Tablature the other end - Elvis Costello

          



 

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  Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 22:35:44 -0400

  From: Bob Kaphan <kapo@gti.net>

  Subject: TAB:the_other_end_of_the_telescope by elvis_costello

  

  

  >From the wonderful Elvis disk All This Useless Beauty. A previous

  version of this song can be found on the Til Tuesday album Everything's

  Different Now. Elvis co-wrote this one with Aimee Mann but changed the

  lyrics and (in my opinion) made the song better for this version.

  This song is (c) 1996 Warner Bros Records. I'm sure Elvis has some

  publishing rights as does Aimee Mann...

  

  		The Other End of the Telescope

  		------------------------------

  			(Costello/Mann)

  

  	Bb        F          C         F        Dm              C

  Verse	Shall we agree that just this once I'm gonna change my life

    1:       Bb       F       C   F     Dm             Eb

  	Until it's just as tiny or important as you like

                  Bb           F       C            Bb

  	And in time we won't even recall that we spoke

  	                  F         C           Bb

  	Words that turned out to be as big as smoke

                         C           F

  	As smoke disappears in the air

                  Bb                 C              F

  	There's always something smoldering somewhere	

  

  	    C                   Bb            F

  Chorus:	I know it don't make a difference to you

              C                  Bb           F

  	But oh it sure made a difference to me

                        C           Dm         F

  	You'll see me off in the distance I hope

                   Dm

  	At the other end

                   Bb      C   Bb

  	At the other end of the telescope

  

  	(Bb)        F     C       F      Dm           C

  Verse	The promise of indulgence in my confidential voice

    2:        Bb        F      C      F          Dm              Eb

  	Approached immortal danger but you'll never know how close

                         Bb         F            C         Bb      

  	Then down the hall I overheard such a heavenly choir

  	           F        C       Bb

  	They interrupted my evil desires

  	               C           F

  	One day you're up in the clouds

               Bb                               C       F

  	The next thing you're down with the Sweet Adelines

  

  			(chorus)

  

  	C                  Bb          F

  Bridge:	Lie down baby now don't say a word

            C                    Bb         F

  	There there baby your vision is blurred

                Dm         C        Bb            F

  	Your head is so sore from all of that thinking

             Dm

  	I don't want to hurt you now

                                C

  	But I think you're shrinking

  

  	        Bb     F     C     F          Dm               C

  Verse	You're half naked ambition and you're half out of your wits

    3:	    Bb      F     C         F        Dm              Eb

  	Or several tiny fractions that this portrait still omits

                       Bb                 F          C     Bb

  	Now it's so hard to pick the receiver up when I call

                   F           C            Bb

  	I never noticed you could be so small

                         C           F

  	The answer was under your nose

                    Bb      C      F

  	But the question never arose	

  

  	    C                   Bb            F

  Chorus:	I know it don't make a difference to you

              C                  Bb           F

  	But oh it sure made a difference to me

                        C           Dm         F

  	You'll see me off in the distance I hope

                         C            Dm         F

  	With a bamboo needle on a shellac of Chopin

                             C              Dm            F

  	And the cast iron heart that you failed to tear open

  	         Dm

  	At the other end

                   Bb      C   Bb

  	At the other end of the telescope

  

  

   


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