Chords for David Bowie Iggy Pop

[A] _ What did 1969 _ okay?
_ _ _ We fought across the USA.
_ _ _ _ It's another year for me and you. _ _ _ _
Another year with nothing to do.
I proceeded to stumble very badly trying to [D] do that.
[Am] I had [G] two pretty tough years, kind [Am] of a lost soul
trying to figure out how to do that [A] with some vigor. _ _
_ No fun for [Db] my friends.
No [A] fun, _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] no fun to hang [A] around.
_ _ [G] _ [Db] Feeling the same [A] old way.
_ No fun to hang _ around.
Freak [E] out _ _ _ for another [D] day.
_ _ [Ab] _ Iggy _ [G] _ _ quit the Stooges in 1971.
He was born.
During his recovery in New York,
[Abm] Danny Fields introduced him to a young English rock star
who was trying to crack the American market.
Where did you meet?
In a bar.
In a bar in New York.
_ _ You sure? _
_ We were both unrecognised at the time,
so we had a lot to, you know_
_ _ _ I'd never seen Jimmy, really,
but I'd heard some of his albums _ _
and it sounded like, _ _ I don't know, nihilistic rock.
_ It was nihilism.
_ Which fascinates me.
I love nihilism.
_ Well, [Ab] _ _ well_
_ _ David Bowie too had been influenced
[Ebm] and at the end of 1972 he returned to America
for the Ziggy Stardust tour,
a character partly [Ab] inspired [B] by Iggy.
[Abm] The Stooges followed him back to the US
to finish the Raw [Ebm] Power album
and were installed in a luxury mansion [Ab] in Los [Ebm] Angeles.
You're in danger, you little [Abm] stranger
_ [Ebm]
And I'll keep you if you ain't me
For what I was going to be able to do,
I would have to do something else.
Enter [G] David Bowie with experimental _ ideas.
I've fallen since the midnight
I'm _
_ _ [C] a-breaking [G] your pride _
_ _ _ _ [Am] I've fallen [G] since the midnight
You turned up at the clinic and said,
I'm in a bad way, I want to be sorted out,
and then Bowie came to see you,
who was himself in quite a bad way.
_ He was jolly.
_ _ I gather he was, in a sense,
but never _ _ disorganised.
_ _ He was always exhibited good spirits
_ _ and I saw him 24-7
_ for several days at a time, often.
He was together, he was together,
but yeah, there was _ _ stuff going on. _ _ _ _
Iggy went on the road with David then,
he went on that Thin White Duke tour,
and then they ended up in Berlin
where they both began to kind of rebuild their lives. _ _
Night clouding, we're night clouding
_ _ We're what's happening
_ _ _ I want to be alone
Were [D] you still on your mission to [Bb] do something
that other people [G] weren't doing too?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, and I had found my boy.
_ Here was somebody very, very talented
and he wanted other outlets.
There were certain things that I believe
he was able to do with me
_ that he chose not to do under his own flag.
_ [D] We learned dances, _ [Dm]
brand new [D] dances
He wrote the music to Night Clouding.
I got [C] very excited and insisted [Bb] I write _ a lyric to that.
_ _ _ [D] _ [Eb] It wasn't at all rock, [Dm] you know,
and in that case we used a drum machine.
And at first he [G] thought, well gee, that's not,
that doesn't sound professional enough.
Yes it does, it's good enough for me.
It's only Iggy fucking Pop, it doesn't have to sound.
_ And we went for it, and it's that odd little roll,
and it sounds cheap, but it sounds right for the song.
So _ _ I tended to egg him on in that way,
and he was only too willing to go [D] farther and farther. _ _
Hey baby, we like your lips _
Hey baby, we like your [Bb] pants
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ I _ _ feel _ _ _ _ lucky tonight _ _ _ _
Get stoned and run around
In the [Bb] studio, Jimmy would [Ab] _ make up the lyrics on the spot,
and we would keep [N] everything that he did, _
and occasionally change a line after we recorded.
_ But Jimmy, I've never seen anybody be able to make up lyrics so fast,
just out of his head to a [G] track.
A very spontaneous kind of lyric.
It's not like a written thing at all.
_ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ [A] _ _ _ _
Bowie had less involvement in Iggy's next album,
but he did contribute the melody for its title track,
one of Iggy's best-known songs.
_ _ He grabbed a ukulele one afternoon and started [D] at it.
He said, now, call that Lust for Life, _
which I imagine he'd probably, _ probably gotten
from the movie of the book of the painter.
And Kirk Douglas doing Van Gogh,
doing, doing torture, self-torture,
which fit the artist he was recording.
[A] Now listen.
_ _ _ _ _ Now I'm worth a million in prizes _
[E] We was on some film, God, see yo
_ I wear a uniform
_ Hold on a couple minutes, though
_ [A] What the song says _ is that [D] people with real [A]
enthusiasms
are [C] vulnerable to getting really [E] fucked up, really screwed.
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _
We're the [Em] Liberator
_ [E] We're the Liberator
_ [G] _ _ _ Just a matter of time
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _
We're the E-O-M-O _ [E]-S
Lust for Life
The _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [F] collaboration that Jimmy and I have [Ab] had
has been something, because I was intoxicated
with _ what I thought Jimmy stood for,
and _ I would never, ever [Bbm] want it to be considered
[Ab] that I was some kind of hand _ manipulator
_ or Svengali behind what [N] Jimmy's doing now,
because he's getting popular now.
Was there pressure at this time
for you to make your work more commercial?
There would have been if I wasn't working with David Bowie.
_ _ With him, not at all, none whatsoever.
_ There was an incredible pressure to make good work,
to make it good, and there was a self-imposed pressure
to _ make it good also in terms of what should be commercial. _
And that's why some of the _ [Em] songs
became commercial 20, 30 years later.
[Am] [F] Get into the car
[G] _ _ [Am] We'll [F] be the [C] passenger
[G] We'll _ [A] _ [F] ride through [C] the city [G] tonight
_ [A] We'll see [F] the [C] city's ripped back [G] [Am] sides
We'll see [F] the [C] bright and hallowed [Bm] [A] sky
And all the [F] [C] cars in bright new [D] [Am] cars
_ [F] _ _ [C] The Passenger [Bm] was first [A] released as a B [F]-side in [Am] 1977. _
I am [F] the passenger
[C] _ _ [D] And [F] I ride, I ride
[C] _ _ [G] _ [A] _
[F] I ride through [C] the city's ripped [Am] sides
[F] I see the [C] stars come out [G] of the [Am] sky
[F] Yeah, the [C] bright and hallowed [G] sky
[Am] _
[F] Oh, it looks [C] so good [G] tonight
[A] _
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ In [Am] the early 1980s, Iggy [F] moved to New York.
[C] Since [G] then, he's [A] released [F] ten further albums,
but few have [C] matched the popularity of his work in [Em] Berlin.