Curtains

John Frusciante - The Past Recedes

And then the past recedes

And I won't be involved

The effort to be free

Seems pointless from above

Yor're looking down at' me

I'd rather stay below

Than have you staring up at me

Theres nowhere I want to goooooooo

Ay, this business of how long we try to stay alive

Why to be here you've first got to die

So I gave it a try

And what do you know

Time was so long ago

And thinks come back you see

To where they don't belong

And every drop of sea

Is the whole ocean oooooooohhh

I lied to the greatest thieves

About anything and everything

I'm a figure of forgotten speech

I'm our of reach

I can't play it safe

But I might just in case

Solo (use verse chords)

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I'm disguised as a reaching hand

I'm working man

I dont understand why clock-out

Comes so slow every time

That's one line I stay right behind

That's one line I stay right behind

Chords:

Lever Pulled

You're the feeling of hurting

More, is what i'm asking

For... little lies cross over...

board... wait for the crying

Love to aim at besides

Lever Pulled

Go where you are little pond

Never be seen by your saw

we'll work it out

Now the feelings are right where you saw

Forever is right where we were

Never be clean

Lever pulled

Be where you are

Anne

Anne you can't hide You know we'll find your

It's a matter where pride flies out the window

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I never got the weight off the ground

I just forgot what's up and what's down

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How many get the way I feel now

There's no regret There's just the sense that

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Nothing is coming my way

There's so much that happened today

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The Gods of the city have called my name

It means more to them than it means to me somehow

I left my bodyI left my fate

But it is so hard to keep away now

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Nothing is final because it seems all the while

There wasn't anything for me I always faked my smile

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There's so many careless angels responsible for me

They give me disease

They give me a pain in my neck to feed off me

Saying pay us the cost and we'll be gone

Now they shut my eyes and I can't see

now

(Guitar Solo...)

These are the times I was scared of

These are the fares I pushed out of my way

Now they've come back here to haunt me

It’s plain to see who the winner and loser will be

The Real by John Frusciante

I dont know the real from what i thought i saw

I cant remember where i went, where i was

I'm gonna move toward a point in time

Where where you are is a state of mind

And anytime I can read your thoughts, Some of them yours and some I thought of

Theres no good reason for a heartbreak, nothing's repeating every Monday

Its no good saying you'll always be mine

These jokes life's playing they make me so tired so tired.

It's already to much to always see you off

The sense that hours go back is enough

I like to fade when I write this line

There's every reason to paint a decline

And every mile i walk is five I'll get where I'm going in the next life

And all the while there's a false face

This every killing is left untraced

This kind of falling saved my son

This constant longing for what's gone

Whats gone

A Name

These don't have a name

I've been a fool to let it out that way

And it'll keep on coming back

A fool gets laughed at

And I'll go on and on and on

Letting it out when the feeling's strong

I wonder who in the single thing

Made this night and this ugly dreams

These all pass away

It is clear that one can see through a day

And i may have met my match

Completely unattached

With no one no one no one

On whom to rely let's sing that song

Well I didn't read the last page

You thought of me at that final stage

eenie meenie miny moe

It's about time about time to go

eenie meenie miny moe

It's about time about time to go

Harmonica

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Control

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It's not the way I go

It's not the way I go

No one here hears me

I'm sick of people knowing me

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Life's confusing me

There's so much I don't see

Something's controlling me

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It's no way to live

I haven't got a thing to give

And as those signs trad off

I'm a line from loud to soft

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For what I have to say

I wanted to build a stage

I wanted to feel this way

this way

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All these things are real

I don't know my own field

You will prove me wrong

I don't know one

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I see now what I've got

It reveals just what it's not

Someday I'll take it away

There's nothing for me anyway

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Love don't choose me

Wide don't see a thing Wide don't see a thing

A thing

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I don't know what it's about

I wander through the dawn

So much goes on

Who will make me run

I admit I might be wrong

These letters shelter me now

I wonder how

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Your Warning

You're warning me to get out of the way

Was the safest thing to say

This trying to get out of a tight spot

Isn't even worth a shot

And all of the world calls out at once

give us pain

It's a friend to us

And we don't decide for ourselves very much

what we are we owe to the fear of love

Don't bring it around

I've reached for that

Iv reached for that

Once it is found

It turns its back

It turns its back

Once it is called when you're married

and you've fallen out of love

What's it called when the family

you raised you don't know at all

Give us a point to miss

endings are killing me slow

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I only ask for this

empiness replace my soul

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(the piano melody)

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HOPE

I feel the hope running low We never found our way home

There is no more world the land is gone

Water is all that survived that one

There are no escapes, no escapes, no escapes

Gone are the days of mis- takes Our mis- takes

And did you see The night wore on

And became the days that never begun

The disappearing day You know where I'm from

Is the only place that forever stays young

Lost at sea We're lost at sea

I wouldn't know my face if you all were me

All we have is all we see

There is no more hope There are no dreams

The chords are like this:

(G#m) (Eb) (C#m)

ASCENSION

one, two

Coming up to the end

These feelings weren't always pretend

Re view your whole life

and you don't even have to die

Life would never leave me alone

A choice which way I wanted to go

And everything I've seen is

wrong to make me what I'll be

All men

You don't need anyone

Just hold on to the end

And you don't even have to look goo-ood

Wo - man

You do fine on your own

You're free to cry

and you don't have to wipe your ey - es

Oom la la la Oom la la la Oom la la la Oom la la la

Oom la la la ooh ah ooh ah

Oom la la la Oom la la la Oom la la la

Ooh ah Ooh ah

Oom la la la Oom la la la You once saved me - ee - ee

Oom la la la Oom la la la You once saved me - ee - ee

You once saved me and

now I'm where you want me to be

Ascending endlessly and I don't even have to try

Ascending endlessly and I don't even have to try

Ascending endlessly and I don't even have to try

Ascending endlessly and I don't even have....

to try

the chords are:

Time Tonight

For changing lines I've got no time tonight

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In these times the wind surpassed the tide

When the wake up's hard to find Dreams make up for your

1. 2.

life

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This crazy shine it never lets you die

Going up we become what you want

Again the moon rises up too high

And we don't need the sky

Interlude

Wonder what it is that makes the world turn slower Wonder what it is that makes me feel so mad

Everyone that talks to me I so which wouldn't I wouldn't even care except I feel so bad

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so bad

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Why is there no one in my life

Time

There's no time tonight

Wide

There's no room to see wide

Time

There's no time tonight

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