Jeffrey Lee Pierce: "Love and Desperation" (from the "Wildweed" album)


spoken:	"Hey Meester!...Hey Blondie Boy!"  (accompanied by some saxophone)

(not understandable spoken words continue in the background during the intro riff)

riff chords for intro (4x) and on the last line of verses and chorus (2x):

Em   Em7   Em6   Em
-7---10-----9----7-
-8----8-----8----8-
-9----7-----7----9-
-9----9-----9----9-
-7----7-----7----7-
-7----7-----7----7-
 
chords to be played on each first four verse lines with a ska-like rhythm (strike guitar
"upwards" from the high to the low strings):
D#m/Em       D#m/Em
--6/7--7-7-7---6/7--7-7-7-
--7/8--8-8-8---7/8--8-8-8-
--8/9--9-9-9---8/9--9-9-9-
--8/9--9-9-9---8/9--9-9-9-
--6/7----------6/7--------
--6/7----------6/7--------
 
D#m/Em                   D#m/Em
    The night has windows ... that cannot sleep
D#m/Em 
    I don't like the monsters that you keep
D#m/Em                           D#m/Em
    don't play "Baby Mary" 'cause ... I am not a kid
D#m/Em                           D#m/Em
    don't you go and push me like ... your hammer did for you
Em/Em7/Em6/Em                Em/Em7/Em6/Em
    ..... it's love and desperation

I am blue as you pull off your skin
I can read in flesh everywhere you have been
that's why we bother to know each other so well
that's why I bother to live in hell with you
it's love and desperation


                 A             B
        This is love and dangerous
                 C#m                        B
        there's whole lots of things in my head
              A               B
        this love, that's filling me
                       Em/Em7/Em6/Em  Em/Em7/Em6/Em
        when you are there


Somebody hurts you, so you hurt me
so I hurt somebody else, who I have never seen
who hurts somebody else, way on down the road
who hurts somebody else who goes on home with you
it's love and desperation


        This is love and dangerous
        there's whole lots of things in my head
        this is love, it's spilling me
        when you are here ... love and desperation


instrumental = guitar solo over 6 times Em and 6x intro riff Em/Em7/Em6/Em


You're poking knowingly, slipping numbers on the wall
about the price of diamonds that sparkle when you call
about the price of breathing that can not hurt you at all
about the fools in schools, who could slip to fall for you
it's love and desperation


        This is love, it's dangerous
        there's whole lots of things in my head
        this is love,it's filling me
        when you aren't here ... it's love and desperation
        
	continue with intro riff chords Em/Em7/Em6/Em:

	it's love and desperation
	it's love and desperation
	it's love and desperation, can't sleep, your midnight children
        do the midnight creep ...  with love and desperation


during the final instrumental alternate the following riffs (play each 4x):

 Bm7                   Em7  Bm7  Em7
--7--7--7--7--7--7--7---7----7----7-
-10-10-10-10-10-10-10---8----10---8-
--7--7--7--7--7--7--7---7----7----7-
--9--9--9--9--9--9--9---9----9----9-
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 Em7                     Em6   Em7 
-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-----9----10-
--8--8--8--8--8--8--8-----8-----8-
--7--7--7--7--7--7--7-----7-----7-
--9--9--9--9--9--9--9-----9-----9-
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1x intro riff Em/Em7/Em6/Em and 6 times Em7 played with a fast kind of funky rhythm
 
4x Bm7/Em7/Bm7/Em7
4x Em7/Em6/Em7
4x Bm7/Em7/Bm7/Em7
4x Em7/Em6/Em7
Bm7/Em7/Bm7/Em7 (fading out)
 

Lyrics and guitar tabs