Chords for Noel's Lament - Kholby Wardell (Lyrics)

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