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Failed Love Songs

by Toby Darling

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1.
Barrel of Tears Intro: D D/E Bm7 Gm* D Am C Em Bb Am G Lights flashing in magic colours, enjoy the fun of the fair D Am C Em Bb Am G Climb aboard that ferris wheel, you can see for miles from there F C G Bm Am Throw away your troubles, don't waste time on my sad show F C G Bm Am D Keep your eyes on those bright lights, playing me's not worth a go Chorus: C Am Em Bb D D/E Bm7 Gm Roll up Roll up, we'll have a barrel of tears C Am Em Bb D D/E Bm7 Gm Roll up Roll up, see my barrel of tears D Am C Em Bb Am G Ride the waltzer one more time, see the faces smiling by D Am C Em Bb Am G Throw a penny for a candy apple, test your strength for a dime Throw away your troubles, don't waste time on my sad show Keep your eyes on those bright lights, it's not me you want to know CHORUS D Am C Em Bb Am G Noone wants to hear my sad story, and noone wants to feel bad, D Am C Em Bb Am G And noone's got the time to worry, When it's so easy to be glad, Throw away your troubles, don't waste time on my sad show Keep your eyes on those bright lights, I'll still be here tomorrow CHORUS CHORUS INTRO *xx0232 xx2032 x2x032 x53333
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More Than Friends Intro Am7 Em7 x4 C G You look at me F G C F G With the eyes of someone to a child C G Laughter breaks F G C F G The lines of your face into a smile Dm Am7 I kiss your cheek goodbye Bb Am7 G A faintest tremble in my lips Dm Am7 Afraid to let you feel Bb Am7 D The passion that's hiding deep. And I want to be... Chorus: Am7 Em7 Am7 Em7 More than friends Am7 Em7 Am7 Em7 More than friends F C Your love is not enough Am7 G Without your body's touch Dm Am Em7 I need to be more than friends We think as one Great minds working the same way There's no silence Finding the right thing to say I wish you luck In your search for happiness Afraid to let you know There's no greater heart than this. And I want to be... Chorus F C G Am If I told you how I feel F C G Am Would it turn your love to cold cold steel F C G Am Or would you take me in your arms F C D Whisper in my ear, I want to be... Chorus Chorus intrumental More than friends etc
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Smoking Gun 03:21
Smoking Gun Intro: A G F#m Bm, A G F#m G x2 A G F#m Bm Who's this blew my life to pieces A G F#m G Point blank face to the floor A G F#m Bm Shot to kill and never misses A G F#m G Left me crying at an open door D F#m Bm C Go call the FBI D A G Let me tell them before I die. There's a.... Chorus: Bm G A Smoking gun in her hand Bm A G Six shells on the seat of her car Bm G A Finger prints on the trigger and Bm A G Bm A G Six bullets, right through my heart Don't listen to her alibi 'Bout a new man in her life Don't believe it when she sighs It was over, she'd said goodbye She's the one did the crime If she says she don't love me then she's lying. There's a... Chorus D F#m Bm A Let her go she'll find another D F#m Bm A Take the next one down the line D F#m Bm A Another body to recover D A G A trail of blood and a love that's died. There's a .... Chorus Chorus instrumental Chorus etc
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Don't Know Where I'm Going Intro: Em Bm7 x4 Em Bm7 Em Bm7 Em Bm7 Em Bm7 You could say I've lived a life of silver C Bm7 Em Am Em Bm7 Em Bm7 Not gold but shining full of dreams Em Bm7 Em Bm7 Em Bm7 Em Bm7 You could say I've got things to kill for C Bm7 Em Am Em Bm7 Em Bm7 Had chances come my way it seems C G Am Em Am And I know I can glance at my past C G Am Em F And can say I've had an even chance. But I... Chorus: Em - D - C - D Don't know where I'm going Em - D - C - D It aint nowhere I've been Em - D - C - D No I don't know where I'm going Em - Am - G F Em Bm7 Em Bm7 And I don't know if I'm coming back again Started out with all the best intentions Worked hard to be like all the rest Fought through all my sad addictions Almost happy to come through second best And I could have been a straight up guy Cruised on neutral till the day I die. But I... Chorus C#m B A B And I know its a hard world out there C#m B A It don't need me to tell it its not fair. Verse Instrumental So I guess I'll throw my dice to the wind And go wherever they may lie Leave my memories crying far behind C Bm7 Em Am F And take directions from the highway. And I... Chorus etc
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Walking On Broken Hearts Intro: A/Gsus4 – A/Gsus4/F# x4 A/Gsus4 Em A/Gsus4 Em Her hips sway all along the street Gsus4 Dsus4 A+9 she smiles to everyone she meets A/Gsus4 Em A/Gsus4 Em She’s looking like she floats on air Gsus4 Dsus4 A+9 She leaves no sign thatshe’s passed through there A/Gsus4 Em A/Gsus4 Em I know why she makes no sound C Em Am G But you hear sighs all around. Cos she’s Chorus: C D Em Am Walking on broken hearts C Em Am G Stepping on the ghosts of the past C B/G Am G She shines with a soul of glass C Em Am G Cos she’s walking on broken hearts A/Gsus4 Em A/Gsus4 Em x2 She can drive a man insane He won’t know till he feels the pain Then she’s gone with no goodbyes Left him hurting with tears in his eyes. And she’s.. Chorus A/Gsus4 Em A/Gsus4 Em x2 A/Gsus4 Em A/Gsus4 Em She won’t be back to say she’s sorry A/Gsus4 Em A/Gsus4 Em She’s got a data and she’s in a hurry C D Em There’s another man she’s dying to meet C D A/Gsus4 So just don’t look down at her feet. Cos she’s Chorus Instrumental: A/Gsus4 Em A/Gsus4 Em x4 Chorus Intro
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Talking About The Weather Intro: G D G Em, D C Em G D How was it for you G Em For me it rained all night D C It can scare you Em When you're alone G Bm7 Did you come to see me C D With something new to say Em G There's talk of a heavy sea D And I'm drowning Chorus: G C So we'll stay D Em Talking about the weather C G I don't think I'll ever Em A Find the words to say G C Yeh we'll stay D Em Talking about the weather C G Maybe sometime never Em A You'll be mine I feel your eyes waiting on my lips Quick to catch The word Love I'm looking at at the sky Will the heavens open now Like maybe they can tell me why I'm such a fool Chorus Bm G Just stay a while A Bm Share the space in an aching heart G D Better than a life apart A We can find a way Chorus Verse Instrumental Chorus
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Out On The Roof Intro: Dm7 Gm7 C Am7 Dm7 Am7 Gm7 Dm7 Gm7 C So it's me and the stars Am7 Dm7 And a borrowed guitar Am7 Gm7 Dancing the night away Dm7 Gm7 C Maybe the shy moon Am7 Dm7 Wants to play too Am7 Gm7 Hiding from the sight of day Out here on the tiles We can act wild Can drink to tomorrow A glass of cool air With a night owl's stare To drown all our sorrows. We're Chorus: Dm7 Gm7 Bb C Out on the roof Dm7 Gm7 Bb C Yeh we're out on the roof Dm7 Am7 Bb C No need to go back inside Dm7 Am7 Bb C Out here in an August sky we're Dm7 Gm7 Bb C Out on the roof Dm7 Gm7 Bb C Yeh out on the roof A stray cat's howl With his gang on the prowl He knows how it feels Put out on the street With the shadows to eat And trouble at his heels. He's... Chorus (replace 'we' with 'he' for this chorus only) Verse instrumental (Sax?) Am7 Gm7 When morning comes around Am7 Gm7 And it's time to come on down Am7 Gm7 Will you open up the door Bb C Or leave us lying more... Chorus Chorus Out on the roof etc
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I Meant To Say Intro: Am7 Bm7 x4, C Em C Em, Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 Its easy to say Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 Words that cut like cold rain through your mind C Em C Em Take the breath from your life Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 And bring you down It's easy to watch The tears that grow like pearls in your eyes Take away your soft disguise And bring you down Am7 I never tried G Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 To tell you how I'd feel inside Am7 G If you ever ran and left me Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 High and Dry Chorus: Am7 G I meant to say F Em Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 How I miss your face close to mine Am7 G F Em And I'm sorry for all the times I made you cry Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 When I meant to say 'I Love You' Am7 G Words can catch you unawares F Em Make you seem like you don't care Am7 G Turn your meaning upside down Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 Turn a glance into a frown Verse Intrumental Chorus It's easy to hear The sound of a slowly closing door And the silence that comes with being alone Evermore Verse instr etc
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Waste It On A Song Intro Em D Em C-G Bm7 C Em D D Am Singing’s easy C G Hear the feeling in your voice Bm7 C Telling the world bout your sad life Em Like you can strum it all away Living’s hard Learn to do the right thing Put those words into action So you can sort it all out Bm7 C It’s so simple Am7 D To pick up that old guitar. And... Chorus: Em D Just waste it on a song Em C - G Like it’ll fix those wrongs Bm7 C Cheer you up the whole night long Em D Just waste it on a song Say it to a page Or a room that doesn’t hear Nobody’s gonna catch those words While you’re playing Don’t catch their eyes keep your sight on the frets Like telling your problems to your fingers Is gonna make it all come right Its so simple If words could make you strong Chorus Am D And every bar and every phrase Am D That flows from your mind C G Aint worth a note in the wind Am7 If you can’t face yourself Chorus etc
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Little Girl Blue Intro: Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7 x4 Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7 Hiding under covers Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7 Shielding your face C D Am7 G Your mind’s a maze of colours Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7 In a cold and lonely place Talking in whispers Eyes screwed up tight Your dreams are full of monsters In a gothic stormy night Chorus 1: G D Am7 C Little girl blue G D C You lost all your sheep G D Am7 C You’ll never get to sleep Em C D Like a child Missing out on friendship Skipping of from school There’s a tremble on your lip And your eyes are brimming full Chorus 2: Little girl blue What you been through What did they do To make you wild Verse instrumental Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7 Little girl blue Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7 What scared you so Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7 Something only you can know Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7 And never tell C D Em Am Keep it deep inside C D Em Am Where only demons hide C D Em Am And don’t let those sighs C Em Am7 Ever reach the sky Chorus 1 Chorus 2

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These are all songs written 15+ years ago, which I recently remixed using the original vocals from 2004, sung by Tali Trow.
They comprise various styles, including pop, jazz, reggae, ambient.

Videos for all songs are available here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY6dfvc2sgI2dUwGwVVbD3Ea-663HaUdI

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released November 22, 2015

All songs (lyrics and music) by Toby Darling
Vocals by Tali Trow
Programmed by Toby Darling using Cubase Elements 8

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Toby Darling Penang, Malaysia

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Feel free to do anything you want with these tracks, I am not interested in making money from music.

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