▷ LETRA: Modem Operandi - The Stanfields

Letra

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The Stanfields - Modem Operandi

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01. White Juan
02. The Marystown Expedition
03. Fight Song
04. Sunday Warships
05. Mainline
06. Streets of Gold
07. Lady Argyle
08. Will the Circuit be Unbroken

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01. White Juan
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: None
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[Intro]

      /         /
Blow
      /

[Chorus]

I’m not ready for this

I’m not ready for this

I’m not ready for this

I’m not ready...

I’m not ready for this

I’m not ready for this

I’m not ready for this
I’m not ready...

[Verse]

         I’m a nihilist on the payroll

           And I’m blundering through the whiteout

         I’m so modern and insanely so

           But I’m out of calibration

[Chorus]

I’m not ready for this
I’m not ready for this

I’m not ready for this

I’m not ready for this
I’m not ready for this

I’m not ready...

I’m not ready for this
I’m not ready for this

I’m not ready for this

I’m not ready for this
I’m not ready for this
I’m not ready...

[Bridge]




[Outro]
      /         /
Blow
      /



I’m not ready for this
I’m not ready for this
I’m not ready for this

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02. The Marystown Expedition
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: None
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[Verse]

Upon St. Crispin’s Day we made for a distant shore

from the harbour mouth of Montego

We were packed to the deck with a rash of Nelson’s blood

on a Northern course where the tradewinds blow

Forty nights on the deck of an old West Indiaman

shed little light on what I know

One day this will be over, this I know

[Verse]

I remember you as the girl I loved so well

and the lady of my hearth and home

So I must be the man with a horde of tales to tell

and a bigger horde of silks and gold

Do you resent me for my roving ways?

Are you still the lady that I know?

One day this will be over, this I know

[Interlude]


[Verse]

Ne’er a sabre have I drawn in anger

‘nor a flintlock have I fired at all

Though the midnight watch has yet to wear me down

I grow weary of the heaven’s thrall

I vowed to return one day a different man

not the green and witless boy you know

One day this will be over, this I know

[Interlude]

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[Bridge]
(Use this where D* is shown)
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Relief, praise the gods for the still and moment of respite

The thrill of sleeping through the night is lost on a drone such as I
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The taste of victory calls, yet a shadow of a feeling lingers on

Yet the blow of s and devil spawn didn’t break my confidence at all



[Bridge]

I think these things too loud

I’m nothing if not proud

I seek the means to thrive

Not scouring to merely survive




[Outro]

Did you find your fate and make your mark on the sea imbecile

Cause someone waits at home for you to come over the horizon

She’ll be waiting, she’ll be waiting for a long time

She’ll be waiting for a long time

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03. Fight Song
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: None
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[Intro]

[Verse 1]

They re rattling their rapiers

And prancing in their livery

They re howling at the gates again

Hot time in the olde town tonight

Get yourself together

And meet me at the magazine

We re gonna have a reckoning

Hot time in the olde town tonight

[Chorus]

Tonight, Tonight

We re gonna make it (Hey-oh)

Our own but we re gonna do it right

Tonight, Tonight

We re gonna make it (Hey-oh)

Our own but we re gonna do it right

[Verse 2]

Rally round the banner man

Fire up the forge

And muster at the cannery

Hot time in the old town tonight

Keep your wits about ya when

We turn it up and fall upon

The auld-sworn enemy

Hot time in the old town tonight

[Chorus]

Tonight, Tonight

We re gonna make it (Hey-oh)

Our own but we re gonna do it right

Tonight, Tonight

We re gonna make it (Hey-oh)

Our own but we re gonna do it right

[Interlude]









[Verse 3]

This is our house

Are you ready for the fisticuffs

The fuss, the muss, the row, the fray?

Hot time in the old town tonight

This is our house

Take your medicine

And fly the fiddlin   away

From whence you came

Hot time in the old town tonight

[Chorus]

Tonight, Tonight

We re gonna make it (Hey-oh)

Our own but we re gonna do it right

Tonight, Tonight

We re gonna make it (Hey-oh)

Our own but we re gonna do it right

[Outro]











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04. Sunday Warships
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: 2
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[Intro]

[Verse 1]

This old city looks dead in the morning light
                                     G/F#
I wonder where my saviour was last night

[Chorus]

When my ship comes in to call

I will throw this knife in the river

I will give my best to love
             G/F#
On the day my ship comes in to call
             G/F#
On the day my ship comes in to call

[Interlude]




[Verse 2]

I know my ways are cruel and unrefined

But I honed my game on fools and drunken minds

For ten long years I preyed on the rabble I know

But I gave myself to the well-known devil I don’t

[Chorus]

When my ship comes in to call

I will throw this knife in the river

I will give my best to love
             G/F#
On the day my ship comes in to call
             G/F#
On the day my ship comes in to call

[Interlude]



        C/B








[Bridge]

I gave myself to a play that wasn’t mine (When my ship comes, when my ship comes)

I played my part like a well-heeled concubine (When my ship comes, when my ship comes)

[Chorus]

When my ship comes in to call

I will throw this knife in the river

I will give my best to love
             G/F#
On the day my ship comes in to call (When my ship comes, when my ship comes)
             G/F#
On the day my ship comes in to call

(When my ship comes, when my ship comes) into call

(When my ship comes, when my ship comes) into call

(When my ship comes, when my ship comes) into call

(When my ship comes, when my ship comes)

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05. Mainline
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: None
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[Intro]

[Verse 1]

With no one as my witness I solemnly declare

I m drunk with paranoia and rendered unaware

The engines of the universe conspire to grind my bones
                B7
Sell my pound of flesh and give up the Ghost

[Chorus]

Give up the ghost

Down on the mainline

Too bad the sun doesn t shine

On the road you take

Nor the ground you tread

Take a couple of these

Go back to bed

And live your life another day

[Interlude]



[Verse 2]

I have dreams where I am living in solitary bliss

And I have dreams where I m about to die in a watery abyss

I spend my waking hours pixelated and engrossed
                                B7
In mixed up signals, pick up the phone, give up the Ghost

[Chorus]

Give up the Ghost

Down on the mainline

Too bad the sun doesn t shine

In the cave of your heart

Or the back of your mind

Take a couple of these

Leave it all behind

And live your life another day

[Interlude]





[Bridge]

I lost the pulse of your rhythm

When I put my faith in chemicals

Now I find the sound of laughter unnerving
                               B7
As for the dreams, they come and go

[Outro]




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       ( G/F#)











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06. Streets of Gold
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: 1
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[Intro]

[Verse 1]

Hey you with the world on your shoulders

Do you find it hard to deal

With growing expectations
                 G/F#
And a vision that isn’t real?

Are you tired of looking in the mirror

To only see a ghost

For a day in the sun the person you’ve become

Is the person you hate the most

[Chorus]

You walk the streets of gold

But the living bleeds you dry

It casts you in a hole

Where dreams go to die
      B7
Where dreams go to die

[Interlude]





[Verse 2]

Hey you with the stars in your eyes

Do you find it hard to sleep

When your plans aren’t coming together
                  G/F#
‘Cause of promises you can’t keep

The promise of another revolution

The pride before the fall

You stuck up for the masses; you stood up for your friends

But now you hate them all

[Chorus]

You walk the streets of gold

But the living bleeds you dry

It casts you in a hole

Where dreams go to die
      B7
Where dreams go to die

[Interlude]





[Bridge]
              G/F#
“Don’t let your doubts pull your strings”

“Nothing lasts forever” said the victim in denial
           G/F#
“Sure as the thought of failure stings”

“Nothing lasts forever when you’re dead upon arrival”

[Outro]





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07. Lady Argyle
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: None
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[Intro]




[Verse 1]

The yoke of pride, so many times

Has fallen on the best of us

The yoke of pride, so many times

Has burdened us who dwell in charity

Why, you ask, not break the chains?

T is hard enough contending with

The downward eyes of passer-bys

No hearth, no home, no love, no dignity

[Chorus]
Eb               Eb
Lo, yet one more decry
                             Eb
From an infamous throne such as mine

Vile and stable
     Eb
In a wondrous and slow decline

[Interlude]


[Verse 2]

The rain still must fall

On a wanderer of such likeness
                        Eb
Fortune is a beggar’s bane

Yet the stain blights us all

More so who thus deny it
                        Eb
Fortune is a beggar’s bane

[Chorus]
Eb                    Eb
Now I m a rogue in your eyes
                         Eb
But I once was a yeoman who shined

With a place at the table
     Eb
With laymen and lords alike

[Interlude]





[Chorus]
Eb                     Eb
Now I find myself in the mire
                          Eb
Of a world still unfolding itself

Vile and stable
     Eb
In a wondrous and slow decline

[Outro]



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08. Will the Circuit be Unbroken
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: None
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[Intro]
Bb5

[Verse 1]

Will the circuit be unbroken?

When your dues are called upon?

When the gravy train is off the rails

And the novelty is gone?

Somewhere behind

The firewall are blinded eyes

Will the circuit be unbroken?

Buy and buy low, buy and buy

[Interlude]
Bb5

[Verse 2]

Will the circuit be unbroken?

When the drones are in the air

When the satellites are casting off

A condescending glare

When the boots on the ground

Are categorically denied

Will the circuit be unbroken?

In the sky drones in the sky

[Bridge 1]
Bb5
I wasn’t asking for
Bb5
Time on the killing floor
Bb5
I lost the appetite

To go through another night
   Bb5
Of panic and cigarettes
    Bb5
New plans and old regrets
Bb5
Wound up good and tight

Just to make it through a night
Bb5
La la la la la la
Bb5
La la la la la la
Bb5
La la la la la la

[Bridge 2]

Lately I ve tried to put down the reins

And give not a doubt or a care in the world

I wasn t made to be left in the cold

I m a long gone believer stuck in the mould

At the first sight of blood, man up

Down tools and take on the trolls

I m a long gone believer out in the cold

[Interlude]




[Bridge 3]

How did you put up with such a fleeting mind?

Lost in illusions and grand designs?

I’m a complicated mess with a husk of soul and little more than

A long gone believer out in the cold

[Outro]

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