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Cmaj7 Bm7 E
G- Whad'ya do about occupying the minds of the children
How do you keep them interested?
Whad'ya do about keeping calm and remaining centred
In times of great uncertainty
Em Am
After you've cleaned the house again
Em Bm
After you've played all the games
Em Am
After you've eaten pasta for third time- how about learning another recipe
Em D D7
How do you keep yourself sane?
G B7
Water-yer-fucking plants
Don't let them wilt – they symbolise regrowth
Regeneration
C/D
they remind us that life goes on so
G B7
Water yer fuckin plants
Em Am7
If you have too many – its okay let em die
Keep a few for yourself
D/C
What are you doing letting your plants wilt?
(Rap:)
Y- W w w water yer plants
In lieu of answers
Water yer plants
Oh yeah my fucken stance is
Water yer plants
All yer cacti and yer pansies
Wet em and wet em
Don’t forget em make sure you’ve fed em let em
Grow____
Let em grow____
Don’t let the fuckers go
Because love is just a leaf away
One small leaf for mankind
Is enough nuf nuff nuf nuff nuff (echo to fade)
(drum fill)
Cmaj7 Bm7 E
S- Shaking his fist from his window a middle aged man rants
Open your eyes, you fools! you fools!
G- (little chorus motif) Water your fucking plants!
Y- W w w water your plants
S- There he is on the corner
Shaking a sign and doing a dance
Oh that’s the “water your fucking plants” guy
S-(motif again:)
Em
water your fucking plants guy
Am
In your rags and top hat
Em Bm7
Take me on a magical journey through the streets of our city,
Show me the hidden byways of the town i thought i knew
Challenge my assumptions,
G Bm
“Water your fucking plants guy”
Em
You live so free and simple
Am7
Where do you sleep?
C/D
Do you even own a plant?
G Bm
“Water your fucking plants guy”
What terrible tragedy hides in your past?
C/D
What did you used to be?r
The hat sort of suggests
you were in entertainment once
(rap)
Y: W w w water your plants
Oh yeah
Am I right that we mean
Wetting your Greenery?
It’s a suggestion
As opposed to the question
That want s to know__ what your plans are I.E.
What W. H. A. T
Are
Your
fucking
Plans
P. L. A. N. S.
With NO ‘T’
Do you see?
I think I may have misheard it
Because the way that you word it
Sounds like it could have been either
I don’t want to be the
Spanner who says__ let’s take a breather
Yes siree
I hope that you know
That I’m good to go
I can rap passionately ___
from any seed that you sow sow sow sow
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2. |
9PM PJ's
03:20
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9PM PJ’s
(tempo 120.614)
D
I’m having hard time
G
Keeping my head in the game
D
Wander to this wander to that
Ah G
Ev-er-y-day it's the same
D
I need to feel professional
G
I need To bring some structure to my days
D G
That’s why I got my 9am PJ’s
A D
And my 9pm PJ’s
G
Watchin as the milk curdles
7 year old says turtles
Brain is a slug
A
I’m in a fug
Sax solo over A and B sections (D major Phrygian scale as starting point)
G
Walking the line, doin the time, clinging to hope
Washing my hands
With soap
(Try) not lose my mind
(Till I) get back to the grind
D (etc)
I’m having a hard time
Trying to get back my bearings
Front desk clerk
Back at work
Asks me what I’m wearing
I say
I need to feel professional
I need to have some structure to my days
So i still got my 9am PJs
And my 9PM PJs
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3. |
Pluto
02:58
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A
Pluto
You’re still a planet to me
Bm7
I dont see
Ddim
Why they won’t let you be what you want to be-e-e
A
If you want to be planetary
Bm7 Dm7
You should be
F
Pluto that’s fine with me
Plu-Plu
I’m in your boat I'm your crew
Here with you
Sailing Into any storm you sail into
Cos if they can pew pew pew you
They can pew
Pew pew pew pew me too
D
Don’t think i haven’t thought it through,
A
Oh, you know, pluto
D
The moment we give that name to you
Bm7 E
Oh, you know, pluto
D
Every super-massive asteroid
F#m
Suddenly becomes a planetoid
Bm7
True though
Dm7
Pluto
A
You go
You’ve got a planet to be
Bm7
So go be
Ddim
Pluto you do you so unselfconsciously
A
And when i look up to see
Bm
Above me
Ddim
My solar system now has eighty
D A
three thousand planets
in it
Bm7
So pluto
i support your choices
F
Pluto you go be free.
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4. |
Lost Socks
03:20
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Gm
Lost socks
Bb
Got to be somewhere?
Bb
Got to be somewhere?
Db
Oh, where do they go
Lost socks
Got to be somewhere?
Got to be somewhere?
Oh, where do they go
F
They gotta be plotting against me somewhere
Eb
Hopping around and making their plans
Bb
Not for these socks
Some neat little box
Ab
They’re gonna rise up
And start throwing rocks
Lost socks
Got to be somewhere?
Got to be somewhere?
Oh, where do they go
F Gm
They’re planning a revolution somewhere
F Bb F Eb
Cause somehow it’s my fault that they’re all alone
F
They lie there lonely with no mate,
Bb Bb F Eb
So they can only smash the state
Db
Oh, where do they
(half time)
Am Dm6
Go? (n.b. I’ve got myself singing “where did they go?” as a guide only)
Am Dm6
Am Dm6 Fsus#4 F
Lost socks
Am Dm6
Lost socks
Am Dm6
Lost sock
Am Dm6 Fsus#4 F
Lost socks
Em
Forming a network
C
Across the world (this ‘lost’ is optional*) Lost...
__________
Lost socks
Lost socks
Lost socks.
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5. |
Interstate Angel
03:14
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D
Interstate Angel where are you now?
G
Interstate Angel where are you now?
A
Somewhere interstate I suspect.
Totally absent in every respect
D G
Interstate Angel come back to me.
A D
Or should I come back to you?
SLIDE GUITAR SOLO or INSTRUMENTAL over chorus hape.
Verse 1.
D G
It's out of our hands coz the road closed down
A D
There'd be Smokies on my back if tried to leave town
D
But time’s on our side and we believe its true
A D
that distance aint a thing when it comes to me and you..
D
Interstate Angel where are you now?
G
(I mean it) Interstate Angel where are you now?
A
(You 'aint ) taken a call for a number of weeks
It's been over a month since we gotten to speak
D G
Interstate Angel come back to me.
A D
Or should I come back to you?
I – N – T – E – R – S – T – A – T – E – A – N – G – E - L
Oh, interstate Angel - I can sure spell.
If we could come together
like all of them letters
G (1 Bar)
That’d be swell
A 3 4 1
Interstate Angel.
KEY CHANGE
E
Interstate Angel where are you now?
A
Interstate Angel where are you now?
It’s been a fair spell since we first kissed.
Just letting you know that I still exist..
Interstate Angel I’m down on one knee
A B E
Won’t you come back to me.
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6. |
Did That Count?
04:00
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E
I thought about exercising today
Sizing today
Sizing today
F#m
But i’d done some shopping
I’d also done mopping
A E
They can be my exercising today
E
I thought about doing nice things today
nice things today
nice things today
F#m
But I’d made them coffee
And dropped them all offy
A E
That can be all of my nice things today
E
I thought about watching telly today
Telly today
Telly today
F#m
But I'd watched the making of
B
___The Man__dolo___rian ___
E
Did that count
C#m
Did that count
A
What amount
B
Makes it count
E
Did that count
C#m
Did that count
A
How much of this stuff
F#m
Is enough
E
Did that count
E Fdim7 F#m Am
I've never taken the time to properly think about my use of time
E
I've taken to quiet consideration:
F#m
Athletic dedication
Abm A
Mindful meditation while sucking the juice out of...
E Fdim7
Every second is mine
F#m Am
And with that I'm tryin to be a nice guy
F#m Abm
(But how do I) reconcile all my potential with
A Bb(half)dim B7
inconsequential but more preferential things I'd rather mention…
And does that count – does that count....
Thinking out loud? Does that count?
What amount
Makes it count
A
Can i dismount?
F#/A#
Exeount?
E/B Am/C
How much of this stuff is enough
A/C# E/D
At what point do i shut down this gutful of guff
A/C# Am/C
Do i wait for a gruff voice above to yell cut
E/B G
And rack off in a huff
E/B G
I’m fed up with the fluff
That’s enough of this stuff
Did that that count?
Did that that count?
Did that that count?
Did that that count?
Did
Did that that count?
How much of this stuff did count?
Is it enough?
Did that
Count yourself lucky
At home when you’re stucky
The bar for what’s right and what’s wrong
Is so low it’s clear dear
That no-one should fear
The judgement that comes with a song
For every task
That requires an ask
Of our time mind and lastly
Our body so ghastly
Is more than enough
So stop being so tough
On yourself that’s the stuff
You’re not bad in the buff
And if times get so rough
You could always just lie and it
Counts yes it all counts
Yes it all counts
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7. |
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C
What is there left to drill?
Dm Bdim
Out on the court, waiting to play
C
What is there left to drill
Dm Bdim
Feel like I’ve trained every day.
Ab
My push ups are pushed and my
C
Free throws are thrown
Ab C
I’ve worked like a dog and I’ve doggedly honed
G
All of my skills.
F Fm7
I’m bouncing the ball by myself
C
One day there’ll be a game
Dm Bdim
I’ll be prepared, they should be scared
C
They’re gonna know my name
Dm Bdim
It won’t be fair, They won’t be spared,
Ab C
Right now I’m out on the court by myself
Ab C G
Imagine the day when there’s somebody else what a thrill
F Em
For now I’ll just practice until
F Em
I’ll get to test out my skills
Abm-5
On somebody real
Am
But for now
G
What is there left
C
To drill
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8. |
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N.C.
Damn
I Hit Enter Too Soon
I thought that I
I thought that I was just testing it
D
You make a system
C
The first of it kind
Bm
You play out all the possible problems
Gm
In your mind
Damn
I Hit Enter Too Soon
I thought that I
I thought that I was just testing it
D
You make a system
C
The first of it kind
Bm
You play out all the possible problems
Gm
In your mind
F
Turns out
G C
Your mind is limited
Am
Well
G
my mind
F
is limited
D
Damn I hit enter too soon
I hit enter too soon
I hit enter too soon
Boom!
Inst… (a sax- based evocation of a nuclear explosion? No sure what progression...Poggo? -yon)
D
C
G/B
Bb
D
You make a system
C/D
The first of its kind
Bm/E Eb/G
You work out all the possible problems in your mind
D F
But the problem is your mind
Eb/G Cdim/Eb
The problem is your mind
The issue you didn’t find
It is you and it’s your mind
X
It’s a one-finger crime
Now you watch it all burn
Cause you pressed that return
B
You make a system
A
The first of it kind
Gbm
You play out all the possible problems
Em
In your mind
D
Turns out
E A
Your mind is limited
F#m
Well
E
my mind
D
is limited
N.C.
Damn
I Hit Enter Too Soon
I thought that I
I thought that I was just testing it
It feels better now
To be confessing it
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9. |
Karen
04:50
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Dmaj7
Tell me, karen
Gmaj7/6
Are you feeling blue?
Dmaj7
You’ve had it coming
Gmaj7/6
It’s overdue, oh
Bm F#m G
Karen we owe gratitude to you
A heavy weight that
You’re carrying
No one gets it
It’s a Karen thing
Bm F#m G
Oh, everybody’s being rude to you
Gm
Are you a symbol?
D
Are you suffering for my sins
Dbdim7 Bm7
oh, martyrdom looks good on you babe.
G
Karen you take on
D
The guilt of generations
G
You bear white folk’s burden
D
With stamina and patience
Em Edim G
We pretty much deserve the racisumm that’s come to you
A Dmaj7
So I wanna thank you Karen.
___
Things are changing
I can see
I’m less on top than
I used to be
Adjusting to a less important me
Any time I'm
getting cross
And wanna scream for
What I’ve lost
I remember what a pounding Karen got
Shut up and listen__ that’s my aim
That’s my
Oh Thank god
That Karen’s a lady’s name
G
Karen you take on
D
The guilt of generations
G
You bear white folk’s burden
D
With stamina and patience
Em Edim G
We pretty much deserve the racisumm that’s come to you
A Dmaj7
So I wanna thank you Karen.
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10. |
Another One
05:22
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E F#m Asus2
(Sitting) down to a bi-weekly song challenge
E
And seriously- I just can't be arsed.
Everything is Covid -laced
It’s a hostile takeover phase
And I'm desperate to give it all a pass
Abm A E
But I got my commitment to my friends
Abm A E
To deliver another hit song
Abm A E
Though I struggle every step till the end
B7
Gotta buck up- sit down and be strong.
CHORUS
A
Another one wont hurt
Another one won't hurt
E E7
Another one won't hurt that's the thing..
3 part
A
Another one wont hurt
Another one won't hurt
B7
Another one won't hurt,
but it'll sting
(Riff)
But another one won't hurt.
POG
E Asus2/F# Asus2
Solos x 4
Pre-chorus
S- (The one and) only Andrew Pogson, everyone
Y- What a guy, come one and Give him a big hand
G- These jam sessions raise a question we got to ask
3p- Were there already enough people in this band?
Chorus with harmonies
(Andrew joins vocal…)
A
Another one wont hurt
Another one won't hurt
E E7
Another one won't hurt that's the thing..
A
Another one wont hurt
Another one won't hurt
B7
Another one won't hurt,
… but it’ll swing
2nd solo - Scoddy
2 x Riff
Another one won’t hurt
Another one wont’ hurt
3rd Solo - Gatesy
2 x Riff
Another one wont’ hurt
2 x Riff Yon
BREAKDOWN
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