Band: The Ryan O Reilly Band
Song: Portobello Road
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
CAPO 3
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The walls are graffitied, the rubbish is strung,
the carneval has come to town.
The window s still borded, the police are scared.
Last week this whole city burned down.
There is no situation that they can t make worse.
There s thirty-five-thousand arounds;
and they ll gravely chase after the fears or foes,
provided their easily founds.
So, imagine the future, imagine a boot,
imagine a human face.
And imagine a country where everyone s watched,
and then firmly put back in their place.
From Ladbroke Grove Station to Nottinghill Gates,
the market is dead, on its feet.
Past Orwells old house with dead looks in their eyes.
And their clipboards, they march on the beat.
You could go after them with guitars in your hands,
but they ll sure enough quickly deploy
drones that steal from you, choke you and shatter your bones.
Those (...) always destroy.
So, imagine the future, imagine a boot,
imagine a human face.
And imagine a country where everyone s watched,
and then firmly put back in their place.
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So we gathered in silence in the back of the bar
on the street where the bands used to play.
Nursing our drinks and cursing our luck,
surely they don t deserve the last sake.
Raise your instruments high, and your voice to the sky,
cause it s all that we have for the fight.
But when they turn this all into one shopping mall,
they ll finally sleep well at night.
So, imagine the future, imagine a booze,
imagine a human face.
And imagine a country where everyone s watched,
and then firmly put back in their place.
