Tonart: B minor
Verse 1
Dm
Am
Dm
Am
The first time we flew it
Em
It was ? and cramped
Verse 2
Am
Dm
The vodka running out half-
Am
way across the Atlantic
Dm
Even the steward screamed
Verse 3
Am
Dm
We didn't think we were going
Dm
Now we're stretched out in wide,
G
Am
Flicking through menus
Verse 4
Dm
Am
A walk to the bar and there's as much screw- top
Dm
Em
champagne as we can drink
We're so easy
Am
Verse 5
Dm
Taking turns having our photos taken
Am
Dm
Sitting in front of smoked windows
Verse 6
Dm
Decanters of cheap whiskey in our hands
G
Am
Dm
Drive into Manhattan on a date with a
Am
starlet who's just talent
Em
That's what people pay
Who are we to argue?
Dm
Verse 7
it's been going on
C
Em
Am
And still we're watching all of it
Verse 8
Am
Can you really believe all this?
Dm
Can he really lie in bed at night and marvel
G
Em
Am
at his own genius?
Verse 9
Am
When do you lose the ability
to step back
Dm
And get a sense of your own
Em
ridiculousness?
Am
F
Midnight, and it's all over
Verse 10
it can really make us laugh
We're standing on our heads drinking
Am
sours of crystal schnapps
Dm
Now we're unable to step back
Verse 11
Am
Swallowing a swallow
Am
it's not so unpleasant
Verse 12
Am
Perhaps it's an acquired taste
Em
The first time, it makes you sick
it becomes delicious
Verse 13
Am
Showbiz people
Em
Always there to be interested
Verse 14
Am
We are artists; we are
sensitive and important
Dm
We nod our heads earnestly
Verse 15
Am
Dm
half- way down
the champagne
On our way to leaving the place dry
Verse 16
Dm
Showbiz picks up the tab
And we're on our way laughing
Am
F
Dm
Am
Laughing at what?
Los Angeles, eight days in
Em
Dm
And our sense of
Am
irony's running pretty thin
Verse 17
Am
All the friends we've made
Piano interlude not transcribed this time,
sorry, just improvise
Dm
It's 2 am, it's closing
Dm
Marty and Layton play
Verse 18
sleepy strangers in the night
Verse 19
down our chins
Am
Verse 20
We're sitting,
Dm
chasing the conservation around the table
Verse 21
G
C
Dm
Jesus, how long have I been in this state?
Verse 22
The limousine's still waiting outside
Am
F
Dm
Anything you want to do?
G
Anywhere
Verse 23
G
We're on our way to the airport
Verse 24
F
Dm
Am
Dm
Am
and a plane to Vegas
So many nights lying in bed shaking
Em
Dreaming of pushing my daughter
Am
around the supermarket
The joy of seeing all those colors
Em
Am
and shapes reflect in her wide eyes
My head leaning on the
window
And we're driving through
Em
the empty l.a. streets
Am
And everything seems silent and beautiful
Verse 25
Am
A guy's face hits the floor
Em
Police revolvers glistening
Dm
Onto Melrose and lurching through a sea of
Am
F
Dm
Halloween transvestites
The flight's canceled,
but it doesn't matter
We turn this corner to a way
Am
that takes us wherever
Am
We creep up the drive to
Em
the shattuck
G
Am
The suite belushi died in
Verse 26
Am
Or the one Morrison hung out the window
Oh, I'll go for jim's
Em
G
Am
I would fancy a hotel window- hanging,
Dm
Am
myself, tonight, man
Verse 27
Am
Straight over to the mini- bar
Em
Am
Open the champagne - - one sip
and it's left to wake up to
Verse 28
Em
A team of uniformed waiters lay out an
Am
Dm
elaborate table for all us to ignore
Verse 29
Dm
Am
Dm
Am
How we're used to living
Back in london on a cold Friday night
Em
Do you want another drink?
Verse 30
Perhaps we could make it to
Em
the atlantic
Am
600 yeards, twenty minutes later
We're pushing through the waiting crowd,
Verse 31
Am
An exclusive door policy
Verse 32
Am
Exclusively for arseholes
Em
And tonight? well, a nod of our heads,
Dm
Falling down the red, velvety stairs
F
Dm
Limbs flaying, hands searching for
something to steady
Am
F
Pick ourselves up, nothing broken
Am
Dm
Am
Just aches in the morning
Verse 33
Am
No one seems to notice
I find a table,
Em
Am
champagne arrives
Verse 34
Am
I've been so drunk, I sit and look at you
Em
We try and talk for the first
Verse 35
Dm
Em
You shiver, it made you feel sick
Am
We use the rent money to pay the bill
Bumping shoulders,
we stumble out into Soho
Em
Slipping over the sleeping bags
Outro 1
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