ready to be
The riff for this song is played with a capo on the 3rd fret in the key of Bb
using standard open position chord shapes:
D Am C G
All the chords are written here as if the song were in the key of G since it's
easier to visualise the chords in this key with the capo on (if you play it without
the capo you'll need to transpose all the chords up 3 semitones to Bb)
[Intro]
D Am C G x 2
[Verse 1]
D Am C G
Praise Heaven babe, it's still alive
D Am C G
A good man's just a great disguise
D Am C G D Am C G
Look down deep in his eyes, you'll see
[Verse 2]
D Am/C C G
And your friends who say I'm bad
D Am/C C G
Why don't you tell 'em all you've been had?
D Am/C C G D Am C G
Why don't you tell them what I am is what they see?
[Chorus]
D Am C G D Am C G
'Cos I'm ready to be
D Am C G D Am C G
The devil they've been seeing in me
[Verse 3]
Look closer, it's still alight
That ain't a twinkle that you see at night
Ask me again if I think they're right, you'll see
[Chorus]
That I'm ready to be
The devil they've been seeing in me
[Bridge]
D G C D G
Whate---ver they've been seeing, I know him,
C D G
He lives between the moments,
C D G
well I'm an angel in silence,
C D G
he's climbing over the railway fence
C D G
Trying to dispose of the evidence,
C D G
Trying to compose it so it all makes sense,
C D G C D G C
Trying to get ready to be, ready to be,
[Chorus]
D G (C) D Am C G
The de-----vil they've been seeing in me
D Am C G D Am C G
The de-----vil they've been seeing in me (I'm getting ready to be)
D Am C G D Am C G
The de-----vil they've been seeing in me (I'm getting ready to be)
D Am C G D Am C G
The de-----vil they've been seeing in me (I'm getting ready to be)
[Instrumental break to end]
D Am C G
Submitted by Laurence Booth
