Slow Cilento

VERSE

Em            C            D            G

You’ve seen the pictures of paradise

Perfect climbs and beach so nice

There’s no worries you’ll be at peace

Everyone that must be so at ease

CHORUS

C                              Em                        D#   G

Cos things are slow in the Cilento

VERSE

The clear blue ocean the rocky shore

Mountains in the clouds to climb and adore

Villages where everyone’s friends

Oil flows the wine never ends

CHORUS

VERSE

Come here in an August month

And decide this all too much

Festivals in the night and days on the beach

In lessons on life this is what they teach

CHORUS

Nice and slow in the Cilento

VERSE

But say what you’d see in February

Chances are it’s different scene

Empty streets and deserted towns

To have a little fun you need another around

CHORUS

VERSE

Many do what their parents did

Or leave so those left have less to do

The prices go up so less people come

It’s heading down like the setting sun

CHORUS

Here with you

VERSE
C
I could be on a boat going round the world
With an old Dutch guy seeing all unfurled
F
It’s true
                        C
But I’m here with you

Or in South East Asia work in an island bar
Playing every night, be the local star
Could do
But I’m here with you

CHORUS
Am                    F
Of all the place I could be
Am                                  G
I chose the one with you next to me
      C
It’s proof

VERSE
I could try New York there’s so much more than here
Living more in a week than I did in a year
It’s new
But I’m here with you

Or in New Zealand just hitchhiking around
Getting different jobs in the smallest towns
I go through
But I’m here with you

CHORUS

MIDDLE
So if I got out riding all day too far
Or go out driving sometimes, in your father’s car
F
At least you know, when the sun goes down
G
I’ll come back to this little old town
C
It’s proof

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE
In India think of all I could learn
From the wisest minds from this I could turn
To do
But I’m here with you

Or in South America I could just see what I find
Have no place to go and
No queue
But I’m here with you

CHORUS + MIDDLE

Italy & me

VERSE

F

I met you on the road

                                     Am

Dressed in long forgotten clothes

            Bf                                                C

Your smile was the biggest that I’d ever seen

We were young we free

But not as much as we should be

With hindsight I know we got caught up in it

BRIDGE

But it’s no time, for regrets

When there’s still time to remedy it

CHORUS

Italy

And me

When you’re hunting for the good life

It’s the good life you will see

Italy

And me

You know I need you baby

When you’re lying next to me

(Instrumental)

VERSE

The people here are strange

And the situations strained

There ar

But it’s our boat and it’s our course

And we’ve weathered far much worse

I remember times I couldn’t keep it down

BRIDGE + CHORUS

MIDDLE
Am      F
Where your body is

Isn’t often where your heads at
The problems it causes
We’re living with them always
Teleportation
Happens all across the nation
Let’s all, join hands

CHORUS

Berlusconi

VERSE

F#

Down in the heart of southern Italy

C#

You’ve got to get on with the family

B

Cos you’ll see them almost every night

And you’re hearing how they rail and fight

And it might seem that they don’t get along

But their bond you know it’s really strong

Through the roughest times they’re stick together

Through the good and bad they’re weather all weather

BRIDGE

C#                                                            B

And some will rise and some will fall

                                    C#

Others rail others not at all

B                                                F#

They go – the system it knows me

CHORUS

F#

They blame Berlusconi

C#

Berlusconi

F#

We blame Berlusconi

C#

Berlusconi

VERSE

Down in the heart of southern Italy

There’s a lot wrong with the economy

No one down here is very organised

They say there’s far too much taxation

There only option as a nation

To prove that the system isn’t fair

They make sure it’s a fraction of they’ll declare

BRIDGE +CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL (VERSE)

VERSE

Down in the heart of southern Italy

There’s an epidemic of diabetes

Eating pizza, pasta and Panini

It takes a lot of digesting believe me

And almost twice a day they’re eating meat

And a whole lot of unhealthy sweets

In every café and on every corner

They know it’s bad but it all just tastes so good

BRIDGE

CHORUS

They follow Berlusconi

Berlusconi

Follow Berlusconi

Berlusconi

Falling

VERSE

C

I’ve been out there all this time

                                     Am

Going through the motions finding out what’s mine

And hard, oh man you know it’s hard

Find out the right way, joining up the stars

BRIDGE

F                                              C

And I was once like you are now

F                                              C

Confused by everything, and wondering how

Am

Losing my way

F

Losing my mind

G

Lost in this time

CHORUS

C

Falling in pieces

Am

Falling apart

F

Falling for anything

G

Right from the start

Falling away

Falling in debt

Falling behind

I can’t forget

VERSE

I been wandering these streets

Remembering the friends that I had back then

And I’ve how it was

Climbing all around her, bouncing up the walls

BRIDGE

CHORUS

Send me my baby

Send me a sign

Send me to paradise

All of the time

Send me the high life

Send me my woes

Send me something

Nobody knows

City by the sea

VERSE

C

Watching the waves

F

Taking in the seasons

C

Not moving away

F

Thinking of no reasons

Am                                                  F

The winds and the tides won’t break

C

So neither shall I

In an empty café

On a dark winters day

The steam on the glass

Rain on the pain

Living through the papers

G

Life is just a long Sunday

CHORUS

F                                    C

So don’t go looking round for me

F                                    C

Knowing full well where I’ll be

Am                        F                                    C

I’ll be living out my days in a city by the sea

VERSE

In summer on the sand Cooling in the water Anger in the ocean
Dressed in my best
Dressed in my best

Peace in my heart

Lying in the sunshine living out the prime of my life

In evening on the promenade

Appearance of civility

The art of living gets easier the more I laze

CHORUS

MIDDLE

In this time

Living in the now

Wondering why

It took so long

To get here

CHORUS

Sorrow's never far away (A winter in Perdifumo)

Capo 6^th

VERSE

G

See the people

Em

In the sun

C                        D

Looking out for everyone

Happy faces

Not a mourner

Forgetting what is just around the corner

G

CHORUS

C                                    Em

Cos now the winter’s come

C                                    Em

Most everyone’s gone

C

These days

D

Sorrow’s never far away

VERSE

To survive

On the mountain

Fill your bottles there at the fountain

With your head down

‘Til you’ve passed

The posters of the ones who didn’t last

CHORUS

See the winter’s here

The sadness is sincere

These days

Sorrow’s never far away

CHORUS

MIDDLE

G                Em

I’m sorry baby that I’ve got

C            G

To get away

I just can’t last another one

I’m on my way

CHORUS (Chords as verse but faster)

Ain’t got no will

Ain’t got no more

Ain’t got the spirit

Will just walk out the door

Ain’t  got no friends

Ain’t got the feeling

Ain’t got desire

The connections never there

VERSE

Settled down in a small town

Tired of rolling around

The seeds inside me

Capo 4^th

CHORUS

C                                                       G

Oh my God I’ve been wound up tighter

            Em                                                F

Than the band around the old oak tree

   C                                    Em

Not angry as such, just thinking too much

F                                    G

And all I wanted came true

Oh my God I’ve been wound up tighter

Than the cord that runs around your heart

Planting the seeds, that turned into weeds

And suffocated all of my love

VERSE

C

All the problems I see

Em

Were seeds inside me

F                                                   C

And I’ve been nursing them in there for so long

I’m surprised now you know

How they started to grow

                                                G

And soon they were out of control

They fed on the dirt

As I piled up hurt

And the conditions were truly perfect

It’s clear now I sing

That thoughts become things

But back then I deaf to the words

CHORUS

VERSE

Slowly I’ve seen

How foolish I’ve been

Wishing happiness just for myself

It’s sadly short-sighted

And sorrow’s invited

When you sow the seeds in such a small space

Instead of spreading ‘em wide

Cos then you’re laughing inside

As you suddenly see you’re feeding the world

CHORUS

MIDDLE

F                                                 C

Start thinking that you need to stop thinking

Em                                                G

Turn down the volume inside your own head

Don’t look at the dots that it’s linking

They only exit in your head

CHORUS

Rolling round the world

VERSE

C

You say with your head that you’ve settled down

G

‘Til a travelling band, roll in to town

F

With the zest and zeal and energy of life on the road

You remember the people and places you’ve seen

And think of the countries you’ve never even been

And the road it calls out to you like a long lost love

The only thing between here and there

Is the wrench of leaving the one that you care

If she doesn’t leave the ones that she loves too

BRIDGE

Stuck on a one track

Not on the way back

Do you really want to be someone that can leave like that?

CHORUS

Cos I can’t stop – rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling round the world

Rolling rolling rolling, rolling round the world

VERSE

Still can’t seem to ever learn how

To live in the place where I am now

When all my life’s been planning for over the hill

It’s not greener there on the other side

But it will be new for a little while

And it’ll be in sight of the brow of another hill

But living like that on the edge of the wind

Cos you’re always missing out on something if you want to do everything

BRIDGE

CHORUS

MIDDLE

When you’re meeting the travellers who

Are the doing the things that you used to do

The memories come rushing come back in an unstoppable wave

You got to hold on, not to get washed away

CHORUS