"Lust For Power" by New Model Army (from the album "Impurity")
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transcribed by Ferdinando Boccazzi-Varotto (fboccazzi@inwind.it)


Standard tuning
rhythm:
about 160 (live version)
about 144 (studio version)

              INTRO    2x
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-------------||------11--10-----6--5-----------------------|
4:-----------||*-----10--10-----5--5-----7--6-----3--2-----|
4:-----------||*-------------------------7--7-----3--2-----|
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VERSE CHORDS
  Bb    C     Dm    Am
|--6--|--0--|--5--|--5--
|--6--|--1--|--6--|--5--
|--7--|--0--|--7--|--5--
|--8--|--2--|--7--|--7--
|--8--|--3--|--5--|--7--
|--6--|--3--|--5--|--5--


additional chords:
Eb: (*668886)
Gm:(*355333)
Amaj7: (*575655)
* is the lower E


the song isn't so hard
(then i can't understand why all the tabs i found on the net are wrong?!?)


Verse:
Bb - C - Dm - Am

Pre chorus:
Defenses melt away...
Bb - C
Bb - Am (sometimes in the song it slides to Amaj7)

Chorus
I've got my trophies on the wall etc.
Dm - C - Am - C
last - In the bloody cause - lust, lust for power
last - Dm - C - Am then INTRO (on verse chords)

Bridge
And all desires is satisfied....
Eb - Dm - Gm - A (hold)

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Original transcription by Juergen Bohn (nma@jjbohn.com)

[Intro]
C  D  Em  D  (2x)

[Verse 1]
C           D                 Em             D
 Across the flatlands we came out of nowhere special
       C,           D
Like a peasant revolution-
          Em             D
makeshift weapons in our hands
   C                    D
We crashed the gates so hard
           Em                 D
we'd never heard that kind of sound before
    C                    D
And braced ourselves for victory
        Em            Bm
and the spoils of the land

   C
Defences melt away before our
  D
frozen blank surprise
         C
From the palace now we stare
       B
into a million waiting eyes


[Chorus]
            Em              D
I've got my trophies on the wall
               Em              D
The heads I've hunted down the hall
      Em                D
And I guard my winnings well
           Em             D
Carry them with me when I fall
        Em             D        
Now the daylight hours pass
         Em            D
Like the people I have lost
       Em             D
In the triumph of the hour
       Em             D              C      D  Em  D
In the bloody cause - lust, lust for power

[Bridge]
C  D  Em  D

[Verse 2]
C        D                 Em                    D
  Like a vision she dances through the shafts of light
     C               D             Em                 D
Everything I've ever dreamed about focu'sed true and 'bright
    C             D             Em               D
And fortune opens up the ground blackens out the sky
  C                  D
I kissed her once, I kissed her twice
      Em                D
But I couldn't remember why

     C
When I was young they taught me well
   D
to always play to win
         C
But they never said what happens
            B
when you've won the bloody game


[Chorus]
            Em              D
I've got my trophies on the wall
               Em              D
The heads I've hunted down the hall
      Em                D
And I guard my winnings well
           Em             D
Carry them with me when I fall
        Em             D        
Now the daylight hours pass
         Em            D
Like the people I have lost
       Em             D
In the triumph of the hour
       Em             D              C      D  Em  D
In the bloody cause - lust, lust for power

[Bridge]
C  D  Em  D

[Special]
    Dm
And all desires is satisfied
    Em
But still the hunt goes on
     Am
It's funny how this feeling stays
     B
With all the reasons gone


[Verse 3]
      C                 D
We've seen them fat and bleated
          Em                D
those who cure could hold a flame
     C                D
I've run for home and words gone by
    Em                D
but nothing seems the same
      C                  D
I can watch the world in secrecy
     Em               D
From one side of this glass
         C           D
From the other my reflection
      Em                  D
and I don't know which is worse

    C
The streets are lined with glittering stores 
      D
and a million fated calves
      C
I can catch myself sometimes these days 
    B
and all I do to laugh, laugh


[Chorus]
            Em              D
I've got my trophies on the wall
               Em              D
The heads I've hunted down the hall
      Em                D
And I guard my winnings well
           Em             D
Carry them with me when I fall
        Em             D        
Now the daylight hours pass
         Em            D
Like the people I have lost
       Em             D
In the triumph of the hour
       Em             D              C      D  Em  D
In the bloody cause - lust, lust for power

[Outro]
C  D  Em  D

--
(Sullivan 1989)
Funny, listened to the tape a couple of times,
and never got it right, but just now I just wrote
it down out of my head, grin.
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Last updated November 25 1999.