15th September 2000, 5.09pm
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Shaun Hand, Birmingham
TIME FOR TRUTH
(Paul Weller)
From the LP ‘In The City’
Chords used:
A: 577655
D: x5777x
E: x7999x
G: 355433
E: 022100 (used at ‘..stick together now’)
(on the demo version on the box-set, there is a ‘One, two, three’ before the song
starts, on ‘In The City’, there isn’t)
A
A
What you trying to say that you haven’t tried to say before?
You’re just another red balloon with a lot of hot gas,
Why don’t you fuck off?
D A
And you think you’ve got it worked out,
D A
And you think you’ve got it made,
D A
And you’re trying to play the hero,
D E
Oh, but you never walk home in the dark.
A
I think it’s time for truth, and the truth is you’ve lost, Uncle Jimmy,
Admit you’re a failure and decline with honour while you can.
D A
And you think you’ve got it sussed out, (Hah!)
D E A
And you think that we’re brainwashed, (No way!)
D A
And you’re trying to form a police state,
D E
So you can rule our bodies and minds.
D A
Whatever happened to the great empire?
G D G D
You bastards have turned it into man — ure!
A G E
Tell the young to stick together now.
A
I bet you sleep at nights in silk sheets, and a clean mind,
While killer roam the streets in numbers, dressed in blue.
D A
And you’re trying to hide it from us,
D E A
But you know what I mean,
D A
Bring forward the six pigs,
D E
We wanna see them swing so high,
Liddle Towers!
(there then follows a short guitar solo:)
A G5 A5 G A
—————————————-3—3—3—3/5—|—5—5—5—5—|
—————————————-3—3—3—3/5—|—5—5—5—5—|
—————————————-4—4—4—4/6—|—7—6—7—6—|
—7—7—5—5—5—4—4——5—5—5—5/7—5—5—5—5/7—|—x—7—x—7—| (x2)
————————5—5—5—5—5/7—5—5—5—5/7—|—7—7—7—7—|
—————————3—3—3—3/5—3—3—3—3/5—|—5—7—5—5—|
D A
And you think you’ve got it worked out,
D E A
And you think you’ve got it made,
D A
And you’re trying to play the hero,
D E
But you never walk home in the dark.
D A
Whatever happened to the great empire?
G D G D
You bastards have turned it into man — ure!
A G E
Tell the young to stick together now.
C’mon!
repeat the guitar solo up to the bar and then play:
G A A
—3—3—3—3/5— —5—|
—3—3—3—3/5— —5—|
—4—4—4—4/6— —6—|
—5—5—5—5/7— (x4) then… —7—| (x4 — last time let ring)
—5—5—5—5/7— —7—|
—3—3—3—3/5— —5—|
NB: Liddle Towers: Weller shouts this before the guitar solo, Liddle Towers died in
police custody in late 1976, the coroner’s verdict of ‘misadventure’
led the newspapers to demand a full enquiry.
