Chords for Noel's Lament

_ _ _ _ [E] In my life, I was Noel [G#] Gruber who worked at Taco [Am] Bell in Uranium City, Saskatchewan.
[E]
But in my dreams,
[Am] I played a different role.
I [E] was Monique Chabot in
[Am] Post-War [F] France.
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_ [F] A hooker with [E] a heart of black charcoal.
_ _ [C] _ _ [A] _
[E] I write poems to burn by fire. _ _ _
_ Drink champagne [Am] and guzzle gin.
_ Good girls [E] call me the town
bicycle.
Don't knock until you've tried my life a sin. _
_ [A] Oh, [E] Claude, my pimp knows never mess with me.
_ Last prick did that faded [F#] quick to black.
_ I have no idea where to [E] find him, officers.
_ But if you do, please mention that [G#] I'd like to have her turn the pretty knife that I stuck ten times [E] in his back.
_ _ _ _ [D#] _ _ _ [A] _
For I [Dm] sing songs
until [Am] the break of dawn.
[E] I embrace a new man [F#] every night.
My life's [Dm] one
never [Am]-ending carnival.
[B] A world of boozy [E] floozy flashing light.
[Am] I want to be that fucked up girl. _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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He said I think I [E] am in love with you.
I've heard that lie a million [Am] times before. _ _
Tonight I give [E] in to the fantasy. _
Take love when you can when you're a whore.
_ [Am] _
For [Dm] I sing songs until [F#] the break of dawn.
[E] I embrace a new [F#] man every night.
My life's one
[B] never-ending [Am] carnival.
A [B] world of boozy [E] floozy flashing light.
[Am] I want to be that [F] fucked up girl. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [E] So now I sell my love for opium. _ _
In some rat infested Chinese [Am] dive. _
_ _ At night I [Am] burn [E] myself with cigarettes.
_ Just to somehow prove I'm [Am] still _ [B] _ _ [C] _ _ alive.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[E] Eight months later, I catch typhoid flu. _
_ Kicked out I see the ugly light [Am] of day.
_ _ _ _ Dying in an alley [E] a priest kneels down to me. _
_ _ My _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ child, do you have any final words to say Lord you'd like to say?
We tell him that like him I choose to burn out rather than fade away.
[Fm] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ For I [Dm] sing songs [B] until the break [F#] of dawn.
_ [E] I embrace a new man [Am] every night.
My life's [Dm] one
[A] never-ending [F#] carnival. _
[B] A world of boozy [E] floozy flashing light.
For [Dm] I sing songs until [F#] the break of dawn.
[E] I embrace a new man every night.
My [Dm] life's one never-ending [Am] carnival.
[B] A world of boozy floozy [E] flashing light.
I want to be that fucked up girl.
I wanna be that fucked up girl. _
[F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _
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_ [Am] _ [E] If I could have just one dream.
If I could have just one [Am] dream.
I'd be that fucked up girl.
Hey! _ _ _