Biography:
Frank Black is American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV (born April 6, 1965). After releasing three albums with this name, he formed the band Frank Black and the Catholics. He returned to using the name Black Francis, the name he uses as vocalist of the Pixies, in 2007.
Lead songwriter and vocalist of the now reunited Pixies, Frank Black adopted a reversal of his former alias, Black Francis, and embarked on his solo career after the 1992 breakup of Pixies.
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Other songs:
- Kiss The Ring
- Abstract Plain
- All My Ghosts
- Another Velvet Nightmare
- Big Red
- Black Letter Day
- Braekish Boy
- Bullet
- Calistan
- Can I Get A Witness
- Dead Mans Curve
- Deamon Girl
- Down To You
- Elijah
- Fast Man
- Fitzgerald
- Freedom Rock
- Golden Shore
- Hang On To Your Ego
- Headache
- Hermaphroditos
- Highway To Lowdown
- Honeycomb
- I Burn Today
- I Will Run After You
- If It Takes All Night
- Ill Be Blue
- Im Not Dead Im In Pittsburgh
- In The Time Of My Ruin
- Ive Seen Your Picture
- Johnny Barleycorn
- Just A Little
- King And Queen Of Siam
- Kiss My Ring
- Lolita
- Los Angeles
- Modern Age
- My Terrible Ways
- Old Black Dawning
- Raider Man
- Robert Onion
- Selkie Bride
- Seven Days
- Sir
- Six
- Speedy Marie
- St Francis Dam Disaster
- Stupid Me
- Suffering
- Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day
- Superabound
- Thalassocracy
- The End Of Summer
- The Sky Road
- The Swimmer
- The Vanishing Spies
- Two Reelers
- Velvety
- Wanderlust
- When The Paint Goes Darker Still
- You Cant Crucify Yourself
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[intro chords]
F Dm Bb (x4)
[verse]
F Dm Bb
In the time of my ruin
F
At the museum I met a curator
F Dm Bb
She was so nice, I thought I would date her
F Dm Bb
I was a hawk and I just flew in
[verse 2] - same F-Dm-Bb chord progression
e-------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------|
G----5------------2---------------3---|
D--3------------0---------------3-----|
A-------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------|
In the time of my ruin
I did not know you would be created
Now every day I am elated
Cuz you never know what is brewing
[CHORUS]
F C Gm
Some pain is good
Bb F C
Sometimes its good to be blind
F C Gm
Some pain feels good
Ab G
That’s the pain that’s just the right kind
[BREAK]
F Dm Bb (x4)
[VERSE] - F-Dm-Bb
You didn’t know I was a shoe-in
And you didn’t know it was my hour
And you didn’t know that I had the power
F Dm Bb
In the time of my ruin (x4)
[CHORUS]
F C Gm
Some pain is good
Bb F C
Sometimes its good to be blind
F C Gm
Some pain feels good
Ab Cadd9
That’s the pain that’s just the right kind
[OUTRO]
Db Ab Bb Bbm
They’re caving in the roof
Fm Bb F
It is falling all around
Db Ab Bb Bbm
The floor is going, too
Fm Bb F
Soon I will be falling on down
(repeat OUTRO several times)
F Dm Bb (x4)
[verse]
F Dm Bb
In the time of my ruin
F
At the museum I met a curator
F Dm Bb
She was so nice, I thought I would date her
F Dm Bb
I was a hawk and I just flew in
[verse 2] - same F-Dm-Bb chord progression
e-------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------|
G----5------------2---------------3---|
D--3------------0---------------3-----|
A-------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------|
In the time of my ruin
I did not know you would be created
Now every day I am elated
Cuz you never know what is brewing
[CHORUS]
F C Gm
Some pain is good
Bb F C
Sometimes its good to be blind
F C Gm
Some pain feels good
Ab G
That’s the pain that’s just the right kind
[BREAK]
F Dm Bb (x4)
[VERSE] - F-Dm-Bb
You didn’t know I was a shoe-in
And you didn’t know it was my hour
And you didn’t know that I had the power
F Dm Bb
In the time of my ruin (x4)
[CHORUS]
F C Gm
Some pain is good
Bb F C
Sometimes its good to be blind
F C Gm
Some pain feels good
Ab Cadd9
That’s the pain that’s just the right kind
[OUTRO]
Db Ab Bb Bbm
They’re caving in the roof
Fm Bb F
It is falling all around
Db Ab Bb Bbm
The floor is going, too
Fm Bb F
Soon I will be falling on down
(repeat OUTRO several times)
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