Back in N.Y.C.

Key: D major, Time: 7/8, Tempo: 125


Intro: <Bass & drum fade in>
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|N.C./F#     ||6/8                   |4/4            ||
        I see     faces and traces of    home back in 


Verse 1: (0:13-) <Enter guitar & synth>
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||7/8 D       |        |D6     |      |
      New York City - a-ha,
|C/D   |      |Gmaj7/D  | 

      ||D          |          |D6     |      |
So you  think I'm a tough kid? 
|C/D                 |       |Gmaj7/D |
     Is that what you heard?

<Simile>
 Well I like to see some action 
 and it gets into my blood.

 They call me the trail blazer - Rael - electric razor
 I'm the pitcher in the chain gang, we don't believe in pain

 'Cos we're only as strong, yes we're only as strong,
 As the weakest link in the chain.

 Let me out of Pontiac when I was just seventeen,
 I had to get it out of me, if you know what I mean, 

      ||Dm     |
What I  mean.


Interlude: (1:35-)
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||N.C./D   ||  (X 9 bars)


[Verse 2] (1:51-) <Enters piano>

 Ah, You say I must be crazy, 
 'cos I don't care who I hit, who I hit.

 But I know it's me that's hitting out 
 and I'm, I'm not full of shit.

 I don't care who I hurt, I don't care who I do wrong.
 This is your mess I'm stuck in, I really don't belong.

 When I take out my bottle, filled up high with gasoline,
 You can tell by the night fires where Rael has been,

   ||Dm     |N.C./D   |        |        ||
has  been.


Chorus: (2:52-)
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|7/8 Dm              |Am       |
     As I cuddled the porcupine
|Dm           |Am                ||6/8 Dm  ||
 He said I had none to blame, but      me.

|7/8 Dm            |Am           |
     Held my heart, deep in hair,
|Dm            |Am              ||6/8 Dm    ||
 Time to shave, shave it off, it      off.

|:7/8 Dm         |Am
      No time for romantic escape,
    |Gm7                 |C             ||6/8 Dm  Am :|
When your fluffy heart is ready for rape.        (No!)
(X 3)


Bridge: (3:31-)
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|7/8 D/A  E/A  A  |10/8 D/A  E/A  A    |
                        Off  we   go, 
|7/8 D/A  E/A  A  |11/8 D/A  E/A  A    |
                        Off  we   go, 
|7/8 D/A  E/A  A  |10/8 D/A  E/A  A    |
                        Off  we   go, 
|7/8 D/A  E/A  A  |11/8 D/A  E/A  A    |
                        Off  we   go, 

|7/8 D/A  E/A  A  |Dm/A  Em/A  F/A  ||10/8   ||


[Verse 3] (3:52-) <Enters organ>

 Your sitting in your comfort you don't believe I'm real,
 You cannot buy protection from the way that I feel.

 Your progressive hypocrites hand out their trash,
 But it was mine in the first place, so I'll burn it to ash.

 And I've tasted all the strongest meats, 
 And laid them down in coloured sheets
 laid them down in coloured sheets.

 Who needs illusion of love and affection
 When you're out walking in the streets with your 
 mainline connection?

    ||Dm      |N.C./D  |      |      ||
 Con- nection.


(Chorus) (4:52-)


Coda: (5:29-)
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|7/8 Dm   Bb   |3/8 C  |D    ||
       No time.______________

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