Chords for In It For The Money: Behind The Scenes

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_ _ _ It's been two, maybe a bit more than that, or three years or so since we wrote the first lot.
So it's a long time, man.
It's a long time of growing up and touring and being away from your home and just _ getting on with life.
Things are a bit different.
[A] Music's going to be different, [B] but there's no [Dbm] massive direction change.
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There was an engineer that we worked [E] on the last one, [Eb] John _ Cornfield.
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[D] _ _ _ We worked quite nicely, just [Ab] the three of us.
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I [A] think we just wanted to do it ourselves, [Gb] really.
We just wanted to at least have a go at doing it ourselves.
One [F] of the first songs we did was a song we _ jammed for months and months and then recorded, but these are [N] all _ post _ -albums.
A lot of them are written while we're in the studio.
We just made them up as you go along.
I have an odd battle with lyrics [Eb] occasionally, because _ [E] _ the music's quite [A] strong, really.
You get really involved with the [E] music and all of a sudden [Db] you realise you've got to put some [Em] vocals on it.
I know [Ab] some people write vocals [C] before music, but _ [E] I don't know, it's [D] come out all right.
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_ _ _ _ [N] I think we just write them the same as we've always written them, really.
Some of them you just get from just, you get all the gear set up in the studio and you start playing
and then all of a sudden things come out.
It depends how inspired you are that day.
But _ also, _ a couple of us, we come up with things from my home and I don't know, _ just_
We come up with basic ideas and we all [D] spit our magic dust [Eb] on it.
He writes the songs and [N] stuff, and we've gone through the album and split up,
well I wrote that bit, he wrote that bit, and we write it all down on paper, it's basically three ways.
_ [Db] It [D] always works with the three of us.
[Gb] It's always going to be the best thing when we work together.
[D] Just got to do what's coming out at the moment, what's coming [N] out of us at the moment.
It _ just so happens, I believe that it's just _ _ _ _ so much better _ than anything we've done [Am] before. _
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I think [Eb] in general it's just bigger. _
[A] Bigger?
Not as in [Ebm] _ _ _
_ [N] _ instruments or anything, but just a wider, broader sound.
And then _ there's a few sort of_
There's the odd sort of obvious _ two and a half minute, three minute song,
but I think we always like doing that sort of thing, [Gb] because it's just _ quite_
It's always just a [Bb] whack-out and stuff.
There's some quite mellow stuff, there's a few [G] acoustic things,
[Dm] and there's quite a lot of diversity in it, and [A] a couple of bizarre tracks.
They're just called what they are, really, I don't know.
Some of which have [N] got longer titles. _
Some of which have got shorter ones.
There's a song called It for the Money.
It's just a bit of a _ _ _ _ _ sarcastic statement.
Things that commercial bands never actually say, but there's [D] obvious kind of things.
So instead we just said it.
_ _ But even then, I [N] remember when we first wrote that, months and months and months ago,
it [Gbm] was sort of like, [G] I don't know, we were just playing on [N] the guitar,
and just sort of went, really?
It felt like the money, just felt nice.
_ We just kind of stuck, and we just thought, why not?
It was really nice. _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ We've got [N] about eight or nine singles.
Singles are only really for promotion, kind of.
It's not really that important.
_ Singles get deleted, and albums don't.
[Eb] _ Bridge to the Third was [A] sounding really good.
Yeah, Bridge to the Third, [Ebm] _
_ Stooges, [D] Stump,
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it's a bit of a rock number.
It's the coolest one for the family.
[A] It's a bit of transistor radio.
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[Am] This is what [Eb] it'd be if it [Am] takes a little bit of [Eb] love
_ _ _ [Am] This is what [Eb] it'd be if it takes [Am] a little bit of love
[Eb] _ Some of the numbers, [Ab] you spend your time [C] pretending to sing.
[Ab] Death is right, Conquer America. _
_ After recording [G] this album, I'm quite aware that it's sort of,
maybe it's a little [Gm] bit more well-conceived than I'd have [Am] liked it as well.
Again, that wasn't intentional.
_ [Eb] Like I said, it's become a bit [A] broader sound.
It just so happens [Eb] that's what you're looking towards.
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We only did about eight gigs before we got signed, actually.
[F] We usually stay for like [D] 25 minutes and just do like,
do a [Db] couple of fuzz and lelly and loose it.
[D] We _ spent about a year just playing in our houses and stuff
without doing any gigs or anything. _
_ Sam Williams, the guy who produced the first [Eb] album,
came to one of the [D] early gigs. _ _
_ Yeah, [Eb] I'd get you into a studio.
I should have kicked her ass a bit.
We were doing one gig every two weeks and playing for beer and stuff.
We got the deal with our relatives.
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[F] We got the six tracks done and the tape down at [N] Sawmill's.
We did it in a week and just did a track a day and mixed it.
And then sent the tape off to a few people,
which Sam was kind of acting as a go-between.
I _ think we did a final gig at the Jerky Tavern
where it was just filled with suits and thongs and stuff.
I think Parlor Fam were the first lot to get into it.
Most other people we'd saw was in long trench coats and_
Hello?
Yes, bye.
Whatever it is.
_ _ They're young, they're cute, they're happy.
They're going to make us loads of money.
It just kind of [Ab] struck us as like, this could be a life.
[Am] I'm trying to get up to the top
And I'm just trying to get up
Just trying to [Cm] get you up
I think the youth in this_
I think the surface has [Bb] changed a bit from then.
Yeah, I mean, I've moved to Brighton, Danny moved to London.
We've moved to the state [Eb] house and we're all quite a bit different [Am] places. _ _ _
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_ Just [Eb] kind of focused more on just [Bb] keeping the sanity as a norm
and just keeping really tight together. _
[N] We can be in that for five, ten, 15, 20 years, whatever it is.
I don't know what it takes, you know.
Could we be alone? _ _ _ _
So we're 40 on stage playing, where are you?
Maybe our best album might be the sixth one, I don't know.
How can you have your defining moment at your first album?
_ You've only ever done one album, so who knows?
_ Give us a chance. _ _ _ _ _
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