Chords for Justine Frischmann in Suede's The Insatiable Ones' Documentary (2018)

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[Db] My experience in Elastica was that it came together so fast.
The sound came together really fast.
It was really easy.
Suede was the opposite.
It [Ab] was _ years of nothing quite working
and things [Db] not quite falling into place.
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There's a real quiet love and respect.
In Matt and Brett's relationship for sure, _
the reason Suede has gone for so long
is because of the strength of their relationship.
They are like brothers.
They've known [Gbm] each other forever.
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_ _ [Ab] _ _ I remember seeing Brett the day that [Db] we were all signing in
for our student IDs at [Bbm] UCL.
He had [C] a long flick [Db] and he had a pair of earrings
and he had a handbag.
It was a lady's [Fm] handbag.
I had this moment of thinking, is that a boy [Db] or a girl?
And just finding him _ _ [Fm] devastatingly attractive.
But I [C]
just knew that we were [Db] going to be together. _
Within a few [Dbm] weeks of meeting Brett,
[Eb] he took me back to his house in Finsbury [Fm] Park
and there were six [Db] guys living there.
Matt was one of them.
[C] Justine, I met her as Brett's girlfriend
[Ab] before we ever kind of made music together.
[D] _ And he brought back this [Cm] incredible girl.
[F] Just _ [Cm] so smart and so funny. _ _
Justine was a [Dm] huge, huge _ influence on me
in [Cm] terms of who I became as a person. _
If I hadn't have met Justine, I possibly wouldn't be sitting here.
And absolutely, definitely in terms of what Suede became,
even though _ when we first appeared, [Bb] she wasn't in the band.
_ _ [F] She pushed Suede really hard.
[Cm] It wasn't a band at that point.
You know, it was three of us messing about in a bedroom.
But I'm pretty [Bbm] sure that I was a big part of [F] trying to get it out of the bedroom
and onto some sort of stage somewhere.
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We'd put an advert in, The Enemy, [Bb] and we'd met a couple of people.
I remember there were a stream of really improbable people [Cm] turning up
who were either _ 55 _ [Bb] or full-on [F] punks with huge Mohicans. _
And [Cm] Bernard came over and he looked really, really young.
I can remember him asking how old we were.
[Bb] And he said, we're [F] 23.
And him being kind of like, well, you better get a move on then.
[C] _ _ [Gb] But that was the moment where it [Gm] seemed like they could be really good.
_ From the [Eb] very start, I mean, there's like a whole phase
before making the first album when we were sort of a [Gm] different band, really,
_ and _ not very good.
_ _ _ They quite [Bb] failed, the very early Suede [Eb] songs.
It was kind of like, we really [Bb] need a drummer.
_ _ I think we thought it was going to be really [Ab] easy. _ _ _ _ _
Justin Walsh, who ended up being the drummer for Elastica,
he was in the band for about three weeks
and we found out that he was in [Dm] six other [E] bands.
_ [A] I _ _ _ remember [G] actually sitting in a lecture and Brett coming up to me
with a handwritten [Em] note saying, Mike Joyce _ wants to audition for the [F] band.
_ _ _ _ [E] The way that Bernard and Brett and Matt worked together,
you know, that was the foundation _ of really _ something quite [Bb] good.
[Em] We went up and did [A] some demos with Mike.
It never would have worked.
[N] We would have been Mike Joyce's new band.
It was there.
It was just a matter of getting the right pieces of the jigsaw.
To me, Suede kind of [Eb] nailed that. _ _
Suede started really when _ Simon [F] was in the band and Bernard was in the band.
At the back of my mind, I wanted it to be about songwriting.
This is what I wanted [Ab] to do before I met Brett,
before, you know, there was any band involved.
And [N] it took about a year and a half after actually meeting them
for that to evolve.
[Abm] Very, very different things.
We'd opened a [Ab] door that had previously been closed to us
when we wrote that song.
I [Db] _ _ _ [Eb] _
remember [Abm] waking up in the morning and running over to the typewriter
to [Ab] see what was on it [Db] a lot,
and often just being amazed [B] by this whole world that was in Brett's head.
He used words that weren't [Db]
rock words.
_ [F] _ [Ebm] The _ [Ab] _
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[Db] _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] sexuality _ _ [Ab] in the lyrics was a really [Cm] _ important thing.
[Bb] _ I always wanted [Eb] it to talk about sexuality
[Ab] in the same way that Lucian Freud _ paints the human body.
[Db] This sort of, like, [B] stark realism, slightly uncomfortable,
but kind of like very, very real, [Cm] sort of candle-coloured [Gb] skin
under a [Ebm] fluorescent light.
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[N] I remember being at the Premises, trying it out there for the first time. _ _ _ _
Everything [Eb] happened at the Premises.
_ Suede rehearsed there.
That's where I met Damon, was at the Premises.
That was the first time I ever met him. _ _ _
We were in this weird and horrible situation
that [F] Brett and Justine had split up [Bbm] and she'd met [Eb] someone else,
but she was still in the band.
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I don't think it ever would have [Db] worked.
[Ab] Eventually Justine left.
[Gb] I don't know how [Eb] many months it was, but it was pretty awful,
[Ebm] and just this heavy feeling [Bb] in rehearsals,
[Ab] and, _ you know, Brett was really having a hard time.
To lose [Bb] a relationship that's not just your lover,
[Ab] _ but someone you're working with,
[Gb] _ someone who you're making art with.
[Bb] [Eb] At the time it was very painful,
but it was [Bb] possibly the best thing that ever happened to me.
[Eb] It kind of [Ab] gave the songs _ a _ [Ebm] _
direction.
[Gb] Things like Pantomime Horse, you can hear it in [Eb] that song.
I was born _ as a _ _ pantomime _ [Ebm] horse
_ _ Ugly as the sun when [Ab] it falls to the floor
[Gb] _
_ [Db] And people [Gb] get to go
And I'll [B] smother that pig in a hole
[Gb] See [Db] me lay tomorrow
[Gb] I remember going to see them [B] play after I left
[Ab] and it [Db] was just 4 boys on stage and it sounded [Gb] amazing
and it didn't have [Ab] any muddying up the sound
[A] and kind of confusing the look. _
[B] Suddenly there was Morrissey there, suddenly the Suggs on the floor,
_ [Fm] and Kirstie McCall.
Of course I would have done anything [Bbm] to have kept Bernard [Db] in the band and happy,
but the fact was he wasn't happy. _
I was [Eb] amazed that Bernard didn't [Fm] leave sooner.
It was so volatile from [Db] day one, it was unbelievably volatile.
_ Decisions that are made _ _ can't be made lightly
because you're talking about, you know, is this a good thing to do,
is it a bad thing, you'll never know until it's too late, you roll the dice.
I started _ weaving this song around the riff.
[G] High on diesel [N] and gasoline, psycho for drum machine,
_ bits torn out of the pages of my notebook. _ _
The first verse is it.
[Abm] Yeah, it is.
_ [G] The first verse is it without the second verse.
[Bb] _ _
Here we come, _ [Dm] the beautiful ones, [Eb] the beautiful _ ones
[D] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [Bb] Here we come, [Dm] the beautiful _ ones
[G] _
_ [Dm] [Am] It _ [D] _ _ _ [F] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] [A] didn't seem like Brett was fully himself. _
[G] _ [A] He was in his addiction. _ _
He [G] wasn't _ [F] _ [A] able to _ _ write in the [G] same [A] way,
there wasn't the same depth.
So give me medicine, [Gbm] give me that, [F] I'll come back.
That whole [Dm] period of my life, when I think back on it,
just makes [Gm] me feel so sad that any of us put ourselves through that.
[Gb] You know, I think there was this sort [F] of myth that taking drugs
makes you a [C] better artist, [Dm] but the opposite is true.
You know, it just makes [F]
people _ [D] caricatures of themselves.
[E] I think that [Bm] what happened in 1998, 1999, is [C] pretty much my _ _ fault. _ _ _
_ _ _ Not to be [N] too _ _ _ [Ab] black _ _ _ _ and white [B] about it,
but _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] it's on _ _ _ _ my shoulders, really, what happened. _ _
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