Vampire Weekend – Diplomats Son (Guitar)

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[Intro] F# G#m C# C#7 [Verse 1]
         F#    G#m C#
It's not right,

                  F#    G#m C#
but it's now or never

         F# G#m C#
And if I wa-a-a-ait

                      F#    G#m C#
could I ever forgive myself?

    F#    G#m C#

On a night

                                  F#     G#m C#
when the moon glows yellow in the riptide

         F# G#m C#
With the li-i-i-ight

                            F#   G#m7 C#7
from the TVs buzzing in the house

      F#                     G#m
Cause I'm gonna cut it where I can

         C#                   C#7

And then I'm gonna duck out behind them

     F#                     G#m
If I ever had a chance it's now then

      C#                            C#7           F#   G#m7 C#7
But I never had the feeling I could offer that to you

[Pre-chorus]
   F#          G#m          C#7
To offer it to you would be cruel

                   F#       G#m   C#7
When all I want to do is use, use you
[Chorus 1]
                    F#
He was a diplomat's son

G#m               C#   C#7
   It was ‘eighty-one,

                    F#
He was a diplomat's son

G#m               C#   C#7
   It was ‘eighty-one, oh-oh-oh-oh
F# G#m C# C#7 F# G#m C# C#7 [Verse 2]
           F#    G#m C#
Dressed in white

        C#7                    F#    G#m C# C#7
with my car keys hidden in the kitchen

        F#    G#m C#
I could sleep

    C#7           F#    G#m C# C#7
wherever I lay my head

        F#    G#m C#
And the sight

        C#7                      F#      G#m C# C#7
of your two shoes sitting in the bathtub

       F#    G#m C#
Let me know

       C#7                   F#
that I shouldn't give up just yet

      F#                     G#m
Cause I'm gonna take it from Simon

         C#                   C#7
And then I'm gonna duck out behind them

     F#                     G#m
If I ever had a chance it's now then

      C#                            C#7           F#   G#m7 C#7

But I never had the feeling I could offer that to you
[Pre-chorus]
   F#          G#m          C#
To offer it to you would be cruel

     C#7           F#       G#m   C#  C#7
When all I want to do is use, use you
[Chorus 1]
                    F#
He was a diplomat's son

G#m               C#   C#7
   It was ‘eighty-one,

                    F#
He was a diplomat's son

G#m               C#   C#7
   It was ‘eighty-one, oh-oh-oh-oh
[Bridge] B F# F# C#7 B F# F# C#7
B        F#
  I know, you'll say

F#            C#7
I'm not doing it right

    B             F#
But this is how I want it
F# C#7
B        F#
  I can't go back

F#         C#7
  To how I felt before
[Verse 3]
F#              G#m
   That night I smoked a joint

     C#
With my best friend

   C#7                F#
We found ourselves in bed

            G#m       C#    C#7
When I woke up he was gone
[Chorus 2]
F#          G#m
   He was a diplomat's son

C#         C#7
   It was ‘eighty-one,

F#          G#m
   He was a diplomat's son

C#         C#7
   It was ‘eighty-one
[Instrumental break] F# G#m C# C#7 F# G#m C# C#7 B F# F# C#7 B F# F# C#7 [Outro] F# G#m C# F# G#m C#
        F# G#m C#
Looking out

                           F#       G#m C#
at the ice cold water all around me

       F#    G#m C#
I can't feel

                        F#     G#m C#
any traces of that other place

      F#    G#m C#
In the dark

                                   F#    G#m C#
when the wind comes racing off the river

          F# G#m C#
There's a car

                          F#     G#m C#
all black with diplomatic plates