This is 'Trouble Doll', the 3rd track from Matthew Ryan's 'Regret Over The Wires' album
released in 2003.
Standard tuning with capo 1.
Intro: E, F#m, E, F#m
Verse 1:
[E]Trouble doll, you look so pretty when you're sad
And the laughs that we had have turned [F#m]to madness
[E]Lovers come to call and you're voice gets soft
In the painted glass behind your[F#m] lashes
Though angels [A]pray for you
Only the blues could[F#m] save you
Verse 2:
If[E] only for a second in the shimmering light
When the night's collapsed, but it don't sh[F#m]atter or sting
It's [E]a porcelain song from marionette in a dangerous sway
As if under God[F#m]'s own strings
Salvation watches[A] over you
Redemption only[F#m] borrows you
A little at a time in this [(B)]world
Chorus:
Real[F#m] gone, real [A]gone gir[E]l.[F#m]
Verse 3:
[E]Standin' high above on that bridge in St. Charles
Tell the truth, love, whose death did yo[F#m]u see?
All the[E] art on the wall and the quiet down the hall
Send a sinking feeling to a different[F#m] story
My lonesome[A] prays for you
In hours when there[F#m]'s only you
Verse 4:
Well th[E]e ghost of a drink on the counter by the sink
Is smeared, warm and full of empt[F#m]y promises
It's[E] a well-worn poem where the words stick together
But the meaning seems numb,
'Til the morni[F#m]ng washes
All down and [A]over you
Heartache sur[F#m]e owes you
All the happiness in this[(B)] world
Chorus:
Real[F#m] gone, real [A]gone gir[E]l.[F#m][E][F#m]
Outro:
E (Repeated with F#m)
Sha la la a little light
released in 2003.
Standard tuning with capo 1.
Intro: E, F#m, E, F#m
Verse 1:
[E]Trouble doll, you look so pretty when you're sad
And the laughs that we had have turned [F#m]to madness
[E]Lovers come to call and you're voice gets soft
In the painted glass behind your[F#m] lashes
Though angels [A]pray for you
Only the blues could[F#m] save you
Verse 2:
If[E] only for a second in the shimmering light
When the night's collapsed, but it don't sh[F#m]atter or sting
It's [E]a porcelain song from marionette in a dangerous sway
As if under God[F#m]'s own strings
Salvation watches[A] over you
Redemption only[F#m] borrows you
A little at a time in this [(B)]world
Chorus:
Real[F#m] gone, real [A]gone gir[E]l.[F#m]
Verse 3:
[E]Standin' high above on that bridge in St. Charles
Tell the truth, love, whose death did yo[F#m]u see?
All the[E] art on the wall and the quiet down the hall
Send a sinking feeling to a different[F#m] story
My lonesome[A] prays for you
In hours when there[F#m]'s only you
Verse 4:
Well th[E]e ghost of a drink on the counter by the sink
Is smeared, warm and full of empt[F#m]y promises
It's[E] a well-worn poem where the words stick together
But the meaning seems numb,
'Til the morni[F#m]ng washes
All down and [A]over you
Heartache sur[F#m]e owes you
All the happiness in this[(B)] world
Chorus:
Real[F#m] gone, real [A]gone gir[E]l.[F#m][E][F#m]
Outro:
E (Repeated with F#m)
Sha la la a little light
