Caetano Veloso - Tropicalia

      
 
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 tropicalia
 album: mutations
 submitted by m. burgess
 
 B7#9 G7 A#7 A7 D#7#9 C#7 C#7#9 B7 
         

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            B7#9       G7         
 when they beat on a broken guitar
            B7#9                  G7            
 and on the streets they reek of tropical charms
           B7#9        G7           
 the embassies lie in hideous shards
        A#7               A7   
 where tourists snore and decay
 
 when they dance in a reptile blaze
 you wear a mask an equatorial haze
 into the past a colonial maze
 where there's no more confetti to throw
 
 D#7#9      C#7                    D#7#9 
 you didn't know what to say to yourself
            C#7                  C#7#9 
 love is a poverty you couldn't sell
         B7                 B7#9 
 misery waiting in vague hotels
    A#7    A7 
 to be evicted
 
 you're out of luck you're singing funeral songs
 to the studs they're anabolic and bronze
 they seem to strut in their millennial fogs
 'til they fall down and deflate
 
 CHORUS
 
 now you've had your fun
 under an air-conditioned sun
 it's burned into your eyes
 leaves you plain and left behind
 see them eyes and fall
 into the jaws of a pestilent love
 
 you didn't know what to say to yourself
 love is a poverty you couldn't sell
 misery waiting in vague hotels
 to be a victim