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Pop Song 89

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The tab to the opening riff of Pop Song '89 is:

(E) --8-5-------------------------------------------

(B) ------8--------5--------------------------------

(G) -----------------7--5--7-s-9--7--7-h-9-p-7------

(D) -------------------------------------------5--7-

{Intro: A A D D A A D D D x 3}

A D A D

Hello I saw you I know you I knew you

A D A D

I think I can remember your name...name

A D A D

A D A D

Hello I'm sorry I lost myself

A D A D

I think I thought you were someone else

E G D BaddE

Should we talk about the weather?

E G D B

Should we talk about the government?

{break: B / / / B / / / E / / / E7 / / /

B / / / B / / / E / / / D/Dsus4

the melody on the break isn't too hard to pick out. The notes

are real close to the chords - often in them. I think its weird

that Pete didn't play them on the acoustic version.}

Hello my friend are you visible today?

And no one ever knew that it could be so strange...strange

Hello I'm sorry I lost myself

I think I thought you were someone else

Get Up

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{Intro: E B C G A E B C G Bb}

A D

Sleep delays my life

A

Where does the time go...go

D

I don't know

A

Sleep sleep sleepy head

D

Wake it up...up

A

You've got all your life

D

Way up ahead

E B C G A

Dreams they complicate my life

E B C G Bb

Dreams they compliment my life

I've seen you laying pined

I've seen you laying pined

Life is rough...rough

I've seen you laying down...down

With the loving kind

I know life is hard...hard

Well now

Where to turn?

{break A D A D w/ 13 alarm clocks going off at once}

This time there's no escape

To dreamtime

You Are The Everything

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{Intro Am}

G D

Sometimes I feel like I can't even sing

G

I'm very scared for this world

D

I'm very scared for me

G

Eviscerate your memory

G

Here's a scene

D

You're in the back seat laying down

G

The windows wrap around you

D

The sound of the travel and the engine

C G C

All you hear is time stand still in travel

G

You feel such peace and absolue

C

The stillness still that doesn't end

G

But slowly drifts into sleep

D

The stars are the greatest thing you've ever seen

D

And they're there for you

D G

For you alone you are the everything

G D

I think about this world a lot and I cry

G D

And I've seen the films and the eyes

G

But I'm in this kitchen

D

Everything is beautiful

G

And she is so beautiful

D

She is so young and old

C

I look at her and I see the beauty

G

Of the light of music

C G

The voice is talking somewhere in the house

C

Late spring and you're drifting off to sleep

D

With your teeth in your mouth

D

You are here with me

D

You are here with me

D Am

You have been here and you are everything

Stand

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{intro: E A B}

E A B

Stand in the place where you live

A A/G# E

Now face North

E A

Think about direction

F# B A E

Wonder why you haven't before

E A B

Now stand in the place where you were

A A/G# E

Now face West

E A

Think about the place where you live

F# B A E

Wonder why you haven't before

E A C# C B

If you are confused check with the sun

E A G A B

Carry a compass to help you along

E A C# C B

Your feet are going to be on the ground

E A G G A B

Your head is there to move you around

Your feet are going to be on the ground

Your head is there to move you around

If wishes were trees the trees would be falling

Listen to reason

The reason is calling

{at the end of this song, it goes up a key, so the chords are:

F# B C# .....

then they go up again to:

G# C# D# .....

however, the song ends on:

E

so STAND!

World Leader Pretend

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{Between the Em and Bm chords play this ----

(D) -0-2-4-2-0- }

{Intro Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm G A }

D G C D

I sit at my table and wage war on myself

D G C D

It seems like it's all...it's all for nothing

D G C

I know the barricades, and

D D

I know the mortar in the wall breaks

G C D

I recognize the weapons, I used them well

Em Bm

Em Bm

This is my mistake. Let me make it good

Em Bm G A

I raised the wall, and I will be the one to knock it down

I've a rich understanding of my finest defenses

I proclaim that claims are left unstated,

I demand a rematch

I decree a stalemate

I divine my deeper motives

I recognize the weapons

I've practiced them well. I fitted them myself

It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...empathize

This is my mistake. Let me make it good

I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down

Am C Am C

Reach out for me and hold me tight. Hold that memory

Am C Am A G

Let my machine talk to me. Let my machine talk to me

This is my world

And I am the world leader pretend

This is my life

And this is my time

I have been given the freedom

To do as I see fit

It's high time I've razed the walls

That I've constructed

It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...emapathize

This is my mistake. Let me make it good

I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down

You fill in the mortar. You fill in the harmony

You fill in the mortar. I raised the walls

And I'm the only one

I will be the one to knock it down

{End on Em}

Orange Crush

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Orange Crush goes :

| Em | Em | G | D | in the verses

| E | B | F# | B | in the chorus

Follow me don't follow me

I've got my spine I've got my orange crush

Collar me don't collar me

I've got my spine I've got my orange crush

We are agents of the free

I've had my fun and now its time to

Spread your conscience overseas

Coming in fast over me

Paid in full

Orange Crush

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{Intro: Em G D2}

Em

Follow me don't follow me

G D

I've got my spine I've got my orange crush

Em

Collar me don't collar me

G D

I've got my spine I've got my orange crush

Em G

We are agents of the free

D

I've had my fun and now its time to

Em

Spread your conscience overseas

G D

Coming in fast over me

{the break is: Emajor B F# B as many times as necessary}

Paid in full

Hairshirt

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{This song repeats these 8 measures throughout the verses:

G / / / G / / / A7 / / / A7 / / / C / / / C / / / G / / / G / / /}

I am not the type of dog

That could keep you waiting

For no good reason

Run a carbon-black test on my jaw

And you will find it's all been said before

G A7 C Am

I can swing my megaphone and long arm the rest

Am

It's easier and better

C C

To just beat it from the chest

Of desire G

{verse}

I could walk into this room

And the waves of conversation are enough

To knock you down in the undertow

So alone so alone in my life

Feed me banks of light

And hang your hairshirt on the lowest rung

It's a beautiful life

And I can hang my hairshirt

Away up high in the attic of the wrong dog's life chest

Or bury it at sea

All my life I've searched for this

Here I am here I am in your life

It's a beautiful life

My life

It's a beautiful life

Your life

(Untitled) - Pieces printed in the 1988 fan club holiday card

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C

This world is big and so-awake

G C

I stayed up late to hear your voice

C

This light is here to keep you warm

G

This song is here to keep you strong

I made a list of things to say

But all I really want to say

All I really want to say is

Hold her and keep him strong

While I'm away from here

Hold her and keep her strong

While I'm away from here

{Break : F7 C F7 G}

I've seen the world and so-awake

And stay up late to hear me sing

Just hold her

I've seen the world and so-awake

And stay up late to hear me sing

Just hold him

Hold her and keep her strong

While I'm away from here

Hold him and keep him strong

While I'm away from here

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