Lost weekend (1985)
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1. It took a lost weekend in a hotel in Amsterdam
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and a
double pneumonia in a single room.
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And the sickest joke was the
price of the medicine.
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Are you laughing at me now ? May I, please, laugh along with you.
+ G - D - Em - C (2x)
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2. This morning I woke up from a deep unquiet sleep
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with
ashtray clothes and miss lonely heart's pen.
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With which I wrote for you a
love song in tattoo upon my palm,
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'twas
stolen from me when Jesus took my hand.
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You see, I, I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it,
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drop me and I'll fall to
pieces so easily !
+ G - D - Em - C (2x)
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3. I was a king bee, with a head full of attitude,
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wore
my heart on my sleeve like a stain and my aim
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was
taboo, you could remain in the market place,
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did I
ever, hey, please, did you woo my knees.
+ CHORUS
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+ There's nobody else to
blame,
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will
I hang my head in a crying shame ?
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There's nobody else to blame,
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nobody
else except my sweet self again.
+ G - D - Em - C (4x) + Bb - C - Bb - C
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4. It took a lost weekend in a hotel in Amsterdam,
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twenty
four long years to conclude in tears,
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and
the sickest joke was the price of the medicine.
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Are you laughing at me now ? May I, please, laugh along with you.
+ G - D - Em - C (2x)
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5. I was a king bee, with a head full of attitude,
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and an
ashtray heart on my sleeve, wounded knees.
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Em C
And my one love song was a
tattoo upon my palm,
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you
wrote upon me when you took my hand.
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You see, I, I
wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it,
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drop me and I'll fall to
pieces so easily !
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+ Too easily. Too easily. + G - D - Em - C (4x) - G
(orig. = capo 2nd) (Lloyd Cole
& The Commotions)