KEEP IT by DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Written by Kevin Archer and Jeff Blythe
On 'Searching For The Young Soul Rebels' (Parlophone, 1980)
(c) EMI Music Publishing Ltd. 1980
Chords used:
A: 577655
F#: 244322
E7: x7675x
D: x5777x
C#: x4666x
E: x7999x
A F# E7 D (x2)
[A] The world lives [C#]in your front [F#]room
You're sitting happy in [E]gloom[E7]
Fate [D]worries you, you will not give her [A]room
You give [C#]credit for [F#]might, inspiration and [E]sight,[E7]
But you [D]miss the point, you won't join in the [A]fight
You think to [C#]use is to [F#]lose
So you're [F#]clinging, pulling, pleading
[D]Try to keep it [E]safe
Keep it [D]cosy but it feels so out of [E]place
You're feeling a [D]loss but you're not fit to [E]make it
You're offered so [D]much but you're frightened to [E]take it.
A F# (x2)
[A] It never [C#]was really [F#]proved, never was unders[E]tood,[E7]
But there [D]really is no virtue in the [A]good
They're [C#]shouting so [F#]loud that they'd do better to [E]mine[E7]
You're [D]deafened and you cannot hear the [A]rhyme
But [C#]secrets in [F#]whispers pull you, try to tempt you
[D]Try and keep it [E]safe
Keep it [D]cosy but it feels so out of [E]place
You're feeling a [D]loss but you're not fit to [E]make it
You're offered so [D]much but you're not going to [E]take it.
[A] [F#] [E7] [D]
[A] You beg for [C#]help and ad[F#]vice, how to handle your [E]life,[E7]
But you [D]dare not move, you cannot pay the [A]price
Chances [C#]slip, you just [F#]shatter, flatter, forget what matters
[D]Spout your lines, read all your books
You [E]hear the sounds, miss all the hooks
Your [D]best is what you least unders[E]tand
You [D]hate the graft, won't join the race,
You're [E]scared to scar your pretty face
[D]State now cos your head's in the [E]sand.
D E (x6)
A E D E (rpt. til fade)
Written by Kevin Archer and Jeff Blythe
On 'Searching For The Young Soul Rebels' (Parlophone, 1980)
(c) EMI Music Publishing Ltd. 1980
Chords used:
A: 577655
F#: 244322
E7: x7675x
D: x5777x
C#: x4666x
E: x7999x
A F# E7 D (x2)
[A] The world lives [C#]in your front [F#]room
You're sitting happy in [E]gloom[E7]
Fate [D]worries you, you will not give her [A]room
You give [C#]credit for [F#]might, inspiration and [E]sight,[E7]
But you [D]miss the point, you won't join in the [A]fight
You think to [C#]use is to [F#]lose
So you're [F#]clinging, pulling, pleading
[D]Try to keep it [E]safe
Keep it [D]cosy but it feels so out of [E]place
You're feeling a [D]loss but you're not fit to [E]make it
You're offered so [D]much but you're frightened to [E]take it.
A F# (x2)
[A] It never [C#]was really [F#]proved, never was unders[E]tood,[E7]
But there [D]really is no virtue in the [A]good
They're [C#]shouting so [F#]loud that they'd do better to [E]mine[E7]
You're [D]deafened and you cannot hear the [A]rhyme
But [C#]secrets in [F#]whispers pull you, try to tempt you
[D]Try and keep it [E]safe
Keep it [D]cosy but it feels so out of [E]place
You're feeling a [D]loss but you're not fit to [E]make it
You're offered so [D]much but you're not going to [E]take it.
[A] [F#] [E7] [D]
[A] You beg for [C#]help and ad[F#]vice, how to handle your [E]life,[E7]
But you [D]dare not move, you cannot pay the [A]price
Chances [C#]slip, you just [F#]shatter, flatter, forget what matters
[D]Spout your lines, read all your books
You [E]hear the sounds, miss all the hooks
Your [D]best is what you least unders[E]tand
You [D]hate the graft, won't join the race,
You're [E]scared to scar your pretty face
[D]State now cos your head's in the [E]sand.
D E (x6)
A E D E (rpt. til fade)
