Chords for Adrian Belew - Life In A Nutshell

[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Close your _ eyes [F#m] and look at me _
So here I am playing [B] my umpteenth [F#m] show with King [E] Crimson, probably show number _ 754,
[F#] and it's like [F#m] time stops and I look out at the thousands of [C#m] faces and I think,
I've [A] been here so [B] many times, [F#] and how [E] did it happen?
How did I get to this point?
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_ Let's be [Gm] frank, I might still be playing in a club in Nashville if it weren't for this guy. _ _ _
_ Frank Zappa discovered me. _ _
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[F] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
And _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _
[A] _ then there was David. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D] And I ain't over there, _ _ _ [A] I bet I'd bring clothes. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And Talking [Bm] Heads.
You [G] may find yourself living in a shotgun shack.
The Tom Tom Club, Nine Inch Nails, Laurie Anderson, The Bears, Paul Simon,
Tori Amos, Cindy Lauber, Michael Over, Joe Cocker, Raza Clay, and about a hundred [F] other records.
[C] _ [A#] _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ At _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
the same [G] time I joined King Crimson I started making solo records.
[Gm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ That's when things [B] really kicked [Gm] into gear. _ _ _ _
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Hey, _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
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_ [C#m] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [B] Adrian Blue here, this is MTV's Modern Rock [G] Countdown. _ _ _
Music _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ pours out of me.
[C] The electric guitar is my true voice.
It fits my personality.
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[Em] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] I love to be [C] named one of the 25 who shook the [Em] world.
I hope I didn't break anything. _
_ _ _ [C] _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ And [Em] we are_
Our ideas are always [A] unique.
[F#m] _ I nearly had a hit song.
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[F#] _ [D] _ _ [B] _ [F#m] _ _ [D] _ [B] _
_ [D] _ _ [B] [D] Wow, _ _ _ look at this collection.
_ _ Oh, _ Doobie Brothers, King Crimson.
_ [Am] _
_ _ _ Talk!
It's only talk.
_ _ _ Arguments.
Agreements.
Dances.
Can you believe it?
[D] Robert Fripp and I have been doing this [Am] song for two decades.
Articulate announcements.
But it's only [F#] talk. _ _ _ _ _
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[G#] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Too much talk.
Small talk.
Talk that trash. _
Expressions.
Abiturals.
_ Exclamations.
Exaggerations.
_ It's only talk.
_ _ It's only [F#m] talk. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So that's how it happened.
Some lucky breaks and a lot of hard [C#m] work.
Now what?
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_ _ Too _ _ _ _
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[F#] much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as [F] artistry.
_ [C#] It's mostly about the way you look or how [Gm] you dance.
[C#m] I [E] grew up in the golden [F#] age of ideas.
But things go in cycles.
_ Maybe creativity [A#] will become fashionable again.
_ Virtuosity is sexy.
_ _ [Gm] Regardless, I'm still in King Crimson, still in the Bears, still making new solo [G#] records.
I have a [A] studio and piles of [A#] experience.
But I feel like I'm just getting started.
I can't wait to see what happens next. _
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I can't wait to see what happens next. _ _ _ _ _ _
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