Keep It Dexys Midnight Runners
KEEP IT by DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Written by Kevin Archer and Jeff Blythe
On 'Searching For The Young Soul Rebels' (Parlophone, 1980)
(c) EMI Music Publishing Ltd. 1980
Chords used:
A: 577655
F#: 244322
E7: x7675x
D: x5777x
C#: x4666x
E: x7999x
A F# E7 D (x2)
[A] The world lives [C#]in your front [F#]room
You're sitting happy in [E]gloom[E7]
Fate [D]worries you, you will not give her [A]room
You give [C#]credit for [F#]might, inspiration and [E]sight,[E7]
But you [D]miss the point, you won't join in the [A]fight
You think to [C#]use is to [F#]lose
So you're [F#]clinging, pulling, pleading
[D]Try to keep it [E]safe
Keep it [D]cosy but it feels so out of [E]place
You're feeling a [D]loss but you're not fit to [E]make it
You're offered so [D]much but you're frightened to [E]take it.
A F# (x2)
[A] It never [C#]was really [F#]proved, never was unders[E]tood,[E7]
But there [D]really is no virtue in the [A]good
They're [C#]shouting so [F#]loud that they'd do better to [E]mine[E7]
You're [D]deafened and you cannot hear the [A]rhyme
But [C#]secrets in [F#]whispers pull you, try to tempt you
[D]Try and keep it [E]safe
Keep it [D]cosy but it feels so out of [E]place
You're feeling a [D]loss but you're not fit to [E]make it
You're offered so [D]much but you're not going to [E]take it.
[A] [F#] [E7] [D]
[A] You beg for [C#]help and ad[F#]vice, how to handle your [E]life,[E7]
But you [D]dare not move, you cannot pay the [A]price
Chances [C#]slip, you just [F#]shatter, flatter, forget what matters
[D]Spout your lines, read all your books
You [E]hear the sounds, miss all the hooks
Your [D]best is what you least unders[E]tand
You [D]hate the graft, won't join the race,
You're [E]scared to scar your pretty face
[D]State now cos your head's in the [E]sand.
D E (x6)
A E D E (rpt. til fade)
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