CRYSTAL (Bob Mould)
Chords and rhythm pattern (used throughout)
e:---------0-0-0-0---0-0---||-------------------------|
B:---------5-5-5-5---5-5---||---------7-7-7-7---7-7---|
G:-5---5---0-0-0-0---0-0---||-7---7---0-0-0-0---0-0---|
D:-5---5---5-5-5-5---5-5---||-7---7---7-7-7-7---7-7---|
A:-3---3---3-3-3-3---3-3---||-5---5---5-5-5-5---5-5---|
E:-------------------------||-------------------------|
e:-3---3---3-3-3-3---3-3---|
B:-3---3---0-0-0-0---0-0---|
G:-0---0---0-0-0-0---0-0---|
D:-5---5---5-5-5-5---5-5---|
A:-5---5---5-5-5-5---5-5---|
E:-3---3---3-3-3-3---3-3---|
Intro:
C X 4
Avalanche looms overhead
Airplane flies overhead
Important man sits by the window
Sucked out of the first class window
Images run by, thousand miles an hour
But the time seems far away
Folding clothes in a folding closet
Folding money in a resume
Time to let off some pressure
Time to let off some steam
All your notebooks get thrown away
And you start your diary clean
Crystal glass lined up in a row
Watched over by the G.I. Joes
Sugar in your coffee doesn't taste quite right
Feeling the effects for a hundred thousand nights
C X 4
When civilization falls in its grave
Technology throws on the dirt
You realize the finest things in life
Are the ones that can never be hurt
Time to let off some pressure
Time to let off some steam
All your notebooks get thrown away
And you start your diary clean
Crystal glass lined up in a row
Watched over by the G.I. Joes
Sugar in your coffee doesn't taste quite right
Feeling the effects for a hundred thousand nights
C X 8
D X 4
G X 4
C (to end)
Shatters your brain in a million tiny pieces
The sounds you hear aren't coming out right
You think it might be mystic, you think I might be cryptic
The crystal in your china case is breaking in a million tiny pieces
Ends with this octave pattern played over C chord
e:----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B:----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G:-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
D:----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A:-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
E:----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
TP.
DON'T WANT TO KNOW IF YOU ARE LONELY (Grant Hart)
Riff 1
e:----0------0--0-------------------------|-0--0--------------------------|
B:----0------0--0------0------0--0--0--0--|-5--3--0-----0--(0)-(0)--------|
G:----0------0--0------4------4--4--4--4--|-------4--2--4-b-5-r-4---------|
D:----2------2--2------4------4--4--4--4--|-------------------------------|
A:----2------2--2------2------2--2--2--2--|-------------------------------|
E:-0---------0--0-------------------------|------------------------3--3-2-|
Asus2 Riff
e:-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---|
B:-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---|
G:-2-4---4-4---4-4---2-4---4-4---4-4---|
D:-2-2---2-2---2-2---2-2---2-2---2-2---|
A:-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---|
E:-------------------------------------|
Chords:
Em 022000 B X2440X C X355XX
G 320003 G/F# 2X0003 Cmaj7 X32000 Asus2 X02200
DON'T WANT TO KNOW IF YOU ARE LONELY
Riff 1 X 2
I'm curious to know exactly how you are
I keep my distance but that distance is too far
It reassures me just to know that you're okay
Em B C (riff) G
But I don't want you to go on needing me this way
Chorus:
B C Asus2 (riff)
And I don't want to know if you are lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know if you are less than lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know if you are lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know, don't want to know
The day you left me, left me feeling oh so bad
Still I'm not sure about a-ll the doubts we had
From the beginning we both knew it wouldn't last
Em B C (riff) G
Decisions have been made the die has been cast
Chorus:
B C Asus2 (riff)
And I don't want to know if you are lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know if you are less than lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know if you are lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know, don't want to know
Solo:
Over: Em B C G pattern repeated 4 times then following played twice,
/ / / / / / / / / /
Don't, Don't want to Know Don't want to
/ / / / / / / / / /
know Don't want to Know Don't want to
The phone is ringing and the clock says four A.M.
If it's your friends, well I don't want to hear from them
Please leave your number and a message at the tone
Em B C (riff) G
Or you can just go on and leave me here alone
Chorus:
B C Asus2 (riff)
And I don't want to know if you are lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know if you are less than lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know if you are lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know, don't want to know
B C Asus2 (riff)
And I don't want to know if you are lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know if you are less than lonely
B C Asus2 (riff)
Don't want to know if you are lonely
Don't want to know
TP.
I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE (Bob Mould)
Chords:
Am X02210 F 133211 G 320033 D XX0232 Em 022000 C X32010
Can't tell you what's coming next
'cause I don't know for sure
It could be good, and it could be bad
I don't know for sure
I guess that I'll continue on from day to day
The only way to answer that
To answer that would be to be that way oh, oh
I wanted this, and I wanted that
I don't know for sure
And don't ask because I don't know
I don't know for sure
I never get confused 'cause I don't really know oh, oh
So I'm happy and so what
So what means that I don't know
It's too simple to explain
'cause I don't know for sure
And words are never proper words
'cause I don't know for sure
What is simple, what is hard
Is harder to discern
These feelings that are feeling
Like the feelings that we learn
Can't tell you what's coming next
'cause I don't know for sure
It could be good, and it could be bad
I don't know for sure
I never get confused 'cause I don't really know oh, oh
So I'm happy and so what
So what means that I don't know
Oh I can't tell you what's coming next
'cause I don't know for sure
I can't tell you what's coming next
Am F G C G C G C G(hold)
'cause I don't know for sure now oh, oh now....
TP
SORRY SOMEHOW (Grant Hart)
INTRO CHORDS:
C X3555X Bb X1333X Am X02210
F 133211 C X32010 G 320033 Am X02210 (see riff below)
Riff used on Am throughout:
e:--------------------------------|
B:-1--0---------------------------|
G:-------2--0--2------------------|
D:--------------------------------|
A:--------------------------------|
E:--------------------------------|
INTRO:
C Bb Am played twice
Time heals, time goes on and time really flies
Time hurts and time can cut you, cut you down to size
There's no need to touch you now, no, I'm doing fine
Life too can cut you and I've cut you out of mine
You're making me...
C Bb Am (as in intro)
Sorry, sorry somehow
You're making me
Sorry, sorry somehow
There's no need to talk to you, well to know what's on your mind
There's no need to see you either, no, I'm just being kind
You want me to beg forgiveness, tender an apology
It's not my fault and you're not getting one from me
You're making me...
Sorry, sorry somehow
You're making me
Sorry, sorry somehow
Now I guess it's your decision now you decide
Take me to the cleaners baby, take me for a ride
Who ever cares for your affairs will sort it out for you
Send me a subpoena baby tell me what to do You're making me...
Sorry, sorry somehow
You're making me
Sorry, sorry somehow
You're making me...
Sorry, sorry somehow
You're making me
Sorry, somehow
Solo: F C G Am progression played four times
You're making me...
Sorry, sorry somehow
You're making me
Sorry, sorry somehow
I don't have to think about you, think about the past
Those days stand out in my mind and those days were the last
I know the time is coming and I'm waiting for the day
I'd give you everything in the world just to get it out of the way
You're making me...
Sorry, sorry somehow
You're making me
Sorry, sorry somehow
You're making me...
Sorry, sorry somehow
You're making me
Sorry, somehow
You're making me...
Sorry, sorry sorry
Sorry, sorry sorry
Sorry, sorry sorry
Sorry, sorry
Am.
TP
TOO FAR DOWN (Bob Mould)
Chords:
Am7 X02010 G 320033 Fsus2 133011 G/F# 2X0033 Dsus4/F# 2X0233
Csus2 X32033 D7sus4 XX0213 D7 XX0212 Em7 022033
022000 XX0232
Intro:
Am7 G Fsus2 (played four times)
I'm down again
And I don't know how to tell you
But maybe this time I can't come back
Because I might be too far down
I wish for real
That I could turn it on and off
Like hot and cold and up and down
Because I'm down again
I'm too far down
I couldn't begin to smile
Because I can't even laugh or cry
Because I just can't do it
If it was so easy to be happy
Why am I so down?
All I can do is sit and wonder if it's going to end
Or if I should just go away forever
When I sit and think
I wish that I just could die
Or let someone else be happy
By setting my own self free
And you don't want the emotion
Because the taste it leaves is for real
But nothing's ever real until it's gone
And I might be too far down
And is this just another thrown away
Or is this the end of the whole stupid road
But you wouldn't want to know how I feel anyway
Because the darkest hole is at the end of the road
Am7 G Fsus2 (played four times)
I'm down again
And I guess I'm not the only one who dreams
That there's not any way to tell you
Because I might be too far down
Oh
too far dowm
D Em.
TP.
HARDLY GETTING OVER IT (Bob Mould)
Chords:
G 320033 A7sus4 X02233 G/B X20033 Csus2 X32033 Em7 022033
Dsus4 XX0233 D XX0232
Intro:(The low G is played by a bass on the record)
e:-----------------|---------3-------|-----------------|---------3-3-3--|
B:-----------------|-----------3-----|-----------------|---------3-3-3--|
G:-----------------|-------------0---|-----------------|---------0-0-0--|
D:-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------0-0-0--|
A:-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
E:-3---3---3-3-3---|-3---3-----------|-3---3---3-3-3---|-3---3----------|
Twenty years ago, saw a friend was walking by
And I stopped on the street to ask him how it went but all he did was cry
When I looked him the face, I couldn't see past his eyes
Asked him what the problem was, he said "Here is your disguise"
Now he's hardly getting over it,
Hardly getting used to getting by.
Now he's hardly getting over it,
He's hardly getting used to getting by by-eye.
Riff 1:
Dsus4 G D(hold)
e:------------------------------------------|
B:----3-------3-------3-------3-----3-3-3---|
G:2--(2)-----(0)-----(0)-----(0)---(0)0-2---|
D:0-----------------------------------0-0---|
A:--------3-------2-------3-------2p0-2-----|
E:------------------------------------3-----|
e:--------------3---------------3-----------|
B:------------------3-------3-------3-------|
G:----------------------0---------------0---|
D:------------------------------------------|
A:------------------------------------------|
E:------------------------------------------|
Old man lays down by the railroad tracks
He's got no paper on his pockets, he's got no paper on his back
Now I ask him what the time was, he says "Hit the road now Jack"
Went back to see him next week, he'd died of a heart attack and died away
Now he's hardly getting over it,
Hardly getting used to getting by.
Now he's hardly getting over it,
He's hardly getting used to getting by by-eye.
Riff 1
Now Grandma, she got sick, and she is gonna die
And grandpa had a seizure, moved into a hotel cell and died away
My parents they just wonder when they both are gonna die
And what do I do when they die?
Now I'm hardly getting over it,
Hardly getting used to getting by.
Hardly getting over it,
Hardly getting used to getting by.
Riff 1
G A7sus4 G/B Csus2 X 4 (keyboard solo over)
or Live Solo (from The Living End):
e:-10---10---12-10---8-----------8---10---12-10--|
B:-8----8-------8----8-12---12---8---8-------8---|
G:-0----0--------------0----0--------------------|
D:-----------------------------------------------|
A:-----------------------------------------------|
E:-----------------------------------------------|
e:-8---------------------------------------------|
B:-8---------------------------------------------|
G:-----------------0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0----0-0-----|
D:---10----10------9h10-9h10-9h10-9h10---9-10----|
A:------10----10------------------------------10-|
E:-----------------------------------------------|
e:-10---10---12-10---8-----------8---10---12-10--|
B:-8----8-------8----8-12---12---8---8-------8---|
G:-0----0--------------0----0--------------------|
D:-----------------------------------------------|
A:-----------------------------------------------|
E:-----------------------------------------------|
e:-8----8-8----8-8-------------------------------|
B:-8----8-8----8-8-------------------------------|
G:---0--0-0--0-0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0---0-0-----|
D:---10-----10------9h10-9h10-9h10-9h10--9-10----|
A:--------------------------------------------10-|
E:-----------------------------------------------|
REPEAT the two bars above.
e:---------------------------------------------------------|
B:---------------------------------------------------------|
G:-0---2---4h5p4h5p4h5p4h5p4h5p4h5p4h5p4h5p4h5p4h5p4h5-/-7-|
D:---------------------------------------------------------|
A:---------------------------------------------------------|
E:---------------------------------------------------------|
e:-3---3----3--3--3--3-----3---3----3--3--3--3---|
B:-3---3----3--3--3--3-----3---3----3--3--3--3---|
G:-5---5----5--5--5--5-----5---5----5--5--5--5---|
D:-5---5----5--5--5--5-----5---5----5--5--5--5---|
A:-3---3----3--3--3--3-----3---3----3--3--3--3---|
E:-----------------------------------------------|
I'm hardly getting over it. Hardly getting by.
I'm hardly getting over it. Hardly getting by.
I'm hardly getting over it. Hardly getting by.
Can't hardly get over it all. Can't hardly get by - by - goodbye.
G A7sus4 G/B Csus2 X 8 (keyboard solo over).
TP.
DEAD SET ON DESTRUCTION (Grant Hart)
Intro: played twice
e:-1---1---1-1---0-0-0-0-0-|-------------------------0-0-|
B:-1---1---1-1---1-1-1-1-1-|-------------------------1-1-|
G:-3---3---2-2---0-0-0-0-0-|-3---3-3---3---3-3---3---0-0-|
D:-3---3---3-3---2-2-2-2-2-|-3---3-3---3---3-3---3---2-2-|
A:---------------3-3-3-3-3-|-1---1-0---1---1-0---1---3-3-|
E:-------------------------|-----------------------------|
Verse:
e:---------------------0---0-0-0-0-|-------------------------0-0-|
B:---------------------1---1-1-1-1-|-------------------------1-1-|
G:-3---3-3---3---3-3---0---0-0-0-0-|-3---3-3---3---3-3---3---0-0-|
D:-3---3-3---3---3-3---2---2-2-2-2-|-3---3-3---3---3-3---3---2-2-|
A:-1---1-1---1---1-0---3---3-3-3-3-|-1---1-0---1---1-0---1---3-3-|
E:---------------------------------|-----------------------------|
Well I'm standing in the queue And I can't stand anymore missing you
e:---------------------0---0-0-0-0-|-----------------------------0-0-|
B:---------------------1---1-1-1-1-|-----------------------------1-1-|
G:-3---3-3---3---3-3---0---0-0-0-0-|-3---3-3---3---3-3---3-------0-0-|
D:-3---3-3---3---3-3---2---2-2-2-2-|-3---3-3---3---3-3---3-------2-2-|
A:-1---1-1---1---1-0---3---3-3-3-3-|-1---1-0---1---1-0---1-------3-3-|
E:---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
And I can't stand the pain 'Cause I can't get home 'cause of a hurricane
Chorus: played twice.
e:-1---1---1-1----0-0-0-0-0-|-------------------------0-0-|
B:-1---1---1-1----1-1-1-1-1-|-------------------------1-1-|
G:-3---3---2-2----0-0-0-0-0-|-3---3-3---3---3-3---3---0-0-|
D:-3---3---3-3----2-2-2-2-2-|-3---3-3---3---3-3---3---2-2-|
A:----------------3-3-3-3-3-|-1---1-0---1---1-0---1---3-3-|
E:--------------------------|-----------------------------|
DEAD SET ON DESTRUCTION
There's no flights home today
And no services out on the motorway
And I can't leave the ground
And I can't find a place now to put her down
Chorus: then repeat intro. with chord inversions.
The Atlantic winds are high
There's only one virgin and she don't fly
And they, they can't land the plane
And they can't get home 'cause of a hurricane
Chorus: repeated eight times.
TP.
EIFFEL TOWER HIGH (Bob Mould)
Chords:
A X02220 D XX023X G 320033 G/F# 2X0033 E 022100 E+C# 022120
A/G# 402220 D/C# X4X232 B X2440X C# X4660X C5 X355XX D5 X577XX
NB. * Denotes single notes picked out while chord is held.
Intro:
A / // / D / // / G / /G/F# E / E+C#/ / (played 3 times)
/ // / / // / / /G/F# / / / /
Walking towards the boulevard
She's studied it all before
She buys herself a seat
And sits on the floor
Taking in a picture show
She doesn't know where to go
C# D (hold chord) C#* B* A*
Is it a film, or is it real?
She went into the movie
She's been there ever since
She walked out to the lobby
For a box of Junior Mints
She never looks beyond the mirror
Or the image that appears
C# D (hold chord)
Well, I just watch the world go by
C#* B* A*
And try to get her attention
G* A* E
Scream at her, and I yell and scream at her
And I scream, ice cream, I scream
/ / / / /
I scream "Merry Eiffel Tower High" (Played 11 times)
A / B / A(hold)
I scream "Merry Eiffel Tower High"
TP.
NO PROMISE HAVE I MADE (Grant Hart)
Chords:
F 133211 C X32010 Dm XX0231 Bb XX0331 C5 X355XX
Intro:
Dm/// Bb/// F/// C///
Dm/// Bb/// F/// C///
If I could change my mind what changes would it bring
If I could change you, well it wouldn't change a thing
So now you know and now you shouldn't be afraid
Oh, oh, no promise have I ma - a - hay - hay - hay - hay - de
Tell me a story tell me just another lie
Well I can tell you set your expectations high
Well now I've faced up to you facing me betrayed
Oh, oh, no promise have I ma - a - a - hay - de
Oh, oh, no promise have I ma - a - a - hay - de
Have I made, Have I made, Have I made,
Well there's some green and there's some white and there's some gold
But brighter colors I have left you to behold
It's your good fortune there's a fortune to be paid
Dm Bb F C (to end of song but change to C5)
Oh, oh, no promise have I ma - a - a - hay - de
Have I ma - a - a - hay - de
Have I made, Have I made, Have I made, Have I made, Have I made,
No promise, have I made, have I made to you,
Have I made, Have I made (repeat to fade).
TP.
ALL THIS I'VE DONE FOR YOU (Bob Mould)
Chords:
D XX0232 C X32010 G 320033 Csus2 X32033 Em 022000
F5 133XXX Bb5 X133XX A5 X022XX Fsus2 133233
Em Riff
e:---------------0-------------|
B:-----------------3-0---0-3-0-|
G:-0---0---0-0-0---------------|
D:-2---2---2-2-2---------------|
A:-2---2---2-2-2---------------|
E:-0---0---0-0-0---------------|
G Riff End
e:-3--------------------------|-5-------||--------|
B:-3--------------------------|-----5---||--------|
G:-0--------------------------|---------||--------|
D:-5--------------------------|---------||--------|
A:-5--------------------------|---------||-5-\-2--|
E:-3--------------------------|---------||--------|
Intro:
e:-2---2---2-2-2---2------2---2---2-2-2---2--|
B:-3---3---3-3-3---3------3---3---3-3-3---3--|
G:-2---2---2-2-2---2------2---2---4p2p0---2--|
D:-0---0---0-0-0---0------0---0---0-0-0---0--|
A:-------------------------------------------|
E:-------------------------------------------|
e:-0---0---0-0-0---3------0---0---0-0-0---3--|
B:-1---1---1-1-1---3------1---1---1-1-1---3--|
G:-0---0---0-0-0---0------0---0---0-0-0---0--|
D:-2---2---2-2-2---2------2---2---2-2-2---2--|
A:-3---3---3-3-3---3------3---3---3-3-3---3--|
E:-------------------------------------------|
When I was younger, worrying about it
G Csus2 Em (riff)
Trying to make these decisions for myself
And I go on to ask myself what's right and wrong about it
G Csus2 Em (riff)
And I don't really know what makes it, ask yourself
F5 Bb5 (hammer on and off A string)
Now I see you, you want to ask me
I want you to ask me, I want you to ask me
What does it matter? What does it mean?
Sometimes I don't know why you want to try and help me
I get so confused
I start to fall over backwards
C5 G (Riff)
Then I ask this to myself, and see within myself
And wonder what it means, and ask these questions to myself
Now I'm a little bit older
And I'm not a hell of a lot wiser
G Csus2 Em(Riff)
So I've gotta sit down and contemplate it
Should I talk to the mirror, should I talk to a wall
Should I even talk at all
*D / / / / // //
Would a little tiny bit of action
F5 / / C // G(Riff)
Would it make it even seem to matter anymore
I guess it matters just to you
* It could also be played like this
D Bb C A F C G(Riff)
e:-----3-3-------3-3-------3-3-------3-3-------3-3-------3-3---3---|
B:-----3-3-------3-3-------3-3-------3-3-------3-3-------3-3---3---|
G:-------------------------------------------------------------0---|
D:-0-----------------------------------------------------------5---|
A:-----------1---------3---------0-------------------3---------5---|
E:-----------------------------------------1-------------------3---|
All this I've done for you
All this I've done for you
All this I've done for you
All this I've done for you
X 4
Oh Ah etc.
Then this played four times:
G (hold) Csus2
e:-3----------------------3---3-------|
B:-3----------------------3-------3---|
G:-0----------------------0-----------|
D:-0----------------------2-----------|
A:-2----------------------3-----------|
E:-3----------------------------------|
All this I've done for you
Then this (fast strum):
All this I've done for you
All this I've done for you
All this I've done for you
All this I've done for you
G Csus2 (hold).
All this I've done for you