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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
