m: [email protected]
Subject: t/tubes/what_do_you_want_from_life
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:38:00 -0500
What Do You Want From Life ? Spooner/Evans the Tubes
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Intro: [bass synth]
Bb Bb Bb F
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[acoustic, doubled on piano]
Cm
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Verse 1:
Cm F
What do want from life?
G# G
To kidnap an heiress or threaten her with a knife
Cm F
What do want from life?
G# G
To get cable TV and watch it every night
Chorus 1: [faster, honky tonk]
Cm F
There you’ll sit — a lump in your chair
G# G F
Where do you sleep and what do you wear when you’re sleeping.
Verse 2: [original tempo]
Cm F
What do want from life?
G# G
An Indian Guru to show you the inner light
Cm F
What do want from life?
G# G A->Bb
A meaningless love affair with a girl that you met tonight
Bridge 1: [stately]
Bb F [bkgrnd]
How can you tell when you’re doin’ all right? (do-do-do-do)
C G G->A->Bb
Does your bank account swell while you’re dreaming at night?
Bb F
How do you know when you’re really in love? (do-do-do-do)
C C# G#
Do violins play when you’re touching the one that you’re loving?
A G#
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…..
Verse 3: [modulates up a tone]
C#m F#
What do want from life? (what do you want from life)
A G#
Someone to love and somebody you can trust
C#m F#
What do want from life? (what do you want from life)
A G#
To try and be happy while you do the nasty things you must
[Bass Synth Interlude, funky, over C#]
[Wah Guitar solo over C#]
C#m F# A G#
What do want from life ? (what do you want from life ?)
C#m F# A G#
What do want from life ? (what DO you WANT from LIFE ?)
[Spoken faster & faster & faster over changes. Alternate
spoken lines between two «voices», huckster style.]
Well, you can’t have THAT — BUT if you’re an American
Citizen you ARE intitled to:
— a heated kidney shaped pool
— a microwave oven (don’t watch the food cook)
— a DynaGym (i’ll personally demonstrate it in the privacy
of your own home)
— a king-size Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with
Polybendum
— a fool-proof plan and an air-tight alibi
— Real Simulated Indian Jewelery
— a Gucci Shoe Tree
— a year’s supply of anti-biotics
— a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth (*)
and Bob Dylan’s new unlisted phone number
— a beautifully restored 3rd reich swizzle stick
— RoseMary’s Baby!
— a dream date, in kneepads, with Paul Williams
— a new Matador, a new Mastedon, a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego
— a Merc Montclair,
— a Mark 4, a Meteor, a Mercedes, an MG or a Malibu
— a Mork Moriarti, a Maserati, a Mack Truck
— a Mazda, a new Monza, or a Moped
— a Winnibago, hell, a herd o’ Winnibagos, we’re givin’ ’em away!
— or, how ’bout a McCullough Chain saw [vocal near manic]
— a Las Vegas wedding, a Mexican divorce [band stops]
— a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot [descending drums]
or, a Baby’s arm holding an apple. [end cold]
(*) remember him? the 70s TV show «The Rookies»? Nurse Jill on duty
on every shift on every floor…
— another ace 70s tab from Dave Turner & Tim Willett