Boomtown Rats - Someone’s looking at you (1979)
[Intro]
Acoustic
C G C G C G C G
Electric
C G C G C G C G C G C G
[Verse 1]
C
On a night like this I deserve to get kissed
G
At least once or twice,
C
You come over to my place screaming blue murder,
G
Needing some place to hide.
C
Well, I wish you'd keep quiet, imaginations run riot
G
In these paper-thin walls,
C
And when the place comes ablaze with a thousand dropped names.
G
I don't know who to call.
Bm
But I got a friend over there in the government block,
C
And he knows the situation and he's taking stock,
D C
I think I'll call him up now, put him on the spot, tonight.
G C G
Na na … Na na ….
[Verse 2]
C
They saw me there in the square when I was shooting my mouth off
G
About saving some fish,
C
Now could that be construed as some radical's views
G
r some liberals' wish.
Bm
And it's so hot outside, and the air is so sweet,
C
And when the pressure drop is heavy I don't wanna hear you speak,
D
You know most killing is committed at 90 degrees,
D7
When it's too hot to breathe and it's too hot to think.
[Chorus]
G C D
There's always someone looking at you, oh oh oh oh oh. (3x)
F C
Tonight, they’re looking at you tonight.
[Music Break]
F C F C Bm C D D7 C
[Verse 3]
G
And I wish you'd stop whispering,
C G
Don’t flatter yourself, nobody's listening.
C G
But it makes me nervous, those things you say,
C
You may as well shout it from the roof,
G
Scream it from your lungs, and spit it from you mouth,
C
It could fall on deaf ears to indulge in your fears.
D
There's a spy in the sky, there's a noise on the wire,
D7
There’s a tap on the line for every paranoid's desire.
[Chorus]
G C D
There's always someone looking at you, oh oh oh oh oh. (2x)
G C D C
They’re always looking at you. (7x)
N.C.
On a night like this I deserve to get kissed at least once or twice
Mark W
