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            Adolescence - Prefab Sprout
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Written by: Paddy McAloon
From: "Crimson/Red" [2013]

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

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CHORDS/SPECIAL VOICINGS

         g-C-E-A
D        7-6-5-9
Dsus4    2-2-3-5
Dsus2    2-2-0-0
Dmaj7    2-1-2-0
Am11     0-0-0-5 or 0-2-0-3

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INTRO
| D | % | Dsus4 | % |
| D | % | Dsus4 | % |


VERSE
D
 Adolescence - what's it like?
      Dsus4
It's a psychedelic motorbike
      G
You'll smash it up ten times a day
        Dsus2   D
Then you walk  away


VERSE
    D
It's moonlight on a balcony
    Dsus4
It's pure hormonal agony
   G
Bad poetry. Its greeting card?
Dsus2     D
Will (the Bard)


VERSE
D
 Adolescence - why's it so?
   Dsus4
Ask someone else; how should I know?
       G
It's a song I sang and then forgot
    Dsus2   D
Too long   ago


EDD LE 8
     Dmaj7   G    A           D
When I was a Romeo in love forever
  Bm                  F#m
Unable to forget some Juliet
G              A            D
Romeo (Romeo) - inconstant? Never!
     C
It's knives flashing in fountains, poison
Bm                          F#m
Capulets' letters that go astray
    Am11   
Molehills bigger than mountains
     Em                       G6        A        A7
Your pre sat nav, learning to find your way


INTERLUDE
| D | % | Dsus4 | % |
| D | % | Dsus4 | % |


G  O
| D | % | Dsus4 | % |
| G | % | Dsus2  D |
| D | % | Dsus4 | % |
| G | % | Dsus2  D |


VERSE
D
 Adolescence - what's it for?
        Dsus4
It's for keeping your nerve-endings raw, while
G
Relay teams of fevered dreams
  Dsus2     D
Escape each pore


VERSE
D
 It's moonlight on a balcony
    Dsus4
It's pure hormonal agony
    G
Bad poetry. Its greeting card?
Dsus2     D
Will (the Bard)


EDD LE 8
Dmaj7 G      A           D
 Poor Romeo - in love forever
  Bm             F#m
Unable to forget Juliet
G              A            D
Romeo (Romeo) - inconstant? Never!
     C
It's knives flashing in fountains, poison
Bm                          F#m
Capulets' letters that go astray
    Am11   
Molehills bigger than mountains
     Em                       G6        A        A7
Your pre sat nav, learning to find your way


VERSE
D
 Adolescence can be rough
 Dsus4
I hope your heat-shield's tough enough
  G
I hope that no-one dares to scoff
     Dsus2     D
When you blast off


VERSE
D
 Adolescence, crimson red
Dsus4
 Fireworks inside your head
    G
Are three time brighter than the sun
        Dsus2     D
Girls - have some fun


OUTRO
| D | % | Dsus4 | % |
(repeat and fade)