Key: E
Introduction: E C#m F#m B
E
You used to get it in your fishnets
C#m
Now you only get it in your night dress
F#m
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
B
Landed in a very common crisis
E
Everything' s in order in a black hole
C#m
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
F#m
The Bloody Mary' s lacking her Tabasco
B
Remember when you used to be a rascal?
F#m
Oh the boy' s a slag
B
The best you ever had
F#m
The best you ever had
B F#m
Is just a memory and those dreams
B
But as daft as they seem
F#m
As daft as they seem
A
My love when you dream them up...
E
Flicking through a little book of sex tips
C#m
Remember when the boys were all electric?
F#m
Now when she' s told she' s gonna get it
B
I' m guessing that she' d rather just forget it
E
Clinging to not getting sentimental
C#m
Said she wasn' t going but she went still
F#m
Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle
B
Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil?
F#m
Oh the boy' s a slag
B
The best you ever had
F#m
The best you ever had
B F#m
Is just a memory and those dreams
B
But as daft as they seem
F#m
As daft as they seem
B
My love when you dream them up
G#m C#m
Oh Flo, where did you go?
F#m
Where did you go?
G#m F#m
Where did you go? Woah.
E C#m
Falling about
F#m B
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
E C#m
You were just sounding it out
F#m B
You' re not coming back again.
E C#m
Falling about
F#m B
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
E C#m
You were just sounding it out
F#m B
You' re not coming back again.
E
You used to get it in your fishnets
C#m
Now you only get it in your night dress
F#m
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
B
Landed in a very common crisis
E
Everything' s in order in a black hole
C#m
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
F#m
That Bloody Mary' s lacking in Tabasco
B C#m
Remember when he used to be a rascal?
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