Times Square Chords by Marianne Faithfull

_ Times Square was very much, I felt, my experience of New York.
It's a song about the loneliness and the [Bm] emptiness
and the [G]
sort of futility, really.
And what I particularly like about it
is the bit about the machine gun in the [A] suitcase.
And that's so much what it's like to be an addict.
It's this [D] absolute repressed fury,
you know, that you cannot say [F#m] anything.
If you told anyone how you felt,
they would be [A] consumed on the spot.
So what the addict does, what I did,
is [E] took it out [D] on myself.
And that's how you deal with that [F#m] rage.
But it doesn't help, and it's still there.
_ [A] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ [D] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ In [A] a tight part of [F#m] the city _
Hiding [D] from the fast talk
Watch, don't walk [E] too [A] far _
_ _ _ Easy [D] _
when you're dreaming
_ Staring at the movies
_ Standing in a circle
Laughing at the wrong [A] time _
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_ _ Alcohol [D] could take me there
_ I'd take a shot a minute
And be there by the [A] hour _
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_ _ [D] Take a walk around Times Square
With a pistol in my suitcase
And my _ eyes _ _ on the [A] TV _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ In a car
[F#m] Taking a backseat
_ _ [D] Staring out the window
Thinking [E] about [A] danger _
Playing _ _ _ _ [D] _
in the wrong world
Fighting, but I'm not weak
Talking on the telephone
Talking about you _ [A] and me
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ Jesus [D] Christ could take me there
I'd fall down on my knees
Have no questions
Till he's [A] answered _ _
Take _ _ _ _ _ a [D] walk around Times Square
With a pistol in my suitcase
And my _ eyes on [A] the TV _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ [D] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _
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[E] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
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_ [A] _ _ Alcohol [D] could take me there
I'd take a shot a minute
And be there by the [A] hour
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_ _ _ Take a [D] walk around Times Square
With a pistol in my suitcase
And my _ eyes _ _ on the [A] TV _
And _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
if I die
Gaining [B] my senses
_ [D] Wake up in a hotel
Staring [E] at the [A] ceiling
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