Chords for Roddy Frame - Release, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 03-12-13

Dancing up there? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Db] You're not allowed to dance?
_ _ [Eb] You're joking, who told you that?
_ _ Of _ _ _ _ _ _ course you can _ dance. _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb]
Did you eat all day?
Did you [Eb] take that little girl to the [C] dance floor?
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Eb]
Was it something when you came in here that a [Bb] guy in a black suit said, no [D] dancing?
Or did you leave the house, did one of [A] your kids go [B] home?
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ I'm not saying you can play any other [C] song.
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ This is a song called Release. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The first thing I remember is Highland Heartbreak. _
_ It was all [G] about _ _ the [Gb] guitarist.
As [Ebm] _ _ _
you get older you get a wee _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ bit_
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ You get a bit adept at [G] melding all your influences and making [G] it into a wee thing of your own.
[C] But I think when you're young and you make a record, you can [Gm] see them all poking straight through.
You just [Eb]
wear it like your sleeve.
When you get a [Gb] new record, [G] that's so much of a MP3s, I suppose.
[B] But when you've got a _ [G] _
record and you go on the bus, you want everyone [Ab] to see this is my thing.
This is what represents me, this is what I'm about. _ _
Whether it's_
_ _ [G] _ _ _
Could be [Bb] Crocodiles by Epoch on the Burning Man, [Cm] under your arm.
[Eb] Or it might have [Abm] been You Can't Hide Your Love [Ab] Forever _ by [A] _ [Bbm] Edwin's Law or [Eb] Indigenous.
_ Whatever [C] it was, that was your kind of thing.
Because I made the album when I was quite [Bb] young, I think I wanted _ _ [Abm] to wear my influences [Ab] so everyone could see them.
So this song [B] _ _ [Bb] is because I was really [Ab] into guitar.
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] I went and [Abm] found him.
He's a beautiful jazz [G] guitarist.
Have you [Ab] heard of Wes [C] Montgomery?
_ _ _ _ [C] _
_ He learned to [Abm] play with his thumb. _
_ Because he could [G] only rehearse late at night. _
[Fm] And he was [F] working. _ _
And they wanted to start his [Gb] label so he could play [Bb] in shops.
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[Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Bbm] _
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_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ [B] _
_ [Gb] _ _ And [A] that's why I wanted a big [Gb] guitar like this as well.
[F] _ _ _ But [Bb] then I wanted to mix that in with all the other punk [Gb] things that I was still holding [Ab] on to.
So [G] Release is kind of in with the Wes Montgomery music [Fm] clash.
[Ab] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] When you're all using this, [Abm] the idea is good.
I didn't want to think, of course [G] that'll [Ab] work.
So I just did it together. _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ So this is what [G] we came up with, Release.
_ _ [Ab] _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab]
Silver shone [Bbm] on the _ rooftops
_ [G] _
[Cm] Heard the words you [Bm] will _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ Green light, blue light
[Bbm] _ [Ab] The force of love can [Eb] kill
_ _ _ _ [Ab]
So go and get your [Bbm] _ wages
_ [Cm] _
Get what you [Bm] deserve _ _
Hope _ [Bb] _ _ [Bbm] _ _
[Eb] held out its hands [Bbm] the day
_ [Ab] You left and turned and fled
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ Release, _ that's a wonderful world
_ [Bb]
All I can ask was a young girl
_ [Db] _ _ Release, _ now I'm throwning away
_ _ [Bb] Even hungry [Eb] and I'll _ [B] _ _ [Ab] stay
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Cm] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
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_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [Ab] The lock is [Bbm] _
overflowing
_ _ [Cm] Some to share [Bm] this life
_ [Bbm] All that's [Eb] left is a [Bbm] warm wrist
[Ab] Wine and soul [Eb] tonight
_ _ [Ab] Bought my merch and [Bbm] pulled the plug
_ [Cm] _ _ Overdosed [Bm] on the peace
_ [Bbm] _ Snatched them [Eb] all
_ Watched them fall like magic [Cm] in the [Ab] streets
_ _ _ [Fm] _ Release, that's a wonderful _ [Bb] world
All I can ask was a young girl
_ [Fm] Release, _ now I'm throwning away
[Bb] Even [Fm] hungry and I hope I can [Ab] stay _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
Spent [Cm] in our new place
[Dm]
Lost the urge [Ab] to hide
_ [Cm]
Left the blue [F] to silver years [Bb]
before [F] we'd slide _ _
I was [C] on the [Cm] palace
_ [Dm]
You beat me at [Ab] the gates
_ [Cm] _
_ _ Spreading water, feared [Bb] for everyone in the West
_ _ [Eb]
Release, _ that's a wonderful world
[C]
All I can ask was a young girl
[Eb] _
Release, now I'm throwning away
[C]
Even hungry and I hope I can [Eb] stay
She had a bed, but where'd you slide in the hole?
[C] _
Fistful of dollars and a fistful of dough
[Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ So, _ did you live?
[Eb] I'm the red light, black _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ on a silver ray
[Eb] I'm the red light, black _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ on a silver [Eb] ray _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] _
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