2. DESERT ISLAND

F#m sounds right when playing with the CD.  However, if you're not playing 
with the CD, substitute A (002220) for F#m and it sounds better.

D:x00232      F#m:244222 G:355433 or 320033   D       F#m  G
         I'll be the     madness         that carries you away  
I'll be the sadness to light your darkest day  
I'll be the desert island where you can be free  
I'll be the vulture you can catch and eat 

            D      A:002220  G       A       D     A    G    A
(C): Desert island              love is all around  
Desert island where you can laugh aloud  
Desert island everywhere's a beach  
Desert island that's what I wanna be.  

We'll develop muscles from cracking coconuts  
Let our clothing drop off feel each other's butts  
Start a better country where we can get things done  
Make a fortune turning sand to silicon (C) 

G           D     A           G          D      A      
While we're still holding on    counting days until we're gone 
Can we spend some time alone in our free love zone (C)







3. DEEP SEA DIVING SUIT

    A:002220                       D:x00232
You didn't have to say that I'm no good 'cause I know
There's no point pointing pistols at me now I'll just go 
I never should have asked you to be kind but I'm slow

         F#m:244222     D            E:022100
(C): I'm sorry, but how can I get to you 

            D     A          E                  D                A
stuck in my fifty-pound lead boots, stuck in my deep sea diving suit?

I never thought you'd turn on me 'cause you're my best friend 
you say I never offered you a thing in the end 
and now you wouldn't trust me with a grain of sand (C)







4. STRANGE POWERS

       F:133211  C:032010 G:320033      F      C     G
On the fer   -   ris      wheel looking out on Coney Island  
Under more stars than there are prostitutes in Thailand  
Our hair in the air, our lips blue from cotton candy  
When we kiss it feels like a flying saucer landing 

                 Dm:x00231 Am:002210 G          C       F      C
(C): And I can't sleep        'cause you've got strange powers  
You're in my dreams  Strange powers.  

In Las Vegas where the electric bills are staggering 
The decor hog wild and the entertainment saccharin  
What a golden age, what a time of right and reason  
The consumer's king and unhappiness is treason (C)  
The sun runs down like honey  The moon pours down like mercury 
The stars fall down like money  You come back to me (C)







5. TORN GREEN VELVET EYES

G:320033       D:x00232 C:032010 D Em:022000 Bm:224432 C       D
  You know the rain is  gone       when the  sky is    full of dust 
and the tears are gone when your eyes are red as rust 
           
            C       G        D                C     G       D
and it just rains because it can and you just cry until you can't

   G                           D          
(C): But I can feel my courage crumbling 
and my heart just turns to ice
When I see myself reflected 

C                           D
  in your torn green velvet eyes.  

You know the night is gone when the sunlight burns your eyes 
and the cold is gone when the room is full of flies 
and it's all a waste of time if you try to change your mind (C) 
And it's all a waste of time if you try to change your mind (C)







6. THE FLOWERS SHE SENT AND THE FLOWERS SHE SAID SHE SENT

B:224442     F#:244322       E:022100      F#:244322
   I saw you standing in the airport 
with your chihuahua in your hand
crying on the moving sidewalk 
on your way to Disneyland 

         B       F#    E F#        B                F#       E     F# 
(C): The flowers she sent  and the flowers she said she sent   are all 

B    F#  E       F#    B            F#         E   F#
equally dead you don't care anymore what she said  
And the books she read and the books that she said she read 
are all spread on the floor  You don't get out of bed anymore.  

I saw you closing your antique shop with a boa round your throat 
and you trembled like an ostrich in your ostrich feather coat (C)







7. SWINGING LONDON

  C:032010  F:133211 G:355433         C         F       G
I read your mani  -  festoes and your strange religious tracts  
You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks 

 C:032010                          Am:002210
(C): Planets crash, the world goes nova,    

C                         Am           
   sun explodes, all goes black  

F             C           G     F        C            G
   You went off swinging London   and forgot to come back. 

 
You couldn't grok my racecar but you dug the roadside blur 
You weren't into my airplane but you loved the whirling world (C) (C) 
baby come back







8. IN MY SECRET PLACE

E:022100   Bm:224432  C:032010       D:x00232  A:002220 E
    Time swings         like a wrecking ball into    things 
Youth fades as quickly as a hit parade 

E                Bm       E               Bm  
    But as the days go by   in the gray world outside 

C                  B:224442
    days grow on colorful trees 

     E      B      D  A E      B      D  A
(C): In my secret place in my secret place.
  
They'll sell you tickets for their carousel don't pay 
They'll get your money either way 
You can go up and go down you can go round and round 
but there's a better fairground (C).







9. SAD LITTLE MOON

G#m:466444         B:224442 F#:244322   E:022100       B   F#
      The saddest brown eyes               I'll ever know 

you gave up crying so long ago 
but come outside and watch the snow 

B   F# E   B
softly falling

B  F#       G#m  E        B  F#         G#m  E
Sad little moon   in the big    black sky 
all alone hang your head and cry  
Sad little moon in the timeless night 
you may sleep but you will never die  

You didn't need them your sunday friends 
and so you watched them like grains of sand 
running one by one out of your hands 
softly falling







10. THE TROUBLE I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR

G:320033   D:x00232  A:002220 E:022100  G       D  A            E 
    Crows in the   trees                 spanish hotels by the sea 
we wave goodbye airplanes draw swords in the sky 

   A        E            A         E          
(C): I'm so rich and you're so bored  
Are you the trouble I've been looking for  
You go out and you slam the door  
Are you the trouble I've been looking for.

My eyes still burn whether you leave or return  
The flowers bloom when you walk into the room  (C) 

You stole it all and wrote my name on a wall  
I've moved again I've changed my name again (C)







11. SUGAR WORLD


           Ab:466544 Db:446664   Ab                 Db
Please forgive me          for all the things I've done 
Sugar give me the love I need to carry on 
Living living without you I'd just die 
With you with you I can hold my head up high 
and tell the crowd that I'm so proud it makes me want to cry 

(C): Sugar world of you  Sugar world what can I do  
Sugar world you're so sweet you're a sugar world to me 
You're champagne or ruhr wine will you make up your mind  
You're lemon or you're lime you're pecan or praline 
you're sky bar or cloud nine.  

Sugar save me come on save me from myself 
enslave me I never wanted anything else 
Looking looking into your candy eyes 
Talking talking about the day when I can make a vow 
but that's not now it makes me want to cry (C)







12. ALL YOU EVER DO IS WALK AWAY

D:x00232          F#:244322 G:355433   D        A:002220
Sad as a painted clown,   a beautiful boy in an ugly town

    G         D       A                G      D         A 
but when your circus closes down don't walk away from me 
you've been asleep too long, the birds are bruises in the dawn 
the pounds of flesh between us stretch as far as you can see
 
                                  Em:022000  D             G       D
(C): But all you ever do is walk away and I know if you'd only go slow 

           Em           D           G          D
you could see what it means to be making the scene with me 
But all you ever do is walk away and I think if you tried 
you could find a little time 
for the life I can see in your eyes, don't go.  Don't go.  

Sometimes you just explode and no one alive can break your code
You have a language of your own, an unconnected road 
The people you called your friends, the places you won't go again 
The decades lost in finding them, you'll have to let them go. (C)







13. IN MY CAR

(sorry, no tablature)

You were mean to me and broke my heart 
now you've gone away but we're apart 
but I've got a special machine to take me where 
things turned out differently and you still care 

(C): I'm in my car I'm in my car I'm taking a ride to somewhere inside 
where you never left and I never cried at the speed of light in my car.  
Never comin' back to the world 
I know where I belong where I'm your girl 
so I've got fuzzy dice to bring me luck 
roll me to a better place where we can rock (C)







14. TAKE ECSTASY WITH ME

    G:320033                         D:x00232 C:032010            D
You used to slide down the carpeted stairs or down the bannister
You stuttered like a kaleidoscope 'cause you knew too many words 
You used to make ginger bread houses  We used to have taffy pulls

     G         F:133211 C      G  F   C G         F  C      G 
(C): Take ecstasy         with me baby  take ecstasy   with me.
  
You had a black snowmobile  We drove out under the northern lights 
A vodka bottle gave you those raccoon eyes  
We got beat up just for holding hands (C)