John Cale
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend

John Cale Tabs

Trouble With Classicists

Tabbed by: Henk Stolker <stolker@stolker.nl>

Author:
John Cale & Lou Reed
Album: Songs for Drella (1990)

| | = 1 bar
|....| = 1 bar, 4 counts

| (no chord) A G . | . D/A . . | . A G . | . D/A . . |
| . A G . | . D/A . . | . A G . | . D/A . . |

    | (nc)         A         G   |       D/A     |
The trouble with a classicist he looks at a tree

|          A    G              |      D/A     |
That's all he sees, he paints a tree

   |                A        G   (nc)        |   D    |
The trouble with a classicist he looks at the sky

|              A   G       |         D/A     |
He doesn't ask why, he just paints a sky

| . A G . | . D/A . . | . A G (nc) | . D . . |

The trouble with an impressionist, he looks at a log
And he doesn't know who he is, standing, staring, at this log
And surrealist memories are too amorphous and proud
While those downtown macho painters are just alcoholic

   | A5                          | A5
The trouble with impressionists,

          | A5                          | A5
that's the trouble with impressionists,

          | A5                          | A5
that's the trouble with impressionists,

          | A5                          | A5
that's the trouble with impressionists.

| . A G . | . D/A . . | . A G . | . D/A . . |

| . A G . | . D/A . . | . A G (nc) | . D . . |

The trouble with personalities, they're too wrapped up in style
It's too personal, they're in love with their own guile
They're like illegal aliens trying to make a buck
They're driving gypsy cabs but they're thinking like a truck
The trouble with personalities is
   | A5                            | A5
The trouble with personalities is

| A | (8 bars)
| F#5 | G5 | F#5 | E5 | F#5 | G5 | F#5 | E5 |


I like the druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains
I like their lack of training, their primitive technique
I think sometimes it hurts you when you stay too long in school
I think sometimes it hurts you when you're afraid to be called a fool
The trouble with classicists is
The trouble with classicists is


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