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Just Good Friends by Peter Hammill
Just Good Friends
This song has much more chords than the PH "standard song", very much
because of the raise of 3/2 tones in the key near the end;
F#: 2-4-4-3-2-2------------------------------------.)
F#m: 2-4-4-2-2-2------------------------------------.)
F#5: 2-4-4-x-x-x (but really this is a no-chord..--.)
A: 5-7-7-6-5-5 or 0-0-2-2-2-0---------------------.)
C#: x-4-6-6-6-4------------------------------------.)
E: x-7-9-9-9-7 or 0-2-2-1-0-0---------------------.)
B: x-2-4-4-4-2 or 7-9-9-8-7-7---------------------.)
G#m: 4-6-6-4-4-4------------------------------------.)
C#m: x-4-6-6-5-4------------------------------------.)
D: x-5-7-7-6-5 or x-x-0-2-3-2---------------------.)
Am: x-0-3-3-2-0 or 5-7-7-5-5-5---------------------.)
G: 5-7-7-6-5-5 or 3-2-0-0-0-3---------------------.)
Am: x-0-3-3-2-0 or 5-7-7-5-5-5---------------------.)
Bm: x-2-4-4-3-2 or 7-9-9-9-7-7---------------------.)
Em: 0-2-2-0-0-0 or x-7-9-9-8-7---------------------.)
(Intro:)
F# / F#m / F# / F#m
(First Verse:)
F#
Drawing back the curtains,
F#m
sluggish city daylight in the afternoon...
F#
Here's that special silence,
F#m
just before you walk out of the hotel room.
A C#
Each time we're so close I assume
F#m C#
that we'll never be again -
A E F#5 (no chord)
oh, how long must we pretend
(Second Verse - same chords)
A casual affair is all that you can spare
from your emotional change;
A calendar of meetings,
strangers on the street
the best we ever arrange.
Now I just can't stand all the pain,
all the constant make and mend;
oh how long must we pretend
that we're just good friends?
F#m C#
I gave you my devotion,
F#m B
hiding nothing up my sleeve -
E G#m
If I walked clean out of your life
C#m F#m
would you even notice me leave?
C#
So much tangled-up emotion,
F#m B
should I stay or should I go?
E G#m
If I walked clean out of your life
C#m F#m
how long would it take you to know?
(no chord)
Are we such good friends?
(On original release include the 4 lyric lines, on The Love Songs
play them instrumentally - Same chords)
You used to say 'I love you',
you used to say 'You make me feel alive and young';
now we're just a habit, a flavour, one a month,
to titillate your tongue.
How sordid this has become
as the means approach the end -
Oh, how long can we pretend
F#m C#
I gave you my devotion,
F#m B
hiding nothing up my sleeve -
E (add choir... G#m
If I walked clean out of your life
C#m F#m
would you even notice me leave
F#m C#
So much tangled-up emotion,
F#m D
should I stay or should I go?
G Bm
If I walked clean out of your life
Em D(?) Am E Am D
how long would it take you to know?
G Bm
If I walked clean out of you life
Em Am
how long would it take you to know
(no chord)
Are we such good friends?
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