Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring (Guitar)

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Written by: Tennant/Lowe 7” version Album version on: “Behaviour” (1990)
        E-A-D-G-B-e
Ebm7    x-x-1-3-2-2 or x-6-8-6-7-6
Emaj7   0-2-2-4-4-4 or x-7-9-8-9-7
F#/G#   4-x-4-3-2-x
F#6     2-4-x-3-4-2
[Intro]
G#m
(freely)
[Chorus] | A | B | G#m7 | C#m7 | | A | B | G#m7 | C#m7 | | A | G#m7 | F#m7 | Emaj7 | % | [Verse]
Fm
 I came across a cache of old photos

    Ebm7
And invitations to teenage parties

Fm
 'Dress in white' one said with quotations

     Ebm7
From someone’s wife, a famous writer

       Gb/Ab     Ab7
In the nineteen-twenties
[Bridge]
C#
 When you’re young you find inspiration 

  F#6
In anyone who’s ever gone

B
 And opened up a closing door

G#m                           | G# | % |
 She said we were never feeling bored
[Chorus]
                   A
‘Cos we were never being boring 

B                 G#m7                C#m
  We had too much time to find for ourselves

                  A
And we were never being boring 

B                   G#m7                       C#m
  We dressed up and fought then thought "make amends"

                  A               G#m7
And we were never holding back or worried that

F#m7                | Emaj7 | % |
Time would come to an end
[Verse]
Fm
 When I went, I left from the station

      Ebm7
With a haversack and some trepidation

Fm
 Someone said if you’re not careful 

       Ebm7
You’ll have nothing left and nothing to care for

      Gb/Ab    Ab7
In my nineteen-seventies
[Bridge]
C#
 But I sat back and looking forward

   F#6
My shoes were high and I had scored

B
 I’d bolted through a closing door

G#m                                | G# | % |
  I would never find myself feeling bored
[Chorus]
                   A
‘Cos we were never being boring 

B                 G#m7                C#m
  We had too much time to find for ourselves

                  A
And we were never being boring 

B                   G#m7                       C#m
  We dressed up and fought then thought "make amends"

                  A               G#m7
And we were never holding back or worried that

F#m7                  B
Time would come to an end

                A           G#m7
We were always hoping that, looking back

          F#m7             Emaj7
You could always rely on a friend
[Interlude] | Ebm7 | Emaj7 | Ebm7 | Emaj7 | | Eb | % | [Verse]
Fm
 Now I sit with different faces 

  Ebm7
In rented rooms and foreign places

Fm
 All the people I was kissing

Ebm7
 Some are here and some are missing

       Gb/Ab    Ab7
In the nineteen-nineties
[Bridge]
C#
 I never dreamt that I would get to be

F#6
 The creature I always meant to be

B
 But I thought in spite of dreams

G#m                                | G# | % |
 You’d be sitting somewhere her with me
[Chorus]
                   A
‘Cos we were never being boring 

B                 G#m7                C#m
  We had too much time to find for ourselves

                  A
And we were never being boring 

B                   G#m7                       C#m
  We dressed up and fought then thought "make amends"

                  A               G#m7
And we were never holding back or worried that

F#m7                  B
Time would come to an end

               A            G#m7
We were always hoping that, looking back

          F#m7             Emaj7
You could always rely on a friend
[Outro]
                  A
And we were never being boring

B         G#m7        C#m7
  We were never being bored

                   A
‘Cos we were never being boring

B         G#m7        C#m7
  We were never being bored

| A | G#m7 | F#m7 | Emaj7 | % | % | % |
                           (fade out)