Violent Femmes – Telephone Book (Guitar)

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From their fourth studio album "3". ---------------------------------- Verse 1:

  G
I look at my telephone book

I look at my telephone book I can't stand the way it look I hate to think the way you took me

Em
Down into a burning rage

I wrote your name on every page

    G         D         G
But you don't return my calls

Verse 2:

G
You don't return my calls

You don't return my calls I'm ready to bust down these walls I'm going down Niagara Falls

Em
 In a barrel of fun hey ain't I a lucky one?

G         D         G
You don't return my calls

Verse 3:

G
My telephone is the color red

My telephone is the color red The red is all in my head Some things are left better unsaid

Em
Is that why you don't try

To acknowledge or reply?

    G         D         G
Why you don't return my calls?

Repeat Verse 1: Verse 4:

C                                 G
Did you hear from an old friend I knew once way back when

Em                         C             D
I did some bad things to myself and my health?

C                                G
Or did you happen to hear an old song I once sang?

      Em                                            C
Did it make your sweet sweet blood run cold in your veins

             D                          G
And will you never think of me the same?