Chords for Noel's Lament

_ _ _ _ _ [E] In my life, I was Noel Gruber, who worked [Am] at Taco Bell in Uranium City, Saskatchewan. _
[E] _ In my dreams, [Am] I played a different role.
_ [E] I was Monique Chabot in [Am] post-war [F] France.
_ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [F] A hooker with a heart of black [A] charcoal.
_ _ [B] _ _ [A] _
[E] I write poems to burn by firelight. _
_ Drink champagne [Am] and guzzle gin.
_ _ Good girls [E] call me the town bicycle.
Don't knock until you've tried my life a sin.
_ _ [Am] Oh, [E] Claude, my pimp knows, never mess with
me.
_ Last jerk did that, faded [F#] quick to black.
_ I have no idea where to [E] find him, officers.
_ But if you do, please mention that [G#] I'd like
to have her turned a pretty [E] knife that I stuck ten times [Am] in his back.
_ _ [E] _ _ [D#] _ _ [B] _
_ [Dm] For I sing songs until [Am] the break of dawn.
[E] I embrace a new man [F#] every night.
My life's [Dm] one never [Am]-ending carnival.
[B] A world of boozy, floozy, [E] flashing light.
[Am] I want to be that [E] messed up [Am] girl.
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_ He said, I think I am in love with you.
I've heard that lie a million [Am] times before.
_ Oh, tonight I give [E] in to the [G#m] fantasy.
_ [E] Take love when you can when you're a whore. _
_ [A] _ For I [Dm] sing songs until [Am] the break of dawn.
[E] I embrace a new man every [F#] night.
My life's [B] one never [Am]-ending carnival.
[B] A world of boozy, floozy, [E] flashing light.
I want [Am] to be [F] that messed up [Am] girl. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] So now I sell my love for _ _ opium.
In some rat-infested [Am] Chinese dive.
_ _ At night I _ [E] burn myself with cigarettes.
Just to somehow prove [Am] I'm still alive.
[B] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [E] Eight months later, I catch typhoid flu.
_ Kicked out, I see the ugly [Am] light of day. _ _ _ _ _
Dying in an alley, a [E] priest kneels down to me.
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_ _ _ _ _ My child, do you have any final words to say Lord you'd like to say?
We tell him that like him I choose to burn out rather than fade away.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [Am] _ For [Dm] I sing songs [A] until the break [F#] of dawn.
_ [E] I embrace a new man [Am] every night.
My life's [Dm] one never [F#]-ending carnival.
[B] A world of boozy, floozy, flashing [E] light.
For [Dm] I sing songs until [F#] the break of dawn.
[E] I embrace a new man every night.
My [Dm] life's one never-ending [F#] carnival.
[B] A world of boozy, floozy, [E] flashing light.
I want to be that messed up girl. _
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_ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Am] If I could have just one dream.
[Am] I'd be that messed up girl. _ _
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