Chords for Bette Midler - Making Of The Rose Interview - Up Close With David Sheehan - 1978

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_ [D] A concert stage has long ago been proclaimed [Bm] unique, but this concert is more than unique because it is being [Gb] performed for movie cameras
The distractions of an audience [Ab] sprinkled with movie extras and an auditorium littered with movie-making [E]
apparatus is enough to distress any singer
But for bett midler the [Ab] aggravation is worth it because what you're seeing is the making of her movie debut as bett
Sings and acts [E] the title role in the rose a picture that won't be finished until [Bm] sometime next year
[B] It happens to be the story of a [E] wild and erratic singer patterned after the likes of Janis Joplin
[B] Bet does resemble some way
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[E] _ _ _ the rose takes place during the psychedelic 60s and in many ways bett midler is the perfect choice to personify the turbulence of that
Time when rock and roll [B] stars seem to [Ab] symbolize a general hunger for intensity and a more unconventional kind of lifestyle
I [D] guess there's a reason why people wind up in the business in show business and in rock [Gb] and roll
[Ab] It's a rock and roll especially is is is is for people who want to live fast
you know and want to be known for living fast and and
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I'm like that, you know, I have a little bit of that not as much as some
But I'm a very [C] simple person this girl the girl that I'm playing is a lot more complex than [Ab] that because she really is at the bottom
She drinks and and and is in that is in that [E] whirlpool of
Drugs and [B] alcohol and that [Gb] distorts your vision so much [B] that you often find yourself
_ Unable to get out [Dbm] of the [B] from the pit of that whirlpool, you know _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] Every time you read about this film
It's described as the [D] last eight days in the life of Janis Joplin now, is that true or not?
This [B] is it this is not the story of Janis Joplin _ I would never
_ _ _ Do this story of [Bm] Janis Joplin.
This is a this is a made-up story.
This is fiction _
Any [G] resemblance to persons living or dead is purely [B] coincidental _
Not intentional not intentional.
See I really love Janis.
[Ab] I she started me out started me singing because I had never seen women
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_ _ Behave like that on stage.
I didn't know any I didn't know you were allowed to do that
Had no idea that you could dance and carry on I mean [B] shake your tail feathers like that
And it was so much look like so much [G] fun.
I said I gotta do that.
I want to do that
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_ _ [B] Singing _ _ _ _ for the [Ab] movie cameras is one thing but for Bette Midler to suddenly have to become a dramatic actress
[D] Playing opposite a well [B]-trained veteran like Alan Bates seems like a rough assignment _ _
It hasn't been rough.
I mean, I don't know if it's any good or not
But I'm certainly not beating [Ab] my breast about it.
You must have some idea by [D] now.
No, I have no idea
I haven't seen [B] a thing.
I've seen no dailies.
Oh, you're not going to Russia.
No, I'm not I won't go
Well because I'm kind of I know myself fairly well having spent
Lodi's 21 years with myself at least at least 20 and _ _
_ I don't like to watch myself.
I don't it makes me it makes me ill
So [Ab] I've decided I decided at the start [D] of this film that I wouldn't see I wouldn't see any rushes because I didn't want to get
Too loony about [Ab] it.
You know, I wanted to be calm
[Bm] Just do my work and then at the end
I hope [B] not.
I hope not too.
You're crazy about the way you look.
Well, I'm crazy about the way I look
I think most human beings are
_ They [D] they they you know, they don't [Bm] they're not exactly what they want to look like
You [B] know and when when you see yourself blown up to that size, I can think it can be pretty intimidating
You know a feature that you thought was okay
_ In life size is probably no
_ Like Mount Everest in
[Bm] On a screen 40 feet high.
So I don't [B] I didn't bother I let the people who know what they're doing do it
So you still have yet to see yourself?
I have yet to see myself on the big screen.
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Probably won't see myself on the big screen
Probably keep going keep making movies and I had never never going to them.
You will see the finished product though, won't you?
No, I don't think so.
You're serious.
I know [Bm] I'm not into that kind of
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Premier nonsense.
No, I don't go for that.
I mean
_ To be in a [Bm] crowd of people in a crowd of 800 people and all of them are wondering what [Db] you're thinking
And [Ab] all that energy focused on you.
I don't think I could bear it
Really, but you will and then if it's just vile benefits just awful
Imagine all those faces that you're going to have to sort of
Imagine all those eyes you're going to have to avoid
_ 1600 eyes, it's really it gives me too much pain pain is something that Midler has been singing about for years _ _
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music has always provided an exhilaration [Gbm] that in itself is a way to overcome pain and depression
Now playing this role in the movie that has been forced to confront her own personal [B] demons _
I have a little bit of that not as much as some _ _
_ [Bm] So I did I I found things in her that I liked very much that I found were a lot like me
you know a certain sense of _ _ _ _
[B] Worthlessness that she comes [Ab] over you sometimes, you know
_ _ [Gbm] _ _ [Bm] Certain sense of worthlessness that you sometimes have a lot of trouble conquering.
I'm lucky that I
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conquer that _
How do you conquer that me? _ _ _
I curl up by the fire with a nice big bottle of Valium _ _ _ Yes
_ _ Honestly, no, I'm just a little joke.
There's no joke there _ _
But do you have you developed a way of coping with that sense of the absurd?
_ _ _ [Ab] I keep busy mostly that's what I do.
You know
It _ happens in the house.
I do a lot of housework.
I get up jump up and clean windows or something _ _ _
It's sometimes I think it's a chemical thing, but I find that it doesn't last
You know the whole thing about tomorrow is a better day is really true
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