Gold

(Partridge)

Recordings Art Lyrics Chords and Tablature

Recordings

1. Single version, 3'33.
   Released on 22 April 1983 as the B-side to the Great Fire 7" single in the U.K.

2. Demo version, 3'30?.
   Released on 25 September 2006 on Hinges in the U.K.

Art

Lyrics

Looks as if you're dropping mirrors by the gross
Looks as if your nine lives have left town
When you paint in grey and drear
Eldorado won't appear
To run his sword through all the fears that pull you down

And it's okay, for the setting sun
Will colour everything around you gold
And it's okay, for the setting sun
Will colour everything around you gold

Looks as if you need a lighthouse in your dark
Looks as if I'm now your native guide
When the fog is drawing in
Snarling dragons break to grin
And trample over all the things that pull you down

And it's okay . . .

And all those pebbles in your shoes are precious stones
And all the skeletons in closets
Merely piles of harmless bones

. . . And it's okay, as the setting sun
Will colour everything around you gold
Even though it's brown, you'll
See your old brick town go gold

Chords and Tablature

Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 22:37:01 +0900 (JST)
From: Masato Mihara <gs4m-mhr (at) asahi-net dot or dot jp>
Subject: Code for "Gold"


Gold

C D Eb Gb , C D Eb Gb
C D Eb Gb C Cmaj7

Cm                                  C
Looks as if you're dropping mirrors by the gross
Cm                                     C    E
Looks as if your nine lives have left town  town

A                 D
When you paint in grey and drear
A        D
Eldorado won't appear
A                        C                  A
To run his sword through all the fears that pull you down

D
And it's okay, for the setting sun
            D          E          E Eb D
Will colour everything around you g o  old
D
And it's okay, for the setting sun

            D          E          E  Eb D  Db C E C D   Gbm6
Will colour everything around you go o  o  o  o o o old gold gold gold gold!

Looks as if you need a lighthouse in your dark
Looks as if I'm now your native guide
When the fog is drawing in
Snarling dragons break to grin
And trample over all the things that pull you down

And it's okay . . .

E                                       Amaj7
And all those pebbles in your shoes are precious stones
E
And all the skeletons in closets
Gb7
Merely piles of harmless bones

And it's okay, as the setting sun
Will colour everything around you gold . .
And it's okay, as the setting sun
Will colour
D          E
everything around you
C                D
Even though it's brown, you'll
Bb                 C       D
See your old brick town go gold


-------
Masato Mihara

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