Chords for Henry Rollins on Lemmy-Live @ War Memorial Theatre, San Francisco, CA, December 29, 2016-Black Flag

One year and a day ago, _ Lemmy passed away.
Lemmy from Motorhead.
And one of the bestest people I've ever met.
I'm a lucky man.
I'm really lucky.
I was buddied with Lemmy for a damn good 30 years.
I met him in the 80s.
And Lemmy loved the fact that I'm over-serious and he always found ways to make fun of me.
And whenever you say [C#] Lemmy, he's always like, [F#] scowling.
But he's wickedly funny [N] and very, very intelligent.
And he was always on me.
Henry, you look a little shorter than last time.
_ _ _ _ You look, uh, f***ed _ up.
Oh, no, you look like [C#] you're about to fall asleep.
And he knew he could get me.
Every single time I knew I'd see him, I'd bring a record of his for him to autograph.
[Em] And he always autographed [D#m] it with a slight [G] insult.
I gave him my [F#] Aces of Spades 12-inch, which he had bought me for my 19th birthday.
And I said, Lemmy, [G#] sign this for me.
He signs it.
Probably too loud for you, Henry.
Lemmy?
_ [N] I used _ _ _ _ _ to [G#] live in this microscopic apartment.
It's like the first apartment you had when you [N] left home when you were like, what, 11 or something.
Living room, dining room, bedroom.
The door!
It's so small.
And his apartment had 30 years of adult accumulation.
Books, DVDs, videos, and 350 million pieces of World War II [F#] _ memorabilia.
And so there were these [D]
paths of ruined carpet that were like anacondas going through the apartment.
And every time you'd walk in, he'd say, stay [D#] on the path!
And you'd have [D] to stay on the path.
And you'd kind of wend your way through his apartment.
And one day, we're on the path, and we're looking at his living room, which is the size of a pool table.
And it's up to here, with stuff.
And he said, an interesting thing happened to my living room the other day.
And I said, [G#] what was it?
He said, [G] a suitcase I put down five years ago disappearing.
And it [G#] came back two days ago.
I said, what do you mean?
I came back from tour, and I put my suitcase down, and it got lost in the living room.
And it reappeared two days [C#] ago.
And I opened it up.
It's [E] amazing.
It's like a time capsule.
Old clothes, old tour laminates.
[D#] I said, Lemmy, [D] you don't come home from tour and immediately just do your laundry?
[G#] No!
Do you?
Like, [D] yeah. _
Why?
I said, because it smells [C#] of tobacco, and alcohol, and misery.
Like, you're really weird, you [N] know that?
You're really dull.
Anyway, he sweeps his [D] hand across his living room, and he says,
My living room is lively!
And he couldn't finish the sentence.
And so I sought to [A] finish it for him.
I said, it's like the sea.
And I felt that was deep and poetic.
[G] And I had nothing to back it up.
It was like [C#] lights out.
And so I was [D] hoping, like, wow, that's really deep.
[G] But no!
He went, what do you mean?
I said, _ it's like the sea because it's mysterious!
[D#] And it takes away.
But it's generous!
[B] And it gives back.
He didn't buy it.
Yeah, alright.
_ What's your place [D#] like?
_ Immaculate, everything in alphabetical order.
_ Thought [G#] so.
Boom!
Always had the burn.
And I [C#] hung out with him all over the world at festivals and wherever else.
And he was always very, very friendly to me.
And sometimes he could be so [G] sincere and so friendly,
you didn't know what to do with it.
Because he was so real at times.
He just kind of [N] caught me out.
One day, I'm at his apartment,
and he had all kinds of knives and daggers and swords,
all kinds of crazy stuff.
[F#] And he comes up to me with this crazy [E] sword in a metal sheet
and the blades curved.
And he goes, this is over 100 years old.
It's from Morocco.
I went, wow, that's intense.
He pulls the sword out.
I'm like, what have I ever done to you?
Because the sword looks like I [C#] cut people up with this thing.
[G] And so he's like, [D] I want you to have this.
I'm like, oh, _ why?
And he looked at me and said, I like you.
You're my friend.
And [C#] I want you to have this sword.
And I damn near [D] wept.
_ [D#] Who talks like that?
Lemmy.
[G] And I have the sword to this day.
It was many years ago I did.
So [B] I don't pull it out and show people,
but I know where it is because Lemmy gave it to me.
And one time many years ago in Germany,
we were hanging out.
We were both at the same festival.
[Cm] And Lemmy [G] said this mind _ [N]-blowing thing about rock and roll
that I'd ever heard from the mouth of anyone
I'd seen in a documentary or met in real life.
He looked at me and said, I remember before there was rock and roll.
I said, _ what?
Wow.
_ Who says that?
I know there's a time before rock and roll.
I know it doesn't matter. _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ You remember before there was [G] rock and roll?
This [B] sounds so interesting.
He said, I remember before there was rock and roll.
And you [D#] only had your mother's Rosemary Clooney records.
I said, so what happened?
He said, we all heard Elvis and we never looked back.
And it hit me like a Mack truck upside my head,
the purity of that statement,
that he got into rock [E] and roll on the ground floor
via [C] Elvis Presley,
which is not the worst way to walk into that [F] genre of music.
I said, that's [C#] really profound.
[D] He said, I started going to shows.
[N] I started to go see The Beatles play The Cavern Club.
I said, you saw The Beatles play The Cavern Club?
Yeah, they were really good.
Oh, you think? _ _ _ _
_ I got one, seven years and two years out of that carcass.
And some people mourned his death.
I [G#] miss the guy because he was a real sweetheart.
But he had a [N] lot of fun and he lived without restraint.
And he was a lot of things.
Stupid is not one of them.
And I think he knew the fun he was having
was not necessarily going to lead to a long life.
And if we were to take all the lines of speed and cocaine
he ever did and put them end on end,
how many laps around the earth?
Who knows? _
How many hundred thousand gallons of [D] hard alcohol?
How much lager?
How many cubic tons of marijuana, hashish and tobacco
went down [C] that neck?
[F] He had a lot of fun.
And the best part of [N] hanging out with him
was walking on the street with him.
Because everyone in the world recognized him.
Even old people.
Let me!
[G#] People just loved that guy.
Because any time you ever saw him on [N] stage
with the cowboy hat and the boots and all of that,
that wasn't a stage get up.
Those were [C#] the only kind of clothes he has.
He did not own sweatpants.
[F#] Nor did [D#] he own [F#] sandals.
He was [E] in boots and a hat all the [F] time.
And even concentrating by,
[G] Woo!
Like, [B] you're the man!
[D#] Like right there walking, talking.
I mean, people loved this guy.
And that's why [N] he had to have his funeral on the internet
so people all over the world could watch him
to say, hey man, I'm with you.
And he's buried in Forest Lawn.
So if he's angled just right, he can look at the world.
_ Anyway, the last time I saw him make a drink,
I saw him make many drinks from the bottle.
The last time was the best time.
He made a screwdriver.
And to see him holding a bottle of orange juice
was just amazing.
Instead of him pouring brown liquid into a glass
and calling it lunch, breakfast, [F#] dinner, fun.
And to see him, I said,
Let me!
You're holding orange juice!
[D] Is everything okay?
That has vitamins in it!
And I actually gave him a glass.
I said, I know, [E] I know.
I'm trying to get healthy.
I said, that's the ticket! _
You'll be ready for the Olympics by spring!
_ To the Olympics!