Strange Tourist - Gareth Liddiard
Strange Tourist Gareth Liddiard It was all falling down and a long way from cheap So tell me why did we live where we lived?Above the old fish shop where they served up slop And all the alley cats talked in their sleep I spent a year there with B After I quit the Mitsubishi ,Dragged my mattress up some stairs by the sea Then watched the old van rust in the gusts of the coast Ending its knightly expeditions for beer B went psychotic in the navy and he wouldn'tmend Something about a sunk junk and speed Well he couldn'tshake the illness or endure the cure And there was no point switching treatments in the Timor Sea I have never known someone who needed to talk so much Or even fool himself disguising a guess I just steered his b******tthrough the next diversion Never bothering with reality checks Bowerbird ,you'dturn a birdbath black What the hell could be the matter with you?Where did you come from and why'dyou go collecting Anything that turns the colour blue?B took his refuge in the open where it stings You think you'dseen him but he'sgone in a blink Once those Stilnox hit their target don'ttrust nothing ,No one And don'tgo believing anything that you think He'dsay ,"I'mhalf way through But I don'tknow what I'mdoing I ain'tfeeling much of nothing at all But it'smy first time too ,if that'sa valid excuse I'mgoing to wait here for the engines to stall I'veseen the tracks of some giant ,the smoke of some fire Fuse like hot sands in a bottleneck Does all of beauty lie in being dead and gone Or is all history made of chickens and their unhatched eggs I'veseen the specter of a frigate on a dry rock face A stone axe held together with an old bootlace Anything betraying the drift of dead headway You can shake it but it won'tlet go All that so men can live like girls to keep their might pert Digging music made by millionaires for car adverts Save the whales ,invade Iraq and have a hamburger I can'tdistinguish between the nightmare and the joke I was in Tokyo once without any cash Koda Kumi sang a coda pink as sarin gas I took a trip to Nagasaki in a rented Mitsubishi Then went camping in the Jukai under Mount Fuji"Bowerbird ,you'dturn a birdbath black What the hell could be the matter with you?Where did you come from and why'dyou go collecting Anything that turns the colour blue?But when his pension got suspended ,Well that spelled the end And I joined his life of leisure in flight It'stoo hard to row a boat using a periscope Sometimes you gotta do wrong to do right He got in trouble years back ,I haven'tsee him since In a men'sroom in a night club in Madrid He sold some Dexedrine or something to a plain clothes D Then raised a stink so bad they ended up deporting him Then last I heard he was as free as a bird or into Scientology Or into Heaven'sGate or Sharon Tate Or in the Legionnaires Or gone to Georgia with the Mujahideen And someone else was walking eggshells in his birdcage Someone else shared his unending lease on hamstrung rage He was someone else'sproblem ,and that made me glad They can indulge him 'tillhe'sironclad Bowerbird ,you'dturn a birdbath black What the hell could be the matter with you?Where did you come from and why'dyou go collecting Anything that turns the colour blue?I wound up working in a hospital Renting TV'sto the bored and the blind Seems the DSS got sick of my BS And had my unemployment privatized They made a date with me ,some agency And I went down there like a fool in love They made a few phone calls ,found a real cureallLike I wasn'tmiserable enough I was working night shift when he got there The first time I'dseen a coma on the ward The sister said he won'tbe needing TV now Probably won'tbe needing nothing at all He was in Tokyo for once until he stabilized They flew him back here and the story unfolded They found him frozen in a hollow in Aokigahara forest Where those harrakiri weirdos go He died a little later ,and was wheeled away I'dblame his morbid fascination for it all And his doubtless ,groundless faith In his outdoorsmanship He didn'tkill himself ,he didn'thave the balls Hope dies last in a hospital But has a habit of doing it next to you While you sh*tkick around with your eyes to the ground Like a bowerbird appropriating anything The colour blue .Guitar score
Strange Tourist Artist: Gareth Liddiard
Capo: 0
Key: G
Difficulty：
Tempo: 154
Time Signature: 4/4
Hot: 99
Creation time: 2023-05-01 Strange Tourist Guitar Tab, arranged and transcribed by Chordance, complete with staff notation and numbered musical notation. The song was composed by and performed by Gareth Liddiard. This guitar tab is in the key of G and is a Beginner version, suitable for players at the Beginner level. A must-learn piece for guitar enthusiasts. Strum the guitar, open the piano, and experience the mood conveyed by Gareth Liddiard at that time～
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