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Song title:      Geek Love
Original Album:  Fires

Words and Music by Nerina Pallot
Copyright © 2005 Idaho / Echo Records
Published by Idaho Records

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTE:
Timing is 3/4.


INTRO:
Notes:
The guitar figure is an attempt to emulate what the piano plays.
Note that the notes in the first bar do not form a chord. They are discordant.

If you're a solo acoustic guitar, you might be better off strumming:

3/4| A | % | Bb | F |.

Chords:
A   577655
Bb  688766
F   x8 10 10 10 8

[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]


Guitar Figure 1
|---------6-------6------|---------5-------5------|
|-5-------5-------5------|---------5-------5------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|-7----------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

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


|-5----------------------|-5----------------------|
|-6-------8-------6------|-6-------8-------6------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

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


VERSE1:
Chords:
A  577655
Bb 688766
F  x8 10 10 10 8

A                    Bb          F
  In the race to get out of this place,
     A                       Bb        F
I am checking my face in the back of a spoon.

A                      Bb          F             A            
  You're accusing, you say I'm not here, but I'm here, yes I'm here, yes,
    Bb         F     A     Bb         F
I'm not on the moon,   I'm leaving so soon,


PRE-CHORUS1:
Chords:
Edim x4535x    Gm 355353
Dm   x57765    C  x35553

Edim                    Dm
  Don't presume to know shit about me,
         Gm                         C
'Cause I don't know myself from one day to the next,
      Edim                    Dm
And I don't pose perplexities purposely,
     Gm               C
This isn't a game, it isn't a test.


CHORUS:
Chords:
Bb 688766
C  x35553
F  x8 10 10 10 8

    Bb   C              F         Bb
So, hey, you, could you give it a rest?
Bb           C        F        Bb
Just take me home and get me undressed,
Bb       C        F        Bb
Put on a fire and make it enough,
          Bb            C            F
Oh, we're geeks, but we know this is love.


VERSE2:
Chords:
A  577655
Bb 688766
F  x8 10 10 10 8

A                Bb        F
  Nine am to the beat of a drum,
      A                             Bb          F          A
As we drive through the canyon, I'm feeling the hum of the engine,
               Bb          F              A
My head and my heart are a-swim will your cat be ok?
     Bb           F   A      Bb           F
Your wife was she in?   Your wife, is she in?


PRE-CHORUS2:
Chords:
Edim x4535x    Gm 355353
Dm   x57765    C  x35553

       Edim                       Dm
'Cos I      don't presume to know shit about you,
         Gm                         C
When you won't really tell me until I beg you to,
      Edim                     Dm
But I know that perplexity's a wonderful thing,
       Gm                    C
It's a sudden found joy, the strangeness it brings...


[repeat CHORUS]

          Bb            C            F
Oh, we're geeks, but we know this is love.


[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]


PRE-CHORUS3:
Chords:
Edim x4535x    Gm 355353
Dm   x57765    C  x35553

  Edim         Dm         C        Gm
I like that we argue, but not everyday,
     Edim       Dm            C            Gm
Your scent in a room, and the way that you say,
Edim           Dm           C        Gm
'Colour', not 'color'. What colour today?

     Edim  Dm       | Gm | C |
It's grey, grey, it's grey.


[repeat CHORUS]  [x2]


ENDING:

Bb            C            F
Geeks, but we know this is love.