Tuning: Standard (EADGBe)





Crying Lightning Acoustic Chords - Arctic Monkeys



These are the acoustic chords for Crying Lightning as performed by Alex Turner on 

this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOO3h21Gd7c



Credit to muttjones2 for originally posting these on the AM forum.



Intro:

Am    F    Am    E

Am    G    C    G#





 Am          F            Am          E

Outside the cafe by the cracker factory

            Am         G      C      G#

You were practicing a magic trick

         Am          F            Am          E

And my thoughts got rude, as you talked and chewed

        Am           G        C     G#

On the last of your pick and mix



                                 Am             F

Said you’re mistaken if you're thinking that I haven't been caught

Am           E

cold before

       Am              G          C     G#

As you bit into your strawberry lace

                           Am             F         Am           E

And then a flip in your attention in the form of a gobstopper

                Am              G         C      G#       

Is all you had left and it was going to waste



Am

Your past-times, consisted of the strange

And twisted and deranged

And I love that little game you had called

Crying lightning

And how you like to aggravate the ice-cream man on rainy afternoons



Am (Strum Once)

                      Am               F

The next time that I caught my own reflection

       Am              E

It was on it's way to meet you

Am             G        C         G#

Thinking of excuses to postpone

                     Am                F

You never look like yourself from the side

          Am                E

But your profile could not hide

             Am             G         C           G#

The fact you knew I was approaching your throne



            Am            F                   Am

With folded arms you occupied the bench like toothache

E                      Am                 G           C        G#

Stood and puffed your chest out like you never lost a war

              Am              F           Am             E

And though I tried so not to suffer the indignity of a reaction

      Am                 G              C       G#

There was no cracks to grasp or gaps to claw



        F               Dm

And your past-times, consisted of the strange

     Am

And twisted and deranged

      Am                                      F

And I hate that little game you had called

        Dm

Crying lightning

                    Am                                            F

And how you like to aggravate the icky man on rainy afternoons

    Dm

Uninviting

    Am

But not half as impossible as everyone assumes

       F       Dm

You are crying lightning



Am



             Am                  Dm

Oh you were reading a book about some idiot

     F                  E

And telling me about another



      Am          Dm

I was so severely underwhelmed

             F            E

I thought I might never recover



                Am

Straighten the rudder girl

     Dm

And sail me up stairs

    F

And go and find somebody

      E

Who cares



        Am                Dm

Well we might not be the perfect partners

       F               E

But tonight we make a pair



Am                   Am

Your past-times, consisted of the strange

      Am

And twisted and deranged         

       Am                                     F

And I hate that little game you had called





        Dm            Am

Crying lightning

        Am            F

Crying lightning

        Dm            Am

Crying lightning

        Am

Crying lightning





    F                Dm

Your past-times, consisted of the strange

     Am

And twisted and deranged

       Am                                     F

And I hate that little game you had called

            Dm

Cryi--------ng