Biography:
The Jane Austen Argument are a Melbourne, Australia-based indie cabaret noir duo who combine raw ballads and sharp tongues with chaotic abandon and overtones of anti-folk and punk love.
Brought together through a chance cigarette break encounter (I have a cabaret show and need a pianist. I’m a cabaret pianist in need of a show…), a shared love of Regina Spektor, Nick Cave, dressups and theatrical musical convention, The Jane Austen Argument’s Tom Dickins and Jen Kingwell have been playing together since around September 2009
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Verse 1]
A Dm C
I went to New York and paid lots of money
G A
To stay in the silence and not play for anyone
Dm C
I picked up a bar tab and drank myself stupid
G A
I flirted with strangers just to feel attractive
Dm C
I stood on a rooftop and looked to the skyline
G A
The cloud started rolling in as I start to say
Dm C
"Goodbye" to my grandfather who's at home dying
G A
The rain started in and I was left crying...
[Chorus]
F
I've got to maintain the madness
C Dm
Just so the stillness makes sense to me
C
I've got to keep the momentum rolling along
Dm
So that no-one can stop me
Bb
No-one can drag me
F Em F Bb
Ho-ome
[Verse 2]
Dm C
I went to San Francisco with my best friend
G A
To sing in a bar full of gay men who wanted me
Dm C
But they did not know me though they thought I sang pretty
G A
I made love to the microphone so they would not feel
Dm C
So empty inside on this wintery night
G A
In this city of madmen and loners and stoners
Dm C G
And lovers forgotten in favour of rotten misfortunes with money
A
But I still went home alone
[Chorus]
F
Cos I've got to maintain the madness
C Dm
Just so the stillness makes sense to me
C
I've got to keep the momentum rolling along
Dm
So that no-one can stop me
Bb
No-one can drag me
F Em F Bb
Ho-ome
[Verse 3]
Bb Dm
But now I'm here in Boston
Bb Dm
In love with Downtown Crossing
C G
In this very room where some of my favourite songs have been written
A
I'm writing this one
F
To sing and remember
C
These days in December
G
Where I have surrendered
A
I'm not pretending
F C Dm
To stay still...
Bb F C Dm Bb
To stay still...
Dm C
So next week I'll go to Iceland
G
Then onto London
A Dm C
And into the arms of my favourite stranger
G
And then onwards
A Dm C
Cos I cannot I will not I cannot I will not I will not I cannot
A
I will never stop...
[Chorus]
F
Oh maintaining the madness
C Dm
Just so the stillness makes sense to me
Bb F C
I've got to keep the momentum rolling along
Dm
So that no-one can stop me
Bb
No-one can drag me
F Em Bb F
Ho-ome
F C Dm Bb
Ho-ome
[Outro]
Bb
A Dm C
I went to New York and paid lots of money
G A
To stay in the silence and not play for anyone
Dm C
I picked up a bar tab and drank myself stupid
G A
I flirted with strangers just to feel attractive
Dm C
I stood on a rooftop and looked to the skyline
G A
The cloud started rolling in as I start to say
Dm C
"Goodbye" to my grandfather who's at home dying
G A
The rain started in and I was left crying...
[Chorus]
F
I've got to maintain the madness
C Dm
Just so the stillness makes sense to me
C
I've got to keep the momentum rolling along
Dm
So that no-one can stop me
Bb
No-one can drag me
F Em F Bb
Ho-ome
[Verse 2]
Dm C
I went to San Francisco with my best friend
G A
To sing in a bar full of gay men who wanted me
Dm C
But they did not know me though they thought I sang pretty
G A
I made love to the microphone so they would not feel
Dm C
So empty inside on this wintery night
G A
In this city of madmen and loners and stoners
Dm C G
And lovers forgotten in favour of rotten misfortunes with money
A
But I still went home alone
[Chorus]
F
Cos I've got to maintain the madness
C Dm
Just so the stillness makes sense to me
C
I've got to keep the momentum rolling along
Dm
So that no-one can stop me
Bb
No-one can drag me
F Em F Bb
Ho-ome
[Verse 3]
Bb Dm
But now I'm here in Boston
Bb Dm
In love with Downtown Crossing
C G
In this very room where some of my favourite songs have been written
A
I'm writing this one
F
To sing and remember
C
These days in December
G
Where I have surrendered
A
I'm not pretending
F C Dm
To stay still...
Bb F C Dm Bb
To stay still...
Dm C
So next week I'll go to Iceland
G
Then onto London
A Dm C
And into the arms of my favourite stranger
G
And then onwards
A Dm C
Cos I cannot I will not I cannot I will not I will not I cannot
A
I will never stop...
[Chorus]
F
Oh maintaining the madness
C Dm
Just so the stillness makes sense to me
Bb F C
I've got to keep the momentum rolling along
Dm
So that no-one can stop me
Bb
No-one can drag me
F Em Bb F
Ho-ome
F C Dm Bb
Ho-ome
[Outro]
Bb
The Joy Formidab (...)
The Juans
The Judds
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Giant (...)
The Knack
The Knife
The Knocks
The Kooks
The Korgis