Chords for Gavin Rossdale Explains "Glycerine" - Inside the Lyric

And I think I got something good, I better not screw it up with the lyrics.
That's the hypocrisy of people that are obsessed about_ He goes,
That's Sign My Life away, it's not about me, is it?
Hi, I'm Gavin from Bush,
answering some questions about some song lyrics that I am responsible for.
_ [C] _ _
_ [Gbm] _ _ [Abm] _ [Bm] Starting with Everything Zen.
Ring the bell for the century
[B] _ _ A million [D] dollars at stake
_ [E] _ _ As you search for your [D] demi-god
[E] _ A fake where [D] the saints_
First off, _ [C] Raindogs, I guess, was just_
[G] Knowing the Tom Waits, Raindogs album,
is such a strong word for me, and I love Tom Waits,
so [C] that was in my head.
And _ [G] Howl is Alan Ginsberg,
who's another serious inspiration for me.
[C] So one of his most famous poems is Howl.
So, Raindogs, [D] Howl for the century,
kind of got my two muses in there.
_ [C] And then, A Million Dollars at Stake,
I was real poor at that time, dirt poor,
and then [A]
the world of money and [D] entitlement and all those things
just seemed so [G] far away.
And that's what A Million Dollars at Stake,
As you search for your [F] demi-god
You fake with [A] a saint
That was to do with people that espouse spiritual values
and lean certain ways,
and then they behave like douchebags in another area of their lives.
[F] So it was that sort of [G] hypocrisy of people that are obsessed about
self [C]-help books or self [G]-improvement.
So that's that jam-packed verse.
For Machine Head,
_ _ it's really funny when you break down lyrics,
you've got a machine head,
but other than that, green to red, machine [Em] head.
Just the idea of Machine Head always was about _
[D] freeing yourself, about sort of losing your ego,
and just letting rip.
And I remember writing the riff,
and I had the riff before I had the final song,
I walk around Hyde Park in England [E] with the riff thinking,
I think I got something good,
I better not screw it up with the lyric.
Medusa smiles, Judas lips, _ open arms, fingertips, [C] _ _ love bites, and [Em] recompense.
I'll be with [E] you until the end.
For The Sound of Winter, _ [D]
Medusa, obviously, Judas,
these [B] figures from history that _ conjure up deception and backstabbing,
but then open arms and fingertips,
because I always like to try and bring things around.
So from that sort of negative beginning,
open arms and fingertips, love bites, [D] _ _ and recompense,
and I'll be with you till the end,
is when it's kind of _ _ separating the bad people you've been with in your life,
and just concentrating on the good people in your life.
[F] Live in [C] a world where [D] everyone steals,
and when we [Bb] rise like strawberry [F] fields.
In [A] Glycerine, it's a cynical world,
and Strawberry Fields is just obviously a Beatles reference,
because when people think of that song,
it makes them happy, and it elevates you,
and [Ab] it lifts [D] you up.
So for me, it just conjures up,
it's like a soft pillow or something.
[Bb] Most of my lyrics and most of the songs I've ever written
are [D] usually about just _ rising up against struggle,
and what you do within problems,
like the human condition,
[Dm] and how we can screw up,
and how we can make [Bb] up for it,
and what we can escape from,
and what we win.
Really fly, yeah, the Indian summer bit.
It's just all, the Indian summer is obviously [G]
[D] a [E] fake,
it's a sort of fake summer,
it's like _ something that happens when it comes out of turn,
and signing my life away.
Obviously, _ as you're coming up through your career,
and things go better,
you _ _ renegotiate,
or you look at what you signed when you first began,
and I guess I must have been made aware
that I signed everything away before I got successful,
_ _ and so somehow that bled into the lyrics.
Weirdly enough, my first manager,
when I sent that song to him and he heard it,
he goes,
that sign my life away is not about me, is it?
I was like, no, I loved him,
so he was great,
[D] so it wasn't about him,
it just was the general feeling of the [E] time. _ _ _
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