Elvis Costello & The Attractions – My Dark Life (Guitar)

Bdim = 78979X
F#m6,9 = XX789X (or XXX244)

A2
She says nobody wants to believe

C/G
You're the same as everyone.

F                        G#m     C#m
What makes me unique?    My Dark Life.

Am
There was a kink in the world

C/G
Sent that statue tumbling

F             G#m
An invitation east

C#m
So we can watch it all crumbling

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She came off like a light and so softly she spoke:

F   G      Am                            F   G   Am
"You don't know, no you don't know about my dark life"

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And you think you're a guest, you're a tourist at best

F G     Am                  F    G    Am
Peering into the corners of your dark life

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Now that you tear your dreams from consumptive ballerinas

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She'd stand on tiptoes for you in a grey and tattered tutu

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She stays where she is because of voyeurs like these

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With an accusative look that says My Dark Life.

Bb         Am                Bb             Bdim                 F#m6,9
Robber men await you then in each beguiling alley

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To shake you and to pierce you and remind you of

F#aug
My Dark Life.

Am                              C/G
Enter the pious elite, in their preening finery

    F              G#m
And bang the tambourine

    C#m
They're dining on rice paper scenery

Am                           C/G
See how the villian attracts envious glances from everyone

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She's waitressing by day

C#m
It doesn't bring in much money now

C                        Em           F          Am
And his strong concealed arms set off bells and alarms

F   G    Am                   F  G    Am
In the strangest locations of My Dark Life

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But the fantasy slipped as he tipped her in cigarettes

F      G     Am                    F     G   Am
She tries to smile very graciously when she wants to kill him

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Now the victory is sweet, you'll get down on your knees

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F#m6,9

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So they came from Ugly Texas and from Nameless Tennessee

Bb        Am           Bb              Bdim
From Peculiar Missouri and from places closer to me.

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All the cream of heartless England, cheered the carnival is over

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There are remnants of Red Army bandsmen

F       F#  G  Am/C        Bm
Played "America The Beautiful"