Worship them

VERSE
C+                                          C
Most of us choose who will be our life partner
                C+                          C
Based on how they make us feel

       Am+                   Am
But that is based upon many variable factors
   Am+               Am
So it isn't really real

CHORUS
F
Better choose someone with an auspicious nature
         G+                  C+
And then worship them

VERSE
First look at how they treat other people
Ignore how they treat you

Because how they treat you can change in an instant
If they change their point of view

CHORUS

VERSE
Find somebody who's pure in character
Not selfish or unkind

Find somebody who puts others first
Somebody with a balanced mind

CHORUS
And then, worship them

MIDDLE
Am                                 Em
And when you worship someone
Am                                 C
There qualities become yours

Am                           Em
So better worship someone
F                            G
Who's worth fighting for

VERSE
Most of us choose who will be our life partner
Based on how they make us feel

No wonder people break up all the time
And life is such an ordeal

CHORUS

VERSE
First look at how they treat other people
Ignore how they treat you

Because the way they talk about other people
Is one day how they'll talk about you

CHORUS

Amalfi coast

Capo 3rd

VERSE
G                                                C
Amalfi coast I've got my eye on you
I see you every day across the bay
You may have the curves and corners that all men dream about
But we still have the peace you've forever lost

CHORUS
Em
Yes, life is better
D#                   G
Here across the bay

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE
Amalfi coast I see you lying there
Covered in only a thin and misty veil
While those adoring tourists come and crawl over you
But I see you in the morning with your lines

CHORUS
Oh, life is better
Here across the bay

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE
Amalfi coast I'm immune to your charms
Safe inside the real Italy
While you intoxicate them, with your sheer cliffs and views
And the unforgettable taste of your limoncello

Limoncello, limoncello, limoncello, limoncello
Limoncello, limoncello, limoncello, limoncello

VERSE
Amalfi coast you're built up and over crowded
You've become a victim of your own success
Amalfi coast it takes a lot to live on you it's true
Everybody's looking for an angle

CHORUS

VERSE
Amalfi coast you think you have it all
But there's something here even you'd be jealous of

CHORUS
There's a stunning view
Of you

Broken (Palestinian Child)

VERSE 1
Bright
Light then
It all went dark - for you

Then you see
Your family
Huddled together - your mother's broken

And there is the school where you won't cause trouble
There is your body buried under the rubble
And every bone - has been broken

BRIDGE
Palestinian child
Palestinian child
Palestinian child
Palestinian child

VERSE 2
Wondering what happened to them
That they'd become such violent men
Have their hearts - all been broken?

Your struggling hard to make sense of it all
As the bombs explode and the buildings fall
The whole city - is being broken

Who's Netanyahu? Why does he attack?
Who is Hamas and why does he fight back?
Why would a ceasefire - ever be broken?

CHORUS
Down in the valley of the cursed and damned
Who'll lead us through to the promised land
Whooooaaa
You are one
You are one

VERSE 3
Float away
From the fighting men
Across the wall - to Jerusalem

[See a people who've only known persecution
Their ancestors all killed by execution
But their spirit - never broken]

And then a missile goes flying by
Launched by your brother into the sky
It falls downwards - you can't stop it

You hover over the fire and smoke
Hear the women cry and the children choke
Then floating up you see an Israeli child

CHORUS
Down in the valley of the cursed and damned
Who'll lead us through to the promised land
Whooooaaa
You are one

Whooooaaa
You are one
You are one

Eve of destruction (updated)

VERSE
Fierce fighting as they're invading Gaza
Preventative action, right? Escalating further
The promised land, it's not for sharing
Kill the oppressed, show you're caring
Protect your home by, killing your neighbours

CHORUS
But you tell me, over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe, we're on the eve of destruction

VERSE
Don't you understand what I'm trying to say?
Can't you feel the fear that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed there's no running away
The world's insane man, look at the Ukraine
They're taking pot shots at passenger planes

CHORUS

VERSE
My blood's so mad feels like coagulation
I'm sitting here just contemplating
You can twist the truth it knows no regulation
A handful of senators can block legislation
And it's your freedom, that's eroding
Need some proof? Ask Edward Snowden

CHORUS

VERSE
You may leave here for a few months in space
But when you return it's the same old place
The pounding drums, the pride and disgrace
Don't fear the communists, now it's just terrorists
It would be terrifying if it wasn't so hilarious

CHORUS

Pale blue dot

Capo 5th

VERSE (materialism)

C                                                      F
Some thoughts depress you - like what you had and lost

C                                                      F
Like we ever really possess anything - and even know what we are

BRIDGE
Am                                                                 C
Think of your ancestors do you even know their names?
Am                                                                 C
They've been blown away and are floating with the stars

CHORUS

F                                           G                               C

They are just specks of dust, floating on a pale blue dot
F                                           G                               C
We are a speck of dust, an insignificant pale blue dot

VERSE

Think of everyone through history - everyone who ever was
And of the lives they lived and what they did - how little we know of

BRIDGE

They lived their every moment in this tiny place
And in the universe they left no trace

CHORUS

We are just specks of dust, floating on a pale blue dot

We are a speck of dust, an insignificant pale blue dot

MIDDLE

Am

Rivers of blood spilt in triumph

C

To claim one piece or own one corner

F

Endless cruelties visited out

G

All for the glory of one tiny pixel

CHORUS
How many have died? Fighting for this pale blue dot

BRIDGE

Every creator, every destroyer of civilisations

Every hero, every coward, every king

CHORUS

They lived and they died, here upon this pale blue dot

BRIDGE

Every saint, every sinner, every son

Every inventor, every explorer, everyone

CHORUS

In the history of our species, crawled around this pale blue dot

Lived out their lives, here upon this pale blue dot

The real world

VERSE 1

C                                F

Waking up with the telephone

C                                                         Am

Need reassuring that I've not been left alone

Seeing the likes and seeking approval

Check the haters bad comment removal

F                                       G      C

I've got to get back to the real world

VERSE 2

Sitting at breakfast but I'm not really here

I'm on a server or somewhere in the stratosphere

With tweets and posts I feel connected

But no reposts so now I feel rejected

I've got to get back to the real world

MIDDLE

F                           C

Time ain't my friend

And I need something          G

And I haven't told you before

VERSE 3

Or on my newsfeed getting the gossip

It's the world I'm learning about the state of it

I pretend it's important and I'm being kept informed

But I know I'm at the mercy of the cultural norm

I've got to get back to the real world

I've got to get back to the real world

I've got to get back to the real world

You are not the voice in your head

(CAPO 3rd)

VERSE 1

G             F#/D            Em

You are not your story

You are not your memories

You are not the sum

Of all the things you've done

C                        D

You are not your desires

G                            Em

What you dislike or adore

C              F#/D        G

You are something more

VERSE 2

You are not your ideas

You are not your vision

You are not here for a reason

You're not on some special mission

You are not the voice in your head

That asks what it's all for

You are something more

VERSE 3

You are not your cravings

You are not your needs

You are not all your sankharas

All the live or dormant seeds

You are not the reactions

Of hatred or amore

You are something more

MIDDLE

Em                       G

You are the awareness

Em                          C

The watcher sitting inside

Em                  G

You are a passenger

C                     D/F#

Here along for the ride

VERSE 4

You are not your sadness

You are not your pain

You are not the suffering

Or anything in your brain 

You are not the confusion

The closed or open doors

You are something more

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