Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Complicated Shadows (Guitar)

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[Intro] A D G x4 [Verse]
           A                   D G
Well, you know your time has come

            A                     D G
And you're sorry for what you've done

                D                                                  A  D G
You should've never been playing with a gun in those complicated shadows

                 A                  D G
Well, there's a line that you must toe

             A              D G
And it will soon be time to go

               D                                     A     D G   A  D
But it's darker than you know in those complicated shadows
[Chorus]
           G                                     D
All you gangsters and rude clowns,   Who were shooting up the town

           E                                   A    D  G  A  D
When you should've found someone to put the blame on

            G                              D
Though the fury's hot and hard,   I still see that cold graveyard

            E
There's a solitary stone that's got your name on
[Verse]
           A                    D  G
You don't have to take it from me

       A              D  G
But I know of what I spake

            A                     D  G
You think you're like iron and steel

              E                                               A      D  G  A  D  G
But iron and steel will bend and break in these complicated shadows
No... A D G x3 A D [Chorus]
           G                                 D
Sometimes justice, you will find,   Is just dumb not color blind

         E                                 A      D G   A D
And your poor shattered mind can't take it all in

             G                                   D
All those phantoms and their shades, Should jump up on Judgement Day

     E
And say to the Almighty "I'm still stinking of sin"
[Verse]
         A            D  G
But the jury was dismissed

          A                       D  G
Took his neck and they gave it a twist

        D                                               A    D G  A D
So you see, you won't be missed in those complicated shadows

         A                 D  G
You can say just what you like

      A                      D  G
In a voice like a John Ford film

          A              D  G
Take the law into your hands

              D                                               A    D  G
And you will soon get tired of killing in those complicated shadows

             A      D  G
Complicated shadows x3
[Outro] A D G x12