CD/CCD/CC
[Verse 1]
D/CCD/CC
It's safe in the city, to love in a doorway
DEmD
To wrangle some screens from the door
CD/CCD/C
And isn't it me, putting pain in a stranger?
CDEm
Like a portrait in flesh, who trails on a leash
DCD/CCD/C
Will you see that I'm scared and I'm lonely?
CDEm
So I'll break up my room, and yawn and I
DBm
Run to the center of things,
Where the knowing one says
[Chorus]
DmAmG
Boys, boys, it's a sweet thing
DmAmFG
Boys, boys, it's a sweet thing, sweet thing
DmAm/CG/BG
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing
DmAmFGC
'Cause hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing
[Verse 2]
D/CC
I'm glad that you're older than me
D/CC
Makes me feel important and free
DEmD
Does that make you smile, isn't that me?
CD/CCD/C
I'm in your way, and I'll steal every moment
CD
If his trade is a curse, then I'll bless you
EmDBm
And turn to the crossroads of hamburgers, and
[Chorus]
DmAmG
Boys, boys, it's a sweet thing
DmAmFG
Boys, boys, it's a sweet thing, sweet thing
DmAm/CG/BG
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing
DmAmFG
'Cause hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing
[Solo]
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2. Song: Candidate
[Sax and guitar solo]
DmAmGDmAmGDmAmGDmAmGDmAmG
[Verse]
DmAm
I'll make you a deal, like any other candidate
G
We'll pretend we're walking home 'cause your future's at stake
DmAm
My set is amazing, it even smells like a street
G
There's a bar at the end where I can meet you and your friend
DmAmG
Someone scrawled on the wall "I smell the blood of les tricoteuses"
Who wrote up scandals in other bars
DmAm
I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people
G
Spreading rumours and lies and stories they made up
DmAm
Some make you sing and some make you scream
G
One makes you wish that you've never been seen
DmAm
But there's a shop on the corner that's selling paper mache
G
Making bulletproof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay
DmAmG
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing
DmAm
So you scream out of line "I want you! I need you!
G
Anyone out there? Any time?"
DmAm
Tres butch little number whines "Hey dirty, I want you
G
When it's good, it's really good, and when it's bad I go to pieces"
DmAmG
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing
DmAm
Well, on the street where you live I could not hold up my head
G
For I put all I have in another bed
DmAm
On another floor, in the back of a car
G
In the cellar like a church with the door ajar
DmAm
Well, I guess we must be looking for a different kind
G
But we can't stop trying 'til we break up our minds
DmAm
'Til the sun drips blood on the seedy young nights
G
Who press you on the ground while shaking in fright
DmAm
I guess we could cruise down one more time
G
With you by my side, it should be fine
DmAm
We'll buy some drugs and watch a band
G
Then jump in the river holding hands
3. Song: Sweet thing (reprise)
(Sax solo)
DmAmGDmAmG
[Verse]
DmAm/CG
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing
DmAmFGC
'Cause hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing
D/CCD/CC
Is it nice in your snow storm, freezing your brain?
DEmD
Do you think that your face looks the same?
CD/CCD/C
Then let it be, it's all I ever wanted
CD
Its a street with a deal, and a taste
EmDGA/G
Its got claws, its got me, its got you