Biography:
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart were an indie pop band which formed in 2007 in New York City, New York, USA. The band consisted of Kip Berman (vocals, guitar), who currently performs live with Christoph (guitar) and Anton (drums) Hochheim (formerly of The Depreciation Guild, currently of Ablebody), Jacob Sloan (bass) (Dream Diary), Jessica Weiss (vocals) (Fear of Men), and Jen Goma (vocals) (A Sunny Day in Glasgow/Roman a Clef).
Past members included Peggy Wang (vocals, keyboards), Alex Naidus (bass), and Kurt Feldman (drums, programming).
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Other songs:
- My Terrible Friend
- 103
- Anne With An E
- Art Smock
- Beautiful You
- Belong
- Come Saturday
- Contender
- Eurydice
- Even In Dreams
- Girl Of 1000 Dreams
- Heart In Your Heartbreak
- Higher Than The Stars
- Life After Life
- Say No To Love
- Simple And Sure
- Stay Alive
- Strange
- The Body
- The Tenure Itch
- This Love Is Fucking Right
- Too Tough
- Until The Sun Explodes
- Young Adult Friction
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The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
“Contender”
One line of the lyrics in the first verse wasn’t included in their lyric press release
I had to do my best to guess at it. As for the chords they should be pretty accurate for
solo instrumentalist.
Capo 2
Intro:
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
C
Look what you’ve done, look what you’ve done,
Fmaj7
what do you have now?
C
Things that never come, I’m laying here in a dead-end room (best lyric guess)
Fmaj7
Is it time to come down?
Chorus:
G
At the back of a crowded scene
You saw the boys in white sing
Fmaj7
“I’m a pretender”
C
But you never were, you never were a contender
Fmaj7
A contender
Verse 2:
C
I heard your same old tune, singing city sins
Fmaj7
Like you were the first one.
C
Gave up books for film, gave up film for time
Fmaj7
Now that you’ve got none.
Chorus:
G
At the back of a crowded scene
You saw the boys in white sing
Fmaj7
“I’m a pretender”
C
But you never were, you never were a contender
Fmaj7
A contender
“Contender”
One line of the lyrics in the first verse wasn’t included in their lyric press release
I had to do my best to guess at it. As for the chords they should be pretty accurate for
solo instrumentalist.
Capo 2
Intro:
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
C
Look what you’ve done, look what you’ve done,
Fmaj7
what do you have now?
C
Things that never come, I’m laying here in a dead-end room (best lyric guess)
Fmaj7
Is it time to come down?
Chorus:
G
At the back of a crowded scene
You saw the boys in white sing
Fmaj7
“I’m a pretender”
C
But you never were, you never were a contender
Fmaj7
A contender
Verse 2:
C
I heard your same old tune, singing city sins
Fmaj7
Like you were the first one.
C
Gave up books for film, gave up film for time
Fmaj7
Now that you’ve got none.
Chorus:
G
At the back of a crowded scene
You saw the boys in white sing
Fmaj7
“I’m a pretender”
C
But you never were, you never were a contender
Fmaj7
A contender
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