I Spy Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Cm I spy a boy, I G7spy a girl.

 I Cmspy the worst place G7in the world, in the Cmwhole world.

 Oh you Fm7didn't do bad, you Cmmade it out,

 I'm Fm7still stuck here oh but G7I'll get out.Oh yeah Gsus4I'll get out. Cm

Can't you see a walks among you

 Seeing through your pretty G7lives.

 Do you Cmthink I do these things for real?

 I do these things just so I surG7vive.

 And you know I will surCmvive.

 It Fm7may look to the untrained eye

 I'm Cmsitting on my arse all day

 And I'm Fm7biding my time until I take you all G7on

My Lords and Ladies I will prevail,

 I cannot fail.Cause I Cmspy.

Oh I've got your numbers taken notes and all the ways your minds work out.

I've studied and your mind's just the same as mine except that you're just clever swines

You never let masks slip, you never admit to it, you're never hurried.

Oh no no no.

And every night I hold my plan how I'll get my satisfaction

How I will blow your paradise away away away ooh.

Cause I spy.

Cm It's just like in the old days

FI used to compose my own critical notices in my head.

G♯ ThCe crowd gasps at Cocker's masterful control of the biAm/Ccycle

 Skilfully avoiding the dog turd next to the G♯corCner shop.

 Imagining a blue plaqueF above the place I first ever felt a girl'G7s chest,

 But hold on, you've Cmgot to wait for the best.

You see you should take me seriously. Very seriously indeed.

Cause I've been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen weeks

Smoking your cigarettes, drinking your brandy,

messing up the bed you chose together.

And in all that time I just wanted you to come home unexpectedly one afternoon

And catch us at it in the front room.

You see I spy for a living and I specialise in revenge

On taking the things I know will cause you pain.

I can't help it, I was dragged up.

My favourite park's a car park, grass is something you smoke,

birds is something you shag.

Take your year in Provence and shove it right up your arse.

Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, yeah.

With your frightened eyes and roach burns under your eyes and addresses

And thousands of tiny dryna-slides running a path,

running a path to the corner of your eyes.

And every night I hatch my plan, it's not a case of woman v man.

It's more a case of haves against haven'ts and I just

happen to have got what you need, just exactly what you need yeah.

C♯mLa la la la la la la la

G♯7La la, in the midnight hour.

C♯mLa la la la la la la la

G♯7La la, I will come to you,

C♯mI will come to you

F♯m7I will take you from this sickness,

C♯mDinner parties and champagne

 I'll F♯m7hold your body and make it sing again.

Come on - sing again, let's sing again.

 Oh yeah, cause I Cmspy,

Yes, I spy, ssss.

 I spy a boy and I G7spy a girl.

 I Cmspy the chance to G7change the world,

 To Cmchange your world.