Key: Gb major
Verse 1
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Ab
Ebm
F#
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Ab
F#
I go
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G
Ab
G
to all the movies
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Gb
and I watch a lot of TV
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Gb
I read all the newspapers,
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C
G
I know what's happening about me
Yes, I've studied my Shakespeare
Ebm
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F#
and the poems of Ezra Pound.
Ab
F#
I've read all the words of Tolstoy,
C
G
you could say I've been around.
Ab
G
If you ask me about Picasso,
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F#
I could tell you quite a lot.
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F#
No expert on the impressionist
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Ab
knows more than I've forgot.
I'm the perpetual audience
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Ab
Ebm
Dm
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for oth er people's dreams
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Ab
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I am a knowledgeable student
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Ab
of all their ways and means
Sometimes I get lonely
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Ebm
F#
an d sometimes I get tired
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TS Eliot's troubles,
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Ab
well, they're not exactly mine
And it's very hard to find someone
Ebm
F
to listen to your blues
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Ab
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When they aren't told in a memorable way
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G
or don't quite count as news
I'm sure the things that get me down,
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G
Just as bad as the things that happen
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G
to the people that I've read
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Ab
Ebm
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C
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it's marvellous to see
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But with all the avenues open to them,
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G
well, how about one for me?
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