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JPF : Cambridge

  1. Effortless
  2. Small World
  3. The Long Game
  4. Long Hot Summer
  5. Squanderer Of Fortune

Effortless

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Bm
A
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G
F
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E
A7
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D
A
It's getting pretty crowded
D
A
And it hasn't even begun
D
A
Down here no one ever asks you
G
D
What you're taking shelter from Three tiers on the meadow That time won't destroy I can picture you sitting there Like a statue of a boy
Bm
D(v)
G
Holding tiny truths in your hands
Bm
D(v)
G
Effortless, like I never am |
Bm
A
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G
F
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E
A7
| You can feel the vibrations Whenever someone succeeds But it's a funny kind of everything That everybody needs And it's a funny kind of freedom That the free pursue I need a new kind of force tonight To keep me from you Like the force that hold you above the ground Effortless, like a wall of sound |
Bm
A
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G
F
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E
A7
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Bm
A
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G
F
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G
C
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C
D
Em
D/f#
C
So hard won is easy to hold
Em
D/f#
C
In the glittering cold
Em
D/f#
C
As the day grows gold |
Bm
A
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G
A7
| Yours was the softest touch That ever left a scar Down here nobody's arithmetic Will get you very far So I exist in the space between us Into which your world expands And I'll take another step backwards Before anyone understands Understand what I want to be Effortless, like everything I see Understand where I want to go It effortless when you already know

Small World

Asus2
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Am7
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Asus2
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F
G
Asus2
On days when no one speaks of madness
F
G
C
In rooms where no one speaks at all
Asus2
Small world
G
Tiny country
F
G
Asus2
Infinitesimal town

The Long Game

E
I spoke to your friends in Lexington
A
They said it was par for the course
E
F#m
I was there at your wedding and your anniversary
B
B+
And I'll be there at your divorce
E
Playing the long game I queued and queued for hours When I got there the door was shut But I know someone with the keys to your heart And I'm gonna get another set cut Playing the long game There's a heartbreak at every place-mat She said she could show me a thing or two But that's not saying much I'm playing the long game I've got two masters and a PhD But I'm forever a bachelor Playing the long game

Long Hot Summer

G
C
G
It's been a long hot fucking summer
D
Em
With no subtlety in the skies
C
G
Just the same deceitful blue
D
Of another's paradise
B7
C
And all the mercury
B7
C
C7
Has boiled up to the ozone
G
C
G
It's been a long hot fucking summer
D
G
And I'm gonna spend it alone They say truth slaves in the cool of the shade While the Devil plays in the sun I've seen him there with his platform shoes And I can't be the only one And nobody asks him "Why are you never within?" They say God stays in the cool of the shade And I'm gonna stay there with him I haven't shivered since April And my butter's been too soft since June We're all supposed to love the summer And conform to the The sun's trying too hard, but no one can see it

Squanderer Of Fortune

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
D
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Bm
/a
G
D
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G
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D
D7
D
D7
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D
I left town in the morning
Em
D/f#
G
Before the heat of the day
D
And I lay down in the evening
Em
D/f#
G
With never a word to say
A
Bm
And all was the island
G
D
A
G/b
And all was the blue
G/b
F
Em
D
And all was in sight of you Squanderer of fortune Sleeper on the train Shelterer from high noon And the sting of northern rain In this whisper between the silences When nothing amounts You've got to make every moment count Pale skin against the cold stone When I was very young But I never knelt to pray With a word on my tongue There's violence in the darkness Where answers collide And all you have to do is decide