{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1136754,"song":"Discovering Japan","artist":"Graham Parker","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11252817-discovering-japan-chords-by-graham-parker/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1136754?type=chord","rating":4.35593,"votes":13,"content":"(This song can be found on the album \"Squeezing Out Sparks\" by Graham Parker\r\n and the Rumour. Some of the best lyrics ever written!)\r\n\r\n                   DISCOVERING JAPAN     by Graham Parker\r\n\r\nIntro:\r\n| [ch]Bm[/ch]   | [ch]D[/ch]   | [ch]A[/ch]   | [ch]A[/ch]   | x3   lead gtr riff; [ch]D[/ch] [ch]C#[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch] [ch]C#[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]  x3\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHer heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe Tokyo taxi's braking,     it's screaming to a halt.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]Bm[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere's nothing to hold on to, when gravity betrays you,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd ev'ry kiss enslaves you.....[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe knows how hard her heart grows,   under the nuclear shadows,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe can't escape the feeling,     repeating in her head.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen after all the urges,        some kind of truth emerges,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]Bm[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe felt the deadly surges,  Discovering Japan,    Discovering Japan.[/tab]\r\n\r\n                               ([ch]B[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch]  [ch]B[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch]   [ch]B[/ch] [ch]B[/ch])\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe G.I.'s only use her, they always ram right through her,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nGiving an eastern promise, that they could never keep.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]Bm[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSeeing the million miles,    between their jokes and smiles,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nShe heard their hard denials.......[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Bm[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    As the tears drop sideways down her face,     face,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Bm[/ch]                                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    I wake up talking in the tongue of a diff'rent race,   race,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    And as the flight touches down, my watch says 8:02 ,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n    But that's midnight to you,   midnight to you,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    midnight to you.......................[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI dream in long collisions, in jet-lagged pana-visions,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI shouted \"Sayonara\",        it didn't mean goodbye.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut lovers turned to posers,    show up in filmed exposures,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]Bm[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nJust like in travel brochures,   Discovering Japan,   Discovering Japan,[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\n  Discovering Japan,      Discovering Japan,[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\n  Discovering Japan,      Discovering Japan.[/tab]\r\n\r\n                                     ([ch]B[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch]   [ch]B[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch]   [ch]B[/ch] [ch]B[/ch])","plain_text":"(This song can be found on the album \"Squeezing Out Sparks\" by Graham Parker\n and the Rumour. Some of the best lyrics ever written!)\n\n                   DISCOVERING JAPAN     by Graham Parker\n\nIntro:\n| Bm   | D   | A   | A   | x3   lead gtr riff; D C# D E   D C# A E  x3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                               (B F# G F#  B F# G F#   B B)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                                     (B F# G F#   B F# G F#   B B)","chords":["Bm","D","A","C#","E","G","B","F#"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}