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Indoor Fireworks Tab

by Elvis Costello





@SONG: Indoor Fireworks
Elvis Costello

(Chords in concert pitch, try playing capo 2nd fret with D, A, G, Em
forms)
              
We play these parlour games

We play at make believe
                                        
When we get to the part where I say that I'm going to leave
                                        
Everybody loves a happy ending but we don't even try
          
We go straight past pretending

To the part where everybody loves to cry
(chorus)

Indoor fireworks
Can still burn your fingers

Indoor fireworks

We swore we were safe as houses
They're not so spectacular
                      
They don't burn up in the sky

But they can dazzle or delight

Or bring a tear
                            
When the smoke gets in your eyes

You were the spice of life
The gin in my vermouth
And though the sparks would fly
I thought our love was fireproof
Sometimes we'd fight in public darling
With very little cause
But different kinds of sparks would fly
When we got on our own behind closed doors

(chorus)
It's time to tell the truth
These things have to be faced
My fuse is burning out
And all that powder's gone to waste
Don't think for a moment dear that we'll ever be through
I'll build a bonfire of my dreams
And burn a broken effigy of me and you

(chorus)

lyrics and chords of: Indoor Fireworks by The Costello Show (Elvis Costello)

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T+M: MacManus

We play these parlour games

We play at make believe
                                             
When we get to the part where I say that I'm going to leave
                                                
Everybody loves a happy ending but we don't even try

We go straight past pretending
                            
To the part where everybody loves to cry

  
Indoor fireworks

Can still burn your fingers
  
Indoor fireworks

We swore we were as safe as houses

They're not so spectecular
                         
They don't burn up in the sky
                          
By they can dazzle and delight
         
Or bring a tear
                            
When the smoke gets in your eyes

               
You were the spice of life

The gin in my vermouth

And though the sparks would fly
                         
I thought our love was fireproof
    
Sometimes we'd fight in public darling
                  
With very little cause
        
But different kinds of sparks would fly
                       
When we got on our own behind closed doors

  
Indoor fireworks

Can still burn your fingers
  
Indoor fireworks

We swore we were as safe as houses

They're not so spectecular
                         
They don't burn up in the sky
                          
By they can dazzle and delight
         
Or bring a tear
                            
When the smoke gets in your eyes

              
It's time to tell the truth

These things have to be faced

My fuse is burning out
                    
And all the powder's gone to waste
                                                  
Don't think for a moment dear that we'll ever be through
       
I'll bulid a bonfire of my dreams
                         
And burn a broken effigy of me and you

  
Indoor fireworks

Can still burn your fingers
  
Indoor fireworks

We swore we were as safe as houses

They're not so spectecular
                         
They don't burn up in the sky
                          
By they can dazzle and delight
         
Or bring a tear
                            
When the smoke gets in your eyes

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