“You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away”
Lennon/McCartney
G Dsus4 Fadd9 C G
Here I stand, head in hand,
C Fadd9 C
Turn my face to the wall.
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If she’s gone, I can’t go on,
C Fadd9 C D
Feeling two foot small…
Ev’rywhere people stare,
Each and every day.
I can see them laugh at me,
And I hear them say:
G C Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
Hey, you’ve got to hide your love away.
Hey, you’ve got to hide your love away.
How can I even try?
I can never win.
Hearing them, seeing them,
In the state I’m in…
How could she say to me
Love will find a way?
Gather round, all you clowns,
Let me hear you say:
Hey, you’ve got to hide your love away.
Hey, you’ve got to hide your love away.
(Flute solo over verse chords) x2, end on G
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C G
Yes I understand that every life must end, aw huh…
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, aw huh…
I’m a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love…
Some folks just have one, others they got none, aw huh…
Am
Stay with me…
F
Let’s just breathe.
Practiced are my sins, never gonna let me win, aw huh…
Under everything, just another human being, aw huh…
Yeh, I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world to make me bleed.
Stay with me…
You’re all I see.
G Dm
Did I say that I need you?
G Dm
Did I say that I want you?
F Am
Oh, if I didn’t I’m a fool you see…
F G
No one knows this more than me.
G
As I come clean.
I wonder everyday as I look upon your face, aw huh…
Everything you gave and nothing you would take, aw huh…
Nothing you would take…
Everything you gave.
Did I say that I need you?
Oh, did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see…
No one knows this more than me.
As I come clean.
(Fingerpicking over verse chords)
Am
Nothing you would take…
F
Everything you gave.
Hold me till I die…
Meet you on the other side.
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F# C#
What were all those dreams we shared
C# Ebm F#
Those many years ago?
What were all those plans we made
Now left beside the road?
F# B F#
Be – hind us in the road.
More than friends I always pledged
Cause friends they come and go
People change as does everything
I wanted to grow old
Just want to grow old
F# B F#
Slide on next to me
F# B Ab
I’m just a human being
B Ebm
I will take the blame
Ebm C#
But just the same
C# B
This is not me
You see
Believe
B F#
I’m better than this
F# B F#
Don’t leave me so cold
F# B Ab
Or buried beneath the stones
B Ebm
I just want to hold on
Ebm C# B
And know I’m worth your love
Enough
I don’t think
B F#
There’s such a thing…
It’s my fault, now I been caught
A sickness in my bones
How it pains to leave you here
With the kids on your own
Just don’t let me go
Help me see myself
Cause I can no longer tell
Looking out from the inside of
The bottom of a well
It’s hell
I yell
But no one hears
Before I disappear
Whisper in my ear
Give me something to echo
In my unknown future’s ear
My dear
The end
Comes near
I’m here
But not much longer
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As the Mamas and the Papas would say: “Monday, Monday!”
Welcome to the first acoustic cover song music video of a brand new week here at the Laptop Sessions. Tonight, I’m bringing you my second cover from Johnny Cash’s first posthumous release, American Recordings V: A Hundred Highways. Yes, that’s right… I specified “first” posthumous release, because I just read that American VI is scheduled for release later this year. Apparently, Cash was working on V up until he passed away. I was under the impression that V was a collection of material that was still unreleased, but that’s more along the lines of what VI will be. Even so, I am very excited to hear this final collection when it is released.
What brought on this sudden return to Johnny Cash’s recent work, you might ask? Well, I found the first American Recordings CD on sale at Newbury’s last week and decided to pick it up. Truly good new albums have been far and few between this summer, with the exception of the Fruit Bats’ The Ruminant Band earlier this month — a very pleasant surprise to say the least!
I’ve been enjoying American Recordings thus far; it clearly displayed a lot of potential, which was explored on the four — and soon to be five — subsequent editions of the series. The only one I have yet to hear is American Recordings II, which includes the classic “I’ve Been Everywhere,” which Jim worked into my version of “Folsom Prison Blues” way back when for my second Laptop Session cover song video ever.
The song I chose for tonight is “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” one of my favorites from American Recordings V. It is a traditional song that Cash truly made his own, a song that has the ability to be simultaneously catchy/rockin’, and yet haunting/foreboding. I had a fun time playing and practicing it the past few days, and I hope you’ll enjoy watching it. As I mentioned earlier, this is the second song I’ve covered from this album, if you count Johnny Cash’s cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind,” one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
In other music news, I spent some time tonight reading about R.E.M.’s forthcoming double-CD live album that will include 39 tracks culled from their 2007 shows at the Olympia. To be more specific, they played five shows in a row as they tried out new material for their 2008 album Accelerate. In addition, they also played their hits and deep tracks. I’ve wanted to hear these performances since I heard their new album, and I’m truly thrilled to hear this concert when it comes out in a couple months. If you’re an R.E.M. fan, too, you should check out the videos for the two songs — the excellent “Living Well is the Best Revenge,” for which I recorded a Laptop Session, and Automatic for the People opening track “Drive — that have debuted on RollingStone.com.
And if you’re someone who has lost interest in Michael Stipe and company since they went through what can only be called a boring streak recently, then you need to give Accelerate a shot. You won’t be disappointed.
I’ll leave you with one final, music-related note. I added to Paste Magazine‘s trending topic on Twitter.com about the best albums of the 00’s, and shortly thereafter learned that I am the only person in the universe to have ever tweeted about the Wallflowers’ Red Letter Days, much less mention the album as one of the best during the decade.
