Rapids

(G)Your mama said, clean out your head boy, don’t lay nothing on my child
Your friends they said, Your heads in a noose boy lay some boogie on our minds
And we (D)stood like the rapids and (C)I was like a new born (G)child.

Your father said, clean out your head boy, go and kick cans along the street
Your father said, clean out your toes rose and go and lick some uncooked meat
And we stood like the rapids and I was like a new born child.

And we stood like the rapids and I was like a new born child.

Your mama said, my babe is not free son, but I’m loose about midnight
Your father said, Your sisters a groove boy, what I said it just ain’t right
But then I stood like the rapids and they were like a new born child.

Gonna drive me wild

Tenement Lady

A Em

Tenement (A)lady, stone drug mama, street hawk (D)stone heart,
Mind that swiftly (A)falls apart,
Sunset groove lid, sharp as a dog paw, pickle pump people,
Mind that swiftly falls apart

Count lurch hearse head, prince of the snick snacks
Got a pierced ear mind fear, of the sailors with their perfume,
Molly mouse dream talk, gin house milkshake,
She steal my magazines, she’s a lazer lipped (Em)lover, yeah

A D A
she’s a lazer lipped lover, (Em)yeah

Tenement lady, stone drug mama, street hawk stone heart,
Mind that swiftly falls apart (Em)

Cmaj7

(C)Oh my darling there are (Em)many ways to, (Am)love you
(C)Underneath sheets of silk I (Em)slyly peep at (Am)you,
(G)People on the street call out your (C)name, (Em)
(G)The giants and the dwarfs all call the (C)same, Oh (Em)yeah, oh (Am)yeah.

Oh my darling there are many ways to view you,
To me you’re almost like a hammer and screw,
People on the street call out your name,
The giants and the dwarfs all do the same, Oh yeah, oh yeah (C)oh.

One Inch Rock

(G)Well I met a woman she’s spouting prose
She’s got luggage eyes and a Roman nose
Her (C)body is slung from side to side
(G)Need a lift she said much obliged
I’m (D)riding piggy-back
Then I (C)come to her shack yeah
(G)Dumti-dum-di-da-da
Dumti-dum-di-da-da

We go inside the place it’s a mess
She said my name’s the liquid poetess
She unties her mouth
And her buckskin dress
Drinks from a bottle labelled tenderness
I’m in one hand in the other’s a can

Dumti-dum-di-da-da
Dumti-dum-di-da-da

She puts me in the can
And smiles through the wall, yeah
I got the horrors cos I’m one inch tall
Next thing I know there’s a girl by my side
Dressed in a bayleaf she’s trying to hide
I asked her name she said Germaine

Dumti-dum-di-da-da
Dumti-dum-di-da-da

Do the rock-a do the one inch rock yeah
Do the rock-a do the one inch rock yeah
Do the rock-a do the one inch rock yeah
Do the rock-a do the one inch rock yeah
Ah, do it, do it, do it, do it, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now

Sitting Here

(G) Sitting here, I don’t care for you
Sitting there, you don’t care for me
But I (C)think we’re in lo-(D)ove
Ain’t that (G)funny

Sitting there, you don’t care for me
Sitting here, I don’t care for you
But I think we’re in love
Ain’t that funny

CHORUS:

Oh (C)love’s a wonderful (Am)thing it comes and go-(G)oes
(C)Even when I’m (Am) picking my n(D)ose

Sitting there, you don’t care for me
Sitting here, I don’t care for you
But I think we’re in love
Ain’t that funny

Yeah yeah
Sitting here, I don’t care for you
Sitting there, you don’t care for you
And I think we’re in love
Ain’t that funny

CHORUS

Sitting here, I don’t care for you
Sitting there, you don’t care for you
And I think we’re in love
Ain’t that funny

Interstellar Soul

(C) Running around in the (Em) dawn with that (G) hat
I can (Fmaj7) see, I’m no (C) match for you
Doing the foxtrot on your knees, Garbo Girl,
It’s so hard to contemplate you

‘Cos you’re (Em) so (Fmaj7) full of inter(C)stellar soul
(Em) So (Fmaj7) full of inter(C)stellar soul

That rich ditch won’t catch me, girl, but it sculpted you
Silk and Diamond-gilded gauntlet can be weird
But I’m scared, to look like you

‘Cos you’re so full of interstellar soul
So full of interstellar soul

Lean on my head kiss my knee, breathe again
Bumble bee in my ear, I see a tear but it’s solid gold
I don’t want to get like you

‘Cos you’re so full of interstellar soul
So full of interstellar soul

Galaxy

(E) Which Galaxy are (G) you (E) from
Tell me how they (G) bang a (E) gong

CHORUS:

(C) Your world, I mean (Am) your world
(C) Your world, I mean (Am) your world

Shadow in the alley at midnight
Metal clad rocker with bent teeth

Your world, I mean my world
My world, I mean my world

My planets like an angel with clipped wings
A river bed dump shed sweetheart

Your world, I mean my world

Do they have sickness in society
Do they have glitter crap gaiety

CHORUS x 3 and fade

Explosive Mouth

A x 2

Now I’m popping a few in the morning dew
Do the monkey wrench
On a Persian bench it’s a (C) teenage night and the (A) vampires are right

CHORUS:

And I (F) wanna lay my (G) lips on your explosive (A) mouth

You picked up Kenny at an art deco deli
And zero is a cat with an automated hat
And I need to be rid of all the fantasies I’m hiding

CHORUS

BRIDGE:

(C) It’s a shame for man (Am) to hide
(C) All the things that (Am) do survive from (G) his (A) past

A x 3

And I jump on your horse I gallop the course
And howl like a wolf and I drink up the sky
And I beat on my chest just to punk up the rest

CHORUS x 2

BRIDGE

Change

Em

Change change change, I see it all the (C) time (C Em Fmaj7 Em)
Look look look
I could write a (C) book (Em) about my (A) life

(Em) Baby blue I love (C) you (C Em Fmaj7 Em)
Look look look
I could write a (C) book (Em) about my (A) life

CHORUS:

(F) Change is coming just like the (G) sun
(F) Change is coming you better (Em) run

(Em) Baby blue I love (C) you (C Em Fmaj7 Em)
Look look look
I could write a (C) book (Em) about my (A) life

CHORUS x 2