James - I Defeat

Taken from the single Just Like Fred Astaire

Written by James.  Performed by James and Sinead O' Connor.

Riff 1:

e-------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------
A--2-----2-0-----0-2---2-----------2-----2-0------------
E------3-------3---------3-0---0-3-----3-------3-2-0----

Riff 2:

e-------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------
D--------------------2----------------------------------
A--2-----2-0-----0-2---2--------------------------------
E------3-------3---------3-0----------------------------

Riff 3:

e-------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------
D------------9------------------------------------------
A--7--9--10-----10--9-----------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------

Song Structure:

This has a more tradition verse/chorus structure, and so is pretty straightfoward.  
Saul plays an acoustic guitar hardly ever deviating from the chords G D Em C, 
while Adrian plays the riffs.  Riff 1 opens the song and Riff 2 is played between 
the end of the first chorus and the start of the second verse. In the middle bit 
Riff 2 is played first followed by Riff 3 repeatedly.  Riffs 1 and 2 are played 
over the ending choruses.  Sadly, Mike seems to have no parts in this song.

Lyrics/Chords:

G     D     Em      C

        G
We were doing so well

       D
We had broken spell

    Em                         C
And freedom seemed just within reach

       G
We had managed the bend

        D
Between lover and friend

        Em                      C
Found a place we could possibly meet

         G
Yes it's me

        D
I can't help myself

       Em                C
I just run headlong to defeat

 

         G
Yes it's me

        D
I can't help myself

    C
I defeat I defeat I defeat

 

I'm so hard on myself,

Don't deserve any help,

So I must let you go, let you go.

So I pushed you away,

While I hoped you would stay,

But I don't let you know, let you know,

 

Yes it's me,

I can't help myself,

I keep running around to this beat,

 

Yes it's me,

I can't help myself,

I defeat, I defeat, I defeat, 

 

Yes it's me,

I can't help myself,

I keep running around to this beat,

 

Yes it's me,

I can't help myself,

I defeat, I defeat, help me,

 

I can't help myself,

I defeat, I defeat, help me,

 

I can't help myself,

I defeat, I defeat, help me.



  
Transcribed by Alex Carter 2001.

alex@shandy3000.fsnet.co.uk