High Fidelity
Words & Music:
Declan Patrick Aloysius
McManus (Elvis Costello)
Tabber: michael@magick.net (michael p
mccullough)
INTRO:
This is something like the intro riff:
Asus4 Am [etc.]
Em7 Am7 D D7
D D7
e---------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
B--3------1------3-3--1-1--3-3--1-1-----|--3----1------3-3--1-1--3-3--1-1------|
G--2------2------2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2-----|--0----0------2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2------|
D--2------2------2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2-----|--2----2------0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0------|
A--0------0------0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0-----|--------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
[Michael gives the intro chords as: Am E/G# C/G D/F#, but the intro riff tab implies
the chords given above it. Bass
notes are definitely: A G# G F#]
F
E
Am
D/F#
G
Some things you never get used
to even though you're feeling like another man.
Bm
Dm
E
There's nothing that he can do
for you to shut me away as you walk through.
Am
D
Am
D
Lovers laughing in their
amateur hour, holding hands in the corridors of power.
Am
F
E
Even though I'm with somebody
else right now...
CHORUS:
A A/G D/F# D
E
D
E
High------- fidelity. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
A A/G D/F# D
E
F
G
High------- fidelity. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
BRIDGE:
C
There's a new kind of
dedication: maybe you'll find it
down the tunnel.
Maybe I got above my station,
maybe you're only changing channel.
F
E
Am
D/F# G
Even though you're nowhere
near me and I know you kiss him so sincerely, now.
Bm
Dm
E
Even though the signal's
indistinct and you worry what silly people think.
Am
D
Who just can't wait to feel so
frozen out?
Am
D
Am
F
E
I bet he thinks that he was
chosen out of millions, I suppose he'll never know about
CHORUS: [repeat & out]