Chords for Madness - My Girl - Explained

[A] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [B] _ Yeah, I used to live [C] here when I was a young man, 17 years old, 18 years [Bm] old.
I moved out here from Kentish Town, which I wasn't very mad on, but all my mates were
living in Kentish [A] Town, so I was suddenly [C] out in Crouch End, [F#m] which is in the middle
of [Bm] nowhere, as you can see.
_ _ [Am] It wasn't so [C] well to do, I think it was a lot more down, [Bm] you [F#m] know, I don't [C] know, I mean
everything these days is more well turned out, and all the shop [G] fronts and everything,
it's [Bm] a bit more posh I think.
_ _ [C] _ _
That's the one it started with, yeah.
[Em] One Step Beyond, yeah. _ _
There you go.
_ So our first album, yeah, that [Fm] was quite a long time [Em] ago, yeah.
[C#m] And it really took off, yeah, and all of a sudden you couldn't do any wrong, I mean [A] from
just sort of playing in my bedroom, [F#m] just rehearsing, you know, pretty [C#m] amateurishly, suddenly we
were thrown into this [Am] really getting [F#] popular and everything, and we started [G#m] recording,
and we were just about [C#m] competent enough to be able to play in time [D] and complete a [G#m] song
from the beginning to the end, you know.
One mass change [B] at a [C#m] time.
_ My girl's mad at [A] me, _ [F#m] _
_ [C#] _ I didn't want [F#m] to see the film tonight, _ [C#m] _ I found it hard [A] to say, _ _
[F#m] _ [C#m] _ she thought I'd [F#m] had enough of her.
_ [E] _ _ [B] Why can't [C#m] she sleep? _
_ [F#m] _ [A] She's lovely [B] to me, _ [E] but [B] I like [C#m] to stay [E] in and watch [A] Tiffany [C#m] _ [F#m] on my arm. _
_ [B] _ I used to deliver bananas when I wrote My Girl, yeah.
_ [F] I mean I was working with this bloke, and when I wrote My Girl there was this [N] fella
who I was driving the van with, we were like a team, me and him, and he was always going
on about My Girl this, My Girl, and he said we're getting me and My Girl getting a flat,
_ and then so we were going in [G#] and all out these places, he was always going on about My Girl
all the time, which was driving me a bit sort of, _ [F] anyway I didn't [C#] last at that job long,
but after that when I was writing that song, it just [Cm] came to me, that My Girl this, My
Girl [F] that, because it wasn't something that I would ever say, My Girl, but anyway that's
how it got into the song, because of him [C#m] saying that, yeah.
My girl's mad [A] at me, _ _
[F#m] [C#m] we _ argued just [F#m] the other night, _
_ [C#m] _ I thought we'd got it straight, [F#m] _
_ [C#m] _ we
talked [G#m] and talked [F#] until it was like, that song [E] My Girl, it was a better relationship,
yeah, [A#] it was a better [F#m] relationship, and [G] um, _ _ yes.
[N] You've met Mike, right, and I don't know, maybe he was chatty with you, but he's not
intrinsically a communicative, sociable, chatty person.
I don't know how she felt about me, I mean that wasn't really a big thing about [G#] wanting
to stay, it wasn't like we were having big arguments or anything, we were just having
a regular sort of relationship, you know, _ and I just wrote that song, and that song
just came about on that sort of thing.
I'm the muse, I'm the one that inspired him to do such [F#m] good work, no because I'm quite
[D] you know, provocative.
[E] _ _ [B] Why can't she [C#m] see, _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] she's lovely [B] to me, _ _ [E] _ but [D#m] I like to [C#m] stay in [E] and watch [A] TV, _ [G#]
on [F#m] my own,
[A] every now [B] and then.
I suppose I do, doesn't everybody want to [C#m] stay in and watch telly?
I used to watch a
lot of telly in those days.
Men like to stay in their man cave, and just watch football, and drink beer and be on their
own, and women are trying to relate to them all the time, you know.
My girl's [A] mad at me, _
[F#m] _ [C#m] _ been on the [F#m] telephone for an hour, [C#m] _ we hardly [A] said a word, _
[F#m] _ [C#m] _ I tried
all [F#m] tried but I could not be heard.
[E] I remember, you know, sometimes being on the phone in the long silences and nobody saying
anything, _ and Annette got into the song somehow or other, yes.
It was quite frustrating on the phone, he'd call me, I was living at my parents, _ and he
just wouldn't talk for hours, and I'd get really frustrated and upset, and so that's
what that, it was one of these long silent phone calls, and that's what the song was about.
Why [B] can't I [C#m] explain, _
_ [F#m] why do I feel this [B] pain, _ _
_ [E] does [B] everything I [C#m] say she doesn't [A] understand,
she [C#m] doesn't [F#m] realise, she [A] takes it all the [B] wrong way.
It's funny, when you think something is very personal and about [G#] yourself, often [G] a lot of
people share [A] it, I think, you know, [C#m] I mean I like to think that, especially [F#m] if it's sort
of something authentic, you know, and it's [E] sort of something genuine, and I like to,
I try to be genuine, I [N] think it's better to be genuine than to be fake, you know, strangely.
That awkwardness that, you know, I couldn't express myself, I couldn't tell you how much
I loved you, I'm just kind of, it's like men are locked up in themselves and they can't
express themselves, and I think Mike is a worse version of that, he's like the extreme _ _
_ version, but I think Mike is somebody that expresses himself through music, it's all
in his fingertips, you [E] know, and _ he's not somebody, he could sing it to you but he couldn't tell you.
Now when I [B] try [C#m] to speak, she [E] says that I [A] don't care, she says [C#m] I'm unaware, [F#m]
now [A] she says [B] I'm awake. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ A bit lonely, [A] _ [F#m] you have a relationship with someone and [G#m] you're just like, [B] talk to me,
you [C#m] know.
Yeah, _ _ [G#m] they do seem to want [F#m] a lot, don't they women, [C#m] yeah, now that _ [C#]
you've_
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