Artist/Group:Axis of Awesome
Title:4 Chords
Official Website: http://www.axisofawesome.net/
Ok this is basically a send up of every 4 chord pop song ever written from Sydney
based comedy band "The Axis of Awesome" as the name suggests the song only
consists of 4 simple chords E,B,C#,A
E B
My life is brilliant, my love is pure.
C# A
I saw an angel, of this I'm sure.
E B
Forever young, I wanna
C# A
be forever young.
E B
I won't hesitate no more,
C# A
no more, it cannot wait, I'm yours.
E
This is the way you left me,
B
I'm not pretending,
C#
No hope, no love, no glory,
A
No Happy ending.
E B
Cause you are amazing,
C# A E
We did amazing, things.
B
If I could, then I would,
C# A
I'll go wherever you will, (go)
E B C# A
Can you feel, the love tonight?
E B
And she will, be loved,
C# A
Yeah she will, be loved.
E B
Pictures of you, pictures of me,
C# A
up upon your wall for the world to see.
E B C# A
'cause I cant live, with or without you.
E B C# A
And if I fall, at your feet.
E B C#
You'll let your tears, am I not pretty enough,
A
is my heart too broken.
[Double time]
E B
When I find myself in times of trouble,
C# A E
Mother mary, comes to me.
B C# A E
Sometimes I feel like I dont have a partner.
B C# A E
That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin',
B C# A
We'll be ridin' on the horses, yeah yeah.
E B C#
No woman, no cry,
A E
It surely is a dream,
B C# A
I come from the land down under.
E B C# A
Once a jolly swagman, camped by a billabong.
E B C# A
Take on me,(When I come around)
E B C# A
Take Me On,(When I come around)
E B C# A
I'll be gone
E B C#
In a day or, two.
A E B
Save tonight, (Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you.)
C# A
Fight the break of dawn.
E B
Come tommorow, (There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.)
C# A
tommorow I'll be gone.
[Structure change]
C# A E B
I know she's playin with me,
C# A E B
But thats okay 'cause I've got no self-esteem.
C# A E B
With a thousand eyes and a good disguise,
C# A E B
hit 'em right between the eyes, hit 'em right between the eyes.
C# A E B
'Cause I'm not here for your entertainment,
C# A E B
you don't really wanna mess with me tonight.
C# A E B
Cant read my, cant read my, no he can't read my,
C# A E B
poker face, come on Barbie lets go party.
C# A E B
Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me.
C# A
She wants to touch me (woo-hoo),
E
She wants to love me (woo-hoo),
B
She'll never leave me (woo-hoo-oh-oh-oh).
C# A E B
Control yourself, take only what you need from it.
C# A E
Take your canvas bags, take your canvas bags,
B
Take your canvas bags, to the supermarket.
C# A
Take your canvas bags.
[Back to original chord structure]
E
Nothings right I'm torn,
B
I'm all out of faith,
C#
this is how I feel,
A
I'm cold and I am shamed,
E
lying naked on the floor.
B
Illusion never changed,
C#
into something real,
A E
I'm wide awake and I can see I'm more than a bird,
B
I'm more than a plane,
C# A
I'm a bird-plane,
E B
I'm a bird-plane,
C# A
A mother fucking bird-plane.
E
Doesn't that sound familiar,
B
doesn't that sound too close to home
C#
doesn't that make you shiver,
A
the way things could have gone.
E
And doesn't that seem peculiar,
B
'cause everyone wants a little more,
C#
there's something I do remember,
A
to never go this far,
E
thats all it takes to be a star.
