Acid Bubblegum

pre>capo at fret 2 intro em / am / em

Em am em
Come and pick up your baggage it's cluttering up my head
Em c am d
There always seems to be a catch to everything you've ever said
Em am em
There always seems to be a lock a belt or a buckle or a key
Em c am d
The world is filling up with stuff i can't even see

Bridge #1
Bm c bm
It's like a mountain of debris that doesn't do anything
F#m g f#m
It just gets deeper than the sea and piles up to the sky ooo ooo
G a
It stops you being where you should be, somewhere else

Come and pick up your baggage. put it on another plane
It complicates the simple things steps on the brakes again and again
Shift it lug it move it on together with your point of view
It's getting hard to separate your baggage from you

Bridge #2
Bm c bm
It's like a virus or a germ that grows and divides and multiplies
F#m g f#m
Then eats your insides like a worm and piles up to the sky ooo ooo
G a
It makes you old and infirm before your time

Come and pick up your baggage

Bridge #1 (1st half)

Come and pick up your baggage it's weighing down my heart
You never seem to understand the horse is not the cart
Shift it lug it move it on together with your point of view
It's getting hard to separate your baggage from you
Pick it up /pre>

pre>cmaj7 bm7 f#m7 cmaj7 f#7
She never let me down. that's one thing i can say for sure
Bm7 f#m7 cmaj7 f#7
I had her wrapped around my finger. then i cut the cord
Bm7 f#m7 cmaj7 f#7
And when the night comes on and another day draws to an end
Bm7 f#m7 cmaj7 f#7
There's a world of difference between lovers and friends

She never let me down well that's one thing i tell you for sure
The autumn leaves come down like dead things and blow in the wind around my door
And when the day comes up and another night draws to an end
There's a world of difference between enemies and friends

Chorus
Cmaj7 bm7 / f#m7 / cmaj7 f#7
She never let me down ah ah
Cmaj7 bm7 / f#m7 / cmaj7 f#7
She never let me down ah ah

Instrumental verse

Bm7 f#m7 cmaj7 f#7
And when the night when the night comes on and another day draws to an end
Bm7 f#m7 cmaj7 f#7
There's a world there's a world of difference between lovers and friends

Repeat chorus (with variations) /pre>

pre>intro b b b b b b c b (then) a a a a a a b a
(0ver) em dm7 (twice)

Em dm7
I'm not selling molasses i'm not pushing tea
Em dm7
I don't appeal to the masses and they don't appeal to me
Em dm7
I'm not peddling fiction i'm not packaging youth
Em dm7
I've got a predilection for the truth

Bridge #1
Am dm
I can't stand it any longer i can't suffer any more fools
Am dm
I'm gonna keep on sharpening axes till i've got the sharpest tools
C gm
I can't access information comin' down the mainframe
C gm bm a bm a
Those puerile incantations in couplets or quatrains

Watch it all run amok now watch those idiots score
Till you can't remember that they're idiots any more
Watch that stain increasing spreading out across the earth
Till you can't remember what anything is worth

Bridge #2
I can't stand it any longer i can't listen to any more words
I'm gonna keep on sharpening axes till they cut right through this dirt
I can't access information comin down the satellite beam
All i hear is psycho babble and i don't know what it means

Instrumental section, then
Bridge #1 (1st half)
Verse #2 (1st half)
Bridge #2 (2nd half)

Bm a
Sharpening axes (3 times) /pre>

pre>the latest i looked at this was the live version on
"the last rock and roll tour" - graham parker and the figgs.
This version works fairly well for me now.

Intro: b / e / b / e (twice)
First b 799677 first e 779997 second b 224442 second e 022100

B e b e b e b e
The jug heads hit the city from every country round the globe
B e b e b e b e
The ships pulled in the drinks were free the ticker tape came out in rolls
B e b e b e b e
I was sitting in a bar watching this on tv
B e b e b e b e
To me it looked like a failure but they called it victory

Bridge 1
G#m b c#m7 f#
Well if you can sleep at night go ahead that's great
G#m b c#m7 f#
You're just dreaming anyway if you don't get irate

Chorus (twice)
B e b e b e b e
Come on turn it into hate turn it into hate

Send your little boys and girls to go and play in a giant sandbox
Put your movie stars on the cover of people for goin' in for a detox
Let your happy-face news readers share a little joke
At the end of the night's transmission
Let's see the world through the eyes
Of some clown gonna make all of your decisions

Bridge 2
Well if you can sleep at night go ahead that's great
It's all been manufactured like the junk that's on your plate

Chorus repeat, then instrumental break, then intro repeat

Some of them lead the marching band suddenly they're war heroes
Some of them fall in a foreign land suddenly they're just zeroes
Some of us go back to sleep some of us learn to fear it
There's a siren blowin' in your heart you just don't want to hear it

Bridge 3
Well if you can sleep at night go ahead that's all right
Ah just don't start a fight with anyone rich and white

Chorus repeat
B e b e b e b e
Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it turn it into hate
/pre>

pre>
Just looked at this again (26/10/97) and listened to the bass in the
Chorus which has given me a way of playing this little rocker.
You can put an asus4 x0223x in the verses as an embellishment to keep
The rhythm. the d in the intro etc is like an asus4 if you avoiding
Hitting the top string. sorta grungy.

Intro: e a d a e a d a e a d

A asus4
I've been drinking strychnine and i've dined on plastic combs
A asus4
Celebrities removed my teeth and made me clean their homes
D dsus4
I've seen operations that would chill you to the bones
A asus4
I've been charged with homicide for killing garden gnomes

Lethal spirochaetes of poison rifle through my blood
Little bombs of toxin are exploding in my gut
A girl without an umbrella relaxes in the rain
She smiled and then she broke my legs i'll never walk again

Chorus (power chords for f# and f, the bass dominates)
A (577655) g (355433) f# f
I gotta get over it and move on get over it and move on
I gotta get over it and move on get over it and move on

E a d a e a d a
Move on move on

The police hauled me downtown the barber shaved me bald
I woke up in a cardboard box wet and freezing cold
The hound dogs ate my leftovers and my penicillin mould
Now i keep my mouth shut and do just what i'm told

Chorus

Authorities removed my carpets and repossessed my bed
Then the milkman stripped my roof of every ounce of lead
The pop machine has new agendas now gangsta's girls and jerks
They call it entertainment. that's the way it works

Chorus /pre>

pre>intro: hey ay ay ay etc
Em d c am twice

(am) em d c am
You get a lot of girl singers obsessed with aretha
(am) em d c am
You get a lot of little swingers wishin' they could be her
Em d
Some of those sisters can rock and roll
C am
All god's children gotta little bit of soul
Em d c am
But not that much no no no not that much

You get a lot of fat christians you want to throw to the lions
Put em in a barrel, roll em off the top of mount zion
Ignorant acceptance is their only aim
With jesus your life'll be better they claim
But not that much no no no not that much

Instrumental verse
D c
Yeah but when you hear aretha singing on some adver tise ment
D c
Or with a big fussy band on some rock'n'roll museum concert
Em d
She's still got the lungs and the dress and the stole
C am
You might even say the girl's still got soul
Em d c am
But not that much no no no not that much

You get a lot of little monkeys swingin' from the treetops
You get a lot of little flunkeys singin' on top of the pops
Some of them appear in the gutter press tellin' you their lives are a mess
But not that much no no no not that much

You get a lot of little stringers pullin' out their penknives
Cuttin' up history jugglin' with lives
Bein' a reporter is a glamorous trade
You don't even have to tell the truth to get paid
Well not that much no no no not that much

Yeah but when you hear aretha singing on some adver tise ment
Or with a big fussy band on some hall of fame concert
She's still got the lungs and the dress and the mink stole
You might even say the girl's still got soul
But not that much no no no not that much

Outro: hey ay ay ay etc
Em d c am twice then fade) /pre>