Biography:
Richard Ashcroft (born Richard Paul Ashcroft, on September 11, 1971, in Billinge, Wigan, England) is best known as the front man of The Verve, which he helped form in 1989.
After that band's demise in 1999, Ashcroft began his solo career, releasing Alone with Everybody in 2000, Human Conditions in 2002 and Keys to the World in 2006. He performed vocals for the track Lonely Soul on UNKLE's 1998 release Psyence Fiction and his voice can also be heard on the The Chemical Brothers' album Come With Us track The Test.
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Other songs:
- A Song For The Lovers
- Cry Til The Morning
- Keys To The World
- Music Is Power
- Nature Is The Law
- Sweet Brother Malcolm
- Why Not Nothing
- World Keeps Turning
- A Man In Motion
- A Song For The Lover
- Aint The Future So Bright
- All My Dreams
- Are You Ready
- Birds Fly
- Bitter Sweet Symphony
- Bittersweet Symphony Acoustic
- Black Lines
- Born Again
- Born To Be Strangers
- Brave New World
- Break The Night With Colour
- Buy It In Bottles
- Check The Meaning
- Circles
- Cmon People Were Making It Now
- Could Be A Country Thing City Thing Blues Thing
- Crazy World
- Direction
- Drugs Dont Work
- Everybody
- Get Up Now
- Glory
- God In The Numbers
- Good Lovin
- Hold On
- I Get My Beat
- Let My Soul Rest
- Lord Ive Been Trying
- Lucky Man
- Man On A Mission
- Money To Burn
- Nature Is The Law Acoustic
- New York
- On A Beach Acoustic
- Out Of My Body
- Paradise
- Picture Of You
- Precious Stone
- Rare Vibration
- Science Of Silence
- She Brings Me The Music
- Slip Sliding
- Slow Was My Heart
- Streets Of Amsterdam
- Surprised By The Joy
- Thats How Strong
- Thats When I Feel It
- The Journey
- These People
- They Dont Own Me
- This Is How It Feels
- This Thing Called Life
- United Nations Of Sound
- Weeping Willow
- Why Do Lovers
- Words Just Get In The Way
- You On My Mind In My Sleep
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When I heard this song, I thought that there were a lot of chords in there... wrong!
Just 3 in sequence... Richard likes to do his songs with a progression of 4 chords
repeating over and over... so its easy, I just marked the chord changes on the lyrics...
Chords:
Eb - xx5343
F - 133211
Gm - 355333
The stuff:
Eb, F, Gm
Eb F Gm
Write the book and then we find the pen
Eb F Gm
Used to feel like the walls are closing in
Eb F Gm
You made decisions that you never thought you could
Eb F Gm
You've been crying in the night, yeah, yeah, yeah
Eb F Gm
You precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb
Gonna clean you up, make you feel
F Gm
Like you know the answer
Eb F Gm
I've got the keys to your jail yeah (with this love)
Eb F Gm
A little love never fails yeah (overcome)
Eb F Gm
I've got the keys to your jail yeah (with this love)
Eb F Gm
A little love never fails yeah
Eb, F, Gm
Eb F Gm
You've been all the things that you never thought you were
Eb F Gm
You saw the devil in the night and it haunts you
Eb F Gm
Don't think about the things you can never answer
Eb F Gm
You gotta live, you gotta learn how to love
Eb F Gm
I say, you precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb F Gm
Gonna clean you up, make you shine, make you gleam, yeah
Eb F Gm
You precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb
Gonna clean you up, make you feel
F Gm
Like you know the answer
Eb F Gm
I've got the keys to your jail yeah (with this love)
Eb F Gm
A little love never fails yeah (overcome)
Eb F Gm
I've got the keys to your jail yeah (with this love)
Eb F Gm
A little love never fails yeah
Eb F Gm
You're the one
Eb F Gm
With this love
Eb F Gm
Overcome
Eb F Gm
With this love
Eb, F, Gm
Eb F Gm
I say, you precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb F Gm
Gonna clean you up, make you shine, make you glow
Eb F Gm
I say, you precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb F Gm
Gonna clean you up, make you shine, make you whole
Eb F Gm
I say, you precious stone
Eb F Gm
On a beach, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb F Gm
Gonna clean you up, make you shine, make you gleam, yeah
Eb F Gm
You precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up on a beach, yeah
Eb F Gm Eb
Gonna clean you up, make you feel
F Gm
Like you know the answer
Eb, F, Gm
And it's all... simple... how anyone could tab it before? (Maybe because nobody wanted
to play it)... anyway... emails to [email protected] in case of doubts... (!) See you...
Just 3 in sequence... Richard likes to do his songs with a progression of 4 chords
repeating over and over... so its easy, I just marked the chord changes on the lyrics...
Chords:
Eb - xx5343
F - 133211
Gm - 355333
The stuff:
Eb, F, Gm
Eb F Gm
Write the book and then we find the pen
Eb F Gm
Used to feel like the walls are closing in
Eb F Gm
You made decisions that you never thought you could
Eb F Gm
You've been crying in the night, yeah, yeah, yeah
Eb F Gm
You precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb
Gonna clean you up, make you feel
F Gm
Like you know the answer
Eb F Gm
I've got the keys to your jail yeah (with this love)
Eb F Gm
A little love never fails yeah (overcome)
Eb F Gm
I've got the keys to your jail yeah (with this love)
Eb F Gm
A little love never fails yeah
Eb, F, Gm
Eb F Gm
You've been all the things that you never thought you were
Eb F Gm
You saw the devil in the night and it haunts you
Eb F Gm
Don't think about the things you can never answer
Eb F Gm
You gotta live, you gotta learn how to love
Eb F Gm
I say, you precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb F Gm
Gonna clean you up, make you shine, make you gleam, yeah
Eb F Gm
You precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb
Gonna clean you up, make you feel
F Gm
Like you know the answer
Eb F Gm
I've got the keys to your jail yeah (with this love)
Eb F Gm
A little love never fails yeah (overcome)
Eb F Gm
I've got the keys to your jail yeah (with this love)
Eb F Gm
A little love never fails yeah
Eb F Gm
You're the one
Eb F Gm
With this love
Eb F Gm
Overcome
Eb F Gm
With this love
Eb, F, Gm
Eb F Gm
I say, you precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb F Gm
Gonna clean you up, make you shine, make you glow
Eb F Gm
I say, you precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb F Gm
Gonna clean you up, make you shine, make you whole
Eb F Gm
I say, you precious stone
Eb F Gm
On a beach, feeling low
Eb F Gm Eb F Gm
Gonna clean you up, make you shine, make you gleam, yeah
Eb F Gm
You precious stone
Eb F Gm
Washed up on a beach, yeah
Eb F Gm Eb
Gonna clean you up, make you feel
F Gm
Like you know the answer
Eb, F, Gm
And it's all... simple... how anyone could tab it before? (Maybe because nobody wanted
to play it)... anyway... emails to [email protected] in case of doubts... (!) See you...
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