Recluse - Neil Finn (live at WFUV)
Capo on 1st
Intro: c
c c
When you’re one of us
c c
You can stay here for the rest of your life
c c
I’ll open windows when you want to look out
c c c
At the transit of Venus ‘cross the sun
C
As you’re gathering dust
G/B C
Ancient dragons and the cicadas come
G/B Am
Edges jagged as you’re coming undone
F C G/B – C
On the white soft feathers of your bed
Chorus:
Am
You know how hard I try
G6 F G
But I won’t get nowhere analyzing your life
Dm7
But it’s people that you lose
F C
When you become a re - cluse
C
Turn a - way from us
G/B C
Days are darker when the winter comes
G/B Am
Can’t remove yourself from what you have done
F C G/B
On the rack where your reputation lies
C
Do you want to exist
G/B C
Between the lightning and the mental bliss
G/B Am
Or needing nothing and with no one to miss
F C G/B – C
Like a stray dog licking on a statue
Chorus:
Am
Solitude is hard to find
G6 F G
And they’re all too busy organizing your life
Dm7
But it’s people that you lose
F C
When you become a re - cluse
Am
Well don’t be so nervous now
G6 F G
All I want is to be dancing round in your light
Dm7
With the colours that you choose
F C
When you become a re - cluse
Inter:
C D
Oooooo – oohh
C F
Oooooo – oohh
C D
I make any excuse to stay home
F
But I can’t do that
G
And I must come back
C D
There’s people that stay at home
C F
They’re watching a game of thrones
C D
And wondering what comes next
F
Well you can’t do that
G
And you must come back
C
Pictures of geese fly
C C
They around us and this leads to that
C Am
Take us everywhere and bring us back
F/ -
Well I dreamed that Jesus had a gun
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Chorus:
Am
And it’s getting cold outside
G6 F G
And they’re all too busy organizing your life
Dm7
But it’s people that you lose
F C
When you become a re - cluse
C
Yeah/
F – G 4x
F G F G F G - F – G
I think Howard Hughes would love to be on the internet
F G F G F G - F – G
I think Sly Stone should take back what he owns on the internet
F G F G F G F – G
Bobby Fischer lost and won then took a permanent holiday
F G F G F G F – G
He’ll be back to host a va - riety show on television some - day
F G F G F G - F – G
JD Salin - ger lived long a - go and far away
F G F G F G F – G
Greta Garbo parked her car and walked home from a glamorous party
F – G
I just wanted to be alone
F – G
c x3xxxx
C x32010
G/B x20033
Am x02210
G6 320000
F 133211
G 320003
Dm7 xx0211
