Chords for Close Up - Marianne Faithfull 2/5

Just is [G] _ _ goodbye
[C] Within six weeks it was [D] number one.
_ [F] I _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ said to her
Just [G] is goodbye
_ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ I met her _ _ in the sort of pop type scene
because then I was married to John Mayall who's a blues musician.
Just a sweet little thing.
_ He was really naive and smart and intelligent and articulate then.
It was a very good time, that first period for me.
I was really delighted with myself [Cm] and my confidence was high.
Everything looked very beautiful.
And I had some wonderful experiences.
And this was [Eb] before I took any drugs or [Cm] anything
so they were completely natural.
This was one [G] of the best times of my life.
And I really loved it.
[F]
Young and rich, [Am] you know.
_ [C] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Cm] _
Just before her [Bb] first big US tour,
Marianne found out that she was pregnant [G] and she and John were married.
[Cm] All she wanted was a conventional family life.
She was trying to be a mother, the baby with her,
but at the same time doing two sets a night and being applauded
and it was _ [N] very difficult.
And to come back and be a little housewife was very difficult.
It was completely doomed, all this period of domesticity.
I wanted a sort of straight bourgeois marriage, you know,
and I certainly picked the wrong person for that.
It got pretty unpleasant.
She kind of got very weird about money at one point.
She seemed to just nag and nag about money.
And yet it was partly, I think, her self-defence
because she was just going out without telling me
and buying mad clothes and not daring to bring them home
because she was never going to wear them.
It was like a kind of_
You know, before she discovered heroin,
that was her thing, was shopping.
_ I think Nicholas was about a year old, a bit older,
and I just had enough.
I just couldn't go on.
It just didn't_
It didn't work and it wouldn't have worked.
[F]
Yes, I'll [G] be as true as [C] true can be _ _
If you can save me
_ _ [Bb]
Lovers of the past are [C] left behind
_ [Bb] There'll never be another [C] on my mind
_ _ [F]
I'll [G] do all I can [C] so you feel free _ _
For months and months and months, I ignored me, completely. _ _
And not realising, because I didn't know anything
about sort of seduction technique,
that this was in fact the dead-sure way
to make sure that he would hassle me more and [G] more.
I'm in no hurry, I think I'm [Eb] over
_ _ _ [C] _ I'm always ready to [Ab] talk, get it [Eb] tied
Talk, get it tied
[C] _ I'm up ahead, my mouth get it [A] dry
I'm gonna talk, talk, talk all night
[Eb] Let's spend the night together
Now I need you more than ever
Let's spend the night together
Let's spend the night together
[G]
Now I need you more than [C] ever
I think they were both very curious.
Here were two [Bb]
separate, really fascinating worlds.
There was the rock-blues world
with all its wonderful, dark mythology,
and the world that Marianne came from,
an aristocratic, educated world that the Stones aspired to.
And you know, Mick is a very intelligent, funny, charming guy.
I know why I fell in love with him, because he was great.
And I'll forsake all of [C] my life
_ _ [F]
Yes, I'll [G] be as true as [C] true can be _ _
If you can't stay with me
I [E]
left everything.
_ _ [C] I stopped working.
I completely gave all my intelligence
and my sort of innate grasp of the whole thing to him,
to his music, to his work.
I went too far, of course, as usual.
Well, she [N] was playing really two roles then.
She was being the glamorous star
and the gorgeous girl on Mick's arm,
and at the same time, her inner self was like sinking.
Because then it was the girls, like when the boys were busy,
the girls were kind of together,
we didn't know what to do with ourselves.
We were not really allowed into the recording studio,
so it was a bit kind of a macho, male kind of thing,
so we were just by ourselves.
They even had a clubhouse at the end of the garden
where they would go and play and leave the girls to go shopping
and, you know, find out what the next drug is, darling, you know.
The Stones were just beginning to get really powerful,
[G] and I was continually sort of shooting my mouth off
about how wonderful it was to take LSD.
But something like LSD, if it wasn't meant to happen,
it wouldn't have been invented,
because the one, the really explicit phrase
is doors of perception,
and that is what drugs are, they are the doors.
They're not anywhere, I mean, you don't go anywhere,
you just see a crack like I'm looking at you now.
And it was all very uncool, I was real trouble like that,
full of the joys of being young and strong.
I think I'm really powerful.
They'll smash me, probably, but I want to try.
[N] They had no idea what they could do,
certainly to the point where all this stuff could be planned,
and it was, in fact, we found out afterwards.
_ The effect of the encounter with the Stones would have been
very different if it hadn't been for the bust at Redlands
in February of 1967.
It was meant to be a lovely weekend,
taking acid with my dearest friends,
which, in fact, it was, until 24 cops walked in.
There was Marianne coming from a day outside,
had taken a bath and went upstairs
and wrapped this fur rug around her.
So when the constable, the lady constable,
I forget what her name was, arrived, I mean, she was horrified.
Here is this bunch of poncy yobs in all this outrageous clothing
and obviously sort of like thuggish, lower-class guys,
and here's this sacrificial virgin,
a sort of unicorn child woman
that's obviously being sort of drugged and raped by these guys.
I mean, the Mars Bar, by the way, is total fiction.
She was supposed to be sticking up her fanny, I think.
No, that was thrown in by some journalist.
We were right out of Mars [B] Bar.
Two of the [C] Rolling Stones, [Db] Keith Richards and Mick [Abm] Jagger,
are waiting to be taken probably [A] to Lewis Prison.
Mick and Keith came out with an enhanced bad boy varnish.
I came out of it _ _ _ diminished, demeaned, trampled in the mud.
My feminine self had been completely besmirched. _
What it did to Marianne was it totally changed her image.
She was referred to in the press as Miss X,
nude girl Miss X wrapped in a fur rug.
It made her into this person she really wasn't.
I'd accepted my role as bad girl in fur rug.
I thought, right, you've cast me like this, I'm going to go for it.
To hell with you all.
Falling from grace, falling from grace
[G] Love, you have a pretty face
[A] Take it away, pack it in a suitcase
[G] Then forget about it, [Am] falling from grace
I [E] took the drugs cos we were all taking the drugs and they were around.
And whenever you're young and rich and successful and very powerful,
there will always be creepy people coming along to give you drugs.
It's one of the things that you don't realise when you're in that position
and before you can [Am] think twice, you're in trouble. _ _
_ Here I lie _ in