Ballad Of Tindersticks chords by
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Key: B minor•

Verse 1

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The first time we flew it

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It was ? and cramped

Verse 2

Bm

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Em

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The vodka running out half-

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way across the Atlantic

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Even the steward screamed

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and joined in it

Verse 3

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Em

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We didn't think we were going

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to make it

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Now we're stretched out in wide,

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furry seats

A

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Flicking through menus

Verse 4

Em

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A walk to the bar and there's as much screw- top

Em

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champagne as we can drink

We're so easy

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Verse 5

Em

Em

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Taking turns having our photos taken

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Em

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Sitting in front of smoked windows

Verse 6

Em

Em

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Decanters of cheap whiskey in our hands

A

A

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Em

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Drive into Manhattan on a date with a

Bm

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starlet who's just talent

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That's what people pay

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the money to see

Who are we to argue?

Em

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Verse 7

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Five hours now

it's been going on

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And still we're watching all of it

Verse 8

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Can you really believe all this?

Em

Em

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Can he really lie in bed at night and marvel

A

A

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at his own genius?

Verse 9

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When do you lose the ability

to step back

Em

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And get a sense of your own

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ridiculousness?

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Em

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They're only songs

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G

G

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Midnight, and it's all over

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Now

Verse 10

it can really make us laugh

We're standing on our heads drinking

Bm

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sours of crystal schnapps

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Now we're unable to step back

Bm

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or step forward

Verse 11

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Swallowing a swallow

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Tasting it again,

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it's not so unpleasant

Verse 12

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Perhaps it's an acquired taste

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The first time, it makes you sick

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Then, bit by bit,

it becomes delicious

Verse 13

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Showbiz people

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Always there to be interested

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in what you say

Verse 14

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We are artists; we are

sensitive and important

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We nod our heads earnestly

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Already

Verse 15

Bm

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Em

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half- way down

the champagne

On our way to leaving the place dry

A

A

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A $2,000 bar bill

Verse 16

Em

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Showbiz picks up the tab

And we're on our way laughing

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G

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Em

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Laughing at what?

Los Angeles, eight days in

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Em

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And our sense of

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irony's running pretty thin

Verse 17

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All the friends we've made

Piano interlude not transcribed this time,

sorry, just improvise

Em

Em

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It's 2 am, it's closing

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time at the dresden

Em

Em

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Marty and Layton play

Verse 18

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one last

sleepy strangers in the night

Em

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And the last of

Verse 19

A

A

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the martinis dribble

down our chins

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Verse 20

We're sitting,

Em

Em

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chasing the conservation around the table

Verse 21

A

A

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D

D

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Em

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Jesus, how long have I been in this state?

Verse 22

The limousine's still waiting outside

Bm

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G

G

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Em

Em

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Anything you want to do?

A

A

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Anywhere

Verse 23

Em

Em

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you want to go?

A

A

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We're on our way to the airport

Verse 24

G

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Em

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Bm

Bm

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Em

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Bm

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and a plane to Vegas

So many nights lying in bed shaking

F#m

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Dreaming of pushing my daughter

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around the supermarket

The joy of seeing all those colors

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Bm

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and shapes reflect in her wide eyes

My head leaning on the

window

And we're driving through

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the empty l.a. streets

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And everything seems silent and beautiful

Verse 25

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A guy's face hits the floor

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Police revolvers glistening

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Bm

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in the streetlight

Em

Em

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Onto Melrose and lurching through a sea of

Bm

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G

G

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Em

Em

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Halloween transvestites

The flight's canceled,

but it doesn't matter

We turn this corner to a way

Bm

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that takes us wherever

Em

Em

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Up to sunset

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We creep up the drive to

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the shattuck

A

A

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The suite belushi died in

Verse 26

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Or the one Morrison hung out the window

Oh, I'll go for jim's

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A

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I would fancy a hotel window- hanging,

Em

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myself, tonight, man

Verse 27

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Straight over to the mini- bar

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Bm

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Open the champagne - - one sip

and it's left to wake up to

Verse 28

Bm

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Anyone hungry?

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A team of uniformed waiters lay out an

Bm

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Em

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elaborate table for all us to ignore

G

G

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Oh, the irony

Verse 29

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Em

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How we're used to living

Back in london on a cold Friday night

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Do you want another drink?

Verse 30

Bm

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Well, I could try

Perhaps we could make it to

F#m

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the atlantic

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600 yeards, twenty minutes later

We're pushing through the waiting crowd,

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all fish eyes

Verse 31

Bm

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An exclusive door policy

Verse 32

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Exclusively for arseholes

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And tonight? well, a nod of our heads,

Bm

Bm

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and we're inside

Em

Em

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Falling down the red, velvety stairs

G

G

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Em

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Limbs flaying, hands searching for

something to steady

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G

G

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Pick ourselves up, nothing broken

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Em

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Just aches in the morning

Verse 33

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No one seems to notice

I find a table,

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champagne arrives

Verse 34

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I've been so drunk, I sit and look at you

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We try and talk for the first

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time in a long time

Verse 35

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Drunken confession

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You shiver, it made you feel sick

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We use the rent money to pay the bill

Bumping shoulders,

we stumble out into Soho

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Slipping over the sleeping bags

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Shouting for taxis

Outro 1

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Em

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F#m

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Em

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F#m

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F#m

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A

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Bm

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Em

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F#m

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Em

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A

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