• Song:

    Sugar Mice

  • Artist:

    Marillion

  • Album:

    The Singles '82-'88

SUGAR MICE (Marillion)
Intro: | G | C9 | G | C9 |

      G                       C9
I was flicking through the channels on the TV
   G                C9
On a Sunday in Milwaukee in the rain
G                 C9
Trying to piece together conversations
G                       C9
Trying to find out where to lay the blame
      D               
But when it comes right down to it there's no use 
Am7
trying to pretend
   G                                                               
For when it gets right down to it there's no one 
C
here that's left to blame
        D             Am7
Blame it on me, you can blame it on me
                          G     C9 G C9
We're just sugar mice in the rain
      G                     C
I heard Sinatra calling me through the floorboards
               G                  C9
Where you pay a quarter for a partnership in rhyme
     G            C9
To the jukebox crying in the corner
        G                  C9
While the waitress is counting out the time

  D
For when it comes right down to it there's no use 
Am7
trying to pretend
G                                           
For when it gets right down to it there's no one 
C9
really left to blame
D                   Am7
Blame it on me, you can blame it on me
C                 G
We're just sugar mice in the rain

Solo: (G C9)x8  D Am7 C G C9 G C9


       G
'Cause I know what I feel, know what I want 
  C9                G           C9
I know what I am Daddy took a raincheck
       G
'Cause I know what I want, know what I feel 
  C9                   G
I know what I need Daddy took a raincheck, 
                  C9
your daddy took a raincheck
G                             C9
Ain't no one in here that's left to blame but me
           G     C9   G C9   G C9
Blame it on me, blame it on me

         G
Well the toughest thing that I ever did 
   C9
was talk to the kids on the phone
            G                     
When I heard them asking questions 
          C9
I knew that you were all alone
           G                          C9
Can't you understand that the government left me out of work
              G
I just couldn't stand the looks on their faces saying, 
C9
"What a jerk"

  D                        Am7
So if you want my address it's number one at the end of the bar
      G
Where I sit with the broken angels 
             C9
clutching at straws and nursing our scars
         D       Am7
Blame it on me, blame it on me,
                  G
Sugar mice in the rain, 
                  C9
your daddy took a raincheck
                  G            C9  G
your daddy took a raincheck
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