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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:08:49 -0400 From: "Denis J. O'Connell"
Suffering Face by Elvis Costello >From "The King of America" Reissue Transcribed by Denis O'Connell ([email protected])
EB7AE There's an old man's fantasy put in a young girl's mouth C#mG#mAE like cheap pink lipstick smeared on a wedding dress C#mG#m Will you look what you've done to her, A will you look at this disgrace. EB7AEF#G#A Oh, it's all over your suffering face. EF#G#A
EB7 If we were chrome we would be rusted, AE if we were thirst we would be quenched. C#mG#m You don't need the same old rivet gun, AE you need a brand new wrench. C#mG#m Someone to pull you down on the ground A and cover you with kisses. EA Once I was the jewel of your heart,
now I'm only semi-precious.
C#mG#mA But if I seem so preoccupied, C#mG#mAE it's just my alibi, I'm all broken up inside. C#mG#mAE Even the words of love, seem cruel and crass, C#mG#mAAsusA when you're tough and transparent as armored glass. EB7AE I prepared a bed for you, then I sprayed perfume C#mG#mAE upon the wilted roses that I'd scattered 'round the room. C#mG#m You came in gentle as a lamb, AE and turned into a terror. EB7A and you left your "love another" threats in the steam AsusA fading on my bathroom mirror.
EB7AE But it's an old man's fantasy put in a young girl's mouth C#mG#mAE like cheap pink lipstick smeared on a wedding dress. C#mG#mAE Will you look what you've done to me, AE now you've put me in my place. EB7 and it's all over, C#m it's all over, EB7 it's all over A your suffering face. Finish on E
This is my first attempt at an Elvis transcription, so if anyone has any corrections or comments feel free to update my chords (I know there are more than a few mistakes in it.) I have used the notation has been common for these transcriptions : a lowercase letter means play the bass note, but keep the previous chord formation. For example, after the first verse I play the E chrord regularly, and use my thumb to the bass notes quickly. From reading the CD liner notes, it seems that Elvis was kind of drunk when he recorded this song. I that it gives his voice a sort of slurry quality that fits this song perfectly, plus I always love it it is just Elvis accompanying himself on the guitar. He also steals a line from "Crimes of Paris" (or did "Crimes of Paris" steal it from this song), when he talks about "the words of love". Please enjoy and keep those other transcriptions coming! - Denis