Chords for The Finns & Shihad - I see Red (Live @ Sweetwaters 1999)

_ Oh, sweet water's a-workin', man.
Ah, [G] must've been, I knew I didn't bring any sh- Ow!
Shoes, prickles!
[C] Ow!
Ow!
Oh, man, why's everybody freaking out so much, eh?
Slow down, man.
Too much dance music, that's you guys' problem, eh?
Ow.
Ow!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh, I'll get some hummus.
Eh, sweet.
_ _ _ _ _ [A]
I saw you there by the side of the road
You were _ _ [D] lost in the rain _ _
[A] I did it for us as we carried our _ _ passions
I don't give [D] a hoot, it's a shame _
_ [G] Now, never gave [A] up, give it in
It's like he said [Bb]
goodbye
To _ _ [G] the thrill you never [A] know if you [Bb] never [A] try _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ Ooh!
Ooh!
_ Ooh! _ _ _
Ooh!
Ooh!
_ Ooh!
Ooh!
Give it a whirl! _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Give it a whirl! _ _ _ _
_ Ooh! _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ [D] Jesus, man, you just dug your feet into Kiwi iconism.
Fuck yeah, man.
Oh, I can't say that, can I?
Say what you like, John.
[Eb] Okay, um, yeah, and it was awesome.
[B] Just explain [G] what you did and how it felt.
Uh, we took basic split-end [F] songs that we really loved
and [D] said, can we play them five times louder than you do?
And they said, sweet as.
Who's they?
[G] Um, the Neil and Tim [D] Finsters.
Yeah.
Jesus, man.
Yeah, the New Zealand Beatles.
Just moments before, we had witnessed the Finn brothers
jamming with Sheehard.
There's John Too Good [G] giving the Kiwi thumbs of good on you, John.
There we go.
Had a great time, had my all.
There's Neil Finn, and there's his brother Tim.
There was backpacks all around.
The conclusion of a performance that would bring a smile
to even a serious fraud officer's face.
[E] It's something that I can, you know, tell my grandchildren about,
you know, [Ab] and_
You fully can, though, eh?
Yeah, [E] totally.
It's like, yeah.
[D] You played with Tim and Neil Finn?
With the Finsters, basically.
Yeah.
Yay.
_ And it was good.
[G] And I didn't screw up too much.
[D] You loved it, John.
Oh, yeah, I did.
For that Pete Townshend bit in the history bit, you know,
the brown, brown, I went straight up to the front of the stage
and did the whole_
[F] How much practice did you have beforehand?
We had a rehearsal with [C] the band in Wellington,
then flew up [Gm] yesterday, rehearsed with them at Neil's studio,
went through each song once.
Yeah, [B] Neil's studio.
And, [Em] oh, grandly, Buffalo came past.
And, yeah, so Elvis called while we were [D] there.
No way, man.
But, yeah.
Yeah, man.
So it was [G] pretty short, sort of, short notice, really, wasn't it?
[Dm] Yeah, it was.
He rang, he talked us at the big day out, [G] and that was it.
So in your diary today, you'll write,
apart from whatever happens after this, you'll write,
[Abm] Sweetwater's main stage, split-end [G] song,
Flip the Fins, went off. _
Played a set later on, I was too drunk, couldn't remember.
But I think it [C] was good.
Nah, I'll do a good [D] job, I promise, I promise.
You're doing it for New Zealand, John.
I'm doing it for the All Blacks.
The All Blacks, maybe.
But take a look at this [G] star-studded front row.
But, man, it was good to hear [D] Sheehan playing those songs, too.
I don't think I've ever felt them feel as good as they did tonight,
those songs.
They loved it, too.
I just talked to John Tugut, and I think he'd done weeze in his pants.
I hope not.
I hope not.
No, because he's got to go on with those same pants later on,
so we don't want it unsightly stained.
I know, I told him he's double dipping.
Yeah, no, no, they're going to be incredible tonight.
They're an [G] amazing band.
I can hear a jittery from your big show.
I've just come off, you know.
I've just come off to that there.
And we [Dm] had a rehearsal with them the other day,
and they'd learned everything so brilliantly,
we [Abm] only had to play everything once.
But I was [Eb] sitting opposite Tom, the drummer, about 10 feet away,
and I literally stripped the hairs from my leg with the wind from [D] his bass drum.
They're heavy, mate.
It's so hard, it's incredible.
[E] He must be on steroids.
But well done being able to design a [D] song.
_ How many years down the track is that?
I see red.
How many years is that now?
Did you write that?
78 years.
Exactly, 21 years.
[C] 21 years.
[Bb] 21 years ago.
You don't both look [E] a day over 25.
It would have been [G] like us when [Eb] we were 19 playing [B] an old Glenn Miller song or [A] something.
And making it storm the buggery out of it.
[D] Swinging the shit out of it, yeah.
It's weird, isn't it?
That music from 20 years ago.
I guess what I'm trying to say is these days it's different.
Kids of 16 can dig a song from 20 years ago.
[Ab] When we were 16, we _ [D] didn't like [G] jazz or swing.
But also bands these days have learned how to play fast and heavy really [Bm] well, haven't they?
Oh, yeah.
We tried in the old [D] days.
We tried to put the hammer down, but it just [E] didn't happen.
We were good, but there was just_
We did, but it's become more of a [D] cartoon.
Now it's more_
I saw you at the [E] end there.
There was a spark from the past there.
You got the jitters going and the hand.
I think your spine [G] might go.
What I realized was this whole thing that I used to do a lot of,
it's a Pete Townshend thing, but I never had a guitar on.
But that's what I always wanted to do was a windmill.
_ _ [Gb] Didn't do the press-up.
No.
Should I do it now?
Now say that.
On your feet.
Give us three.
[E] _
Ready?
Got the [D] camera?
Got this?
_ _ _ [A] _
_ That was one.
One and two.
One and two.
One and two. _ _
We got there.
What [B] we do is we'll just loop it three times. _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ Poetry [G] in motion.
He moves up.
Look at those arms bend.
Legs kick up at the back and lands it. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I _ fed up with crying.
_ My despair is dying.
[C] I can't turn it [G] into _ rice.
Bye bye.
[Eb] The [Dm] windmill for you and me.
And [G] my pig, do you love me?
[Cm] Do I?
Because no, you let me go.
[G] I'm sad. _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ I'm sad. _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ I'm sad.
_ _ [D] I'm sad. _
[F] I'm sad.
I'm sad.
I'm sad. I'm sad. _ _
[A] I'm sad.
I'm sad.
[Ab] I just got my tongue pierced at Sweetwater's and I can't [B] talk.
_ [Fm] Good on you, you mutter.
Havoc of Sweetwater's was bought to you by Export Gold.
[C] _ _ Hot to trot. _ _