Chords for Ray-Ban presenta: Johnny Marr

I'm calling out to those who are running [G] away _ _
_ _ [A] And I'm running away from those who are [G] calling
The first thing I did was I wrote the poem I Know the Radiant City.
[D] I wanted to bring in a sense of, about cities, _ [G] because I like cities.
It's [E] very deliberately got [D] energy in it, and it's about, you know, it mentions [B] trains
and it's very much [G] about travel and what it's like [A] existing in a metropolis really.
I was [Em] keen for it to not be the [A] usual Harley Davidson.
It's [G] important.
I don't want to be associated [D] with usual rock stuff.
So I wanted to bring some girls into it really.
[G#] And obviously Best Coast playing [D] at the gig as well.
I think that lent itself to, OK, well I'll do this spoken word with a girl.
Waking up to our senses, we feel our surroundings.
_ And then another aspect of that, I thought rock and roll gets very, very England, America.
And _ it's not really like that, I don't think, in the modern world.
So that's why [E] I wanted to find somebody who had a European accent specifically.
My [G#] building, my train. _
I want poetry.
I want real danger.
[E] In [A] doing that spoken word piece, [E] which was first a poem, [G#] I knew it was going to be spoken [Em] word
and then I had an opportunity for me to then [D] play some sort of different kind of music [F#] behind it
because it's a recording, [A] not just a poem. _
[D] _ _ Transformation, [E] everyday, _ [A] thinking all the same. _ _
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_ That then was the springboard to the next element,
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_ [Em] which was [G] this idea of a quote from [E] Friedrich Schiele,
which was [A] keep true to the dreams of your youth.
_ A quote was a good thing, I think, because it's a piece of language
[Dm] that maybe if one [G] of the other bands wants to use as a [Em] springboard for [F#] a song,
they can maybe get [Em] a lyric out of it.
It has definite [D] meaning.
But again, [G] I wanted to get away from [F#m] just being all about the United States or the [A] UK,
so I just picked Germany, [Em] which has got a very, really [F#] strong rock heritage anyway.
The [Dm] idealism of _
[F#] keeping true to your dreams [A]
and [C#] being youthful about it [F#] as well.
It doesn't have to be the dreams of your youth, but it is quite [Am] poetic.
I thought that was a good one [F#] because it doesn't really need any more explanation than that.
You either get something from the quote [Gm] or you don't, you know.
To [E] pick something that relates to rock music but is actually a couple of hundred [A] years old
[E] stops it being sort of the usual cliche of rock music just being about the 50s, 60s, [A] 70s and 80s. _ _ _ _
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_ [D] _ [A#] The [F#] element that's called [E] Strum and Drang [C#m] came about because I felt it would have been a [D] little weird
had I not played the guitar.
[A] I needed to think of an interesting way of _ collaborating,
so [Bm] the natural thing would be to [E] record something.
I thought, well, if I [A] make a little movie that [D] the bands can go to a link [E]
online,
I thought [A] it's kind of good to bring the internet into it.
They could [D] just follow this link and [E] see this little movie _ [A] of just my hands.
[D] I like the idea of it just being my hands because [E] then _ it's not [A] about Johnny [D] Marr,
it's just a guitar [E] player, you know, and it's more [A] about just that loop of the guitar.
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_ _ [D] As that [E] cyclical piece of guitar music [A] goes round and round, [D] it kind of evolves.
It [E] has this kind of little [A] story to it, just purely through [D] guitar effects.
[E] So I'm playing the same kind of riff [A] going round and round and the sound [A] ever so subtly changes and [E] changes
and then becomes quite radical.
And then I [D] made a technical decision and again I [E] thought, OK, well, we've got an opportunity here
[A] to _ [D] make the sound change [E] throughout.
And I have put [A] the music on one side of the stereo spectrum [G#] and the little rhythm on the [A] right.
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_ Then that [D] gives the musicians the [Bm] freedom, [E] if they want, to sample [A] bits of the music that I put down. _
If [E] it was me and I was being a smart [A]-arse, I'd just take the bit that goes_
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slow it down or something.
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_ _ [G] The guy in the photograph, Matt, had a photograph that he really liked of Fellini
sat in his director chair [Gm] with a camera.
And he talked to me about this photograph [G] _ which was essentially a photograph of a person
[Gm] taking a photograph of somebody who was filming [C] them. _
_ _ I [Dm] got mine and Matt's friend, Kay, who looks fantastic, to [C] be _ filmed while she's taking a [Dm] photograph of the guy.
I like this idea that _ _ girls are [C] so used to being looked at, so [D] he's filming [Dm] her.
_ But then also, let's not [G] pretend that girls aren't looking too. _
_ So she's watching him watching her.
And then you've got [G] the third dimension to it, which is that I am taking the photograph of them two watching each other.
So I just thought there's probably quite a fair bit of scope to try and get something out of that, really.
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I [C] like the idea of a map, graphically.
I thought a map was quite nice.
_ _ [G] _ Somewhere that had some kind [D#] of connection to rock [F] history. _
_ [D] _ _ [F] There's a story that I found [F#] out about a gang of guys called the Bowery Boys
who, I think about a hundred years ago or something, were these very stylish, young New York boys
who used to go out [D] causing havoc and hanging around.
I don't think they were, you know, like some kind of crime outfit too much.
Just kind of a teen culture thing, really.
[A] It may musically spark off some sort of new wavy sort of association.
Something that was [E] visual but not a painting, because I thought that would have been a little obvious. _
_ _ [F] _ _ [E] When I started to think about the five parts, I tried to be natural.
I thought it was important to _ bring something that, things that I'm interested in now.
It seemed like a very creative kind of endeavour.
You're collaborating with people you haven't ever met, which is great, and not in the obvious way.
And it was, I've got to say, it was kind of a [D] challenge, really, and I enjoyed [Dm] the challenge. _ _
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