Am Am C

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E Em D

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SOLO:

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INTRO: strum C

Fox in the snow, where do you go to find something you could eat?

Cause the word out on the street is that you’re starving.

Don’t let yourself go hungry now. Don’t let yourself grow cold.

Fox in the Snow.

Girl in the snow, where do you go to find someone who will do?

To tell someone all the truth before it kills you.
C E Am
They listen to your crazy laugh, before you hang a right

And disappear from sight.

What do they know anyway?

You’ll read it in a book.

What do they know anyway?

You’ll read it in a book tonight.

Fmaj7 x 4

Boy on the bike, what are you like as you cycle round the town?

You’re going up you’re going down you’re going nowhere.

C E Am
It’s not as if they’re paying you. It’s not as if it’s fun.

At least not anymore.

When your legs are black and blue.

It’s time to take a break.

When your legs are black and blue.

Solo
It’s time to take a holiday

Fmaj7 C x4

Kid in the snow, way to go it only happens once a year.

It only happens once a lifetime, make the most of it.

C E Am
Second just to being born. Second to dying too.

What else would you do?

What else would you do?

What else would you do?

What else would you do?

Fox in the snow (When your legs are black and blue)

Fox in the snow (It’s not as if they’re paying you)

Fox in the snow (When your legs are black and blue)

Fox in the snow (It’s not as if they’re paying you)

Fox in the Snow

Fox in the Snow

Continue cycling Fmaj7 and C 4x
(this is when its more fun to throw in the e string change ups on the Fmaj7 chord
to mimic the string’s melody)

Em D F slow down strum

Stay
You stay

INSTRUMENTAL:


I am on this morning quite distracted
The talk of all begins and our emotion
I am leaving many people feeling worse than before

People like to drive the cars and smoke up
People like to sit inside and toke up
People like to shoot at things with borrowed guns and knives

I am happy to look and run
Where were you when I was king in this part of town
Now the days of glory are gone

Jump to the beat of the party line
Jump to the beat of the party line
There is no one in here but your body dear
Jump to the beat of the party line

Jump to the beat of the party line
Jump to the beat of the party line
There is nobody here but your body dear
Nobody here but your body dear

Jump to the beat of the party line
Jump to the beat of the party line
There is nobody here but your body dear
Jump to the beat of the party line

Jump to the beat of the party line
Jump to the beat of the party line
There is nobody here but your body dear
Nobody here but your body dear

Everybody’s making plans for tomorrow

The sun could turn to sand but I just
Ought to take you back in time
I’ll draw the line
And I would write a different story
a new final act
I don’t need the drama but I would never write you out

Everyone’s a thread we’re woven together

Pleated in to tears and fraying edges
Read the book of you
The book of me
We’re fading in to memory
But something is left
a gesture a phrase or a photograph
To open with

(Chorus)

We’re always walking in the rain
And you’re just trouble so I claim

Pretend the world can see
That I’m the one for you
And you’re the one for me

(Verse)

Father tell if you could change with the weather

Faith would just evaporate
Untethered in a fresh disguise
I’ll catch your eye
And see behind the mask and find you
Never with fault
But that’s not the last time I’ve thought about
The way we are

(Chorus)

We’re always walking in the rain
And you’re just trouble so I claim

Pretend the world can see
That I’m the one for you
And you’re the one for me

We’re always walking in the rain
And you’re just trouble so I claim

Pretend the world can see
That I’m the one for you
And you’re the one for me

We’re always walking in the rain
And you’re just trouble so I claim

Pretend the world can see
That I’m the one for you
And you’re the one for me

(Outro)

Stretching out in the darkness
Mother’s up the stairs with her ageing new boyfriend
Cathy’s staying in to make sure nothing happens
All aboard the freak parade
I cover up my head and pray
I’m praying for the light

Verse:
Down amongst the old city chambers
Men in frocks debate all the policy changes
Everybody bet on the boom and got busted
Everybody bet and in the government trusted
Grubby little red MP
Yellow flapping hopelessly

Chorus:
Tory like the cat with the cream
Tory like the cat with the cream
I studied you in history
I studied in the library
In days of old when knights were bold
They’d settle it with swords and shields
In days of old when knights were bold
It’s settled by the king

Verse:
Praying for a friend is contagious
Especially when it comes at the old kitchen table
Listening for the swoosh of his quickening paces
Watching for the smile on the bravest of faces
How I wish you’d read to me
Verses rich in swallows and trees
To get me though the night

Verse:
Waiting at the old kitchen table
Listening for my code, listening for my instructions
Surely now I’m here, I am destined for greatness
I want to be the Queen pulling kids out of rivers
All aboard the freak parade
I cover up my head and pray

Chorus:
I’m praying for the cat with the cream
I’m praying for the cat with the cream
I studied you in history
I studied in the library
In days of old when knights were bold
They’d settle it with swords and shields
In days of old when knights were bold
It’s settled by the king
It’s settled by the king
It’s settled by the king
It’s settled by the king

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INTERLUDE 3 / OUTRO

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CHORDS

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VERSE
And the moment will come when composure returns
Put a face on the world, turn your back to the wall
Then you walk twenty yards with your head in the air
Down the Liberty Hill, where the fashion brigade
Look with curious eyes on your raggedy way
And for once in your life you’ve got nothing to say
And could this be the time when somebody will come
To say, “Look at yourself, you’re not much use to anyone”

INTERLUDE
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VERSE
Take a walk in the park, take a valium pill
Read the letter you got from the memory girl
But it takes more than this to make sense of the day
Yeah, it takes more than milk to get rid of the taste
And you trusted to this, and you trusted to that
And when you saw it all come, it was waving the flag
Of the United States of Calamity, hey!
After all that you’ve done, boy, I know you’re going to pay

INTERLUDE 2
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VERSE
In the morning you come to the ladies salon
To get all fitted out for The Paperback Throne
But the people are living far away from the place
Where you wanted to help, it’s a bit of a waste
And the puzzle will last until somebody will say
“There’s a lot to be done while your head is still young”
If you put down your pen, leave your worries behind
Then the moment will come, and the memory will shine

INTERLUDE 3
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VERSE
Now the trouble is over, everybody got paid
Everybody is happy, they are glad that they came
Then you go to the place where you’ve finally found
You can look at yourself, sleep the clock around

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I will confess to you
because you made me think about the times
you turn the picture on to me and I’ll turn over
the vision was a masterpiece of comic timing
but you wouldn’t laugh at all
and I wonder what the boy was thinking
the picture was an old collage of something classical
the model with a tragic air
Dm Em F(one strum)
because without a doubt he’d given up the fight
G(one strum) C
the ghost of somebody at his side

I will confess to you
Because I didn’t think about the message
As I walked down the alleyway, it was a Sunday
All my friends deserted me because you painted me
As the fraud I really was

And if you think you see with just your eyes you’re mad
Lisa learned a lot from putting on a blindfold
When she knew she had been bad
Dm Em F(one strum)
She met another blind kid at a fancy dress
G(one stum) C
It was the best sex that she ever had

I’ll send a dress to you
Because it’s needing badly taken in
I was so embarrassed that I missed your party
It was me that paid for it eventually
Because you know how much I wanted

To meet your friend the star of stage and local press
The dream of all the bowlie kids that hang around here
I’m no different from the rest
I’m not too proud to say that I’m okay
With the girl next door who’s famous for showing her chest

You’re not impressed by me
But it’s a funny way for you to tell me
A whisper in a choir stall
The man was talking about you simultaneously
Frankly, I let my heavy eyelids flutter

Because I have been sleeping badly lately
I know you were historical from all the books I’ve read
I thought you could be bluffing
And with this chance I’ve missed, I feel remiss
It’s days and months before I’ll see you again

You were chained to a girl that would kill you with a look
It??s a nice w[D/F#]ay to die she’s so easy on the eye
She said let’s get away, but you played it by the book
You??re a warde[D/F#]n’s pet, s[Dm/F]he’s a screaming suffragette
??We ain’t in prison, we’ll just finish up and go home’
She said, ‘Not for me, I’ve got plans for later on’
So she belted the sarge and she jumped on a barge
You fell, you fell you fell you fell
You fell, you fell you fell you fell

White collar, got dirt in your pants
You got egg in your hair
You got spit in your chin

White collar, scared to be bored
Blue Collar, she's opening doors
White collar boy, on the run from the law

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N.C.
She said ‘You ain’t ugly, you can kiss me if you like’
Go ahead and ki[D/F#]ss her, you don’t know what you’re missing
You said ‘Baby, you’re special, but there’s something not quite right.’
She??s a Venus [D/F#]in flares an[Dm/F]d you wanna split hairs!
??I am innocent, you are a rocket.
Things were ok till you took out the copper’
Leave me alone, and get used to the chains
You??re a pain, a pain, a pain, a pain
You??re a pain, a pain, a pain, a pain

White collar, got dirt in your pants
You got egg in your hair
You got spit in your chin

White collar, got dirt in your pants
You got egg in your hair
You got spit in your chin

White collar, scared to be bored
Blue Collar, she's opening doors
White collar boy, on the run from the law