Talked Too Much Stayed Too Long

E                                 
Don't wanna be in your club if 
          G     D
you'd take me as a member
        E                          
I'm not even slightly interested in
 G           D
 whether I'm remembered
      A                            
I say ashes to ashes, dust to dust
 E

E                          G     
Give me a tombstone if you feel 
   D
you must
Sayin'

[Chorus]
Bm                    C     B    
Here lies a clown who wrote some 
Bm
songs
N.C.
He talked too much and stayed too 
long

[Verse]
             Em                  
Back home in Perth I played piano 
         G      E
down at Cafe Piazza
Em                             
Swallowin' second hand smoke and 
         G                E
singin standards by the masters
            A
Learnt that every lyric's sacred, 
that love's everything
         Em                    
And that three drinks makes you 
                   G           
straighten up but four gets you 
  E
swingin'
        B                          
Till my crowd scared the suits away
       C             G
 and I played my own songs
        Em
Then we talked too much and stayed 
too long
D                    B
(Talked too much and stayed too 
long)

[Verse]
         E                       
Moved to Melbourne with my missus 
       G
after locking her down
            E                      
Felt like a very little fishy in a 
G
very big town
D      A
Barely scrapin' by on corporate gigs
 and quaint cabaret
        E                        
Playin' keyboards in a cover band 
       G            E
until three in the am
      B                           
I was never really suited to them 
C         B
top forty songs
N.C.
Coz I talked too much and played too
 long


[Pre-Chorus]
E                                 
Don't wanna be in your club if 
          G     D
you'd take me as a member
        E                          
I'm not even slightly interested in
 G           D
 whether I'm remembered
      A               Am
I say ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Em                          E   
Give me a tombstone if you feel 
G   E
you must
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Sayin'

[Chorus]
Bm                    C          
Here lies a clown who wrote some 
B7
songs
   Em                  E5
He talked too much and stayed too 
long

[Verse]
        Fm
Took my eyeliner to Edinburgh in 
twenty-o-five
Fm
Played to forty five payin' punters 
on that opening night
F         Bbm
But to my surprise there was a 
risin' demand
      Fm
For a lovechild of Liberace and 
Edward Scissorhands
C7        Cm7
Dude from the paper said that 
diggin' me was wrong
N.C.
He said I talked too much and stayed
 too long

[Verse]
             Fm
I played the Albert Hall and 
Wembley, I played basements and bars
I've been to Hollywood and Broadway,
           F
 met those A-lister stars
            Bb
I've shared cigarettes with Knights,
 shot Tequila with dames
               Fm
Found I'm more interested in 
laughter than in hotness and fame
   C7                           
So long as you got irony, honey 
C#7       C7
we'll get along
       B                 Bb       
We can talk too much and stay way,
         F
 way too long

[Pre-Chorus]
            Fm
Don't wanna be in your club if you 
take me as a member
I'm not even slightly interested in 
F
whether I'm remembered
      Bb              Bbm
I say ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Fm
Give me a tombstone if you feel you 
must
F
Sayin'

[Chorus]
Cm                    C#         
Here lies a clown who wrote some 
C
songs
            F
You know he talked too much and 
stayed too long
You know he talked too much and 
           G
stayed too long

[Instrumental]

G   G7   Gm   G   Gm   Cm   

Gm   D   Eb7   D7   G

[Bridge]
          G5
I've been threatened with death and 
arrest and with hell
       N.C.
I went hard at a cardinal who was 
feelin' unwell
N.C.
I had them dog whistling whiners 
send their dogs after me
N.C.                                
      G5
I've been a bigot and a faggot, I've
 been smug and ugly
N.C.
I'm a long-haired lefty joker and a 
smoker of bongs
N.C.
And I talk too much and stay too 
long

[Verse]
               G5
But fuck that "live fast, die young"
 shit, I plan on getting rickety
Baby I intend to stick around till 
all you pricks are sick of me
              C5                 
And when they come to wash my old 
               Cm
man balls and feed me mashed banana
        G                          
They'll find me in the common room 
        Cm
playin' blues on the piano
Dm             D7         Eb    
Same old three chords and 
          D7
cliched fuckin' runs
         Gm7
And I'll talk too much and stay too 
long
            C
Y'know I'll talk too much (and 
stayed too long)

[Pre-Chorus]
            Gm
Don't wanna be in your club if you 
take me as a member
I'm not even slightly interested in 
whether I'm remembered
F     C
I say ashes to ashes, dust to dust
          Gm                      
Give me a tombstone, baby, if you 
G
feel you must
Sayin'

[Chorus]
Dm                    Eb         
Here lies a clown who wrote some 
D7
songs
            Gm7                
You know he talked too much and 
 C7         F
stayed too long
            Bb
You know he talked too much and 
stayed too long
Dm7                         Eb7  
Another white mother fucker 
    D7  G
ramblin' on
N.C.
He talked too much and stayed too 
long