A#m G#
Only lonely, you came to me the night hung coldly
A#m F7 A#m F7 C# G#7 C#
In your eyes, some other time I might have stayed with you
F# F F# F
But all that I could do was to turn around to you
F# F F# F
Thanks for what you gave me now it's time to say "Adieu"
Bm Bb+ Bm7 Bm6 Em G Bm
Oh I was hungry when I found you but I'm al-right now.
D#m F# A#m Bb+
Ba ba ba alright now
C# B F# (repeat)
C# B F#
And so I followed the other's example
C# B F#
And jumped into the melee
C# B F#
In hunting grounds of Earls Court and Swiss Cottage
C# B F#
I did my best to get laid
C# B F# C# B F#
Beer cans and parties, deb girls and arties
C# B F#
Bouncing around in the social confusion
C# B F#
Missing and making the grade.
C# B F# C# B F# C# F# C# C#
(Instrumental Solo - ad lib)
Part IV (Slower)
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N.B B C#
The very first time I must confess
B C#
I thought you'd be like all of the rest
B F#
And we'd be strangers once again
E G#7
By the time we were dressed.
B C#
But when you'd smoked your cigarette
B C#
And talked of some people that we'd met
B F# E G#7
I found myself asking was it set, did you have to go yet.
E B7
And so you laughed and then kissed me
A B F#
And stayed for the whole weekend
E B
Although the bed was so narrow
A B7 F# C# B C#
We had to sleep end to end.
B C#
And so the weeks passed through my brain
B C#
In their dadaistic chain
B F# E G#7
I found myself seeing you again, and again and again
B C#
And all you gave you gave it free
B C#
Asking for nothing back from me
B F# E G#7
You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me.
E B7
And where I thought that just plucking
A B F#
The fruits of the bed was enough
E B
It grew to be less like fucking
A B7 F# C# F# C#7
And more like making love.
F# C# B F# C#sus4 C#
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me
F# C# B F# C#sus4 C#
And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me
F# C# B F# C#sus4 C#
And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me
F# C# B F# C#sus4
And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
E D# D D
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