I'm currently rotating between:

Barenaked Ladies - Disk 1: All Their Greatest Hits
Los Lonely Boys - Sacred (Diamonds is a fantastic track from that album)

and

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow, Wincing The Night Away and Oh, Inverted World (Can you tell I'm going to see them soon??)

Its the one set of arms you wanted round you,

to hold you close, remove your fears.

Every time she gets too close now

you have to stifle back your tears.


Never felt like she was yours

Though she always held your cure

never thought thered come that day

that she'd up and walk away


you never told her that you love her

you never told her how you feel

and what she seems to have with him now,

is what you longed and ached to feel.


It's what you are, its where you're from

Please tell me, o innocent one

Where've ya been? Who're ya gonna see?

Were ya ever gonna tell me?


It's in your eyes, it's in your smile

you're nothing but an innocent child

from where you've been, from who you're gonna see

don't let them take you innocence away from me


this hawkish girl turned to innocent dove

makes me pray to the heavens above

never felt this faith before

removed my doubts as the white dove soared


Can't be your lover, I'm a decadent whore,

can't take away your innocent core

the beauty inside you, bright as can be

blots out the darkness, that's deep within me...


But its been too long and we've come too far

Reaching out and almost touching the stars

moonlight glistens over all I can see

you and your glistening is all that I need


its a mindf**k baby, its a mindf**k now

I hope to hell you see that somehow

I'm not everything you want nor everything you need

but if you cut me its you that I bleed


I'm hopeless scum, we've been here before

don't wanna make you a decadent whore

you need to get the hell away from me

get some perspective and see what I see..


i'm hard to forget, to get off your mind

try as as you like, you'll simply find

you can't block the memories of me

try your best but me, you'll still see.



spaminator:i edited some words


baz1860: i reedited it, so that although the offending words remain edited, they can be understood by anyone reading who knows the word already...

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(4 replies, posted in Acoustic)

I'm willing to pimp my songbook here <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_wink.gif" border=0 alt="Wink">


<a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;www.chordie.com/songbook.php?selectedsongbook=Easy+Beginner+Tracks" target="_blank">Which is filled with beginner type tracks...</a>


Hope you enjoy <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">

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(2 replies, posted in Acoustic)

To be honest a CD/DVD isn't going to increase your chord changing speed...


Thats a matter for practice, I found that trying to intergrate a couple of chords, not within a song, but just say, D to Am then adding in G once I had the chord chaging down perfect for the first two...


Keep doing that, mixing up the order, changing teh pattern and the chord changes will come naturally...


As far as strumming patterns, certainly I've found that the best thing to do is pick out your favourite songs, ones which you would know from jsut the first few chords and try playing along with them.... The strumming pattern comes fairly naturally after that, but it'll be even easier once you get the chord changes down pretty naturally.. You'll find that once you lose the pauses between chords your strumming pattern will fall into place...


Hope this helps, good luck.. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">