Julian Cope – An Elegant Chaos chords

Elegant Chaos, from World Shut Your Mouth.

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F            CBusy at home

      BbI was happy for a while

        CBut the joke is over

F              CLooking down

       Bb                 CAt the carefully laid out infamy

       F                       CTake a scythe, take a scythe,

       BbTo the rotting core

   COf man-vegetaton

F            CNow I sigh

       Bb                         CAt the cool cool attitude to ignorance


    A5The look in your eyes
         G5When you gave this to me
     A5           G5Just put me on my guard

        FIn this elegant chaos

C                   Bb CI stand to one side


Shouting "ha"
Was I forced into this?
Or was it given to me?
It's a nice idea -
As a gift
Or as something to try for a while
70 years?
It's neither one thing or the other
My big fear
Is to dig it at last
And have it taken away

[bridge, no real chords - so I made them up]

Am                    EIt’s not a problem of secrecy

  G             DI take it in my stride

      A                      EDid I learn to breathe to be killed like this?

Am           EFaces to the glass

           G           DI see them televise my death

        AOh, and here comes the part

        EWhere I break down and cry.

People I see
Just remind me of mooing
Like a cow on the grass
And that's not to say
That there's anything wrong
With being a cow anyway
But people are people
With the added advantage
Of the spoken word
We're getting on fine
But I feel more of a man
When I get with the herd.