Pieces of April
 
1. All I Want to Know
2. As You Turn to Go (The 6ths)
3. Dreams Anymore
4. Epitaph for My Heart
5. Heather Heather
6. I Think I Need a New Heart
7. One April Day (Stephin Merritt)
8. Stray with Me
9. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
10. You You You You You (The 6ths)


Special thanks to Rusty Spell for transcribing these lyrics

1. ALL I WANT TO KNOW

              G:320033   C:032010  D:x00232
All I want to know is do you still want me?

            G          C         D
And, if not so, why do you still haunt me

       Em:022000    C                G
like a song, like a ghost, all night long?

         D                  G    C    D
That's almost all I want to know.

All I want to know is can I still need you?
Are we still go, or did I misread you?
I won't settle for less, and that's not yet,
I'll confess, all I want to know.

               Em                    C
I want to know now, on your mother's grave,

                  G              D
is there nothing, nohow, left to save?

   A:002220
Be brave.

Tell me tonight, or not at all,
we don't have to fight, I can make last call,
and play a little pinball.

Bridge: D, G, A x2

All I want to know is, you don't, do you?
Call me slow, but I can't see through you.

         Em           C              G        D
Count to ten, tell me then, will you love me again

         Em           C              G        D                     G    C    D    G
Count to ten, tell me then, will you love me again is all I want to know.
 


2. AS YOU TURN TO GO

Capo the first fret, or transpose down one half step and use
C (032010), F (133211), and G (320033) instead of C#, F#, and G#

  C#                F#                G#
E------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------
G-----1-----1------------------------------------------
D---3-----3-----1-------------------------1-----1------
A-4-----4-----3-------1-4---1-4---------3-----3-----1--
E-------------------2-----2-----1-4---4-----4-----2----

C#:143121 or 446664           F#:244322
Let the camera linger on your perfect skin

                           C#
your widow's peak and your lucky grin

                G#:466544
and the bluest eyes I know

F#              C#
as you turn to go

Let there be a record of your gorgeous voice
the turn of phrase that filled my days with joy
something like Bing singing soft and low
as you turn to go

  F#              C#                G#
I know I'm not supposed to say I'm sorry
I know you've had more loves than Mata Hari
but you know you're the star of my life story

           C#
and I'm so sorry

Let the poets struggle to describe your heart
your art of love and your love of art
Well, if you ever loved me tell me so
as you turn to go

                     G#
If you ever loved me tell me so

F#              C#
as you turn to go

If you ever loved me tell me so
as you turn to go


3. DREAMS ANYMORE

           D:x00232         G:320033
He put his fist through the window

        D                G
and his foot through the door,

      D                        A:002220  D
cause she don't believe in his dreams anymore.

                A            G         D
No, she don't believe in his dreams anymore,

           Bm:224432            A
and what's more, she's probably right.

      D                  G
So he drives through the night

         D           G
with his foot to the floor,

      D                        A         D
cause she don't believe in his dreams anymore.


Better hopelessly single
than hopelessly poor,
and she don't believe in his dreams anymore.
No, she don't believe in his dreams anymore,
and what for? They just drag you down.
If she's stuck in this town
she can work in the store,
but she won't believe any dreams anymore.


4. EPITAPH FOR MY HEART

 Db:446664       Gb:244322    Ab:466544
"Caution: to prevent electric shock

Db            Ab
do not remove cover

   Gb                       Ab
No user-serviceable parts inside

Gb                      Ab
Refer servicing to qualified

Gb     Ab     Db
service personnel"

                Bbm:688666  Db       Ab
Let this be the epi  -  taph for my heart

Eb            Bbm        Db       Ab   Eb
Cupid put too much poison in the dart

            Bbm    Db       Ab
This is the epitaph for my heart

  Eb         Db    Ab     Eb
because it's gone, gone, gone

              Bbm     Db   Ab Eb
and life goes on and on anon

               Bbm       Db       Ab Eb
and death goes on, world without end

            Db Ab  Eb
and you're not my friend

                   Bbm       Db   Ab  Eb
Who will mourn the passing of my heart

                Bbm        Db            Ab
Will its little droppings climb the pop chart

                Eb         Db  Ab    Eb
Who'll take its ashes and, singing, fling

                          Db   Ab   Eb
them from the top of the Brill Building
And life goes on, and dawn, and dawn
and death goes on, world without end
and you're not my friend


5. HEATHER HEATHER

Ab:466544       Db:446664
Heather Heather,

     Eb:668886 Ab    Db
we belong    together

     Eb      Ab      Db
like sex and violence;

     Eb        Ab     Db  Eb
like death and silence.


Heather Heather,
we're birds of a feather:
we have a duty
to youth and beauty.


            Db                 Fm:133111
And in your blood runs some of mine,

            Eb          Ab   Db
and in your eyes I am divine.

    Eb      Db                  Fm
And in your head flows too much wine,

          Eb
my famous wine.


Heather Heather,
we're like the weather:
all mist and air,
but always there.
Heather Heather,
put on some leather,
and let's go dancing
twixt lasers glancing.


6. I THINK I NEED A NEW HEART

Em:022000 C:032010 G:320033
Time      stands   still

          D:x00232    Em   C        G
All I can feel is the time standing still

       D            Am:002210
as you put down the keys

        C     G      D
and say don't call me please

          C
while the radio plays

                      G C G    D
"I Think I Need a New Heart" ohhh

                      G C G    D
"I Think I Need a New Heart" ohhh

You've lied too
but it's a sin that I
can't tell the truth
cause it all comes out wrong
unless I put it in a song
so the radio plays
"I Think I Need a New Heart"
just for you
"I Think I Need a New Heart"

        C            G
cause I always say I love you

       D                 G
when I mean turn out the light
and I say let's run away
when I just mean stay the night
but the words you want to hear
you will never hear from me

           C    G              D
I'll never say "happy anniversary"
never stay to say "happy anniversary"

so I think I need a new heart ohhh
I think I need a new heart ohhh
I think I need a new heart ohhh
I think I need a new heart ohhh
Give me time


7. ONE APRIL DAY

    G:320033   C:032010
One April day,

         G          C
we'll go miles away

                 D:x00232     G    C
and I'll turn to you and I'll say:

            D               G    C
I've always loved you in my way.

            D              G
I'll always love you in my way.


8. STRAY WITH ME

INTRO: Bb:113331, C:032010, Bb, F:133211, Bb, F

       C
When I wake in the morning with sleep in my eyes,

Bb    F       Bb  F
stray with me.

       C
When I come home in the morning and I'm too drunk for lies,

Bb    F       Bb  F
stray with me.

     Bb                C
When morning comes and I'm on tour,

    Bb                   C
and no one knows where I am for sure,

        Bb               C
and you know I get lonely,

Bb    F       Bb  F
stray with me.


When I'm boring and ugly, and I love you too much,
stray with me.
When I can't stand your distance, and I can't stand your touch,
stray with me.

Through wedding cakes and kids and wakes,
through what and whom and how long it takes,
if only in my memory,
stray with me.


9. THE LUCKIEST GUY ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE

B:224442                  E:022100
Andy would bicycle across town

                         B
in the rain to bring you candy

                       E
and John would buy the gown

                       B
for you to wear to the prom

               E
with Tom the astronomer

                      F#:244322
who'd name a star for you

                          B
(C): But I'm the luckiest guy

                  G#m:466444
on the Lower East Side

      E
cause I've got wheels

    F#
and you want to go for a ride.

B                               E
Harry is the one I think you'll marry

         B
but it's Chris that you kissed

      F#
after school

      B
well I'm a fool, there's no doubt

    E
but when the sun comes out

         F#
and only when the sun comes out (C)

F#           E        B           F#
  The day is beautiful and so are you
My car is ugly but then I'm ugly too
I know you'd never give me a second glance
but when the weather's nice all the other guys don't stand a chance

  B
I know Professor Blumen

      E
makes you feel like a woman

    B
but when the wind is in your hair

    E
you laugh like a little girl

       B
So you share secrets with Lou

    E
but we've got secrets too

      F#          E                  F#
Well, one: I only keep this heap for you

cause I'm the ugliest guy
on the Lower East Side
but I've got wheels
and you want to go for a ride

Want to go for a ride?  (x3)


10. YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU

INTRO: G:320033, D:x00232, G, D, G, D, G, D

G                          Am:002210
Even though I met you only recently

  C:032010       G                 D
I find myself falling in love with you
I don't know quite how to put this decently
but what's the chance that you could love me too?

     G            D         G
(C): Who, who, who, who, who

    C           G          D
has made my dreams come true

    G            D        G
and turned my gray sky blue?

         C         D        G
Why it's you you you you you

Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo
like amorous lovebirds do
Who made my world seem new?
'Tis, 'tis you you you you you.

You make me feel like I'm seventeen again
You make everything beautiful seem true
I can't wait to go to sleep and dream again
cause every dream I dream's a dream of dreamy little you (C)

G             D    Am  C
 You make the world go round,
the sun go up and down,
the flowers bloom in May,
the children laugh and play
Shall we choose the day? (C)

ENDS WITH: C D G

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