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