Reverberation Chords

by **shuamort** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:43 pm

I took the day off from work and dusted off the MP3s to this not-so-popular album and decided to figure out the chords to it. Some of the songs (like Senseless) were off true pitch so they were a bit trickier. I cleaned up the lyrics a bit to being possibly closer to whatever Noel is singing. If you see any corrections, lemme know as I'm sure it's not perfect. (And in preview, it seems that the chords get mushed over to the left)

Gone, Gone, Gone

B/B/B/B/B/B/B/A

B

B
My head is like an unblocked drain
B
My head is full of brains
A
My instincts are to kiss this train
D B
I hear it coming

B
Your conscience says mind how you go
B
Your answer still says no
A
Your morals ebb
A D
Your morals flow
B
Your bath is running

F# A E
The normal rules do not apply
F# A E
And mine is not to reason why
E D B
Gone, gone, gone

B
My arms are like two shipyard cranes
B
That may not work again
A
My fortunes wax
A
My fortunes wane
D B
My sense is sundered

B
A cup that cheers a cheerless heart
B
The path I dare not chart
A
I look askance, not quite the part
D B
Someone has blundered

F# A E
The normal rules do not apply
F# A E
And mine is not to reason why
E D B
Gone, gone, gone

E A B
E A B
E A B
B

B
To all this grand old scheme of things
B
To all the pain it brings
A
To all those who pull the strings
D B
I said good ridence

B
To pass the time, to coin a phrase
B
I mint a million ways
A
To counterfeit my salad days
D B
And split the difference

F# A E
The normal rules do not apply
F# A E
And mine is not to reason why
E D B
Gone, gone, gone

Enlighten Me

F F Bb Bb
F

F
It was cheap at half the price
F
Took a shovel where a spoon would suffice
Bb
Now I can't see you
Bb F
Now I can't see you

F
Regimental in my way
F
Detrimental at the end of the day
F Bb
But you won't be told
Bb F
No, you won't be told

Eb Ab
I will be, I will be
Bb
I won't be frightened
Eb Ab
I will be, I will be
Bb
I'll be enlightened

F

F
Word of pain you sold to say
F
There's a splinter in your
F
Splendor today
Bb
I could believe you
Bb F
I would believe you

F
There's a world inside your world
F
There's a glass house where the insults are held
F Bb
But you won't be told
Bb F
No, you won't be told

Eb Ab
I will be, I will be
Bb
I won't be frightened
Eb Ab
I will be, I will be
Bb
I'll be enlightened

Bb Bb/Db Bb Bb/Db
F Bb
Bb Bb/Db Bb Bb/Db
F Bb
F

F
Took a chainsaw to my mind
F
Did arrange I'd left a sad world behind
F Bb
But all will be fine
Bb F
Yes, all will be fine

Eb Ab
I will be, I will be
Bb
I won't be frightened
(You try but still the words won't come)
Eb Ab
I will be, I will be
Bb
I'll be enlightened.

Eb Ab
I will be, I will be
Bb
I won't be frightened
(You try but still the words won't come)
Eb Ab
I will be, I will be
Bb
I'll be enlightened

Cut and Dried

Am Am C Em
Am Am C Em

Am
You've seen enough
C
You've been too much
Em
You've gone too far
Am
And when thine lie offends
C Em
The prop against the bar
Am C
You reach the most awkward stage
Em
As you approach middle age
Am
Hard to take
C Em
Hard to gauge

Dm G
So goodbye cut and dry
Dm G
Nice to have known you
Dm G
But something went awry
Dm E
And I've outgrown you

Am
I slither awhile
C Em
before I shed my skin
Am
And laugh when you said
C Em
there was no such thing as sin
Am C
No, no there is no graver need
Em Am
Then that inspired by total greed
C
'Til it breaks
Em
'Til it bleeds

Dm G
So goodbye cut and dry
Dm G
Nice to have known you
Dm G
But something went awry
Dm E
And I've outgrown you

Dm F Dm F Dm F Dm F

Am
And all your confidence
C Em
has gathered dust on shelves
Am
And all those who lent an ear
C Em
Heard no good of themselves
Am C
No market here for sound advice
Em Am
And those who seek must pay the price
C
Blood from stone
Em
Blood of Christ

Dm G
So goodbye cut and dry
Dm G
Nice to have known you
Dm G
But something went awry
Dm E
And I've outgrown you

King of Your Castle

LICK:
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D----------------------
A----------------------
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G

G
Nature abhors a vacuum
G
I have read
G F C
Tell me how'd you explain
G
Your empty head

G
You hurt the one you love
G
Because you can
G F C
As if violence were a virtue
G
In a man

D
The king of your castle
F
Right behind you
C
How I'll blind you
D
A fist full of feeling
F C G
Blaming it all on lack of my love

G
The mad, glad days of romance
G
Were the best
G F C
When you kept your cards pressed tight
G
against your chest

G
But soon, soon, all too soon
G
She'd understand
G F
And she'd see and feel
C G
The back of your right hand

D
The king of your castle
F
Right behind you
C
Power blinds you
D
A fist full of feeling
F C A
Blame it all on lack of mother love

A C F Am
C F A
C Am F G

G
King Rad, God on a barstool
G
Hold your court
G F C
So self-centered, so deluded
G
So self-taught

G
Home bound sound as a pound
G
You've bought your round
G F C
Round one begins tonight
G
Behind closed doors

D
The king of your castle
F
Right behind you
C
How I'll blind you
D
A fist full of feeling
F C G
Blaming it all on lack of my love

D
The king of your castle
F
Right behind you
C
How I'll blind you
D
A fist full of feeling
F C G
Blaming it all on lack of my love

Devilment

E Esus E Esus

E
Devilment's accomplishment
E
The devil knows you found
E A
Your true vocation
A E
To live beyond your station

E
Shaking leaves wrapped in quotations
E A
Rolling out saliva on salvation
A
All the more
A
And all that you've been looking for

D
Floored by designs
E
Big as you find
D
Speaking as you find
D
All the world's skin
D E
All over mine

D
Flawed by designs
E
Big as you find
D
Speaking as you find
D
Staggering blind
E
As you chase time
A E
Waste time

E Esus E Esus

E
Blank expression, blanker verse
E
It could get worse
E A
If all your past forsakes you
A E
To find the soul to take you

E
Muffled shouts of indignation
E A
Lost their word for meaning in translation
A
Unhappiness will quantify the moral

D
Flawed by designs
E
Big as you find
D
Speaking as you find
D
All the world's skin
D E
All over mine

D
Flawed by designs
E
Big as you find
D
Speaking as you find
D
Staggering blind
E
As you chase time
D A E
As you waste time
A E
As you waste time

E

E
Devilment embarassment
E
The face in your old mirror
A
Now Just hates you
A E
And your name escapes you

E
Eyes are lost in comtemplation
E
Hands are trembling
E A
Head's gone on vacation
A
And settled scores are all
A
That you've been fighting for

D
Flawed by designs
E
Big as you find
D
Speaking as you find
D
All the world's skin
D E
All over mine

D
Flawed by designs
E
Big as you find
D
Speaking as you find
D
Staggering blind
E
As you chase time
D A E
As you waste time
A E
As you waste time
D E
you waste time
D E
you waste time

Thick Skinned World

E G
E G
E G
E G
A D A G

E
Ungainly thing
G
Unworthy soul
E
To have to hold
G
To terrorize

E
Unsightly love
G
Unchecked unchanged
E
A love deranged
G
In thin disquise

C
All in a good cause
E
I suppose
C
'Come as you like
D E
As a lifetime goes

E
A thick skinned world
G
Will feign concern
E
For reasons we
G
Have still to learn

E
Preserve the world
G
For baby's sake
E
For baby must
G
Accumulate

C
All in a good cause
E
I suppose
C
'Come as you like
D E
As a lifetime goes

D A Am
D Am
D A Am
D Am
G C
Em

E G
E G

E G
Chances have been wasted
E
Thrown to the wind
G
Grist to the mill
E G
Gall is all I've tasted
E
Come away, come away
G
Come away, come away

Come away, come away

C
All in a good cause
E
I suppose
C
'Come as you like
D E
As a lifetime goes

C
All in a good cause
E
I suppose
C
'Come as you like
D E
As a lifetime goes
C E
As a lifetime goes
C E
As a lifetime goes
C E
As a lifetime goes

Freaks Dwell

E
Lost your reason
E
Lost your game plan
Dsus2
Sit you down
E
I'll set the scene man

E
Brilliant teamed and
E
Bronze bohemians
Dsus2
Thought they were
E
A football team man

F#m D
Let me take you to a hell
E
Where all the freaks dwell
F#m D E
Passed my god of woe

E
Pleasure pasture
E
Business sometimes
Asus2
One more embrace
E
For the good times

E
Self-made man will
E
Unmake beds sure
Dsus2
Gagged and bound
E
And fights like headlock

F#m D
Let me take you to a hell
E
Where all the freaks dwell
F#m D E
Passed my god of woe
F#m D
Let me take you to the hell
E
Where all the heads swell
F#m D E
Pay no mind at all

E
Cross your heart and
E
Hope to prosper
Dsus2 E
All your sin will be forgiven

E
Needs they muster
E Dsus2
Devil drives the biggest car
E
You've never driven

F#m D
Let me take you to a hell
E
Where all the freaks dwell
F#m D E
Passed my god of woe
F#m D
Let me take you to the hell
E
Where all the heads swell
F#m D E
Pay no mind at all

Senseless

A A A G

A
I will not wait, I will not see
G A G A
The things you claim are lost on me
G D A G D A
You took some earth. Gave it a name
G D G Em A
You plant a cross and trade the blame

A
Dyed in the wool and dead of mind
G A G A
You took your stand. Left sense behind
G D A G D A
You stake it all on a sense of place
G D G Em A
And lose your head to save your face

D Am G
You've had your say
D Am G
Close your mouth
D Am G
If you know the way
D
Then point it out
Am
Point it out

A

A
The ways and means as yet unclear
G A G A
I only know where not to steer
G D A G D A
I have no plan, but this I know
G D G Em A
You've said your piece in God's main goal

D Am G
You've had your say
D Am G
Close your mouth
D Am G
If you know the way
D
Then point it out
Am
Point it out

G A G A
F# G A

A A D A

A A D A D A
All our voices out of tune
A A D A D A
All our graveyards full too soon
A A D A D A
What's the matter, let it drop
A
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
G
Stupid, senseless, make it stop

A A D A D A
All our voices out of tune
A A D A D A
All our graveyards full too soon
A G D A
All your money in the bank
A G D A
How it festered, how it stank
A G D A
Lose the money that you hold dear
A G D A
All our freedoms disappear
A G D G
What's the matter, let it drop
G Em A
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
G Em A
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
G Em A
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
G Em A
Stupid, senseless, make it stop

A

Flaming Red

Em D Em D

Em
Failure's child is weak and mild
D
Wide-eyed sad and strange
Em
A moment is the most
D
She'll hang her day upon
Em
Others plan a life
D
Without the faintest hope of change
Em
And belay all her knowledge
D
Of where hope has gone
C
In these ugly times
F Em
An ugly mind will have its say
C
And your betters would not
F Em
Have it any other way

D

A
Oh my eyes
G
for the sins
D
I may not shed
D
Burn like coals
Em
Inside my head
Em
Smoldering black
A
And flaming red

A
Oh my eyes
G
for the sins
D
I may not shed
D
Burn like coals
Em
Inside my head
Em
Smoldering black
Em
And flaming red

D

Em
Reconciled and pacified
D
By bread and circus clowns
Em
Who keep you all in stitches
D
As they keep you down
Em
Dust yourself down
Em D
Tell me what on earth
D
The fuss was for
Em
'Cause what you've seen is nothing
Em D
To what's still in store

C
In these ugly times
F Em
An ugly mind will have its say
C
And your betters would not
F Em
Have it any other way

D

A
Oh my eyes
G
for the sins
D
I may not shed
D
Burn like coals
Em
Inside my head
Em
Smoldering black
A
And flaming red

A G
A G
A G
A G
D Em

A
Oh my eyes
G
for the sins
D
I may not shed
D
Burn like coals
Em
Inside my head
Em
Smoldering black
Em A
And flaming red

A
Oh my eyes
G
for the sins
D
I may not shed
D
Burn like coals
Em
Inside my head
Em
Smoldering black
Em A
And flaming red

A G
D Em
A G
D G
A D
Em A
D G

False Goodbyes

D* A A A A
D* A A A A
D*

A
Whisper who dares
A
Your daylight glares
Bm
I doubt that it shows me
G A
Covered in glory

A
A problem shared
A
Is entertainment
A Bm
In your hands
G A
Ain't life bland?

E F#m
What matter or
D
What consequence in truth
E F#m
All our lives strange honor
G A
In a realm of false goodbyes

A

A
Suspend belief
A
But keep it brief
A Bm
Thereby hangs a tale friend
G A
Hung from your wit's end

A
And is that all
A
The level best
A G
That you can do
D A
More fool you

E F#m
What matter or
D
What consequence in truth
E F#m
All our lives strange honor
G D
In a realm of false goodbyes

D

A
Such dedication in the plot
A
Such animation and for what
Bm G a
A pile of nothing life is not

A
And when the crowd come out to play
A Bm
I'll read the lesson for today
G A
About the one that got away

E F#m
What matter or
D
What consequence in truth
E F#m
All our lives strange honor
D E
In a realm of false goodbyes

E F#m
What matter or
D
What consequence in truth
E F#m
All our lives strange honor
G A
In a realm of false goodbyes

by **Dave Smith** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:46 am

Short post that.Can you not just play by ear?Could save you decades.

by **Mr. Brian** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:31 am

welcome shuamort and thanks for the efforts. I will try to get these added to the site. I'll trust your judgement. You also may be interested in an interview we did with Noel a while back...

http://villiersterrace.com/burke.htm

by **Voodoo Billy** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:33 pm

Thank you shuamort for all your work. Why not treat yourself and take tomorrow off work as well? By the way, welcome to the nuthouse, as always keep your head down and arse to the wall, and as for the females, if you're accosted by a classically-trained cheaply-peroxided frog-kisser take no heed.

by **black francis** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:42 pm

Depending on the thickness and integrity of the wall you still may not be safe.

by **electrabunny** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:19 pm

Especially any walls with BF on the other side. :biggrin:

by **Voodoo Billy** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:14 pm

Are you speaking from experience?

by **black francis** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:45 am

She put a smiley didn't she?

by **DivaDiana77** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:05 am

Very cool. They still had their trademark unusualness. Sometimes Les would alter the chord by what he played as opposed to Will and the rhythm guitarist actually changing a chord. Crocodiles is a perfect example of that. Any who, I know I'm thrilled to play through them a bit without having to try to figure out the chords myself.

by **Dr Evil** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:52 am

Reverberation is the greatest album ever made. Thanks for the chords. It pisses me off no end to think that I will never see "Flaming Red" performed live, even on video (I don't think any exists) so I will bribe some great (and cheap) musicians I know to do a cover and video it. Of course the fantastic video will shoot it to number one worldwide for an entire year, so at least Will, Les and Noel will have a comfortable pension from the royalties.

by **Dr Evil** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:25 am

P.S. I don't suppose you could do the same for the Chameleons UK's
"Dangerous Land"-possibly the greatest song ever written
in history- the lyrics stand on their own as great poetry!

I am the pride at the heart of a man
I am a refuge in a dangerous land
I am a wall or a line in the sand
I am a gathering
I am a stand

Hold, hold me
Well whose going to hold me now?
Not you

I am the daylight when darkness draws near
I am a signal that's heard without ears
I am the rapture and I am the tears
I am a centre regardless of years

Hold me, hold me
Well whose going to hold me now?
Not you.

by **shuamort** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:20 pm

Em Em F G x8

Em F G Em F G
I am the pride at the heart of a man
Em F G Em F G
I am a refuge in a dangerous land
Em F G Em F G
I am a wall or a line in the sand
Em F G Em F G
I am a gathering I am a stand

Em
Hold, hold me
C B
Well who's going to hold me now?
Em
Hold, hold me
C B
Well who's going to hold me now?
Em
Hold, hold me
C B
Well who's going to hold me now?
Em
Hold, hold me
C B A
Well who's going to hold me now?
G B
Not you

Em Em F G x8

Em F G Em F G
I am the daylight when darkness draws near
Em F G Em F G
I am a signal that's heard without ears
Em F G Em F G
I am the rapture and I am the tears
Em F G Em F G
I am a centre regardless of years

Em
Hold, hold me
C B
Well who's going to hold me now?
Em
Hold, hold me
C B
Well who's going to hold me now?
Em
Hold, hold me
C B
Well who's going to hold me now?
Em
Hold, hold me
C B A
Well who's going to hold me now?
G Bm
Not you

Instrumental
Bm
Em G C Am* D*
Em G C Am* D*
Em G C Am* D*
Em G C Am* D*
Em G C Am* D*
Em G C Am* D*
The love is real...

Em G C Am* D*
Em G C Am* D*

End on Em

*Hold for half a bar as opposed to a full bar.

by **shuamort** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:41 pm

By the way, does anyone know where I could buy the 5 b-sides to Reverberation on CD/MP3?

by **Frank The Bunny** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:59 pm

shuamort wrote:By the way, does anyone know where I could buy the 5 b-sides to Reverberation on CD/MP3?

Google "Turgut Koyman".

;)

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