Ballad Of Tindersticks chords by Tindersticks
Verse 1
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The first time we flew it
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It was ? and cramped
Verse 2
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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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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
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A walk to the bar and there's as much screw- top
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champagne as we can drink
We're so easy
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Verse 5
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Taking turns having our photos taken
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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
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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?
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Can he really lie in bed at night and marvel
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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
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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
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half- way down
the champagne
On our way to leaving the place dry
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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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sorry, just improvise
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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
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one last
sleepy strangers in the night
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And the last of
Verse 19
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the martinis dribble
down our chins
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Verse 20
We're sitting,
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chasing the conservation around the table
Verse 21
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Jesus, how long have I been in this state?
Verse 22
The limousine's still waiting outside
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Anything you want to do?
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Anywhere
Verse 23
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you want to go?
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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
Em
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
Em
Police revolvers glistening
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in the streetlight
Dm
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
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Or the one Morrison hung out the window
Oh, I'll go for jim's
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I would fancy a hotel window- hanging,
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myself, tonight, man
Verse 27
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Straight over to the mini- bar
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Open the champagne - - one sip
and it's left to wake up to
Verse 28
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Anyone hungry?
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A team of uniformed waiters lay out an
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elaborate table for all us to ignore
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Oh, the irony
Verse 29
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How we're used to living
Back in london on a cold Friday night
Em
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,
Em
all fish eyes
Verse 31
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An exclusive door policy
Verse 32
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Exclusively for arseholes
Em
And tonight? well, a nod of our heads,
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and we're inside
Dm
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
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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
Em
Slipping over the sleeping bags
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Shouting for taxis
Outro 1
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Ballad Of Tindersticks
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