Nerina Pallot - Blood is blood
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Song title: Blood Is Blood
Original Album: Dear Frustrated Superstar
Words and Music by Nerina Pallot
Copyright © 2001 Polydor Records
Published by Chrysalis Music Publishing Ltd/Mute Song Ltd.
Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net) (http://www.gartfrets.net)
NOTES:
I've transcribed the beautiful piano INTRO, that you might want to try if
you have a second guitar to play the chords.
On the record there is a backing vocal line that runs through the last chorus.
I've added it here only for the sake of completeness.
This is a cool song with some great changes. Hope you enjoy!
INTRO:
Chords:
C#m x46654 A x02220
G#m 455444 B x24442
E 022100
[play: Guitar Figure 1] [x2]
Guitar Figure 1
C#m E
|-----------------4-------4------|-----------------7-------7------|
|-----4---5---7-------5-------7--|-----7---9---10-----------------|
|-6------------------------------|-9-------------------9-------9--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|
A B
|-----------------7-------7------|--------------------------------|
|-----7---9---10-----------------|-5-------5-------8-------8------|
|-9-------------------9-------9--|-----6-------6-------9-------9--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|
VERSE:
Chords:
C#m x46654 A x02220
G#m 455444 B x24442
E 022100
C#mTinker-G#mbell, my Ewinged Bfriend, I Athink we got it Bwrong.
No C#mfairy G#mtale or Ehappy Bend, just Aprehistoric Bsongs.
A C#mcrystal G#min my Ebaby's Beyes, I Awant what I can't Blove
So C#mnow I've G#mlearnt how Eto desBpise, I Athink I've learnt eBnough...
CHORUS:
Chords:
E 022100 B x24442
A x02220 B7 x2120x
F#m 244222
If blood is Eblood, then blood will Aflow
That's all it F#mdoes, that's all it Bknows
But I've one Equestion, I want Asomething, I want Bmore.
Flesh is Eflesh, an urgent Afire
It drags you F#mdown, this cheap deBsire.
We all want Esomething, maybe Abeauty, maybe Bmore...
VERSE:
Absolution, constitution, leave it all behind
Take off your shirt, your worried face, and let me lose your mind.
I thought that I might change the world, but all I changed was me.
So now I sleep most days and think of where it all might lead.
[repeat CHORUS]
BRIDGE:
Chords:
C#m x46654 B 799877
G#m 466444 C/G 335553
A 577655 D x57775
C#mBlood G#mwill Arain a little,
ADown C#meach Amountainside -
C/GEvery Dcloud will bring you Ahere.
[Instrumental / Guitar SOLO over VERSE chords]
CHORUS:
Notes:
If you're busking this, you might want to play B7 (7978 10 7) on the last line
of the CHORUS, the last time around (e.g. on the "all" of "we all want
something..."). Just a little yearning touch to finish...
Oh blood is Eblood, and blood will Aflow
That's all it F#mdoes, that's all it Bknows
But I've one Equestion, I want Asomething, I want Bmore.
So flesh is Eflesh, an urgent Afire
(So flesh is flesh, and it twists the soul)
It drags you F#mdown, this cheap deBsire
(Like a tourniquet, like a begging bowl)
We all want Esomething, maybe Abeauty, maybe Bmore
(Like some long forbidden treasure in the dirt...)
Oh blood is blood, and blood will flow -
(Blood is Blood, and it's on our hands)
That's all it does, that's all it knows
(That's the price of grace for the common man)
But I've one question, I want something, I want more
(For that one good hour you pay with all your life)
I want C#mmore
[play: Guitar Figure 1]
I want C#mmore