The Bendsv7

* This album tab has been done so for the use of acoustic (rhythm) guitar and so is not 100%

accurate. Some songs (such as High and Dry) have also been simplified for easier usage.

1. Planet Telex

2. The Bends

3. High And Dry

4. Fake Plastic Trees

5. Bones

6. (Nice Dream)

7. Just

8. My Iron Lung

9. Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was

10. Black Star

11. Sulk

12. Street Spirit (Fade Out)

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(CAPO ON 2ND)

D (xx0232)

G (32000x)

G/C (330033)

Gm (355333)

Asus4 (x02230)

A (x02220)

Am (xo2210)

G/A (x5543x)

Gmaj9 (3x002x)

G5 (3x003x)

VERSE 1: you can force it but it will not come

you can taste it but it will not form

VERSE 2: you can crush it but it's always here

you can crush it but it's always here

chasing me home, saying

COURUS 1: everything is broken

everyone is broken

VERSE 2: you can force it but it will stay stung

you can crush it as dry as a bone

VERSE 4: you can walk it home straight from school

you can kiss it you can break all the rules

all of the rules, but still

COURUS 2: everything is broken

everyone is broken

everyone is, everyone is broken

everyone is, everything is broken

OUTRO: Why can't you forget

why can't we forget

why can't you forget

| D G | G/C Gm | D G | G/C Gm | repeat to fade

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D (xx0232)

Cadd9 (x32030)

G/B (x20033)

Em (022000)

G (320003)

C (x32010)

A (0x2220)

Bb (x13331)

Oh____

Oh____

VERSE 1: where do we go from here? the words are coming out all weird

where are you now when I need you?

alone on an aeroplane, falling asleep against the window pane

my blood will thick - en

VERSE 2: I need to watch myself again to hide all the dirt and pain

'Cos I'd be scared that there's nothing underneath

and who are my real friends? Have they all got the bends?

C Caddd9 C

Am I really sinking this low

COURUS 1: my baby's got the bends, oh no

We don't have any real friends, no, no, no

I'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on

Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen

I wish it was the sixties I wish I could be happy

I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

VERSE 3: where do i go from here? The planet is again numb

In a sea of fear and where are you?

They bought in the CIA, the tanks and the whole marines

To blow me away, to blow me sky high

COURUS 2: my baby's got the be________________nds

We don't have any real frie__________nds

I'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on

Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen

I wish it was the sixties I wish I could be happy

I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

SOLO: | G Cadd9| G Cadd9| C | C |

| G Cadd9| G Cadd9| C | C |

OUTRO: I wanna live and breathe

I wanna be part of the human race

I wanna live and breathe

I wanna be part of the human race, race, race, race

where do we go from here? the words are coming out all weird

where are you now when I need you?

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3. HIGH AND DRY

Abm(11) (x66400)

F#m(11) (x44200)

Asus2 (x02200)

E (022100)

INTRO: | Abm(11) F#m(11) | Asus2 | E |

| Abm(11) F#m(11) | Asus2 | E |

VERSE 1: two jumps in a week a bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy?

Flying on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop

You'd kill yourself for recognition, kill yourself to never ever stop

You broke another mirror, you're turning into something you are not

COURUS 1: So don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry____

Don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry

LINK: | Abm(11) F#m(11) | Asus2 | E |

VERSE 2: drying up in conversation you will be the one who cannot talk

F#m(11)

All your insides fall to pieces

you just sit there wishing you could still make love

F#m(11)

they're the ones who'll hate you

when you think you got the world all sussed out

they're the one's who'll spit at you, you will be the one screaming out

COURUS 2: don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry____

Don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry____

F#m(11)

MIDDLE: oh, it's the best thing that you ever had

The best thing that you ever, ever had

F#m(11)

It's the best thing that you ever had

The best thing you have had has gone away

COURUS 3: so don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry____

Don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry____

Don't leave me high____

F#m(11) Asus2 E(1)

Don't leave me high____ don't leave me dry

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A (x02220)

E (022100)

A/F# (2x0220)

Amaj7 (x02120)

Dsus2 (xx0230)

Dsus2/B (x20230)

VERSE 1: Her green plastic watering can, for her fake Chinese rubber plant

In the fake plastic earth

That she bought from a rubber man, in a town full of rubber plans

To get rid of itself

COURUS 1: It wears her out, it wears her out

It wears her out, it wears her out

VERSE 2: She lives with a broken man, a cracked polystyrene man

Who just crumbles and burns

He used to do surgery, for girls in the eigh - ties

But gravity always wins

COURUS 2: And it wears him out, it wears him out

It wears him out, it wears____

VERSE 3: She looks like the real thing, she tastes like the real thing

My fake plastic love

But I can't help the feeling, I could blow through the cei - ling

If I just turn and run

COURUS 3: And it wears me out, it wears me out

It wears me out, it wears me out

OUTRO: And if I could be who you wanted, if I could be who you wanted

All the time, all the time

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5. BONES

D (xx0232)

G (320033)

G/f# (2x0033)

A (x02220)

Em (022000)

VERSE 1: I Don't wanna be crippled cracked

Shoulders, wrists, knees and back

Ground to dust and ash

Crawling on all fours

(A) Em G G/f# A

COURUS 1: when you've got to feel it in your bones

when you've got to feel it in your bones

VERSE 2: Now I can't climb the stairs

Pieces missing everywhere

Prozak painkillers

(A) Em G G/f# A

COURUS 2: when you've got to feel it in your bones

when you've got to feel it in your bones

BRIDGE: I used to fly like peter pan____

All the children flew when I touched their hands____

(A) Em G G/f# A

COURUS 3: They say you've got to feel it in your bones

They say you've got to feel it in your bones

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C (8(10)(10)988)

B (799877)

Bb (688766)

A (577655)

A* (x02220)

Asus2 (x02200)

Esus4 (022200)

E (022100)

Dsus2/B (x20230)

Dsus2 (xx0230)

VERSE 1: They love me like I was a brother, they protect me, listen to me

They dug me my very own garden, gave me sunshine, made me happy

COURUS 1: Nice dream, nice dream, nice dream

A* D

VERSE 2: I called up my friend the good angel

but she's out with, her answer phone

A* D

She says that she'd love to come help but

The sea would electrocute us all

COURUS 2: Nice dream, nice dream

Nice dream, nice dream, nice dream, nice dream

A*

Nice dream (if you think that you're strong enough)

Nice dream (if you think you belong enough)

Nice dream (if you think that you're strong enough)

Dsus2 (A*)

Nice dream____

SOLO: | (A*) | A* | A* | A* G |

| A* | A* | A* | G D |

Nice dream, nice dream, nice dream, nice dream

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7. JUST

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C (x3555x)

Eb (x6888x)

D (x5777x)

F (x8(10)(10)(10)x)

Am (577555)

Ab (466544)

Eb* ((11)(13)(13)(12)(11)(11))

Bb (688766)

G (355433)

F* (133211)

VERSE 1: Can't get the stink off, he's been hanging round for days

Comes like a comet, suckered you but not your friends

BRIDGE 1: One day he'll get to you and teach you how to be a ho - ly cow

COURUS 1: You do it to yourself you do and that's what really hurts

Is you do it to yourself just you, you and no-one else

You do it to yourself____ you do it to yourself____

VERSE 2: Don't get much sympathy hanging out the fifteenth floor

Changed the locks three times

He still comes reeling through the door

BRIDGE 2: And soon he'll get to you and teach you how to get to pur - ist hell

COURUS 2: You do it to yourself you do and that's what really hurts

Is you do it to yourself just you, you and no-one else

You do it to yourself____ you do it to yourself____

| Am | Ab | Eb* | F* | Am | Ab | G F# | F* |

COURUS 3: You do it to yourself you do and that's what really hurts

Is you do it to yourself just you, you and no-one else

You do it to yourself____ you do it to yourself____

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8. MY IRON LUNG

G (355433)

Cm (8(10)(10)888)

B (799877)

Bb (688766)

A (577655)

Am (577555)

Ab (466544)

Abm (466444)

C (8(10)(10)988

Bbm (688666)

VERSE 1: Faith, you're driving me away, you do it every day

You don't mean it but it hurts like hell

My brain, says I'm receiving pain, a lack of oxygen

From my life support, my iron lung____

VERSE 2: We're too young to fall asleep, to cynical to speak

We are losing it, can't you tell

We scratch our eternal itch, our twentieth century bitch

And we are grateful for our iron lung____

LINK 2: | (G) | Cm |

The head - shrinkers, they want everything

My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can

The head - shrinkers, they want everything

My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can

| (G) | Cm | (x2)

VERSE 3: Suck, suck your teenage thumb, toilet trained and dumb

When the power runs out we'll just hum

This, this is our new song, just like the last one

A total waste of time, my iron lung____

The head - shrinkers, they want everything

My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can

The head - shrinkers, they want everything

My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can

MIDDLE: And if you're frightened, you can be frightened

You can be it's okay

And if you're frightened, you can be frightened

You can be it's okay

OUTRO: The head - shrinkers, they want everything

My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can

The head - shrinkers, they want everything

My un - cle bill, my be - li - sha be - can

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9. BULET PROOF..I WISH I WAS

Am7 (x02010)

Cmaj7 (x32000)

Gmaj7/B (x20032)

Dsus2 (xx0230)

Csus2 (x3003x)

G/B (x2003x)

G (320033)

Cadd9 (x3203x)

Bb6 (x1303x)

VERSE 1: Limb by limb and tooth by tooth, stirring up inside of me

Everyday, every hour, wish that I was bullet proof

VERSE 2: Wax me, mould me, heat the pins and stab them in

You have turned me into this, just wish that it was bullet

Proof

Was bullet proof

VERSE 3: So pay money and take a shot, lead-fill the whole in me

I could burst a million bubbles, all surrogate and bullet

Proof

And bullet proof

Bullet proof

Bullet proof

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10. BLACK STAR

D (xx0232)

Dsus4 (xx0233)

Em7 (022033)

Cadd9 (x32033)

G/B (x20033)

A7Sus4 (x02033)

G (320033)

Csus2 (x30033)

Dsus4/F# (2x0233)

Bm (x24432)

Dsus2 (xx0230)

D7sus2 (xx0210)

D6sus2 (xx0200)

Am (x02210)

C (x32010)

INTRO: | D Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

| D Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

| D Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

| D Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

VERSE 1: I get home from work and you're still standing in your dressing gown

Well what am I to do?

I know all the things around your head and what they do to you

What are we coming to? What are we gonna do?

COURUS 1: Blame it on the black star, blame it on the falling sky

Blame it on the satellite that beams me home

VERSE 2: Troubled words of a troubled mind, I try to understand

What is eating you

I try to stay awake but it's fifty-eight hours

Since that I last slept with you

What are we coming to? I just don't know anymore

COURUS 2: Blame it on the black star, blame it on the falling sky

Blame it on the satellite that beams me home

LINK: |(D) Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

| D Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

| D Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

| D Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

VERSE 3: I get on the train and I just stand about now that I don't think of you

I keep falling over, I keep passing out when I see a face like you

What am I coming to? I'm gonna melt down

COURUS 3: Blame it on the black star, blame it on the falling sky

Blame it on the satellite that beams me home

LINK: |(D) Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

| D Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

| D Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

| D Dsus4 | Em7 | Cadd9(G/B A7Sus4)|

(G/B A7Sus4) D Dsus4 Em7 Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 D Dsus4 Em7

OUTRO: why?____ This is killing me____

Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 D Dsus4 Em7 Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 D Dsus4 Em7

Why?____ This is killing me____

| Cadd9 G/B A7Sus4 |

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11. SULK

D (xx0232)

Dsus2 (xx0230)

Dmaj9 (xx0220)

C (x32010)

G (320003)

Dsus4 (xx0233)

E (02210x)

E* (022100)

Emaj9 (02244x)

A (x02220)

Esus4 (02220x)

INTRO: e|---------------------------------|

| C | C | G | G | D | Dsus2 | Dmaj9 |(Dsus2)|

(Dsus2) D Dsus2 Dmaj9

VERSE 1: You bite through the big wall

The big wall bites back

You sit there and sulk, sit there and bawl

VERSE 2: You are so pretty

When you're on your knees

Disin - fected and eager to please

COURUS 1: Sometimes you su - ulk, sometimes you burn

God rest your so - oul when the loving comes and we've already gone

Just like your dad, you'll never change

(Dsus2) D Dsus2 Dmaj9

VERSE 3: Each time you come

It eats me alive

I try to behave, but it eats me alive

VERSE 4: So I declare

A holi - day

Fall asleep, drift away

COURUS 2: Sometimes you su - ulk, sometimes you burn

God rest your so - oul when the loving comes and we've already gone

Just like your dad, you'll never change

SOLO: |(D) | Dsus2 | Dmaj9 | Dsus2 | E | E* | Emaj9 | E* |

| E | E* | Emaj9 | E* | E | E* | Emaj9 | E* |

COURUS 3: Sometimes you su - ulk, sometimes you burn

God rest your so - oul when the loving comes and we've already gone

Just like your dad, you'll never change

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12. STREET SPIRIT (FADE OUT)

Am (x02210)

Asus4 (x02230)

Asus2 (x02200)

Em (022000)

Em7 (022030)

Cmaj7 (x32000)

Cadd9 (x32030)

C (x32010)

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

INTRO: e|-------0----|-------0----|-------0----|------------|

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

VERSE 1: e|-------0----|-------0----|-------0----|------------|

Rows of houses

All bearing down on me

I can feel there

Blue hands touching me

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

All these things into position

All these things will one day swallow whole

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

(Cmaj7 (Cadd9) (C) (Cmaj7)

COURUS 1: e|-------0----|-------0----|-------0----|------------|

And fade__________________________________________

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

Out_______________________________________________

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

Again_____________________________________________

(Cmaj7 (Cadd9) (C) (Cmaj7)

And fade__________________________________________

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

Out_______________________________________________

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

VERSE 2: e|-------0----|-------0----|-------0----|------------|

This machine will

Will not communicate

These thoughts and the strain I am

Under

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

Be a world child form a circle

Before we all go

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

Under

(Cmaj7 (Cadd9) (C) (Cmaj7)

COURUS 2: e|-------0----|-------0----|-------0----|------------|

And fade__________________________________________

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

Out_______________________________________________

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

Again_____________________________________________

(Cmaj7 (Cadd9) (C) (Cmaj7)

And fade__________________________________________

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

Out_______________________________________________

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

Again_____________________________________________

(Cmaj7 (Cadd9) (C) (Cmaj7)

SOLO: e|-------0----|-------0----|-------0----|------------|

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

(Cmaj7 (Cadd9) (C) (Cmaj7)

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

VERSE 3: e|-------0----|-------0----|-------0----|------------|

Cracked eggs, dead birds

Scream as they fight for life

I can feel death

Can see it's beady eyes

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

All these things into position

All these things will one day swallow whole

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

(Cmaj7 (Cadd9) (C) (Cmaj7)

COURUS 3: e|-------0----|-------0----|-------0----|------------|

And fade__________________________________________

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

Out_______________________________________________

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

Again_____________________________________________

(Cmaj7 (Cadd9) (C) (Cmaj7)

And fade__________________________________________

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

Out_______________________________________________

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)

Again_____________________________________________

(Cmaj7 (Cadd9) (C) (Cmaj7)

SOLO 2: e|-------0----|-------0----|-------0----|------------|

(Em) (Em7) (Em/D7) (Em)

(Asus2) (Asus4) (Am) (Asus2)