Joel Plaskett – Please Dont Return (Guitar)

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Outtake from "Down at the Khyber" (2001); Released on "EMERGENCYs..." (2011). 4,5,6... [verse]:
          C             G        D     G
You mix shots from the bar in a Mason jar,

          C           G        D   Dsus4 D
You went down to the lake to swim.

  C                 G         D        G
Thinking 'bout the times you lived to love,

         C           D       G
And the day you left me for him.
[verse]:
     C           G      D       G
We used to hang out in parking lots,

     C           G      D    Dsus4 D
We used to make out in cars.

     C           G        D      G
We used to make something of ourselves,

     C           D      G
And now we hang out in bars.
[prechorus]:
           Cmaj7
And every second, of every minute,

            Am
You make a mess, I'll get in it.

     Cmaj7                      Am
This love's gonna burn to the ground.

            D
It's gonna burn...
[chorus]:
     C  G   D       G       C            G    D
So please, don't return. Please don't return.

  C  G   D       G       C            G   D
please, don't return, please don't return.
[verse]:
         C           G      D      G
You got lost on the way out to my house,

      C               G             D   Dsus4 D
You showed up in the middle of the night.

   C              G          Cmaj7    Am
Knocking on the windows...alright, alright.
[verse]:
  C               G           D          G
Showed up at the party 'bout half past twelve,

     C                 G        D     Dsus4 D
Got pissed while they all got stoned.

  C            G                D         G
People 'round here they wanna please themselves,

              C        D     G
Or else they wanna be left alone.
[prechorus]:
           Cmaj7
And every second of every hour,

           Am
We make a deal, it goes sour.

     Cmaj7                     Am
This love's gonna burn to the ground.

            D
It's gonna burn...
[chorus]:
     C  G  D       G       C            G   D
So please don't return, Please don't return.

  C G   D       G      C              G  D
Please don't return, please don't return.

  C G   D       G     C             G    D
Please don't return please don't return.

  C G   D       G     C             G    D
Please don't return please don't return.
[piano outro]:
          C             G        D
You mix shots from the bar in a mason jar,

          C           G        D
You went down to the lake to swim.

  C                 G         D        G
Thinking 'bout the times you lived to love.

         C           D       G    C G C G C G D G
And the day you left me for him.