Chords for The Bangles - The Reunion (1998-2005)

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[Bb] _ [Fm] Look around, _ there's a [Eb] ground _ and the [Db] sky.
There's a [C]
hazy shade [Fm] of winter.
Look [Eb]
around, leaves [Db] are brown.
There's [C] a patch of snow on [Fm] the ground.
Look [Eb]
around, _ [Db] leaves are brown.
There's [C] a patch of snow on [Fm] the ground.
_ [Eb] Look around, _ [Db] leaves are brown.
[C] There's a patch of snow on [F] the ground.
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What was the reason for giving up when you had such success?
We just all sort of whacked, really.
Yeah, we were exhausted.
We were just exhausted.
But yeah, it was just, it was time.
We'd been touring almost non-stop for nine years
and we just needed to find [N] some balance in our lives.
And did you find it, do you think?
We did, definitely.
What sort of things did you do?
Had a couple babies, got married, and did a lot of music on my own.
_ _ I've played music in a band called the Continental Drifters
out of New Orleans, Louisiana.
And it's an entirely different kind of music, but it's been great.
So you've had to say goodbye to that, have you?
_ For a while.
I'm focusing on doing the new Bangles CD.
I'm very excited about that.
And Debbie?
Well, I had a group called Kindred Spirit
and we did a little UK tour with Joan on the training.
And then that sort of petered out a little bit.
And then I had a little boy.
Oh, fantastic.
You haven't had six babies, have you?
_ No, no, I collected a bunch of animals.
Oh, did you?
Yes, I did.
The fur family.
So who was it then who made the suggestion,
after all these individual solo careers, etc.,
etc.,
that you should all get back together again?
It's all her fault.
It's her fault!
_ It's all her fault.
So what made you think it's time to begin again?
I missed them.
Terribly.
I really did.
Isn't that sad?
No, I did.
And I missed _ the camaraderie,
I missed playing music with these girls
and I missed their friendship.
And _ I just felt like we had such great chemistry
when we sing together, when we play together.
It's [E] just so natural and it's so much fun.
_ Share up [B] your all, yeah
_ Share up [E] your all
_ _ _ It's [A] a God _
_ [B] _ [E] revolution _ _ _ _
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_ _ [A] Rust that sound and [E] we'll turn you around
It's a [B] God revolution
[E] _ _
_ _ [A] Take it out and [E] stand in a dance
It's [B] a God revolution _ _ _
_ _ _ It's a [E] God revolution
_ You're a [G] bit of an endangered species in that
you play your own instruments, write your own songs.
Oh yeah. _
Because some _ of the new acts now, they're great,
they're terrific, but they don't know one end of a guitar from another.
But you guys have always had that.
There are vocal groups, yeah, which is fine.
It's a different animal.
It is very, very different.
Very different.
And when you first came on, were [B] people surprised by what you [N] could do?
If you know what I mean, because you were women.
There was a couple of sort of,
they're good for chicks kind of comments.
Oh, they're alright for girls.
Yeah, very much so.
But, you know, we were sort of brought up with the music of women who did play,
like Joni Mitchell and, you know, great folk artists
and, you know, Bonnie Raitt plays great guitar.
And so we sort of, those were sort of our role models.
So for us it was very neutral.
No, very much so.
And you're going to be performing over here.
That's on Thursday.
Thursday night.
We're very excited about that.
No, that would be really good.
Have you actually been, have you been performing together over in the States?
We do lots together anyway.
Yes, yes, for about a year.
And what's the reception like?
I mean, have the fans changed?
What's it been like?
It's great, because we get everything from the people who were ten years old
when we had it hit last, you know, to their parents.
So we've got this really wide demographic that comes to see us
and they're just so happy to have a chance to go to a Bangles show.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, because it's been a while.
And we're so happy to play a Bangles show.
Exactly.
And to play some of our new songs too, which has been really fun.
No, that's good.
Of course it is, because, I mean, you keep developing.
You don't just go and be doing it.
Of course people come, they want to hear the hits.
And we give them that.
Yeah, we're good.
We do it well.
_ Good, [D] good.
Is it better second [F] time around, Michael?
Would you say is it better? _
It's much better.
We're having a lot more fun.
And I think the band is playing better now than we ever have.
You know, I think we're more [C] relaxed.
We're more, we're [Gb] just getting along so well.
And I think we really appreciate the special thing that we [B] have.
Yes.
Something you said
Something [Gb] I didn't say
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Turned me from the [Ebm] _ inside
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_ _ _ [Db] _ _ Something [Ebm] I have dreamed of
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So you never really lost touch with anybody. No, [Eb] no.
Except, Michael, you went off and bought a wonderful house
on a rugged coastline.
Oh my goodness.
_ [A] Yeah.
You were the hardest to coax out, weren't you?
Oh, well, I [N] needed to get away from the whole showbiz LA thing.
I was pretty burnt out at that point.
_ So.
But you finally
It was a nice break.
Were [D] winkled out.
They found that they were winkled out.
_ [Eb] _ And you all got together in a house in LA.
Yeah.
And I was, it's funny because I was reading it, I thought,
oh no, [N] this doesn't sound very sort of rock star-y here.
You said we got our kids in and it was great.
We had a few dinner parties.
We did.
It was fun.
You could cook.
It was more hippie-ish.
Was it?
Than rock star-ish.
It was a commune.
It was a Bengals commune.
And out of that came a new album.
Yes.
We're very excited.
Now that's, the album's out on the 17th of March.
_ _ And you said you didn't want to sort of rehash the past.
This is lots of new stuff.
Yeah, all new stuff.
_ And who's the writing force here?
All four of us write.
Yeah.
In various configurations, yes.
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Sun shines [Db] through the rain, the [E] whole _ life's [Gb] so lonely.
_ [B]
Come and ease [Abm] the pain.
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_ I [Bbm] don't want to lose [E] this _ _ [B] feeling.
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Oh.
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_ _ Close your _ eyes, give me [Db] a hand.
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_ Do [Ebm] you feel my heart [Gb]
beating?
_ _ [Db] Do you [Ebm]
understand?
Do [Bb] you _ feel [Ebm] the same?
_ [Ab] Or am I [Db] only _ _ _ [Bbm] dreaming?
_ [Abm] Or is this burning? _ _
An _ _ eternal _ [Gb]
flame.
_ [Ebm] Close your eyes, [B]
give me a [Db] hand.
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_ _ [Ebm] Do you feel my heart [B]
beating?
_ _ [Db] Do you _ [Ebm]
understand?
Do [Bb] you feel the [Ebm] same?
_ _ _ [Ab] Am I only [Db] _
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Close your [Ebm] eyes, _ [B] give me a [Db] hand.
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Do you [Ebm] feel my heart [B] beating?
_ [Db] Do you understand?
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Do you [Bb] feel the [Ebm] same? _ _
_ [Ab] Am I only [Db] _ _ _
[Bbm] dreaming?
_ _ [Abm] Oh. _ _
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All right, now I have to say, your behind the music blew me away.
Because I had no _ idea you ladies were going through so much.
So _ what was that like?
I mean, you had this squeaky clean image, and you're all poppy and scrunchies in your hair.
Well, we tried to [N] develop major drug habits so that we could actually have a behind the music. _ _ _ _ _
Who's the meanest one?
_ _ Me.
Oh, fantastic, you admit it.
I am a total beehive, I have [G] to say.
Oh, [Gb] that's awesome.
You know, Sting never admits it.
I'm glad you just said it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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