Chords for Ray Davies - Talks John Lennon & more

I was a lonely soul, I had nobody till I met you. _
[G] When I was about _ 15 years old, I stuck my nose in a bar one night.
The group in there was playing Tired of Waiting.
I [Ab] can never think back about that part of my life without thinking about that particular [Bb] song.
When someone says something like that to you, does that have any impact on you?
I would think that that would be an extraordinary thing to hear about something you'd written. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] I'm trying to think, you know, when [Bb] I'd written it, I'd like to have felt [Bb] _
that I'd done that.
But once I've written the song, made the record, _ it really isn't mine anymore.
And it's yours because it's your [Bbm] _ take on something I've said.
It's like, it's not being taken out of context, but [Ab] _ it probably [Bb] had nothing to do with the situation you were in.
It was just a song that was being played.
At that particular time.
At that particular time.
So it's you that makes the decision to remember it.
But that [N] song seems to own a part of my life.
I think that, I'm wondering sometimes if that's not why there wasn't that huge outpouring of grief when John Lennon died.
I think someone like that, _ they are, it's like Andy Warhol, he became his art, didn't he? Right.
I think John Lennon's a bit like that.
Whereas people don't really remember me much.
They just remember the songs.
It's a different thing.
You've got a different feeling towards Imagine to what happened when John Lennon died.
It's a different thing, I think.
A different feeling.
Perhaps.
I'm not sure.
Right.
But you know what I'm saying.
I'm saying that some people lived their art.
Right.
I think he did a bit more than most people.
It's interesting though, you know, when you say that, Ray, is that a lot of, you know, a lot of people liked him a great deal who didn't know him.
And yet lots of people who did know him [Bb] thought he was a bit of a prick.
Who did know him?
Yeah.
_ _ I _ _ _ wouldn't call him a prick.
I'd call him _ _ sort of stubborn.
I always sort of imagined him as being a poor kid.
Like he didn't have all the sort of, he wasn't completely from the skids.
But he didn't have the greatest life.
I think he was kind of a troubled person. _ _ _
And I think of him, ironically, he would have been 54 today.
Well, today was his birthday, I think.
Or yesterday.
I can't remember which.
[N] And I think of him like a sort of a stubborn older brother.
I don't think of him as anything else.
Right.
And you love and hate those people.
You can't deny the lovely songs he wrote and the passion in the lyrics. _
And if he's an arsehole in real life, so what?
I like the songs.
Life was paradise being the only boy.
Until one day, my mother surprised everybody, including my father.
And at the ripe old age of 44, gave birth to another baby boy.
And his name was David.
No applause is necessary at this time.
_ [F] _
_ _ We'll hear more from him later. _
_ [Bb] I sometimes wonder if brothers aren't best separated at birth before they kill each other. _ _ _
_ _ Well, I can't disagree [G] with that.
The _ fact of the matter is he came along in my life as an interloper.
_ He sort of took some of the, you know, I'm like two and a half years older than him.
So, you know, he's already sort of getting older.
But the problem is that _ [Bb] there was such a great _ telepathy between us.
We were like 16, 18 and a half, [D] 19.
It's a telepathy you can only get with musicians who play together a lot.
It's teamwork.
And I'd rather have that telepathy, like two years of that,
than a hundred years of peace _ and tranquility like Switzerland and only invent the cuckoo clock.
It's that theory.
You know, there's places that have warring friction,
and the great inventors [B] and the great _ creators.
It's creative energy, but when it goes sour, it is really horrific.
Yeah, fratricide is a real activity.
It is, isn't it?
Yeah, I mean, people really_
I'll take your word for that. _
_ [Abm] _ [Dbm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
Why [Eb] was he the lead guitarist and you were the rhythm guitarist?
I literally didn't want to compete [F] with him.
You know, he was [G] full of energy.
And he got to [Gb] say I was 18 years old, so I was already an old man.
And this young [Bb] pretender in the background there making all the noise,
I thought, don't spoil it.
It's a talent.
_ _ Also, you've got to understand, I'm a producer of records with the Kinks.
And to produce, you've got to be a bit cynical
and get Dave in the right attitude to be aggressive.
And sometimes it worked for us, [Gb] that energy. _
[Em] This kind of stuff is here to remind me of a [Gb] very important character in my [Bb] life.
[Gb] My father.
_ _ [F] _
[B] You see, when my father had three or four pints of this stuff,
he allowed me to call him Dad.
_ [Bb] _ Now, are you a drinker?
Are you a smoker?
No, I never smoke.
Are you a doper?
No.
So you're just a moderate drinker?
_ [Bbm] No, I'll go for like a month not drinking,
then I'll go for a week of excess.
Simply because that's _ work or whatever, socializing.
[Bb]
Right.
All things in moderation, including moderation.
You know the saying.
Yeah.
Okay, good luck.
[Gb] Thank you. _ _ _
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