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Song title:      Blood Is Blood
Original Album:  Dear Frustrated Superstar

Words and Music by Nerina Pallot
Copyright © 2001 Polydor Records
Published by Chrysalis Music Publishing Ltd/Mute Song Ltd.

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
On the record there is a backing vocal line that runs through the last chorus.
I've added it here only for the sake of completeness.


INTRO:
Notes:
The first time through, the piano plays this an octave higher than my
transcription.

Chords:
C#m  x46654    A x02220
G#m  455444    B x24442
E    022100


[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]

Guitar Figure 1

  C#m             G#m               E               B
|-----------------4-------4-------|-----------------7-------7-------|
|-----4---5---7-------5-------7---|-----7---9---10------------------|
|-6-------------------------------|-9-------------------9-------9---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

     
  E               B                 A               B
|-----------------7-------7-------|---------------------------------|
|-----7---9---10------------------|-5-------5-------8-------8-------|
|-9-------------------9-------9---|-----6-------6-------9-------9---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |


[second time: repeat last bar]



VERSE1:
Chords:
C#m   x46654    A x02220
G#m   466444    B x24442
E     022100


| C#m    G#m    | E      B       | A             | B
  Tinker-bell, my winged friend, I think we got it wrong.

 | C#m   G#m   | E     B       | A         | B
No fairy tale or happy end, just prehistoric songs.

| C#m     G#m | E      B     | A               | B
A crystal in my baby's eyes, I want what I can't love

 | C#m      G#m      | E     B     | A                | B
So now I've learnt how to despise, I think I've learnt enough...



CHORUS1:
Chords:
E  022100    F#m 244222
A  x02220    B   x24442


          | E                    | A
If blood is blood, then blood will flow

            | F#m               | B
That's all it does, that's all it knows

           | E              | A               | B
But I've one question, I want something, I want more.


       | E              | A
Flesh is flesh, an urgent fire

           | F#m              | B
It drags you down, this cheap desire.

          | E              | A           | B
We all want something, maybe beauty, maybe more...



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
C#m   x46654    A x02220
G#m   466444    B x24442
E     022100


| C#m  G#m   | E     B     | A            | B
  Abso-lution, constitution, leave it all behind

   | C#m      G#m       | E       B       | A              | B
Take off your shirt, your worried face, and let me lose your mind.

| C#m          G#m   | E          B        | A               | B
I thought that I might change the world, but all I changed was me.

 | C#m   G#m      | E        B      | A                | B
So now I sleep most days and think of where it all might lead.


[repeat CHORUS]


BRIDGE:
Chords:
C#m  x46654    B    799877 or x24442
G#m  466444    C/G  335553 or 332010
A    577655    D    x57775 or xx0232


| C#m   G#m  | A
  Blood will   rain a little,

| A    C#m  | A               | C/G   D                  | A
  Down each   mountainside and  every cloud will bring you here.


[Instrumental / Guitar SOLO over CHORUS chords]


CHORUS2:
Chords:
E   022100 or x79997   B      x24442 or 799777
A   x02220 or 577655   Bmaj7  x24342
F#m 244222


           | E                   | A
Oh, blood is blood, and blood will flow

            | F#m               | B
That's all it does, that's all it knows

           | E              | A               | B
But I've one question, I want something, I want more.


       | E              | A
Flesh is flesh, an urgent fire
(flesh is flesh, and it twists the soul)


           | F#m              | B
It drags you down, this cheap desire
(Like a tourniquet, like a begging bowl)


          | E              | A           | B
We all want something, maybe beauty, maybe more
(Like some long forbidden treasure in the dirt...)


             | E                   | A
Yeah, blood is blood, and blood will flow -
(Blood is Blood, and it's on our hands)


            | F#m               | B
That's all it does, that's all it knows
(That's the price of grace for the common man)


           | E              | A               | B
But I've one question, I want something, I want more
(For that one good hour you pay with all your life)


       | E              | A
Flesh is flesh, an urgent fire

           | F#m              | B
It drags you down, this cheap desire

   Bmaj7    | E              | A           | B
We all   want something, maybe beauty, maybe more


       C#m
I want more


[play: Guitar Figure 1]


       C#m
I want more