Elvis Costello - Big tears
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Tuning: E A D G B E
Regarding the chorus lyrics - they are always published as “When you're lying in your coffin,”
but to me it really sounds like he goes back and forth between
“When you're lying in your coffin” and “When you're lying and you’re coughin’ ” - so sing it either way.
[Intro]
G F C x4
[Verse]
GEveryone is busy with the regular routinEme
The sniDper just takes his aim G
CEveryone is window shopping, no one is amazed Am
CEven if he hits you, you'd still think it's juAmst a graze
DYou go to a movie, youG go tDo a show
You think that you're living, you doGn't reDally know
[Chorus]
CBig tGears meCan nothinDg
CYou can couGnt them asAm they fall D
CBig tGears meCan nothiDng
When you're lying in Ayour coffin D
G F C D G F C x4
Tell me who's been taken in
[Verse]
FOh, yoCu talGk about the new boss automatic clauseEm
But of courDse they make it all up for you G
CAlways fascinated by the weird edge of Amtown
CCome home disappointed every time they put you dowAmn
DLaughing with the old boys, sayinGg that iDt's all noise G
[Chorus]
DI suppose big tCearsG mean noCthing D
CYou can counGt them asAm they fall D
CBig tGears mCean nothinDg
When you're lying in Ayour coffin D
G F C D G F C x4
Tell me who's been taken in
[Verse]
GAll the buttons of my overcoat Em
They have fallen oDff one by one G
CYou wouldn't even like me if you'd never had a drink Am
CYou wouldn't even like me if you never stopped to tAmhink
DStanding in the shadow, turninGg wiveDs to widows G
[Chorus]
DDon’t you know big tearsC meaGn nothinCg D
CYou can counGt them asAm they fall D
CBig tGears meCan nothingD
When you're lying andA you’re coughin’ D
G F C D G F C x2
Tell me who's been taken in
G F C D G F C x2
Tell me who's been taken in
G F C D G F C x2
Tell me who, me or you’s been taken in
GTeFllC me, GteFllC me,G tFelCl me