Elvis Costello – I Cant Turn It Off (Guitar)

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Basement babies strangling saxophones

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They got twisted motives, they got eyes of stone

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And it's a terminal condition that is tattooed on their shoes

             G
It's not that they don't need you

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Broken noses hung up high on the wall

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Back-slapping drinkers cheer the championship brawl

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But they're so punch drunk they don't understand the word defeat

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They can take you out and shoot you

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They can't confiscate that beat

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Steam engineer breaks down in the newsreel

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He's seen the future of the diesel wheel

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Listen to the hammers falling in the breaker's yard

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When you're used to the glamour it comes at you twice as hard

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Sometimes I think that I have had enough

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Sometimes I scare myself by giving up

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Oh you know that I can't turn it off

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Young girl rehearses all her blackmail faces

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She's looking for a love that lasts

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She'd never break the heart of any aces

          G
But she's learning pretty fast

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I've seen those clowns running all over town

         C                     F
Trying to satisfy all of their carnival desires

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They start out looking for their own melody

     G
They end up in the closing time choirs

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All you lucky people crying in your beer

             C                    F
When it comes down to silence not even tears

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You're in real trouble between the two

             Dm
When it comes down to me

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When it comes down to you

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But there must be something you're allowed to keep

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In between all of these pantomimes

       Dm            Em
Oh it's very easy to let love fall asleep

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When you are worrying about hard times

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Sometimes I think that I have had enough

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Sometimes I scare myself by giving up

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Oh you know that I can't turn it off

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Oh you know that I can't turn it off