Chord Booklet

Ultravox

10 songs|20 chords used|Hard

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Chords used

Ab/Eb

Csus4

C#m

Fmaj7

Young Savage

Key: DbHard

Ab/Eb

Csus4

DbEbFmAb/Eb

DbC7sus4C

Eb F The Jekyll-Hyde of you

Eb F I can't survive the tide of you

Ab Bb The vicious style of love, the whining

Ab Bb Pits and pendulums of lying

Db Eb I don't see how you survive in

Db Eb Hard-line worlds you're advertising

FSneaky features, facing, waiting, City sex is so frustrating

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbShe's like a steel wall, Speaks like a dance hall

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbAnything goes where no-one knows your nFame

Eb F The mirror love of vixens

Eb F Gets over the mask of victims

Ab Bb Money rents you insulation

Ab Bb Tenderness, asphyxiation

Db Eb Someone else's flesh to borrow

Db Eb Sling it from your bed tomorrow

FLive too fast for love or sorrow, Look behind the face, it's hollow

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbShe's like a steel wall, Speaks like a dance hall

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbAnything goes where no-one knows your

Dbname Eb Fm Ab/Eb

DbCsus4FmFm

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbShe's like a steel wall, Speaks like a dance hall

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbAnything goes where no-one knows your name

FThe broken heart of you

FWho stole, who stole a part of you

BbChanging blossoms into piss

BbAnd taking bites from every kiss

EbThe past is dead, tomorrow's too far

EbAll the chemicals that bar us

FColoured hair, cheap tattoos, That tell you all their points of view

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbShe's like a steel wall, Speaks like a dance hall

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbAnything goes where no-one knows your

Dbname Eb Fm Ab/Eb

DbEbFmAb/Eb

DbCsus4FmFm

n.c.

Condemned to be a stranger

Subway dweller, dead-end danger

Ab Bb Peeking through the dust of friends

Ab Bb Who never gave, they'd only lend

Db Eb Every sneer is thrown away

Db Eb With practised gestures of disdain

Eb F The outlaw stance is so pedantic, Hate the world, it's so romantic

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbShe's like a steel wall, Speaks like a dance hall

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbAnything goes where no-one knows your

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbShe's like a steel wall, Speaks like a dance hall

CYoung savage, Young savage, BbAnything goes where no-one knows your Fname

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Fear In The Western World

Key: AMedium

AYour picture of yourself is a Fmedia mGyth

AUnderneath this floor we're on the Fedge of a Gcliff

ASomeone told me Jesus was the DFevil's lGover

AWhile we masturbated on a maFgazine cGover

ADead in the streets WFho's that Ggirl?

AIreland screams AFfrica bGurns

ASuburbia stumbles The Ftides are Gturned

AI can feel the fear in the FWestern Gworld

AI can feel the fear in the FWestern G The Western

Aworld F G

AFG

AMama's still on valium, DFaddy puts theG news on

ATV orphans laugh at the cFonfusiGon

AThe audience finds itself Fon the sGtage

AFifty million people in a sFtate of Gdecay

ADead in the streets WFho's that Ggirl?

AIreland screams AFfrica bGurns

ASuburbia stumbles The Ftides are Gturned

AI can feel the fear in the FWestern Gworld

AI can feel the fear in the FWestern G The Western

Aworld F G

AFG

AThe party goes on behind eFlevator dGoors

AWhile the elevator plummets froFm the 69th Gfloor

AAll the cars lost in the scraFpyards of pGaradise

AThe newspaper photographs have Fall come Galive

ADead in the streets WFho's that Ggirl?

AIreland screams AFfrica bGurns

ASuburbia stumbles The Ftides are Gturned

AI can feel the fear in the FWestern Gworld

AI can feel the fear in the FWestern G The Western

Aworld F G

A F G repeat lots to end

AI can feel the fear in the FWestern Gworld

AI can feel the fear in the FWestern The Western

Aworld

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Rockwrock

Key: CHard

CBlast off, the Bbwalls are down

CCast off, the wBbolves are out

CCome on, there'Bbs no time, I can'tA wait A

GRip off my clotFhes, I'm stripping yours

GHarder we're stFarved, wired and barbed

DWhat a magnificFent disgraceE E

BCome on, let's tangleE in the dark, dark

BFuck like a dog, biteE like a shark, shark

BWhen it's wet and hotE you want to rockwrok rockwrok, rockwrok rockwrokrockwrok

CPenetration boyBbs in hotel lifts

CInvitations onBb sinking ships

CThe whole wide Bbworld fits hip toA hip A

GIn aircraft destFroyers and cinema foyers

GThe chaste and thFe chasers, amazing the neighbours

GK.Y.-ed and willFing, stripped to Egrip E

BA stumble rumba in thEe dark, dark

BFuck like a dog, biteE like a shark, shark

BThe population's got Eto rockwrok rockwrok, rockwrok rockwrokrockwrok

GECE

ACDE

GECE

BA doodlebugger in tEhe dark, dark

BFuck like a dog, biEte like a shark, shark

BWhen the times are Etough you've got to rockwrok rockwrok, rockwrok rockwrokrockwrok

BA nimble mambo in tEhe park, park

BFuck like a dog, biEte like a shark, shark

BThe population's goEt to rockwrok rockwrok, rockwrok rockwrokrockwrok

BAn anal sailor in tEhe bar, bar

BFuck like a dog, biEte like a shark, shark

BWhen it's wet and hEot you want to rockwrok rockwrok, rockwrok

Rockwrok, rockwrok

BA lucky sucker inE the car park

BFuck like a dog, Ebite like a shark, shark

BThere's nothing leEft for us, just rockwrok rockwrok, rockwrok rockwrokrockwrok

BA willing waltzer Ein the car stark

BFuck like a dog, bEite like a shark, shark

BAusterity makes youE want to rockwrok rockwrok, rockwrok

Rockwrok

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The Thin Wall

Key: AMedium

AThe sound is on the visions move, the image dance starts once again

AThey shuffle with a bovine grace and glide in syncopation

AJust living lines from books we've read, with atmospheres of days gone by

AWith paper smiles the screenplay calls, a message for the nation

AAnd those who sneer will fade and die and those who laugh will surely fall

AAnd those who know will always feel their backs against the thin wa-Gall

G Bb The thin Dmwall, C G Bb thin Dmwall C Am

AGrey men who speak of victory, shed light upon their stolen life

AThey drive by night and act as if, they're moved by unheard music

ATo step in time and play the part, with velvet voices smooth and cold

ATheir power games a game no more, and long the chance to use it

AAnd those who dance will spin and turn and those who wait will wait no more

AAnd those who talk will hear the word and those who sneer will fade and die

AAnd those who laugh will surely fall and those who know will always feel their backs against the thin wa-Gall

G Bb The thin Dmwall, C G Bb thin Dmwall C Am

AmDmGDmGAm

AAnd those who dance will spin and turn and those who wait will wait no more

AAnd those who talk will hear the word and those who sneer will fade and die

AAnd those who laugh will surely fall and those who know will always feel their backs against the thin wa-Gall

G Bb The thin Dmwall C Am A

DmAnd those who dance (The thin wall) and those who talk (The thin wall)

DmAnd those who sneer (The thin wall) and those who laugh (The thin wall)

DmAnd those who know (The thin wall) and those who dance (The thin wall)

DmAnd those who wait (The thin wall) and those who talk...

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New Europeans

Key: AmMedium

AmIn a quiet street washed Eby the rain, Dmthe room within theAm home.

AmA lonely man sits Echeek to cheek, with Dmunique designs inAm chrome.

DmThe mellow years have Bblong gone by, Cbut now he sits Dmalone.

DmHe has a brand new Bbradio, Cbut never turns it Eon.

Am FNew EuropeanAms

Am FYoung EuropeaAmns.

Am FNew EuropeanEs.

AmA photograph of Elovers lost, liesDm pressed in magaziAmnes.

AmHer eyes belong to Ea thousand girlsDm, she's the wife who's neverAm seen.

DmTheir educated son has Bbleft, in sCearch of borrowed Dmdreams.

DmHis television's iBbn his bed, Che's frozen to the Escreen.

Am FNew EuropeanAms

Am FYoung EuropeaAmns.

Am FNew EuropeanEs.

AmOn a crowded beach washed Eby the sun, he Dmputs his headphonesAm on.

AmHis modern world Erevolves around Dmthe synthesizer's Amsong.

DmFull of future Bbthoughts and thrills, Chis senses slip Dmaway.

DmHe's a European Bblegacy, aC culture for toEday.

Am FNew EuropeanAms

Am FYoung EuropeaAmns.

Am FNew EuropeanEs.

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Loves Great Adventure

Key: GMedium

StandiGng Emon my own

It didn't mean that mGuch to me

I thought I had it all Em

I didn't see the Cmystery

I stood the test of time Am

And took the step to find C

Love's great advDenture

G I spoEmke a million words

They didn't mean that Gmuch to me

They rang around my hEmead

Like empty tuneless Charmonies

Love's great adDventure's mineG D C

DGDCDEmBmAm

G Lying sidEme by side

It didn't mean that mGuch to me

But starting to enjoy Em

The poetry and sCymphonies

I took it in my stride Am

And hailed the day I tried C

Love's great advDenture

G A fool who couldn't Emsee

It didn't mean that mGuch to me

I couldn't understEmand

That's how the game is mCeant to be

Love's great advDenture's mineG

GEmBmAmD

Bm Love's great adventure

Bm Love's great adventure DOh

G StEmanding on my own

It didn't mean that mGuch to me

I thought I had it all Em

I didn't see the mCystery

I stood the test of time Am

And took the step to find C

Love's great advDenture mineG

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White China

Key: EMedium

C#m

EC#mD

EC#mDC

When Epale turns to pink D with a soft unnerving ease

E and all you've built aDround may just tumble..

to the Dground. Will you stand or fall? With your future

in aEnother's hands.

DWill you stand or fall? When your life is not your Eown. C

When Ewhite turns to red D in the not too distant days

E will force and miseDry, be the life you have to...

..Dlead? Will you stand or fall? With your children in aEnother's world

DWill you stand or fall? When your town is not your Eown.

E White ChiDna

E White ChiDna C

EWhen crimson takes a hold, the Dlights go down on all you've ever known

E and all you'll ever Ddo is worked out for you

DWill you stand or fall? When the thoughts you have are Enot your own.

DWill you stand or fall? Oh, when the freedom slips aEway.

Refrain

E White ChiDna

E White ChiDna E C

Instrumental

EC#mD

E White ChiDna

E White ChiDna E C

E White ChiDna

E White ChiDna E

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I Want To Be A Machine

Key: AmMedium

Fmaj7

I founAmd tFhe bones of all your ghosts

EmLocked in the wishing well

Fmaj7While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets

GI slumbered in my shell

AmIn Fmitternacht, die mensch-maschine

EmKissed me on my eyes

Fmaj7I rose and left the fire-ladies

GGlowing lonely in the night

Fmaj7With all the pornographers

EmBurnAing torches beneath the sea

EmI wanFt toG be a machine

EmI want to be a machine

AmI sFtole a cathode face from newscasts

EmAnd a crumbling fugue of songs

Fmaj7From the reservoir of video souls

GIn the lakes beneath my tongue

AmIn Fflesh of ash and silent movies

EmI walked at boulevards again

Fmaj7A nebula of unfinished creatures

GFrom the lifetimes of my friends

Fmaj7I hope yEmour Ainnocence has depraved me

Chorus

AmBroFadcast me, scrambled clean

EmOr free me from this flesh

Fmaj7Let the armchair cannibals take their fill

GIn every cell across wilderness

AmWe'Fll trip such a strangled tango

EmWe'll waltz a wonderland affair

Fmaj7Let's run to meet the tide tomorrow

GLeave all emotion dying there

Fmaj7In the sEmtar Acold beyond all of your dreams

Chorus

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One Small Day

Key: AMedium

if theA stack is high agaiDnst...

Aand the hammers...

Aand the time that´s youDrs...

Ain your hands....

FOh, my sentimental....

the fast must reaEch an end A D

one dAay

One Cday

when I didnt die a Fthousand times

where I could satisfy this life ofEm mine one sCmall day

One Cday

where every hour could a Fjoy to me and

live a life the way it´s meant toEm be one smCall day

ALying face down on Dthe cold stone......

One Cday

where I didn´t die a Fthousand times

where I could satisfy this life of mine oEmne

dCay

where every hour could be a Fjoy to me

and live a life its meant to be oEmne

dCay.....

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10.

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Key: GMedium

SomehoGw weF drifted off too far

ComGmunicate like distant stars

SplFintered voices down the 'phone

The AmsunlGit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no

SAmomeoGne waits behind the door

HirFoshima mon amour

GRidiFng inter-city trains

DreGssed in European grey

RidFing out to echo beach

A miAmllioGn memories in the trees and sands, oh no

HAmow cGan I ever let them go?

HirFoshima mon amour

GMeetF beneath the autumn lake

WheGre only echoes penetrate

WalFk through polaroids of the past

FutuAmre'sG fused like shattered glass, the sun's so low

TAmurnsG our silhouettes to gold

HirFoshima mon amour

(sax riff)

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