• Song:

    An Elegant Chaos

  • Artist:

    Julian Cope

  • Album:

    Floored Genius: The Bes...

Elegant Chaos, from World Shut Your Mouth.

Note: like many of my other tabs, there are some uncertainties - just use this tab 
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F (133211@1)          CBusy (x32010@1)at home

BbI (x1333x@1)was happy for a while

CBut (x32010@1)the joke is over

F (133211@1)            CLooking (x32010@1)down

Bb (x1333x@1)               CAt (x32010@1)the carefully laid out infamy

F (133211@1)                     CTake (x32010@1)a scythe, take a scythe,

BbTo (x1333x@1)the rotting core

COf (x32010@1)man-vegetaton

F (133211@1)          CNow (x32010@1)I sigh

Bb (x1333x@1)                       CAt (x32010@1)the cool cool attitude to ignorance

A5The (x022xx@1)look in your eyes
         G5When (355xxx@1)you gave this to me
     A5 (x022xx@1)         G5Just (355xxx@1)put me on my guard

FIn (133211@1)this elegant chaos

C (x32010@1)                 Bb (x1333x@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C
I stand to one side

Shouting "ha"
Was I forced into this?
Or was it given to me?
It's a nice idea -
As a gift
Or as something to try for a while
70 years?
It's neither one thing or the other
My big fear
Is to dig it at last
And have it taken away

[bridge, no real chords - so I made them up]

Am (x02210@1)                  EIt's (022100@1)not a problem of secrecy

G (320003@1)           DI (xx0232@1)take it in my stride

A (x02220@1)                    EDid (022100@1)I learn to breathe to be killed like this?

Am (x02210@1)         EFaces (022100@1)to the glass

G (320003@1)         DI (xx0232@1)see them televise my death

AOh, (x02220@1)and here comes the part

EWhere (022100@1)I break down and cry.

People I see
Just remind me of mooing
Like a cow on the grass
And that's not to say
That there's anything wrong
With being a cow anyway
But people are people
With the added advantage
Of the spoken word
We're getting on fine
But I feel more of a man
When I get with the herd.
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