Chords for Spandau Ballet - Through The Barricades | Het verhaal achter het nummer | Top 2000 a gogo

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_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[Em] _ Thank you.
[C] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] He's a drummer.
[Bm] Mother doesn't know where love has [Bm] gone.
You've had rough times and [Fm] it's amazing to see the five of you.
How did that [Cm] work?
I think what we feel now is how [D#] did it not work for so long, you know what I mean?
Because [F#] this feels like the natural bit and that is like the madness.
[Bm] I mean, listen, it took me a long time to get used to it.
It took a lot of soul [D] searching.
There was, you know, all of us, it took [Am] a long time before we felt we could all be in
the same room together.
[Em] But when we did, when we finally grew up, put the past behind us, there was a little
bit of magic there when we first started playing.
We [G] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [D] lost [G] _ _
_ _ sight of it [B] really.
And once we [Bm] went through all the messy stuff, it was like a big slap up the backside, you know.
What was in our mind was actually trying to just have some [E] healing.
Be better people.
Because yeah, [G] you know, we were carrying it around and [G] it was such a heavy burden [G#m] and
it made us all so fearful, you know, and creating monsters of each other.
When actually when we got back in the room together, we were, you know, we had so much
more in common with each other than against [B] each other.
Sometimes, you know, people, you know, they don't pick up the phone and [A#] communicate, you
know, it's and they just create this own self anger.
Yeah.
And that becomes the walls created and you can't [G] get through it.
Cheers, mate.
Bye, sweet, bye.
Oh, the glamour.
_ _ _ _ [Em] Father made my [Bm] history.
_ _ [C] _ We had a guy work for us on merchandise.
Thomas.
And he [G] went back to Ireland, Belfast, where he lived, and he was killed [E] in the troubles.
And his brother was the drummer in [Bm] Stiff Little Fingers.
And [G] when we went back to Belfast [E] to play, we had a day off and he [Bm] took me down the Falls
Road to see his brother's grave.
[Em] And I was quite, you know, surprised by the way [G] people lived, you know, the barricades
that were dividing [E] the roads all the way, you know.
[F] And so I didn't immediately [G] write the song after that, but it was something that affected
me and, you know, came to my mind when I wrote the lyrics.
[D] _ _ [G] I was [C] living with John in Dublin.
It was the middle of [D] the night.
I wrote it lyric [C] first.
[G] The morning I got up and I put music to it, John was still in bed and I finished it in
about 12 hours.
And I woke John up about three in the afternoon.
I'd [Bm] taken my boots off though.
I still had my leather trousers on.
[C] _ Astonishing.
I mean, [Em] it was, you know, the best thing I'd [G] ever heard.
And it was like, wow, where did that come from?
There was [Em] a song.
It was all there.
You could immediately almost [Bm] see your parts developing as you're hearing it.
I think that's one of the best things we'd ever done.
It was just a complete [C] song and still get such a kick out of [Bm] playing that.
It was a song I don't think I could have written or [Am] we could have arranged in the way we [E] did
if it wasn't for the kind of [F#m] venues we were playing as well.
We [Em] were totally playing arenas.
[C] We wanted, you need more anthemic music.
And [F#] the other thing, of course, is, you know, [G] in the live arena, the front of Barricades
is a guitar [D] and a bit of singing.
And it gives me five minutes [G] off so I can go and have a beer.
And then the song starts to become a bit more interesting when the drums come in. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Em] _ I [C] think lyrically, it's probably the most direct song that [G] lyrically that Gary's ever
written, because, [D] you know, I mean, if you some of the songs lyrically can be a bit obscure,
[G] but that was a real love across the [B] divide.
And you can [Em] you connect when you when you when I'm singing that [C] with the band, you can
see it with the audience.
They really connect with the lyrics.
And there's [D] a great moment when the Berlin Wall is [G] coming down and we were there and
we played and [D] people were like, you know, floods of [Em] tears because it translates not
just from [C] Ireland, but it translates to different scenarios [Em] around the world.
And unfortunately, we still got lots of divides.
And [D] as we've played it across the planet over many years, you know, it's so [C] applicable to
[D] so many situations. _ _ _
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Oh, [C] we went _ _ [D] through the [F] barricades.
You know, it's also a story about us.
You know, [G] it's through through the barricades is what we had to do [D] in the end.
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