Intro
D F A F#m
[Verse 1]
D F A
I'm totally confused
F#m
By you
D F A
I'm totally confused
F#m
By you
D F A
Theres a ten foot man
F#m
Making my lunch
D F A
I'll never understand
F#m E
I want you so much
[Chorus]
D A G#
And I never, ever want it
D A G#
And I never, ever want it
D A G#
And I never, ever want it
D A G#
And I never, ever want it
D F A F#m
[Verse 2]
D F A
I'm totally confused
F#m
By you
D F A
I'm totally confused
F#m
By you
D F A
Whisper in my face
F#m
Scream in my ear
D F A
Pack me in a suitcase
F#m
With the can of beer
[Chorus]
D A G#
And I never, ever want it
D A G#
And I never, ever want it
D A G#
And I never, ever want it
D A G#
And I never, ever want it
D F A F#m
6. Piece Of Shit
[Intro]
E F#m B E C#m F#m B A x2
[Chorus]
E F#m
I called my baby a piece of shit
B E
She hated it, I hated it
C#m F#m B A
Funny thing is now we both feel fine
E F#m
She let go and I caught it
B E
I hated it, She hated it
C#m F#m B A E F#m
Hope it doesn't happen all the time
[Verse 1]
B F#m
Ripping up the carpet tiles
B F#m
Greeted by a lonely smile
B A
And the foundations seemed so solid
F#m B
By the roof was always leaking, woo-hoo-hoo!
E F#m B E C#m F#m B A x2
[Verse 2]
E F#m
If you call my name I'll come strolling
B E
Because I've fallen in the flame
F#m
If you think I'm all that you want
B E F#m B
The restaurant is booked in your name
[Chorus]
E F#m
I called my baby a piece of shit
B E
She hated it, I hated it
C#m F#m B A
Funny thing is now we both feel fine
E F#m
She let go and I caught it
B E
I hated it, She hated it
C#m F#m B A E F#m E
Hope it doesn't happen all the time
7. Pinball Lez
[Intro]
B D
F# A#m Fm B
F# A#m Fm B F#
[Verse 1]
A#m Fm
Pinball Lez is shacked up
B F# C# F#
With Nan's girlfriend
A#m Fm
Reconditioning pinballs
B F#
He farms them out again
[Verse 2]
A#m Fm
The word on the street is suggesting
B F# C# F#
Things aren't so great
A#m Fm
At the St. Lucia residence
B F#
Things are pretty quiet at night
[Chorus]
B
And no-one seems to be
D F#
Answering the phone
B C#
Oh Lez come home (Leslie!)
F#
The pinballs need you
B C#
Oh Lez come home (Leslie!)
F#
I promise the school-kids won't tease you
B C#
Oh Lez come home (Leslie!)
F#
The cops will understand everything
B C#
Oh Lez come home (Leslie!)
E Fm F# A#m Fm B F#
The casinos are rigged to beat you
A#m Fm B F#
[Verse 3]
A#m Fm
Lez has given up
B F#
He's moving out to Stanthorpe
A#m Fm
Swidden agriculture
B F#
Things are pretty quiet at night
[Chorus]
B D B
Out in the fields today
D
No-one seems to be
F#
Answering the phone
B C#
Oh Lez come home (Leslie!)
F#
The pinballs need you
B C#
Oh Lez come home (Leslie!)
F#
I promise the school-kids won't tease you
B C#
Oh Lez come home (Leslie!)
F#
The cops will understand everything
B C#
Oh Lez come home (Leslie!)
E Fm F# A#m Fm B F#
The casinos are rigged to beat you
8. Sons And Daughters
[Verse 1]
A E G D
If I could read their writing I would let you know
A E G D
All about their records and the places they go
E G D F#m
I don't get it but I see it in the sun
G D A E B
And the aerosols they use are never captured by security
[Verse 2]
A E G D
Cameras talking and the lenses are walking
A E G D
All of it's funky just to let me know
[Chorus]
E
I don't get it (I don't get it)
G
But I get it (I don't get it)
D F#
From the sons and daughters
G D A E B
We spent all of our money on groceries from Seessel's
[Bridge]
C G C
I fell asleep in the morning light
G C
I fell asleep in the very first light
G C
And as the day had just begun
Am C G
With you lying in the sun
C G C
Lying in the very last sun
C G C
Lying in the sun
G C
Lying in the very last sun
[Verse 3]
A E G D
If I could read their writing I would let you know
A E G D
Progress from colouring to outlining to piecing on their own
E G D F#
I like you because you are just the right height
A G
If I could read their writing I would let you know
9. Nice Bird
[Intro]
D F# F
D F# F
[Verse 1]
D F# F
I've got a nice bird
D F# F
I've got a nice bird
Em Bm Em Bm
I understand that a bird in my hand
G F#
Is worth two in the bush
Em Bm Em Bm G
Understand that the bird is the word that I use
F# F
To describe you
[Chorus]
D F# F
I've got a nice bird
D F# F
I've got a nice bird
D F# F
I've got a nice bird
[Verse 2]
Em Bm Em Bm
This world divides into people who think
G F#
There are two kinds of folks and those who don't
Em Bm Em Bm
Trey's got the feathers and a 12-gauge shotgun
G F# D C X 2
Volkswagens from the Reich!
[Chorus]
D F# F
I've got a nice bird
D F# F
I've got a nice bird
[Bridge]
Am D G
There's a stretch of road out past The Gap
C F
Where they're taking some snaps, stick to the music champ
The words are important
B7 D C X 4
The words are important!
[Chorus]
D F#m F
I've got a nice bird
D F#m F
I've got a nice bird X 5
[Outro]
E E
N.I.C.E.B.I.R.D. bird
10. No Rock And Roll Record
[Verse 1]
A E A E
No rock'n'roll singer is going to sing my song
C#m B D
Same stupid words going over and over
A E A E
The drop-out turned out trashing my sound
C#m B D
Rub the lines off the back of my hands
[Chorus]
E
I cut my teeth on the end of my bed
B
I never ever sang in a high school band
E B C#m
Somehow you would think I would have figured it out by now
D
By now
[Verse 2]
A E A E
No rock'n'roll record made no difference to me
C#m B D
No seven inch, twelve inch, cassette, GD
A E A E
Not wasting my time on a dumb pop song
C#m B D
Cut my hair going back to my bank job
[Chorus]
E
The radio could have been kinder to me
B
But I never looked good on a colour TV
E B C#m
Somehow you would think I would have figured it out by now
D
By now
A E A E C#m B D x2
[Bridge]
G B C D
I've got a message from the other side
G B C
It came to me last night in semaphore
D E
But I can't play the minor chords
[Verse 3]
A E A E
No rock'n'roll record made no difference to me
C#m B D
No seven inch, twelve inch, cassette, GD
A E A E
Not wasting my time on a dumb pop song
C#m B D
Cut my hair going back to my bank job
11. Sinatra Theory
[Verse 1]
A F#m
I walk these corridors
A F#m
Don't think I'm ever coming home
A F#m
One time to be your friend
A F#m
I killed off everything you owned
Bm A F#m
Losing the money was the hardest thing to own
[Chorus]
A F#m
I'm coming home
[Verse 2]
A F#m
I had some money once
A F#m
I hear I spent it all on you
A F#m
One time your Christmas lights
A F#m
I threw my body on the lawn
Bm A F#m
I'm smashing bugs with a ping-pong bat at home
[Chorus]
A F#m
I'm coming home
A F#m
My skeleton falls down
A F#m
I'm coming home
[Bridge]
F C
Community radio station rock gets played in the parking lots
G Dm
These speakers amplify the tones
[Chorus]
A F#m
I'm coming home
A F#m
My skeleton falls down
A F#m A
I walk these corridors
12. Schtum
[Verse 1]
C
I'm remaining schtum
I'm not going to speak out any more
Dm C
I'm gonna be quiet, so quiet
Dm Am
Almost silent like the flow
[Verse 2]
C
Now that you are missing
I've called the searching off
Dm
I'll blame it on the light
C
And I'm so tired
Dm Am
We'll resume it at dawn
[Chorus]
Dm Fm
Floating in the water
F C
The floor is far below
[Verse 3]
Dm
I'm heading for Japan
C
If I don't get snagged first
Dm Am
As the water overflows
[Break]
C Dm C Dm Am
Whistling bit
[Chorus]
Dm Fm
Floating in the water
F C
The floor is far below
[verse 4]
Dm
I'm heading for Japan
C
If I don't get snagged first
Dm Am C
As the water overflows
13. The Truth About Drugs
[Verse 1]
G D
All the junkies are piling in their cars
A Am
And the kids can stay home from school
G D
Got the fire sticks, got the guns
C D C
We got some CDs and and some tapes to tape them on
[Chorus]
G D C
Seems the bitumen was made for me (made for me)
G D C
And the lines in the middle too (middle too)
G D
End they was travelling from A to F# (E to B)
Em D G
And I love only you
[Verse 2]
G D G D
We gotta stop at a chemist I know
C D Bm Em
And that's the last of the car lighter
G D G D
I got a headache and my headache won't go
C D B F
Were only eating places truck drivers go
[Chorus]
G D C
Seems the bitumen was made for me (made for me)
G D C
And the lines in the middle too (middle too)
G D
End they was travelling from A to F# (E to B)
Em D G
And I love only you
[Outro]
G D Em D
This is called the truth about drugs
G D Em D
(This is called the truth about drugs)
G D Em D
This is called the truth about drugs
G D Em D C
(This is called the truth about drugs)
14. Music Is Crap
[Verse 1]
G D C G
Red eyes blue gaze, you look like hell today
D C G
Step out on parade, you do it so well
D C G
Your favourite shirt, those shoes that you bought in Perth
D C G
Dumb Hair smart slacks, that's rock apparel
[Chorus]
C
(Ahhhhhh)
G C G C
Music is crap aliens told me so
G C G C
Better than that, were gonna let you know
G C G C
Just listen up, become a receiver
G C D
And then space out, when you're a believer
C
That's what religion's for
G C G C
Music is crap
[Verse 2]
G D C G
Think of your friends, then put one on the door
D C G
Everythings free, but were still poor
C G
Don't matter what you like, aliens hate it
C D
Rock, pop, metal, shop, they just berate it
C
And I've found
D C
They dig the silence, hate the sound
D C
So pick up your telescopes, put your guitars down
D
That's what I've found..
[Chorus]
G C G C
Music is crap aliens told me so
G C G C
Better than that, were gonna let you know
G C G C
Just listen up, become a receiver
G C D
And then space out, when you're a believer
C
That's what religion's for
G C G C
Music is crap
G C G C
Music is crap
G C G C
Music is crap
G C G C
Music is crap
15. The Drum
[Verse 1]
A E A E
After the show yeah we have to go
G# C#
You don't like it, I don't like it
A E A E
Write me a note about all of the folks
G# C# E
You have lied to, and you've sold to
[Chorus]
F# G D
Has anybody seen my guitar and case
G# D#
'Cos it seems out of place
B F# G#
Won't you be so kind to find it?
G D
I had my amp there as well
G# D#
But I think that it fell
B F# G#
Left to the stage right behind it
We won't find it
[Verse 2]
A E A E
Just like the blow that went right to your head
G# C#
You don't show it. You don't show it
A E A E
Now off to the station we had to go
G# D#
You don't like it, no you don't like it
[Chorus]
F# G D
Has anybody seen my guitar and case
G# D#
'Cos it seems out of place
B F# G#
Won't you be so kind to find it?
G D
I had my amp there as well
G# D#
But I think that it fell
B F# G#
Left to the stage right behind it
G#
We won't find it
G#
I don't like it
[Bridge]
C# D
Guitar and case, yeah!
F# A C#
(Woah!)
D
Not in its place, yaaargh!
F# A C#
(Woah!)
D
My amp's there as well!
F# A C#
(Woah!)
D
I think that it fell, yeah, yeah!
F# A
(Woah!)
[Verse 3]
A E A E
After the show yeah we have to go
G# C#
You don't like it, I don't like it
A E A E
Write me a note about all of the folks
G# C# E
You have lied to, and you've sold to
[Chorus]
F# G D
Has anybody seen my guitar and case
G# D#
'Cos it seems out of place
B F# G#
Won't you be so kind to find it?
G D
I had my amp there as well
G# D#
But I think that it fell
B F# G#
Left to the stage right behind it
G#
We won't find it
G#
No you don't like it, like it, like it
[Outro]
C# D
Guitar and case, yeah!
F# A C#
(Woah!)
D
Not in its place, yaaargh!
F# A C#
(Woah!)
D
My amp's there as well!
F# A C#
(Woah!)
D
I think that it fell, yeah, yeah!
F# A
(Woah!)
F# E
Off the stage, yeah
F# A
Off the stage, yeah
F# E
Off the stage, yeah
F# C#
16. Eight Years Of Rock And Roll Has Completley Destroyed My Memory
[Verse 1]
E B C#m A
I've got no memories
G#m E
Oooh that's what I need
B C#m A
I've got no past or yesterdays
G#m F#m
Memories is what I need
G#m E B A B
But these memories are made for speed
[Verse 2]
E B C#m A
I've forgot this morning
G#m E
Forgot this evening too
B C#m A
I'll have to beg your pardon
G#m F#m
Your name starts with a Q
G#m E B A
Oh no it's something I've missed
B E A E
My memory's missed
[Bridge]
A E D
I understand about your tan
A E D
So let me sleep tonight
A
If there's a song in my throat
E D
Guess it's something I ate
A E D
I guess must be throwing up
G Em
So kiss me
G Em
And make me believe
G Em
In ideologies
G Em
And the streets of sesame
E
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh wah!
Am Em F#m D C#m A
[Verse 3]
E B C#m A
I've got a good idea
G#m E
To write my memories down
B C#m A
Then I'll have nothing to fear
G#m F#m
When mine lets me down
G#m G#
I'll find names and addresses on paper on the ground
A E
I'm good with faces, no good with names