Ballad Of Tindersticks chords by
Tindersticks

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Key: B minor

Verse 1

The first time we flew it

It was ? and cramped

Verse 2

The vodka running out half-

way across the Atlantic

Even the steward screamed

and joined in it

Verse 3
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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
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Flicking through menus

Verse 4

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

champagne as we can drink

We're so easy

Verse 5

Taking turns having our photos taken

Sitting in front of smoked windows

Verse 6
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Decanters of cheap whiskey in our hands
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Drive into Manhattan on a date with a
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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?
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Verse 7

Five hours now

it's been going on

And still we're watching all of it

Verse 8

Can you really believe all this?

Can he really lie in bed at night and marvel

at his own genius?

Verse 9
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When do you lose the ability
to step back
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And get a sense of  your own
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ridiculousness?
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They're only songs
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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
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sours of crystal schnapps
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Now we're unable to step back
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or step forward

Verse 11

Swallowing a swallow

Tasting it again,

it's not so unpleasant

Verse 12

Perhaps it's an acquired taste

The first time, it makes you sick

Then, bit by bit,

it becomes delicious

Verse 13

Showbiz people

Always there to be interested

in what you say

Verse 14

We are artists; we are

sensitive and important

We nod our heads earnestly

Already

Verse 15

half- way down

the champagne

On our way to leaving the place dry

A $2,000 bar bill

Verse 16
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Showbiz picks up the tab
And we're on our way laughing
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Laughing at what?
Los Angeles, eight days in
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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
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It's 2 am, it's closing
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time at the dresden
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Marty and Layton play

Verse 18

one last

sleepy strangers in the night

And the last of

Verse 19

the martinis dribble

down our chins

Verse 20

We're sitting,

chasing the conservation around the table

Verse 21

Jesus, how long have I been in this state?

Verse 22

The limousine's still waiting outside

Anything you want to do?

Anywhere

Verse 23

you want to go?

We're on our way to the airport

Verse 24
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and a plane to Vegas
So many nights lying in bed shaking
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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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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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in the streetlight
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Onto Melrose and lurching through a sea of
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Halloween transvestites
The flight's canceled,
but it doesn't matter
We turn this corner to a way
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that takes us wherever
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Up to sunset
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We  creep up the drive to
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the shattuck
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The suite belushi died in

Verse 26

Or the one Morrison hung out the window

Oh, I'll go for jim's

I would fancy a hotel window- hanging,

myself, tonight, man

Verse 27

Straight over to the mini- bar

Open the champagne - - one sip

and it's left to wake up to

Verse 28

Anyone hungry?

A team of uniformed waiters lay out an

elaborate table for all us to ignore

Oh, the irony

Verse 29

How we're used to living

Back in london on a cold Friday night

Do you want another drink?

Verse 30
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Well, I could try
Perhaps we could make it to
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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

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,
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and we're inside
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Falling down the red, velvety stairs
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Limbs flaying, hands searching for
something to steady
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Pick ourselves up, nothing broken
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Just aches in  the morning

Verse 33

No one seems to notice

I find a table,

champagne arrives

Verse 34

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

We try and talk for the first

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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