Vanity Press chords by Graham Parker
Verse 1
D
This one's called
Vanity
A
Bm
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D
Bm
A
Press.
Em
Bm
A
Em
Bm
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You've got to be a member
Em
D
Before they let you in
Bm
A
You can't get a word in edgewise
Em
D
Unless you shout above the pen
Bm
A
Your heart's gotta be in the wrong place
Em
D
The tension's gotta be thin
Bm
A
Don't fall for the old trap
Em
Of self -publishing
G
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D
You're not working for the vanity press
G
Can you deliver something
A
D
that'll pass the test?
G
A
Gotta have more hoes than
D
your old string fest
B
Gotta be a puff piece that
Em
E
only shows the best
B
Have the boy next door and
E
Em
it's great success
E
A
Of getting married to the
girl next door
Bm
A
You've got to own every channel
Em
D
If you wanna own every mind
Bm
You gotta wear a skirt by
A
Chanel
Em
Or a suit by
D
Primaline
Bm
A
If you want to make the next issue,
Em
D
you better get your skates on, boy.
Bm
A
With a premise as thin as tissue,
Em
you're bound to get employed.
G
A
D
Now you're working for the vanity press,
G
A
D
need a conscience on the editor's desk.
G
A
You gotta back up your facts
D
or you shall reject.
B
E
Gotta be a piece that only shows the best
B
Not the one next door,
Em
and it's great success
E
A
Of being better than the one next door
G
A
Yeah
D
Vanity
G
A
Press
D
Vanity
G
A
Press
D
Vanity
A
Press
Bb
Bm
Don't get clever,
G
keep a real tight tether
Em
Bm
They can bump you over through
G
the spots and weather
A
Send you over to the boys next door
Bm
A
If you wanna make the deadline
Em
D
Make sure your line is dead
Bm
A
If you got any bright ideas
Em
Keep them in your head
G
A
D
Cause you're working for the very best
G
A
Leave your conscience
D
on the editor's desk
G
A
D
Now the anti -media is the vanity press
B
In a fictitious world,
E
you can't invent the rest
Em
B
Em
That's all you need to pass the test
A
And sell it to the guy next door
G
A
Yeah, we're all working
D
for the vanity press
G
A
Leave your conscience
D
on the editor's desk
G
A
D
Now the anti -media is the vanity press
A
So sell it to the guy next door
Sell it to the guy next door
You gotta sell it to the guy next door
Yeah, sell it to the guy next door
You gotta sell it
You gotta sell it
You gotta sell it to the guy next door
Sell it, sell it
Sell it to the guy next door
Meanwhile, I'm still thinkin'
about what I just saw
Yeah, me and my jaw dropped
Sell it, you better sell it
Sell it to the guy next door
Yeah, you gotta sell it
Yeah, sell it
Sell it to the guy
One, two, three, four
G
A
D
We are out workin' for the vanity press
G
A
You know it makes sense.
D
I'm going to do something from,
oh by the way,
Songs
With
No
Consequences is not
just my new album, it's
The
Figs' as well, they play on it.
A
That's, you know, where the sort of, you know,
A
I try to write all these dumb songs, you know,
but it's turned out to be a bit
A
cleverer than I thought.
A
Clever lads, clever, clever lads.
We're going to do something from
Howling
A
Wind, my first album.
This one, the figs were just, you know,
figlets when I made this album.
And our
Fig du
Jour tonight,
Brett
Rosenberg, was just a twinkle in his
dad's eye when I made this album.
In fact, this shirt is older than
Brett is, I swear to
God.
I found it in the attic the
other day, pulled it out.
Ian
Dury.
These, yeah.
It's on the back.
Yeah.
The lates, great.
These pants I found as well, they're getting a bit thin here,
you can see my leg through
them.
They're probably older than
Brett as well, so you know,
some relics up here, well there's
a relic up here on stage,
what am I talking about?
Vanity Press
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