Time for Truth The Jam
15th September 2000, 5.09pm
Heliocentric@breathe.com
Shaun Hand, Birmingham
TIME FOR TRUTH
(Paul Weller)
From the LP 'In The City'
Chords used:
A: 577655
D: x5777x
E: x7999x
G: 355433
E: 022100 (used at '..stick together now')
(on the demo version on the box-set, there is a 'One, two, three' before the song
starts, on 'In The City', there isn't)
[A]
[A]What you trying to say that you haven't tried to say before?
You're just another red balloon with a lot of hot gas,
Why don't you fuck off?
[D]And you think you've got it [A]worked out,
[D]And you think you've got [A]it made,
[D]And you're trying to play the [A]hero,
Oh, but you [D]never walk home in the [E]dark.
[A]I think it's time for truth, and the truth is you've lost, Uncle Jimmy,
Admit you're a failure and decline with honour while you can.
[D]And you think you've got it [A]sussed out, (Hah!)
[D]And you [E]think that we're [A]brainwashed, (No way!)
[D]And you're trying to form a [A]police state,
So you can [D]rule our bodies and [E]minds.
[D]Whatever happened to the [A]great empire?
[G]You bastards have turned it [D]into ma[G]n - [D]ure!
[A]Tell the young to [G]stick together [E]now.
[A]I bet you sleep at nights in silk sheets, and a clean mind,
While killer roam the streets in numbers, dressed in blue.
[D]And you're trying to hide it [A]from us,
[D]But you [E]know what [A]I mean,
[D]Bring forward the [A]six pigs,
We wanna [D]see them swing so [E]high,
Liddle Towers!
(there then follows a short guitar solo:)
[A] [G5] [A5] [G] [A]
----------------------------------------3--3--3--3/5--|--5--5--5--5--| ----------------------------------------3--3--3--3/5--|--5--5--5--5--| ----------------------------------------4--4--4--4/6--|--7--6--7--6--| --7--7--5--5--5--4--4-----5--5--5--5/7--5--5--5--5/7--|--x--7--x--7--| (x2) -----------------------5--5--5--5--5/7--5--5--5--5/7--|--7--7--7--7--| --------------------------3--3--3--3/5--3--3--3--3/5--|--5--7--5--5--|
[D]And you think you've got it [A]worked out,
[D]And you [E]think you've got [A]it made,
[D]And you're trying to play the [A]hero,
But you [D]never walk home in the [E]dark.
[D]Whatever happened to the [A]great empire?
[G]You bastards have turned it [D]into ma[G]n - [D]ure!
[A]Tell the young to [G]stick together [E]now.
C'mon!
repeat the guitar solo up to the bar and then play:
[G] [A] [A]
--3--3--3--3/5-- --5---| --3--3--3--3/5-- --5---| --4--4--4--4/6-- --6---| --5--5--5--5/7-- (x4) then... --7---| (x4 - last time let ring) --5--5--5--5/7-- --7---| --3--3--3--3/5-- --5---|
NB: Liddle Towers: Weller shouts this before the guitar solo, Liddle Towers died in
police custody in late 1976, the coroner's verdict of 'misadventure'
led the newspapers to demand a full enquiry.
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