Say You Don't Mean chords by Paul Brady
Verse 1
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You say Matisse
and Picasso
scanned the Montparnasse sky
They envied Samson in Gaza
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his blind all- seeing eye
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Not to mention his outrageous hair
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You say no decent painter will set
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a thing down straight
Only a breaker of boundaries
may be truly great
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Think Rimbaud, think Baudelaire
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You say that I've misread
the venting of your spleen
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All the terrible
Verse 2
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things you've said
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(You say you don't mean,
you say you don't mean)
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The horrible things you've done
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(You say you don't mean,
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you say you don't mean)
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Haw haw haw haw haw!!
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(You say you don't mean,
you say you don't mean)
Verse 3
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Next up James Joyce and Sam Beckett
They scanned the Sandymount sky
All they saw was small potatoes
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they'd bigger fish to fry
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Ain't it always some revolt?
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You say a decent writer always tells it slant
I should take my need for order
down to the assembly plant
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Think Henry Ford and Samuel Colt
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You say I've jumped the gun...
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By raising the umpteen
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Terrible things you've said
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(You say you don't mean,
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you say you don't mean)
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All the horrible things you've done
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(You say you don't mean,
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you say you don't mean)
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Haw haw haw haw haw!!
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(You say you don't mean,
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you say you don't mean)
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
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(You say you don't mean,
you say you don't mean)
Verse 4
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A renewal slip from Time magazine
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On which you scrawled "try not to cling"
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Was your last communique
Verse 5
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You say you don't
mean to be mean
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And that none of this means anything
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But you don't mean
Verse 6
a single thing you say
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You say Beefheart and Frank
Zappa scanned the Mojave sky
It seemed the mighty Mississippi
had left them high and dry
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While their all- night parties
disturbed the peace
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You say no decent singer loves
the first path he takes
But waits for a real zinger the mother
of all snakes
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Think Sinatra, think Marvin Gaye
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You say you'll no longer shun the fact
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you must come clean
Verse 7
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(About) the terrible things
you've said
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(You say you don't mean,
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you say you don't mean)
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All the horrible things you've done
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(You say you don't mean,
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you say you don't mean)
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All the miserable thoughts you thought
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(You say you don't mean,
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you say you don't mean)
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And the pitiful games you play
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(You say you don't mean,
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you say you don't mean)
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Haw haw haw haw haw!!
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(You say you don't mean, you
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say you don't mean)
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
(You say you don't mean,
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you say you don't mean)
Say You Don't Mean
Paul Brady
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