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

Vipassana

VERSE

G

Breathing a lot lately

Em

Nothing else to do

Am

Except the constant mental chatter

D

The troubles I’ve been listening too

I went there for my problems

Thinking they were bad

But it turns out I’ve problems

I didn’t even know I had

CHORUS

Am             D

On a Vipassana

   Am                         D

You find out who you are

VERSE

I thought I'd find a breakthrough

Get some peace at last

I think I found the way to get there

But it’s anything but fast

I’ve got to keep putting in the hours

Keep it in mind every day

I know it’s always with me

It’s my mind that drifts away

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL

MIDDLE
Am
Yearning and burning, and seething with lust
D
Never learning the lessons we must

Am
Not believing as lies what we see with our eyes
D
We run to or run from all things

OUTRO
                                  G
We've built a culture of craving
                                       C
Where we want what we see
                       Am
On the net and TV
                                               D
And convince ourselves that this will make us feel happy

Inside our culture of craving
Thinking everyone else is
Happy in themselves
And somehow we should do the things that they do

We fuel the culture of craving
   Am
If we had what they had
       D
It wouldn't be so bad
   Am                              D
We could find peace in ourselves

VIPASSANA CHORUS (Quiet) x3

Tall tales of tranquility

VERSE

G                                         C            G

I talk and I sing of Ayurveda and things

Em                                                G

Things that I dream, but never have seen

I’m fast to believe and I’m faster to preach

Of all the things that are still out of my reach

BRIDGE

Bm                                    C                        G

And I’ve told tall tales of tranquility

Em                                                G

But no one in the know believes me

Bm                                    C                        G

That all will be solved if your routine is right

Em                        C                        D

And to be believed would be nice

CHORUS

Some kind of paradise

Paradise

Paradise

Paradise

VERSE

Do I say come jump with me cos it’s me that I won’t choose

What is it left that I still have to lose?

If it’s as good as I say then I’ll never go away

But I've already made plans to leave

BRIDGE + CHORUS

Too many songs

Verse 1
B
I've got so many songs by now
F#
I don't feel the need for more
B
Writing and releasing four albums a year
F#
Email it to 8,000 people, two may download

Verse 2
It's like writing screenplays for films that never get made
Speeches that never get read
Years being a soldier
Without ever tasting blood

Verse 3
(slide down notes)
Bm
I'm becoming depressed
F#m
The music doesn't sound the same
Bm
Trawling around from town to town
F#
Won't build you a strong fan base
Em
But concentric touring is terribly boring
G
Seeing all the same faces
A
In all the same places

Verse 4
(ta da da da)

It takes real application and an unexpectedly sunny december day
To get this far in a song

(slide down notes)

No helping some people

CHORUS
F
There's no helping some people
        C
No matter what you do
Bf
You can write their name in the sky with a plane
F
They won't even say thank you
Am
But still you gotta try, even though they're trying you

VERSE
I got a called Fraser who studies newspapers
He can tell you all that's wrong with the world
But it doesn't make him happy

My girlfriends

My mind

VERSE
G    Em
It's been on my mind for a long time
G      Em
That I ain't got a mind that sticks around

And all the trouble it's made for me
By refusing to be pinned down, and now

BRIDGE
C    G
But don't go telling me it's alright
C    G
And being all positive as you might
Em
I don't choose
D#
Thise views
G
It's bad news

VERSE
I've been drifting in this place here
In the space we know as life

Some days good, some days are bad
Thinking of other times I could have had, it's so sad

BRIDGE

MIDDLE
Floating here in time
Time it takes its course
Course I should be wise
Wise men told me so
So I should take hope
And hope that I will float
Floating here in time
Here in time
Here in time

BRIDGE

(She's not convinced about) The power of Ghee

CHORUS
She's not convinced about the power of ghee oh oh-o, oh ho-o
She's thinks I'm ma-ad, won't listen to me oh ho-o, oh ho-o

She called it saturated fat!!!!
I won't take that

CHORUS

Still not satisfied

This song discusses supermarket products that we trusted and later turned out to be misleading in their ethical claims. In the end though, it's our own insatiable demand that pushes everything, and we live an illusion. When we shop at the big supermarkets we can hardly expect to be supporting the planet in any way.

Fish
Soya

We bought organic eggs in the interests of the chicken
Better for them and me
So we were shocked when we heard that they were given antibiotics
We stopped when  fed antibiotics for the whole of their lives
But we're still not satisfied

Horizon Dairy was a well-respected brand
And we guzzled down gallons of their milk
Only to hear that they were anything but
Ethical and upstanding guys
We were angry to hear how they meant to misguide
But we're still not satisfied

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_42/b4005001.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Milk-Myth-Russell-Eaton/dp/1903339243

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/are-you-being-lied-to-about-recycling.php

http://www.greenoptions.com/forum/thread/911/horizon-milk-is-not-organic-dean-foods-is-nothing-short-of-corrupt

http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=died&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l