Sounds of Soul And Sin
CHORDS and Lyrics
Broken Hearts
Intro:
Am G/B C FIG 1
Am G/B C FIG 1
Am G/B C FIG 2
Am G/B C G
Capo III
Am G/B C Am G/B C FIG 1
It's a string of broken hearts, dead wood down the stream
Am G/B Fmaj7 C
Fmaj7
Worn out boots beside the highway, just a bygone scheme
The cigarette in the ashtray, a love affair grown cold
Hallucinations of the past, I’m much too young to feel that old.
C G Fmaj7 C
She said ‘Tell me that you love me still’
Fmaj7 C G
He said ‘I have to think about that for a while’
C G Fmaj7
C
She said ‘Look at me like you used to’
Fmaj7
And he said ‘I’ve forgotten how to smile’
There’s a feeling in my gut, makes me wanna cry
So many things in life that make you wanna die
And all you are to me are lies, my elusive friends
All I am to you is based upon a lie of who I am.
She said ‘Tell me that you love me still’…
The more I drink, the more I think of faces that drift by
In the ripples of the past, sometimes I ask myself why
And what the hell I was thinkin’ when I hooked up with you?
And you should ask yourself the exact same question, but you never seem to do
She said ‘Tell me that you love me still’…
It’s a string of broken hearts, dead wood down the stream
Worn out boots beside the highway, just a foolish dream.
words & music by John Allenasasas
Sounds of Soul And Sin
CHORDS and Lyrics
On the road
Intro: Em G C D (2x)
Em G
C
G
D
Let go off my hand, I can’t stay anymore, I’ve got to run, girl, I’ve got to run
Em G
C
G
D
I will leave this very morning, I will sail from these shores as soon as the sky meets the sun.
G D
C
G
D
And when I’ll be back I don’t know, they call for the road, my heart and my soul
G D
C
G
D
It’s in the blood that boils in my veins, it’s my trusted companion, it will always be the same.
G D
Life is holy
C G D G
And every minute you are living is as sumptuous as silver and gold
G D
Falling slowly
C G D
Into the arms of my guitar that keeps me safe in every city
C D Em
On the long and winding trip on the road
I’ll turn at dozen paces, smell like cigarettes and whiskey, look at me like it’s the last time.
You say that love is a duel, but music my salvation and I am born much more often than I die
Oh you wise and level minds, with your heads in the clouds and your feet far behind
It’s from the mad ones you can learn, mad to live, mad to love, mad to burn, burn, burn, burn
Life is holy
And every minute you are living is as sumptuous as silver and gold
Falling slowly
Into the arms of my guitar that keeps me safe in every city
On the long and winding trip on the road.
Life is holy
And every second you are wasting is gone and suddenly you’re grey and old
Falling slowly
I leave my shadows all be hind me, as I ride from town to town
On the long and winding trip on the road.
words & music by John Allenasasas
Sounds of Soul And Sin
CHORDS and Lyrics
Paradise
Intro: Am
G
Am
Capo III
Am
I can feel your breath
G
Am
Like a winter day so clear
Am
I can hear your voice
G
Am
Whispering prayers in my ear
/G
F
And I can smell the scent
C
Of your body, as you rise
G/B
Am
And I look for paradise
G
Am
I look for paradise.
I can pierce through the dusk
Until my sight is clear
Master all the dangers
Face my biggest fear.
And I always will be true
Never tell you any lies
And I look for paradise
I look for paradise.
I take the load from your shoulders
I will lend you a hand
Talk about my dreams
And hope you understand
Please lead me through the dark
Oh let a new day arise
And I look for paradise
I look for paradise.
words & music by John Allenasasas
Sounds of Soul And Sin
CHORDS and Lyrics
Sounds of soul and sin
Intro:
Em7 D/F#
G F
C
G
G/C
G
Em7
C
It’s the first cold day of autumn
D
Em7
Tarnished windows in my car
C
D
While everyone is marking time
Em
D/F#
G
Feels like were getting very far
F
C
And our imagination
B
C
Is carried by a song
Am7
Hm7
No strings attached or thoughts concealed
C
D7/C
Em
We are old and we are young.
Some think of you in terms
Of beauty so you say
While they silently admire
I behold the break of day.
And read papers at the counter
Transforming thoughts I try
Fifteen and thirty-seven
Keep in mind I’m rather shy.
And here they come the Freshmen
Full of hopes and shallow dreams
Scattered on the pavements
Lie the old and dusky schemes
Of songs like snow forgotten
Dazzling and tremendous lies
Blurts about my virtues
And blurts about your vice
I might not know what grass is
Nor dare I to explain
The mystery of living
Through the eyes of any saint.
At times it feels like speaking
Is my visions’ golden twin
When all I’ll do is listen
To the sounds of soul and sin.
words & music by John Allenasasas
Sounds of Soul And Sin
CHORDS and Lyrics
Confusion
Intro: Em
Capo III
Em
D
Em
I don’t know what to think and I don’t know what to do
Em D
Em
My reasons for fighting have been honest and true.
/F#
G
Hm
C
Still my desire hasn’t burned down
D/F#
G Hm
C
Through flame and through fire I’ve been around
D
C
And all that’s left is a massive intrusion
Em
Of confusion
You say that you love me and I know it is so
But I want you to tell me, you never want to let me go
It’s all so clear, plain to understand
Still I am here, the gun its loaded in my hand
And all that I feel is the busting reclusion
Of confusion
G D
C
D C D
G
I don’t need anybody else to tell me what I feel
I don’t need anybody else to tell me what is real
G D
C
D
G
I don’t need anybody, anybody else
G D
C
Em
I don’t need anybody else
The Jack of Hearts left the building, his hand clenched to a fist
The lady of lust, remains unkissed
I see that you’re waiting the windows covered with tears
And I am here hating, myself for my fears
And all that there is in my minds close seclusion
Is confusion
words & music by John Allenasasas
Sounds of Soul And Sin
CHORDS and Lyrics
So Long
Intro: First four lines from verse.
Em9
G
Tonight I’m far away from where I’m supposed to be
Am
Am/F#
B7
Some hundred miles of darkness down the road
Em9
G
Rain shields on the windows, sheets on the chandelier,
Edim
B7
Throwing shadows on my coat.
C
D
Dm7
Am F
C
B7
One too many times I have thrown the dice, and gambled on my bliss
C
D
G /F#
Em C
D
C
I’ll clear my debts, I swear that I will pay the price and take the last chance that there is.
Capo III
G
C
G Em
D
C
G
So long my love
take care of you when the day gets old
C
G
Em
When the night grows cold I’ll think of you.
C D
G
So long my love.
The heavy velvet curtain holds back another scene
The theatre is empty as we go
And all that will be left for us is a sweet memory
As they turn the lights down low.
If time will make us strangers, there’s nothing we can do but to admit to our defeat
Life is an endless challenge that everyone goes through without any chance to cheat.
So long my love, take care of you when the curtain calls
When the hammer falls, I’ll think of you
So long my love
Hm
C
G
Am/F#
B7
Did I ever tell you that I love you near enough and that I missed you on every single day.
Hm
C
G
That every step without you, was a little less worth going
Em
G
Edim
B7
And that every place without you wasn’t worth to stay.
So long my love, remember me when the stars shine from the sky
When hope is rising high
And faith is doomed to die
With every lover’s sigh remember me
So long my love.
words & music by John Allenasasas
Sounds of Soul And Sin
CHORDS and Lyrics
Thou Shalt be saved
Intro:
C
Am
G (2x)
C
Em
Dm7
Am
G
My first love was an old American song about all the things in life that can and will go wrong
The cover was all faded, the edges battered hard, touched and turned a million times until it almost fell apart.
F
C
G
Am
And it licked the wounds I took from many sinful nights
F
C
Dm
Am
It covered up the bruises from many teenage fights
F
C
G
Am
Every syllable spent comfort and every chord returned the poise
F
Am
G
Fmaj7
G
That had been taken from me
and then there was this voice
Am
G
Fmaj7
C
And I’d kneel down by the jukebox, close my eyes and fold my hands
Am
G
Fmaj7
Praying to the gods of rock’n roll
Cause in every lonely hour and through every heavy storm
Keep your faith that rock’n roll can save your soul
Am
G
C
Because only rock’n roll can save your soul.
The only girl that ever broke my heart, the one I loved too much to tell that she tore my soul apart.
She was barely 21 and a singer in a band and she knew that there was more to songs than just words and instruments.
So if you ask me why I’m standing on this stage
Singing songs for a friends and strangers, making minimum wage
All I can say is that I have never had a choice
F
Am
G
Fmaj7
Ever since I was a young boy, ever since I heard the voice of Bob Dylan on a scratched old ’45.
Fmaj7
Dm7
G
Learning that there’s more to living
than just being alive.
And I’d kneel down by the jukebox...
F
C
F
C
So if life treats you unfairly and you find it hard to be brave
F
C
G
Am
Dm
Put on your headphones turn on your favorite record
Am
G
Am
And thou shalt be saved,
yes thou shalt be saved.
G
G
Just kneel down by the jukebox...
words & music by John Allenasasas
Sounds of Soul And Sin
CHORDS and Lyrics
So it is
Intro: chords from verse.
Capo III
Dm7 G7
Cmaj7
And so it is, just a sepia picture on my wall
Fmaj7
B7
E7
A romantic retrospect of you and me.
And everything looks so good in black and white
It felt so absolutely right to me.
F
G
E7
Am
G
And from the tiny speakers of an ancient radio stream snatches of a song I know
F
G
E7
And though the cracked sound that whispers to my ear calls from distance, it feels so near.
F
Em
Oh life is nothing but a song full of memories
E7
Am
The imagery of an unfinished episode
F
Em
Nothing but a song full of memories
Dm7 Gsus4
Am
It’s such a heavy load.
G
And so it is, too many things are left unsaid
Too many curses shed between you and me.
And so we go, each one of us alone
Back to our broken home to see.
There is no need in longing for the past, for everything that did not last.
And from the tiny speakers of an ancient radio stream snatches of a song I know
And life is nothing but a song full of memories
The imagery of an unfinished episode
Nothing but a song full of memories
It’s such a heavy load.
words & music by John Allenasasas
Sounds of Soul And Sin
CHORDS and Lyrics
Better Times Ahead
Intro:
D
/C#
/H
/G
Dsus2
/C#
/H
/G
On how many roads have you travelled?
How many dreams have you chased in vain?
On how many pathways made of dirt and gravel
Em
G
Asus4 A
Did you walk until your heart drove you insane?
Oh you’ve never been too good a gambler
Never an uncluttered Jack of Hearts
You’re a melancholy recluse, a restless mournful rambler
You’re twice unlucky, both, at love and cards.
D
G
A
D
Don’t give up, I’m pretty sure there are be better times ahead
G
A
D
If you stop to fight you might just die instead
G
A
D
And I’m pretty sure there are better times ahead.
On how many streets have you wandered?
In how many arms have you slept
Restless names haunt you like shadows in the dark and
Give proof of how many nights you’ve wept.
Oh you have always been a trusty soldier
And good men always think of themselves last
But the truth is every day you’re getting older,
So don’t waste your time on yearning for the past.
Don’t give up, I’m pretty sure there are be better times ahead
Hm
A
G
D
One thing that is certain is no matter what you do
Hm
A
G
A
You can’t live up to each and every point of view
Hm
A
G
D
And you can’t fulfil every expectation that others have of you
G
A
Hm
Just live your life the best way you can do.
G
A
D
Just live your life the best way you can do.
And don’t give up, I’m pretty sure there are be better times ahead
words & music by John Allenasasas
Sounds of Soul And Sin
CHORDS and Lyrics
1917
E
Asus2
So I sit here tonight at the end of the day
Asus2/H
E
Brooding over the things I could not grasp
You’re gone for good and forever it seems.
E
H/D#
C#m
I guess we really can’t repeat the past.
C#m
A
A/H
E
But I still recall the music, vividly and obscene
H/D#
A/E
H
E
We danced until the morning and found time to strut and preen
H/D#
A/C#
A/H
F#m
Oh, you were just a poor boy, determined, fair, and keen
E/G#
A
She promised you to wait
F#m
H E
In Louisville, 19 17
The fading glory of life and of dreams unfulfilled
They haunt me, every time I go to bed
Shallow confessions of love and the indifference
All the rumours that they spread
Chorus instrumental
We all pay the price for the path that we choose
And one day, your love just set the seal
A desperate bullet, I guess integrity kills
The truth that the silence can’t reveal
But I still recall your parties, vividly and obscene
We danced until the morning and our records clean
Oh, you were just a poor boy, determined, fair, and keen
She promised you to wait
Louisville, 1917
So I sit here tonight, you would love it, old sport
The green light shines across the bay
And the orgastic future that we’re drifting towards
Like the past is led astray
words & music by John Allenasasas