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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #

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E

F#m

G7

e|-0--0--3--0--1--0--0--2--4--2--3--|
B|-0--0--3--1--1--1--2--3--5--2--0--|
G|-4--1--4--0--2--2--2--2--4--2--0--|
D|----2--5--2--3--2--2--4--6--4--3--|
A|----2--5--3--3--0--0--5--7--4--X--|
E|----0--3-----1--------------2--3--|

Intro

|E5 |E* | |

|G |C F |F G C

	G
|Am	F   |G   F  |Am   F |G

Verse 1

	C	F	G
At the	record	company	meeting,

	C	F	G
	On their h	ands: a dead s	tar.

	Am	F	G
And o	oh, the p	lans that they w	eave,

F Am F G E*

And ooh, the sickening greed.

Verse 2

	A	D	E
At the	record	company	party

	A	D	E
	On their h	ands: a dead s	tar.

	F#m	D	E
The	sycophantic	slags all	say:

	D	A	D	E
"I	knew him f	irst, and I	knew him w	ell."

	A	D	E
Re	-issue! Re	-package! R	e-package!

	A	D	E
Re	-evalu	ate the so	ngs,

	F#m	D	E
	Double p	ack with a p	hotograph,

	D	A	D	E	G
	Extra t	rack (and a t	acky b	adge.)

Verse 3

	C	F
	A-list, play	list,

	G
"Please them, please	them, please them!"

	C	F	G
(	Sadly,	this was your lif	e)

	Am	F	G
But you	could have said	no, if you'd	wanted to,

	F	Am	F	G
	You c	ould have said	no, if you'd	wanted to.

Verse 4

	C	F
BP	I, MTV,	BBC,

	G
"Please	them. please them!"

	C	F	G
(	Sadly, t	his was your life	)

	Am	F	G
But you	could have said	no, if you'd	wanted to,

F Am F G E*

You could have walked away, couldn't you?

Verse 5

	A	D	E
	I t	ouched you at the sound	check,

	A	D	E
You h	ad no	real way of	knowing.

	F#m	D	E	D
In my	heart I	begged, "Take me	with you.

	F#m	D	E
I	don't care	where you're g	oing."

Verse 6

	A	D
But to	you I was fa	celess,

	E
I was fa	wning, I was boring.

	A	D	E
A c	hild from those	ugly new	houses,

	F#m	D	E
Who could	never be	gin to	know,

	D	F#m	D	E	G
	Who could	never	really	know.

Back up guitar chords for solo

|C F |F G C |F

|Am F |G F |Am F |G

	F
|F	G    C|F      G  |Am

|F G F |Am F |G |E* ||

Guitar Solo

e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------7-8h7---------10/12-10-8p7--------------10-8-10-8-10-12-12-10-10---|
G|7-7-9-------7-7-9-9--------------7-7-9-9-9/11----------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|10-10--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------7-8p7-------------12-10----12-10-------------------------14-14p12--|
G|------------9-9----------------------------------------9/12--------------|
D|------------------------------12-------11h12-12--17/12------14-----------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------10h11---11h12-12--|
G|12p11----------------------14-12-14-12-14-16-16-14-14--------------------|
D|------12-12-14-14----14h16-----------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Verse 7

	A	D	E
	Best of! Most	of! Sati	ate the need,

	A	D	E
	Slip them into	different sl	eeves!

	F#m	D	E	D
B	uy both, a	nd feel dec	eived,

	F#m	D	E
	Climber, new	entry re-	entry.

Verse 8

	A	D
	World tour!("	Media whore!")

	E	A
"Please	the press in B	elgium!"

	D	E
(	This was your	life...)

	F#m	D	E	D
And when it	fails to r	ecoup? Well,	maybe:

	F#m	D	E	G
You	just haven't e	arned it yet, b	aby.

Verse 9

	C	F	G
I walked a p	ace behi	nd you at the	souundcheck.

	C	F	G
You're	just the	same as I	am.

	Am	F	G
	What makes most	people	feel happy

	F	Am	F	G
	Leads us	headlong i	nto	harm.

	C	F
So, in my	bedroom in those	ugly new houses,

	G	C	F	G
I	dance my l	egs	down to the	knees.

	Am	F	G	F	Am
G		E*

But me and my true love will never meet again...

Verse 10

	A	D	E
At the	record	company	meeting,

	A	D	E
On their	hands, at	last, a dead star	!

	F#m	D	E
But they can	never	taint you in	my eyes,

	D	F#m	D	E
	They can	never	touch you	now.

	A	D	E
No, they	cannot	hurt you my	darling,

	A	D	E
They	cannot	touch you	now,

	E
But	me  and my true love will never meet again.

Outro

|G7 |G7 |G7 |G7

| / slide up

| \ slide down

| h hammer-on

| p pull-off

| ~ vibrato

| + harmonic

| x Mute note

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