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- ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ 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- ---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
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)