Biography:
The Magic Numbers are a four piece indie band from Ealing, London. The band consists of two brother-and-sister pairs, Romeo Stodart (guitar, lead vocals) and his sister Michele Stodart (bass, vocals), and Sean Gannon (drums) and his sister Angela Gannon (percussion, melodica, vocals), who came together as a band after Romeo and Sean started writing songs together. While the Gannons are of Irish heritage, the Stodarts are the children of a Scottish father and a Portuguese mother and were born in Trinidad in the Caribbean and raised in New York
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The Magic Numbers - Slow Down Boy (The Way It Goes)
[INTRO]
D
picking and strumming
[VERSE]
D
Well we talked all night
Em
trying to make things right
D
Can't believe it's gone
D
Had it all worked out
Em
in the morning doubts
D
and it all goes wrong
[Bridge]
D
I can't give up on you
G D
that's just not just the way that it goes
[VERSE]
D
Going to find yourself
Em
through someone else
D
see if I held you wrong
[PRE-CHORUS]
G A
I'm afraid it can't leave you tonight
Bm G
had it once but it should have been twice
[CHORUS]
D G
Slow down boy you're driving me crazy
D G
I'm not a kid anymore, I guess I never was that
Em A
I'm trying and trying to move on
Bm D
I guess there's something inside that keeps holding on
Em A
and I try and I try to move on
[VERSE]
D
Well we talked all night
Em
tried to make things right
D
can't believe it's gone
[BRIDGE]
D
you can't give up on him
G D
it's not just the way that it goes
[PRE-CHORUS]
G A
I'm afraid it can't leave you tonight
Bm G
had it once but it should have been twice
[CHORUS]
D G
Slow down boy you're driving me crazy
D G
I'm not the one any more, I guess I never was
Em A
And I try and I try to move on
Bm D
I guess there's something inside that keeps holding on
Em A
And I try and I try to move on
Bm D
I guess there's something inside that keeps holding on
Em A
And I try and I try to move on
Bm D
I guess there's something inside that keeps holding on
Em A
And I try and I try to move on
Bm D
I guess there's something inside that keeps holding on
Em A
And I try and I try to move on
[INSTRUMENTAL]
Bm A G x2
[Post-Chorus]
Bm
Nothing you do can break my heart
A G
Why'd you have to go and fall apart
Bm
Nothing you do can break my heart
A G
Why'd you have to go and fall apart
Bm
Nothing you do can break my heart
A G
Why'd you have to go and fall apart Naaa oooh naaaa
Bm
Nothing you do can break my heart
A G
Why'd you have to go and fall apart Naaa oooh naaaa
Bm
Nothing you do can break my heart
A G
Why'd you have to go and fall apart Naaa oooh naaaa
G Bm A
I never wanted to hear
G
What you're saying now
G Bm A
I never wanted to hear (Whenever there is a doubt, She comes crawling in)
G
What you're saying now (Whenever there is a doubt, She comes following)
G Bm A
I never wanted to hear (Whenever there is a doubt, She comes crawling in)
G
What you're saying now (Whenever there is a doubt, She comes following)
G Bm A
I never wanted to hear (Nothing you can do can break my heart)
G
What you're saying now (Why'd you have to go and fall apart now)
[Instrumental]
D
repeated
[BRIDGE]
D
you can't give up on him
G D
it's not just the way that it goes
D
you can't give up on him
G D
it's not just the way that it goes
D
you can't give up on him
G D
it's not just the way that it goes
D
you can't give up on him
G D
it's not just the way that it goes
[INTRO]
D
picking and strumming
[VERSE]
D
Well we talked all night
Em
trying to make things right
D
Can't believe it's gone
D
Had it all worked out
Em
in the morning doubts
D
and it all goes wrong
[Bridge]
D
I can't give up on you
G D
that's just not just the way that it goes
[VERSE]
D
Going to find yourself
Em
through someone else
D
see if I held you wrong
[PRE-CHORUS]
G A
I'm afraid it can't leave you tonight
Bm G
had it once but it should have been twice
[CHORUS]
D G
Slow down boy you're driving me crazy
D G
I'm not a kid anymore, I guess I never was that
Em A
I'm trying and trying to move on
Bm D
I guess there's something inside that keeps holding on
Em A
and I try and I try to move on
[VERSE]
D
Well we talked all night
Em
tried to make things right
D
can't believe it's gone
[BRIDGE]
D
you can't give up on him
G D
it's not just the way that it goes
[PRE-CHORUS]
G A
I'm afraid it can't leave you tonight
Bm G
had it once but it should have been twice
[CHORUS]
D G
Slow down boy you're driving me crazy
D G
I'm not the one any more, I guess I never was
Em A
And I try and I try to move on
Bm D
I guess there's something inside that keeps holding on
Em A
And I try and I try to move on
Bm D
I guess there's something inside that keeps holding on
Em A
And I try and I try to move on
Bm D
I guess there's something inside that keeps holding on
Em A
And I try and I try to move on
Bm D
I guess there's something inside that keeps holding on
Em A
And I try and I try to move on
[INSTRUMENTAL]
Bm A G x2
[Post-Chorus]
Bm
Nothing you do can break my heart
A G
Why'd you have to go and fall apart
Bm
Nothing you do can break my heart
A G
Why'd you have to go and fall apart
Bm
Nothing you do can break my heart
A G
Why'd you have to go and fall apart Naaa oooh naaaa
Bm
Nothing you do can break my heart
A G
Why'd you have to go and fall apart Naaa oooh naaaa
Bm
Nothing you do can break my heart
A G
Why'd you have to go and fall apart Naaa oooh naaaa
G Bm A
I never wanted to hear
G
What you're saying now
G Bm A
I never wanted to hear (Whenever there is a doubt, She comes crawling in)
G
What you're saying now (Whenever there is a doubt, She comes following)
G Bm A
I never wanted to hear (Whenever there is a doubt, She comes crawling in)
G
What you're saying now (Whenever there is a doubt, She comes following)
G Bm A
I never wanted to hear (Nothing you can do can break my heart)
G
What you're saying now (Why'd you have to go and fall apart now)
[Instrumental]
D
repeated
[BRIDGE]
D
you can't give up on him
G D
it's not just the way that it goes
D
you can't give up on him
G D
it's not just the way that it goes
D
you can't give up on him
G D
it's not just the way that it goes
D
you can't give up on him
G D
it's not just the way that it goes
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