THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS Album: THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT Bm 224432 A 577655 or x02220 D 557775 or x00232 G 355433 or 320033 F# 244322 INTRO: Bm - A - D - G - F# x2 Bm VERSE: Bm Decided To sneak up away from your stomach And try your pulse Bm And captured What seemed all unknowing and candid D F# But they suspected it was false Bm Bm She's playful The boring would warn you be careful Of her brigade In order to tame this relentless marauder D F# Move away from the parade BRIDGE 1: A G Bm And she was walking on the tables in the glass house A G Bm Endearingly bedraggled in the wind A G Bm Subtle in her method of seduction D F# The twenty little tragedies begin Bm A G Bm And she would throw a feather boa in the road A G Bm If she thought that it would set the scene A G G Unfittingly dipped into your companions D F# Enlighten them to make you see CHORUS: Bm A D And there's affection to rent G F# The age of the understatement Bm A D Before the attraction ferments F# Kiss me properly and pull me apart Bm A D Affection to rent G F# The age of the understatement Bm A D Before the attraction ferments F# Kiss me properly and pull me apart BRIDGE 2: G - F# - F# - Bm Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh x2 G F# And my fingers scratch at my hair F# Bm Before my mind can get too reckless G F# The idea of seeing you here F# Bm Is enough to make the sweat grow cold G - F# - F# - Bm Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh x2 OUTRO: Bm for a few bars and then... Bm - A - D - G - F# End on F#