Chords for Paul Weller - Wild Wood & Interview (HD)

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Oh, hello.
Paul Weller is with me, formerly [G] of the Style Council.
We [Gb] were just listening
to your video together and I [N] said to you, gee, you look younger now.
Yeah, I paid you [E] though, didn't I?
Yeah.
I paid you to say that.
_ No, [Bm] you didn't pay me to say that.
[E] _ However, [A] you were with the Style Council then.
You
were [Bb] not working for about two years.
We didn't hear anything from you.
What [Gb] happened through that period? _
[Ab] I guess I was [Db] sort of finding a new direction and [Bb] _ just kind [Db] of considering what I wanted
to do, you know, [A] and making my [D] mind on whether I still wanted to continue [Bbm] with music or,
I don't know, whatever I was going to do or not.
No kidding.
[Gb] What would you do [B] if you weren't doing music?
What were you considering [Abm] apart from music?
I have no idea.
Really?
I had to take a period of time to find out what _ I liked about music or how I felt about
it.
[A] I can't imagine [Bb] doing anything else, to be honest, but [Abm] it took me that period of
time to discover that.
[Bbm] _ Right.
You [Abm] harked back to that.
I mean, I've also had to go back to family as well.
I've got two kids now and stuff,
so that all kind of… Changes things.
[B] Absolutely, yeah.
Well, I thought first [N] thing that we would let people hear the new and _ _ regrouped you.
So, what will you [Db] play for us right now?
This is a new song.
It's not actually on the LP, but it's something called The Wild Wood.
_ [Abm] Very good.
[N]
Paul Weller on Much Music.
_ _ Yeah.
Yeah?
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ High _ tide, _
_ _ [A] mid afternoon, _ _
_ _ [G] people fly [Gm] by _
_ [Bm] in the traffic's boom. _
_ _ _ Knowing _ _ _ where [Gbm] you're
blowing, _ _ _
_ _ [E] getting to [Gm] where _ [Bm] you should be going. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Don't _ let _ _ [A] them get you [Gbm] down, _
_ _ [Em] making you
[E] feel _
_ _ [Bm] guilty _ about. _
_ _ _ Golden _ rain, _ bring you riches, _ _ _
_ [G] _ all the good [Gm] things _
_ [Bm] you deserve _ now.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Climbing, _ [Gbm] forever _ [B] trying, _ _ _
_ [Em] find your way out [Gm] _ _
[Bm] of the wild, wild wood. _ _
_ _ Now _ _ there's [Gbm] no _ _ justice, _ _
_ [G] you're only _ yourself _ [Bm] that you can trust in.
Now I said, high tide, _ _
_ [B] mid afternoon, _ _ _
_ [A] people
[E] fly by [Gm] _ _
[Bm] in the traffic's boom. _ _
_ _ Knowing _ _ _ just [Gbm] where you're [B] blowing, _ _ _
_ [G] getting to where _ _ [Bm] you
should be going. _ _ _ _
_ _ Day _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ by day, _ _ your world fades away, _ _ _ waiting to [Gm] feel _
_ [Bm] all the dreams that _ _
_ _ you deserve now.
Now I said, high tide, mid afternoon, people fly by in the traffic's
golden rain, _ _ bring you riches, _ _
_ _ [G] all the good _ things _ [Bm] _ you _ deserve now.
Now I said, climbing, _ _
_ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ [B] forever trying, _
_ _ [Em] find your way out [Gm] _
_ [Bm] of the wild, wild wood. _ _
[Em] You're gonna [A] find your way [G] out _
_ [Bm] of the wild, wild wood. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [Db] _ [D] _ [Gbm] _ _ _ [Bm] _
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_ [B] _ _ _ My, how we have grown.
[Ab] _ _ Did you find your way out of the [Bbm] wild wood?
I think so.
We're all still out here, aren't we?
Yeah, I think so.
I think you have a lot more to say when there's a little bit of a _ [Bb] snap
to your career, all of a sudden you've got to like turn around and say, [N] whoa, wait a
minute, which is exactly what happened to you.
Because first you had the [Db] jam, then style
counts, and then all of a sudden the record company turned around and said, hey, we don't
like this.
You [N] know, so how did you feel at the time?
At the time I was pretty disappointed to [Bbm] say the least, you know.
_ But, you know, this is
the nature of this business, pretty cutthroat, so you have to just get on with it, you know.
Is that why you were wondering whether you wanted to continue because of the family?
No, but just, you know, it had come [Ab] that point in my life, [Gb] really, I think.
_ _ _ [Bbm] _
Would you have like disappeared to Ireland or something [Bb] and just become [Eb] a poet?
[Db] I don't know.
Maybe.
[B] _
_ _ Perhaps I'll still do that anyway.
[Gb] I don't know.
We were listening, the [Bb] producer and I, Dennis, to your new video, and [Db] we still noticed there's
still an R&B _ influence.
We heard the horns and so on, so you kept that.
Yeah, definitely, yeah.
I think it's part of my music anyway.
I've kind of [Eb] _ assimilated
all that stuff, you know.
_ [A]
Right.
Did [Bbm] you see the commitments, the movie The Commitments?
I was sitting up.
Oh, [A] really?
You should.
I think you would really [G] relate.
[A] _ [E] _ _ So, [Db] _
_ inspiration-wise, who do you listen to that you really love or in the early years
when you were just forming [F] your career?
_ Who do I listen to now [Db] or when I first started?
Yeah, let's [Bb] hear about who you listened [N] to when you first started.
Well, when I was a kid, it was mainly the sort of tail end of the [Ab] 60s, so it was kind
of like [Gb] The Beatles and all those bands, those late [Eb] 60s English pop bands. _
Also Motown, I
guess.
[Abm] _ And then later on, [G] I discovered more _ R&B stuff, Stax and Atlantic stuff.
[Eb] _ And then
recently, quite a lot of [Ab] jazz.
_ That's interesting, huh?
[A] What else?
_ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
I know.
[N]
Small Faces, I don't know.
Those are stuff, all sorts of stuff.
I keep harking back to the music of the late 60s, actually, because it's so idealistic
and so naive.
[A] _ And, you [Eb] know, it's funny, with your record [Bbm] company now and the people that
you're sharing company with, Billy [F] Bragg, also Beautiful South, [Db]
I believe, that's [N] a
really great group of people and all kind of_
That's a matter of opinion as well.
Yeah, _ storytellers and they all have a sense [Bbm] of humour. _
_ _ Yeah, possibly.
I don't know.
I [Eb] don't understand it, but [Gb] _ I'm sure you're right.
Okay, your new [Em] video.
Tell us a little bit about [Bbm] that.
And this particular song is called Uh-Huh.
Oh, yeah.
_ _ [B]
What's it about?
[Db] _ It's about confusion and it's also about _ _ all the things that you [F] dream
about when you're younger [E] and when you actually get them, whether they're really [Ab] what you
wanted or whether they're [Bbm] actually _ really what they were in the first place.
_ It's confused,
quite confused.
Someone told me that we knew all we really needed to know in kindergarten, but somewhere
along the line_
She might be right.
We