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Ryan Adams : Love Is Hell
2004

  1. Political Scientist
  2. Afraid Not Scared
  3. This House Is Not For Sale
  4. Anybody Wanna Take Me Home?
  5. Love Is Hell

  6. Wonderwall
  7. The Shadowlands
  8. World War 24
  9. Avalanche

  10. My Blue Manhattan
  11. Please Do Not Let Me Go
  12. City Rain, City Streets
  13. I See Monsters

  14. English Girls Approximately
  15. Thank You Louise
  16. Hotel Chelsea Nights

Political Scientist

He is drinking water from the faucet from the river From the tributary it comes through rusted pipes Outside his window he sees the water that's supposed to be clean By the chemicals polluted by the candy factory lines Someplace on the edge of town Someplace on the edge of town Is where they live Political scientists So now she is crawling on her hands and her knees She is dirtying her jeans choking on her own perfume With a pen she writes below the sink in someone's restaurant This place is inconvenient for my name She forgets to write it anyway She forgets to write it anyway The government supplies the cocaine Political scientists There's no guarantees There's no guarantees There's no guarantees Banging hard upon a crooked drum She feels them tearing down Salvation Army houses back in Michigan Her husband's divorced but he treats her that way of course Because he needs her just like he needs medicine She forgets to write him anyway She forgets to write him anyway What's red and white and nearly over Political scientist Political scientist Political scientist Political scientist There's no guarantees There's no guarantees There's no guarantees There's no guarantees

Afraid Not Scared

Look at this ocean with everyone drowning Idiots screaming and everyone sinking in slowly We're surrounded In the yellow lights of the city wasted as bodies In bed with somebody a touch away with nothing to do We're surrounded I'm really dying in here I'm really dying in here And I'm afraid, no I'm scared She started freezing, lungs all collapsing The momentum is passing, but the moment is eating us whole We're surrounded Put the guns in the water, they're turning to vodka Triggering nothing we're sinking the sea takes the ship And I'm really dying in here I'm really dying in here I'm afraid, I'm afraid No, I'm scared, no I'm scared I'm just scared, just let me down I'm getting really cold and I'm looking at you You're not moving I'm getting really cold and I'm looking at you You're not moving I'm getting really cold and I'm looking at you And you're not moving

This House Is Not For Sale

Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
x4
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
Tell 'em that the house is not for sale
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
We're still living here, how come nobody can tell
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
They're taking all the furniture, moving our things
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
Come on little honey, put your head on my knee
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
Tell 'em that the house is not for sale
Em
Cadd9
G
D
And calm down, calm down, calm down
Em
Cadd9
G
Dsus4
Calm down, calm down, calm down
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
x2
Do you remember when we even bought this thing I danced you across the wooden floor and then you signed the lease What happened in the car that night What happened in the car that night Tell 'em that the house is not for sale And calm down, calm down, calm down Calm down, calm down, calm down
Em
Cadd9
G
D
Calm down Calm down
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
x2
Tell 'em that the house is not for sale We could grab a couple sheets yeah, give 'em quite a scare I remember lying on the bedroom floor You were holding me honey, kissing my soul Tell 'em that the house is not for sale And calm down, calm down, calm down Calm down, calm down, calm down Calm down Calm down |
Dsus4
G/b
Cadd9
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x3
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G
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Anybody Wanna Take Me Home?

Intro
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 So I am in the twilight of my youth Not that I'm going to remember And have you seen the moon tonight, is it full? Still burning in it's embers The people dancing in the corner They seem happy but I am sad I'm still dancing in the coma of the drinks I just had Does anybody wanna take me home? Does anybody wanna take me home? Take me to your house and I'll leave you alone Of course I will Of course I won't It seems so tragic But it disappeared like magic Like magic Like magic Can you recommend an education or drugs? Because I'm bored with you already I'm on Broadway and I think it's a parade I'm covered in pieces of confetti Now I am in the twilight of my youth Not that I'm going to remember Dancing in slowly and finding the truth And it's covered in coma All these people in my life Well they seem so in love Well I am not Memorizing my shoes in a cigarette shop Does anybody wanna take me home? Does anybody wanna take me home? I'm kinda lonely, will you take me home? Of course you will Of course you won't Of course I'm crass It seems so tragic Of course you will Of course you won't But I'll disappear I'll disappear Just like magic Just like magic Just like magic

Love Is Hell

Strange weather in the back of the room She's pretty, Jesse's spinnin' the tunes Eyelashes and some white leather boots God what have I been drinking? I could be serious but I'm just kidding around I could be anything, anything but sticking around Love is Hell Love is Hell Love is Hell Is Hell It's raining I can see it outside Funny, I'm still in it Just sitting here with Johnny and Raph Oh, till the room starts spinning I could be serious but I'm just kidding around I could be anything, nothing, whatever, oh well Love is Hell Love is Hell Love is Hell

Wonderwall

<Oasis>
Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna give it back to you By now you should've somehow realized what you gotta do I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now Backbeat the word is on the street that the fire in your heart is out And I'm sure you've heard it all before But you never really had a doubt I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now And all the roads we have to walk are winding And all the lights that lead the way are blinding There are many things that I would like to say to you But I don't know how I said maybe You're gonna be the one that saves me And after all You're my wonderwall Today was gonna be the day but they'll never bring it back to you By now you should've somehow realized what you gotta do I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now And all the roads we have to walk are winding And all the lights that lead the way are blinding There are many things that I would like to say to you But I don't know how I said maybe You're gonna be the one that saves me You're could have be the one that saves me And after all You're my wonderwall You're my wonderwall You're my wonderwall You're my wonderwall

The Shadowlands

Capo:
-I
Gsus2
D
C
God, please bring the rain Yeah, bring it soon Let it flood right through the houses Into Judy's room With a father on amphetamines Her mother hides the pearls Reach out into the darkness And find my little girl 'Cause she's angry like a salesman Who just couldn't make a sale Threw the wedding rings in the sewer And damned them all to hell Please lead her to the mountain That you fashioned out of sand While the roaches climb the walls From the hotel where he calls Most people never find a love Most people never find a love Sometimes you just can't be a man Sometimes you just can't be a man When you're living in the darkness Of the shadowlands The shadowlands The shadowlands

World War 24

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 Porcelain doll Your mother runs an antique shop She takes some stuff, I take a lot We sleep all day Slow response I'm feelin' like an afterthought I guess I'm kinda lost in space And London's OK
C
G
D
She don't even ask what time it is anymore
C
G
Dressed up like its World War 24 Sugar sweet She loves it when it hits her teeth The river hides the carousel In London, oh well Coma comes Like bullets from a candy gun Delivers us into the sun Of London, my love She don't even ask what time it is anymore Dressed up like its World War 24
F
F#
And if we get too high
Bm
A
G
We'll burn this town We'll burn this town We'll burn this town
G
D/f#
Em
G
Oh, baby, bring me down
A
Em
G
Oh, baby, bring me down Oh, baby, bring me down Oh, baby, bring me down
A
Em
G
A
Em
G
I'm all yours I'm all yours I'm all yours

Avalanche

Capo:
-I
C
Am
G
F
x2
C
Am
G
F
I found your photograph in a cardboard box in a magazine
C
Am
G
F
I can't remember you, remember us or anything
G
F
I taught you how to feel, but you just feel numb
G
F
They taught you how to feel, but you just feel numb
G
C/g
F
She comes apart in the avalanche
G
C/g
F
Fades out like a dance
G
C/g
F
Crawls back into bed
G
F
G
F
When it's over, when it's over
G
F
G
F
When it's over, it's over I watch the window and listen for the sound of cars I can't remember the last time that it was yours I taught you how to feel, why do you feel numb? They taught us how to feel but we just feel numb She falls apart in the avalanche Fades out like a dance Crawls back into bed When it's over, when it's over When it's over, when it's over She falls apart in the avalanche Fades out like a dance Crawls back into bed When it's over, and it's over When it's over

My Blue Manhattan

My blue Manhattan She's angry like a child, but how sweet Fire and rain on the street It's you against me most days It's me against you, doll Ah, the snows comin' down On the cars in midtown Stone cold in sheets with you all over me Ain't that sweet my little gal Ain't that sweet my little gal My blue Manhattan She cusses with her sailor's mouth And fire and rain on the streets It's you against me most days It's me against you doll Making snow angels in the gravel and the dirt Crawling like a spider I'm somewhere inside her Too hurt to move, too hurt to move My blue Manhattan

Please Do Not Let Me Go

A* x77600
B* x99800
A/c#
If the walls in the room could talk
A/c#
E
Esus4
I wonder to myself would they laugh
A/c#
It's like some kind of jail beams of light
A/c#
E
Esus4
Fall from the curtains onto the bed
G#m
F#m
E
Esus4
I'm all alone now; I can do as I please I don't feel like doing much of anything
A*
B*
E
Esus4
True love ain't that hard to find Not that you will ever know Would you lay here for awhile?
G#m
F#m
E
Esus4
Please do not let me go Please do not let me go You were sweet enough to sing Oblivious to melody Red suitcase full of clothes Washed up on a shore of memories I'm all alone now and I feel just fine I don't feel much like doing anything True love ain't that hard to find Not that either one of us will ever know Would you lay here for awhile?
G#m
F#m
E
Esus4
Please do not let me go Please do not let me go

City Rain, City Streets

Asus2/c x32200
D6 xx0202
Amaj7
A6
Amaj7
A6
Amaj7
A6
Amaj7
A
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Emaj7
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Amaj7
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x3
Emaj7
Amaj7
Oh, the city rain
Emaj7
Amaj7
It floods the city streets
Emaj7
Amaj7
And in my city bed
B
A
B
A
Out of my fuckin' head
B
A
B
A
Is it snowing in space?
B
A
B
A
B
God I wish I could talk to you
A
B
Is it snowing in space? And all the city snow Freezes the Chelsea hotel It stones the Chelsea girls It stones the Chelsea boys Is it snowing in space? God I wish I could talk to you Is it snowing in space?
F#m
Bm
Amaj7
How does your body feel today?
Emaj7
I forgot to ask
F#m
Bm
Genius in a hospital bed
Amaj7
A6
Amaj7
A
With briar-patch hair, just isn't fair
F#m
Bm
Amaj7
A6
Amaj7
Takin' bullets for a team of bad poets, how is it up there?
F#m
Bm
Takin' bullets for the team
Asus2/c
D6
I really miss you I really miss you I really miss you I fucked you over a million times I fucked you over a million times I fucked you over a million times And you died, you died, you really died Died, died, you really died |
Emaj7
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Amaj7
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x3
E
F#m
G#m
A
I am going to push them way
E
F#m
G#m
A
Fall into the leaves of the winter trees
E
F#m
G#m
A
Emaj7
Drowning, slowly, lonely, my city of rain

I See Monsters

A
Gadd9
F#m
F
G
x2
A
Gadd9
Baby I know you cannot hear me now
F#m
F
G
'Cause you're fast asleep, but I love you now
A
Gadd9
Colors inside your head go spinning around
F#m
F
G
Like a ferris wheel exploding and falling to the ground
A
/g#
/g
Oh, people are screaming, people are screaming
A/f#
F
C/g
My baby, she's dreaming
A
/g#
/g
Oh, people are shouting, people are freaking
A/f#
F
C/g
I'm staring at the ceiling waiting for the feeling
Dm
G
C
Oooooh, when she comes
F
I know that she's the one
E
Makes me want it harder
Am
Gadd9
D/f#
Makes me want to be a little stronger
D/f
Still I see monsters
E
Esus4
E
Still I see monsters
A
Gadd9
F#m
F
G
Baby I know you cannot hear me now 'Cause you're far away at the speed of sound Colors inside your head go spinning round Like a ferris wheel exploding and falling to the ground Oh, people are screaming, people are screaming My baby, she's dreaming Oh, people are shouting, people are freaking I'm staring at the ceiling waiting for the feeling Oooooh, when she comes I know that she's the one Makes me want it harder Makes me want to be a little stronger Still I see monsters Still I see monsters
Am
/g
D/f#
F
Am
C/g
D/f#
F
Am
/g
D/f#
F
Am
/g
D/f#
F
E

English Girls Approximately

Dadd4 054055
Cadd9 x30233
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G
Cadd9
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x8
G
Cadd9
G
Cadd9
English girls are pretty when they play guitar Crazy like a day just a-breaking I ain't sure what for Ain't got a mother or father or place to fall She's got a brother in the blues but he doesn't know the blues at all
Dadd4
Said you didn't love me, it was right on time
Cadd9
I was just about to tell you, but OK, alright
Dadd4
Said you didn't love me, didn't want a thing
Cadd9
English girls can be so mean She's got eyes as pretty as a pair of jewels Falling down a canyon like a couple drunken criminals She had a messy bedroom on the edge of town I ain't never been a good enough to ever keep around Said you didn't love me, it was right on time I was just about to tell you, but OK, alright Said you didn't love me, didn't mean a thing English girls can be so mean
Asus4
C/b
Cadd9
Ooh, look at you now Ooh, look at you now Mmm, best I'd ever seen
Dadd4
Cadd9
Just a tall drink of water, just a-pourin' on down the sink Tall drink of water, she's a Norfolk waterfall Little day-breaker, she's a shootin' like a cannonball Crazy like a rocket when you're coming through my radio Kept me in your bed till the wintertime turned to fall Fall time coming, and I guess my little bird can sing Come on Elizabeth, a come on a Bethany Come on further, I'm a tired and I want to sleep My little dove do, and I guess she was a done with me Said you didn't love me, it was right on time I was just about to tell you, but OK, alright Said you didn't love me, didn't want a thing English girls can be so mean Ooh, look at you now Ooh, look at you now Mmm, best I'd ever seen Just a tall drink of water, just a-pourin' on down the sink Kiss me on the lips when my heart just laughed it off Words may move, but they ain't never moving fast enough Celebrate the differences, I celebrate the songs you sing
Cadd9
Just three words, my love
Asus4
C/b
Cadd9
You meant everything You meant everything You meant everything You meant everything

Thank You Louise

Capo:
I
Bb x033x5
Bb6 x033x3
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Bb
Bb6
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A
G
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D
G
|
A
|
A
Everyone when she was young
A/f#
They said she was the pretty one
Asus2/c
/g
A
She's pretty now, just watch her as she goes Waiting for the bus to come She holds the hands of someone young Whose mother comes and she sees her and she smiles
Asus2/c
A
Thank you Louise........
Asus2/c
A
Mary Louise.............
A/f
Asus2/c
G
Dadd4
A
Mother of three......................... Waiting in the check-out line The supermarket, Christmas time She helps someone who doesn't have the change Takes a dollar from her purse She pays and doesn't say a word And winks and grins and "Merry Christmas, friend" Thank you Louise Mary Louise Mother of three In Baltimore, the freezing cold, That chills her daughter to the bone She walks from work and cops the drugs and leaves Her brother lay upon the bed With busted teeth and broken head He hears the phone and knows his brother's dead Thank you Louise Mary Louise Mother of two

Hotel Chelsea Nights

Capo:
III
G
Em
How long's it gonna be, babe
Am
G/b
C
Before I get over you, doll
G
Em
I bet it's gonna be a while now, kid
Am
G/b
C
What with you living right up the hall
D
Em
And I'm tired of living here in this hotel
Am
G/b
C
Snow and rain falling through the sheets
D
Em
In fact I'm tired of 23rd Street
Am
G/b
Strung out like some Christmas lights
C
D
G
Out there in the Chelsea night Maybe you just didn't read me right The lights went out and you just didn't understand I played your song, I got the melody all wrong Wound your shit up like some rubber bands And I'm tired of living in this hotel Fire and rain blowing through the streets In fact I'm tired of 23rd Street Strung out like some Christmas lights Out there in the Chelsea night Strung out like some Christmas lights Out there in the Chelsea night
Guitar Solo
I feel like getting rid of all my things Maybe just disappear into the fog The traffic roars, my stomach screams Like a gang of angry dogs And I'm tired of living here in this hotel TV and dirty magazines And I'm just trying to get a little sleep Strung out like some Christmas lights Out there in the Chelsea night Strung out like some Christmas lights Out there in the Chelsea night