Cynical Days

(Moulding)

Recordings Art Lyrics Chords and Tablature

Recordings

1. Album version, 3'17.
   Released on Oranges & Lemons.
   Parthenon Huxley - tambourine

   Andy: “This concludes Colin's cynical trip. And it's his darkest one, his moment of pain. The world is getting him down and he doesn't want it to. It's blunt and honest. Frankly, I wish I'd written it.”

Art

Lyrics

  Another year's gone by, the world's grown older, sometimes I heave a sigh, people grow colder.
  Every day I do my best to show, I can make it in this world I know, but all the bad thoughts that people bring, my faith in human nature's getting pretty thin.
  Help me get through these cynical days. Help me get through my cynical ways. You say it's just a passing phase, you've got to help me get through, these cynical days.
  Another see through scheme, people are shallow. The dark night's closing in, my dark thoughts follow.
  I try and make my world a better place (my efforts seem in vain), but I'm competing in a human race (falling deeper down the drain) that value things that just don't count, makes me wonder what it's all about.
  Help me get through these cynical days. Help me get through my cynical ways. You say it's just a passing phase, you've got to help me get through these cynical days.
  Yeah, you say it's just a passing phase, you've got to help me get through these cynical days.
  Yeah, you say it's just a passing phase, yes, help me get through these cynical days.
  Yeah, you say it's just a passing phase, you've got to help me get through these cynical days. Cynical days. Cynical days.

© 1989 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.

Chords and Tablature

Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:09:52 +0100
From: Jordi Ibáñez Llauradó <lohagoporelmessenger (at) hotmail dot com>
Subject: xtc songs
Message-ID: <BAY113-F11D978375E7EAC7A754B66DA390 (at) phx dot gbl>


OK, my first posting. please be gentle. i just want to say that
that's been done with no keyboard or organ at hand, so i can't
be more precise about the chords. that's why here you'll only
find the basic chords: it's up to you, people that can write,
read and dissect chords, to finish this work. so here it goes,
all the songs in the XTC catalogue that hadn't been tabbed in
this great site, from "black sea" to "nonsuch". you won't find
anything from "mummer" because the whole album has already been
"chorded" in this site.

don't expect any riffs or arpeggios, BTW. that's as far as my
skills go...

maybe i should be ashamed to post something like this (so
incomplete, wrong and childish) but it's just for the sake of
people who just want to strum XTC songs and sing and don't care
much if this is a sus4, added or other bollocks chord (and i must
point that i am one of those who really care, so i'm willing to
read all kinds of comments and corrections). please, john relph,
erase every transcription of mine as soon as a proper tab of each
song made by any other XTC fan who's more trained on guitar than me
comes to your mail.

songs like "the somnambulist" or "seagulls..." were meant to be
played on keyboards and sound terrible on guitar. beware!


CYNICAL DAYS
verse: F#-D-F
brdige: B-Bbm7-A-G#m-C#
chorus: G-D

--
hope that will be useful for somebody.
merry Xmas!
feedback welcome at jordiibanez (at) mixmail dot com
                 or lohagoporelmessenger (at) hotmail dot com

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