Standard (EADGBE)
She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge
She studies sculpture at St. Martins College
That¦s where I caught her eye
She told me that her dad was loaded
I said "In that case I¦ll have a rum and coca-cola"
She said "fine" and in a thirty seconds time she said
"I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like you"
Well what else could I do?, I said "I¦ll see what I can do"
I took her to a supermarket
I don¦t know why but I had to start it somewhere - so it started there
I said "Pretend you¦ve got no money"
She just laughed and said "Oh, you¦re so funny"
I said "Yeah, well I can¦t see someone else smiling in here
Are you sure you want to live like common people
You want to see whatever common people see
You want to sleep with common people
You want to sleep with common people like me
But she didn¦t understand, she just smiled and held my hand
Rent a flat above your shop, cut you hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool, prentend you never went to school
But still you¦ll never get it right, ¦cos when you¦re laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall, if you called your dad he could stop it all
You¦ll never live like common people
You¦ll never do whatever common people do
You¦ll never fail like common people
You¦ll never watch your life slide out of view
And dance and drink and screw because there¦s nothing else to do
Sing along with the common people,
Sing along and it might just get you thru¦
Laugh along with the common people
Laugh along even though they are laughing at you
And the stupid things that you do
Because you think that poor is cool
Like a dog lying in a corner they will bite you and never warn you
look out, they¦ll tear you insides out
¦Cos everybody hates a tourist especially one who thinks that it¦s all
Such a laugh
and the chip stains and grease will come out in the bath
you will never understand how it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control and with nowhere left to go
You are amazed that they exist and they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why
Rent a flat above your shop, cut you hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool, prentend you never went to school
But still you¦ll never get it right, ¦cos when you¦re laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall, if you called your dad he could stop it all
You¦ll never live like common people
You¦ll never do whatever common people do
You¦ll never fail like common people
You¦ll never watch your life slide out of view
And dance and drink and screw because there¦s nothing else to do
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
Disco 2000
Intro
Well we were born within an hour of each other
Our mothers said we could be sister and brother
Your name is Deborah. Deborah - it never suited you
Oh and they said that when we grew up
We4d get married and never split up
We never did it, although I often I thought of it
Oh Deborah, do you recall?
Your house was very small with wood-chips on the wall
When I came around to call you didn4t notice me at all
And I said "Let4s all meet up in the year 2000
I never knew that you4d get married
I would be living down here on my own
On that damp and loney Thursday years ago
You were the first girl in school to get breasts
Martyn said that you were the best
The boys all loved you but I was a mess
I had to watch them try to get you undressed
We were friends that was as far as it went
I used to walk you home sometimes but it meant
Oh, it meant nothing to you - cos you were oh so popular
Oh Deborah, do you recall?
Your house was very small with wood-chips on the wall
When I came around to call you didn4t notice me at all
And I said "Let4s all meet up in the year 2000
Won4t it be strange when we4re all fully grown?
Be there two o4clock by the fountain down the road"
I never knew that you4d get married
I would be living down here on my own
On that damp and loney Thursday years ago
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh Deborah, do you recall?
Your house was very small with wood-chips on the wall
When I came around to call you didn4t notice me at all
And I said "Let4s all meet up in the year 2000
Won4t it be strange when we4re all fully grown?
Be there two o4clock by the fountain down the road"
I never knew that you4d get married
I would be living down here on my own
On that damp and loney Thursday years ago
Oh, what are you doing Sunday, baby?
Would you like to come and meet me maybe?
You can even bring your baby, oh.
Oh, what are you doing Sunday, baby?
Would you like to come and meet me maybe?
You can even bring your baby, oh. ooh oh oh oh....
...L.I.N....L.L...L.O.V..
"This is a song about those times when your life seems to be
following a set
path. It's alright ... but then suddenly something happens and
shakes it all
up - and it's called F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A. double L.E.D. L.O.V. ...
."
- Jarvis Cocker
The room is cold, and it's been like this for several months,
and if I close my eyes I can visualise everything in it.
Right down, right down to the broken handle of the third drawer
down of the dressing table. And the world outside this room has
assumed a familiar shape, the same events shuffled in a slightly
different order each day, just like a modern shopping centre.
And it's so cold.....,
Yeah it's so cold...
What ...
is ...
this ...
feeling called love?
Why me?
Why you?
Why here?
And why now?
It doesn't make no sense. No.
It's not convenient. No.
It doensn't fit my plans.
No, it's something I don't understand oh.
...L.I.N..
.. double L...
L. O. V. E.
What is this thing that is happening to me?
So what do I do? I've got this slightly sick feeling in my stomach
like I'm standing on the top of a very high building. Oh yeah, all
the stuff they tell you about in the movies, but this isn't
chocolate boxes and roses - it's dirtier than that, like some small
animal that only comes out at night. And I see flashes of the shape
of your breasts and the curve of you belly and they make me have to
sit down and catch my breath.
And it's so cold.......,
Yeah it's so cold...
(Chords as before...)
What ... is ... this ... feeling called love?
Why me? Why you? Why here? And why now?
It doesn't make no sense. No.
It's not convenient. No.
It doensn't fit my plans,
But I've got that taste in my mouth again
...L.I.N..
.. double L...
L. O. V. E.
What is this thing that is happening to me?
...L.I.N.. .. double L... L.O.V..
Live Bed Show
by Pulp
She doesn't have to go to work
but she doesn't want to stay in bed
`cause it's changed from something comfortable
to something else instead
Verse 1
This bed has seen it all from the first time to the last
the silences of now and the good times of the past
and it only cost ten pounds from the shop just down the road
Mind you, that was seven years ago and things were very different then
Verse 2
(same chords)
It didn't get much rest at first the headboard banging in the night
The neighbours didn't dare complain, Oh everything wqas going right
Now there's no need to complain `cause it never makes a sound
Something beautiful left town and she doesn't even know it's name
Now every night she plays a silent game (ooh ooh ooh)
called pretending nothing's going wrong
but she knows if this show was televised
no-one would watch it, not tonight But seven years ago...
[verse chords...]
La la lala lala la...
Now there's no need to complain `cause it never makes a sound
Something beautiful left town and she never even know it's name
repeat [Intro]
"Something Changed"
Verse 1
I wrote this song two hours before we met
I didn't know your name or what you looked like yet Oh
I could have stayed at home and gone to bed
I could have gone to see a film instead
You might have changed your mind and seen your friends
Life could have been very different but then something changed
[ ]
Verse 2
(same chords as verse 1)
Do you believe that there's someone up above?
And does he have a timetable directing acts of love?
Why did I write this song on that one day?
Why did you touch my hand and softly say
"Stop questions that don't matter anyway
Just give us a kiss to celebrate here today something changed"
[ ]
[ ] x2
When we woke up that morning we had no way of knowing
that in a matter of hours we change the way we were going
where would I be now? Where would I be now if we never met?
Would I be singing this song to someone else instead?
I don't know, but like you just said
something changed.
Suggestions and corrections are always welcome!
date: 11/12/95
I wrote this song two hours before we met
I didn¦t know your name or what you looked like yet
Oh, I could have stayed at home and gone to bed
I could have gone to see a film instead
You might have changed your mind and seen your friend
Life could have been very different but then
Something changed
Do you believe that there¦s someone up above?
And does he have a timetable directing acts of love?
Why did I write this song on that one day?
Why did you touch my hand and softly say:
"Stop asking questions that don¦t matter anyway
Just give us a kiss to celebrate here today
Something changed"
When we woke up that morning we had no way of knowing
That in a matter of hours we changed the way we were going
Where would I be now, where would I be now
If we¦d never met?
Would I be singing this song to someone else instead?
I dunno but like you just said
Something changed
Sorted For E's And Whizz by Pulp
Verse1
Oh is this the way they say the futures meant to feel?
Oh just twenty thousand people standing in a field
And I just don't understand quite what this feeling is
That's okay cos we're all sorted out for E's and Whizz
And tell me when the spaceship lands
Cos all this has just got to mean something
Chorus
In the middle of the night
It feels alright but then tomorrow morning
Ohh ohh when you come down
Oh yeah the pirate radio told us what was going down
Got the tickets from some messed up bloke in Camden Town
And no one seems to know exactly where it is
But that's okay, cos we're all sorted out for E's and Whizz
At four o' clock the normal world seems very very very far away
Hey hey
Chorus
Just keep on moving
Everybody asks your name they say we're all the same
And now it's, Nice One, Geezer - that's as far as the conversation went
I lost my friends I dance alone, it's 6 o' clock, I wanna go home
[This bit's spoken, and the timing's a bit weird, so just do the chords as before!]
But it's no way not today, makes you wonder what it meant
And this hollow feeling grows and grows and grows and grows
And you wanna call your mother and say, "Mother,
I can never come home again because I seem to have left
an important part of my brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire. Alright
Chorus
Oohh Oohh when you come down
Ooh what if you never come down?
"Sorted for E's & Wizz"
by Pulp
from the album "Different Class"
Intro
Verse 1
Oh is this the way to say the future's meant to feel?
repeat rhythm with C and G till chorus, i.e. :
Verse 1
( ) x 4
Verse 2
( ) x 3
Verse 3
( ) x 5
Chorus
In the middle of the night it feels allright, but then tomorrow morning
4 x D 4 x D 4 x F 4 x G 4 x A# 4 x A#
ooh ooh ooh, ooh then you come down
Bridge
end:
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh then you come down ( x 2)
ooh ooh ooh, what if you never come down
"Underwear"
Verse 1
Why don't you shut the door
And close the curtains
'Cause you're not going anywhere
He's coming up the stairs
And in a moment
He'll want to see your underwear
Chorus
I couldn't stop it now
There's no way to get out
He's standing far too near
How the hell did you get here
Standing naked in somebody elses room
I'd give my whole life to see you
Just you standing there
Only in your underwear
Verse 2
(same chords as verse 1)
If fashion is your trade
When you're naked
I guess you must be unemployed
But once it's underway
There's no escaping
The fact that you're a girl and he's a boy
Chorus
Violin solo
Verse 3
If you could close your eyes
And just remember
This is what you wanted last night
So why is it so hard
For you to touch him
For you to give yourself to him, Jesus
Du du du du du du du ...
Oh yeah, I wanna see you
Wanna see you standing in your underwear.