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The Gun Club was an American punk band from Los Angeles in the 1980s led by singer/guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce. The Gun Club injected punk rock with doses of blues and country music. Along with X, The Flesh Eaters and The Blasters, they helped set the tone of the Hollywood rock scene of the 1980s and are cited as a "tribal psychobilly blues" band.
The Gun Club was formed by Jeffrey Lee Pierce, former head of the Blondie fan club in Los Angeles. Joining him was Brian Tristan
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From the album Sex Beat 81. Really easy song. Their website: http://www.thegunclub.net/.
Riff 1: {E A E D} x5
"I cannot get a look at it
so, I'm burning them on the deal anyway
I see her come down from the top of the stairs"
Riff 2: {G A} x2
"I guess that I'd be cool, but there's a tickle in my veins
I've been a real good tombstone, but now I'm blowing away"
Riff 1 x3
"She is like an eye-blue swimming pool
but, she will never know that she is there
we sit together drunk like our fathers used to be"
Riff 2 x2
"I'm looking up and God is saying, "What are you gonna do?"
I'm looking up and I'm crying, "I thought it was up to you!""
Riff 3: {C A C E G}
"She's like heroin to me
she's like heroin to me
she's like heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein"
Riff 1 x5
"don't let her take her love to town
they will never fill her heart
she needs a passion like her father's used to be"
Riff 2 x2
"I know, because I'm like the train shooting down the mainline
I know, because I'm like the Indian wind along the telegraph lines"
Riff 3
"and she's like heroin to me
she's like heroin to me
she's like heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein"
Riff 1 x2
"So mainline it!"
Riff 2 x2
Riff 1 x2
"I cannot get a look at it
so, I'm blowing back my trouble to the east
while we sit together sad like our fathers used to be"
Riff 2 x2
"I know a perfect run by the sleep it puits in my heart
I know my special rider, I can feel her in the dark"
Riff 3
"she feels like heroin to me
she feels like heroin to me
she's like heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein"
Riff 1
Riff 3
"she feels like Heroin to me
she feels like Heroin to me
she's like Heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein"
End on E.
Riff 1: {E A E D} x5
"I cannot get a look at it
so, I'm burning them on the deal anyway
I see her come down from the top of the stairs"
Riff 2: {G A} x2
"I guess that I'd be cool, but there's a tickle in my veins
I've been a real good tombstone, but now I'm blowing away"
Riff 1 x3
"She is like an eye-blue swimming pool
but, she will never know that she is there
we sit together drunk like our fathers used to be"
Riff 2 x2
"I'm looking up and God is saying, "What are you gonna do?"
I'm looking up and I'm crying, "I thought it was up to you!""
Riff 3: {C A C E G}
"She's like heroin to me
she's like heroin to me
she's like heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein"
Riff 1 x5
"don't let her take her love to town
they will never fill her heart
she needs a passion like her father's used to be"
Riff 2 x2
"I know, because I'm like the train shooting down the mainline
I know, because I'm like the Indian wind along the telegraph lines"
Riff 3
"and she's like heroin to me
she's like heroin to me
she's like heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein"
Riff 1 x2
"So mainline it!"
Riff 2 x2
Riff 1 x2
"I cannot get a look at it
so, I'm blowing back my trouble to the east
while we sit together sad like our fathers used to be"
Riff 2 x2
"I know a perfect run by the sleep it puits in my heart
I know my special rider, I can feel her in the dark"
Riff 3
"she feels like heroin to me
she feels like heroin to me
she's like heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein"
Riff 1
Riff 3
"she feels like Heroin to me
she feels like Heroin to me
she's like Heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein"
End on E.
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