Labelled With Love — Squeeze
Chords and lyrics for Labelled With Love by Squeeze (key of D).
Intro
[A] [D]
Verse 1
She [D]unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle
(D) A
And shuffles about in her candle lit hovel
(A)
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens
(A) D
She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens
The [D]black and white TV has long seen a picture
The [D7]cross on the wall is a [G]permanent fixture
The [A]postman delivers the final reminders
She sells off her silver and [G][F#m]poodles [Em]in [D]china
Chorus
(D) Em7
Drinks to remember, I, me and myself
And [A]winds up the clock and knocks dust from the [D]shelf
(D) Em7
Home is a love that I miss very much
So the [A]past has been bottled and [G][F#m]labelled [Em]with [D]love
Verse 2
[D]During the war time an American pilot
(D) A
Made every air raid a time of excitement
(A)
She moved to his prairie and married the Texan
(A) D
She learnt from a distance how love was a lesson
(D)
He became drinker and she became mother
She [D7]knew that one day she'd be [G]one or the other
He [A]ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy
[A]Proud of her features, she [G]kept[F#m] [Em]herself [D]pretty
Verse 3
[D]He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber
(D) A
Out on the porch in the middle of summer
(A)
She crossed the ocean back home to her family
(A) D
But they had retired to roads that were sandy
(D)
She moved home alone without friends or relations
[D7]Lived in a world full of [G]age reservation
On [A]moth eaten armchairs she'd say that she's sod all
The friends who had left her to [G]drink [F#m]from [Em]the [D]bottle
Chorus
(D) Em7
Drinks to remember, I, me and myself
And [A]winds up the clock and knocks dust from the [D]shelf
(D) Em7
Home is a love that I miss very much
So the [A]past has been bottled and [G][F#m]labelled [Em]with [D]love
(D) Em7
Drinks to remember, I, me and myself
And [A]winds up the clock and knocks dust from the [D]shelf
(D) Em7
Home is a love that I miss very much
So the [A]past has been bottled and [G][F#m]labelled [Em]with [D]love
The [A]past h________as been bottled..... and [G][F#m]labelled [Em]with [D]love
[D]
(Fade out)
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