Sunday, 7 September 2025

"BOTH SIDES NOW", W-I-P

 



G C G C x2

 
G               Am        C                 G                   Bm          C         G
Moles and voles arrange their lair -- No icy bursts of winter there.
                    C               Am                 C+                            D
They suffer summer's stifling air, in tunnels where they stay. 
       G              Am        C             G                                   Bm             C                  G
But now their favorite food's in doubt -- the worms in berms just won't come out
              C                            Am                            C+                               D
(Worms stay down deep, avoiding drought, so moles can't get their prey.)
 
          G               Am          C+                G
Moles check out soil from both sides now,
      C       G              C+           G
Vestigial eyes, yet still somehow
       Bm         C          G
It's soil's hydration that they sense.
    C                     D  Dsus D     G       G C G C  x2
(I say all this in moles'      defence)

 
G                  Am           C                G         Bm                          C           G
Whales and seals and swarms of eels: aquatic creatures -- none conceals
                     C                Am                       C+                   D
In seas and lakes, how lost they feel, as weekly polls reveal.
              G         Am   C                G              Bm                     C     G
They're now upset about their seas (the home to plastic vortices)
      C                         Am                                 C+                       D
So if you care, they ask you please, "Don't toss your trash away."
     
        G             Am            C+                G
I've looked at love from both sides now,
          C             G             C              G
From give and take, and still somehow
       Bm       C          G
It's love's illusions I recall.
   C                           D Dsus D   G   G C G C  x2
I really don't know love      at all.


G              Am          C          G           Bm                     C               G
Flocks of awks and human fools resist the science learned in schools 
                C            Am                        C+                     D
To fix the sich we lack the tools, no cooling's underway. 

 G Am C G Bm
But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads, C they say G I've changed.


ORIGINAL LYRICS

G C G C x2

 
G               Am       C         G                             Bm      C         G
Rows and floes of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air
                        C                         Am           C+                              D
And feathered canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.
       G             Am   C              G                            Bm          C       G
But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone.
               C            Am                              C+                          D
So many things I would have done but clouds got in my way.
 
       G              Am               C                G
I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
         C           G                C             G
From up and down, and still somehow
      Bm         C          G
It's clouds illusions I recall.
   C                           D  Dsus D G   G C G C  x2
I really don't know clouds  at all.
 


G                 Am            C        G                            Bm        C            G
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel
                     C      Am                             C+                              D
When every fairy tale comes real; I've looked at love that way.
       G           Am    C          G                                Bm          C               G
But now it's just another show, you leave 'em laughing when you go
                  C                Am                              C+                      D
And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
     
        G             Am            C                G
I've looked at love from both sides now,
          C             G             C              G
From give and take, and still somehow
       Bm       C          G
It's love's illusions I recall.
   C                           D Dsus D   G   G C G C  x2
I really don't know love      at all.



 
G         Am        C       G               Bm        C         
Tears and fears and feeling proud to say "I love you" right out 
G
loud,
           C           Am                  C                   
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds, I've looked at life that 
D
way.
    G       Am          C      G                         Bm     
But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads, 
     C                 G
they say  I've changed.
                C        Am                    C            D
But something's lost but something's gained in living every day.
 
G         Am        C          G
I've looked at life from both sides now,
     C       G         C         G
From win and lose, and still somehow
     Bm       C       G
It's life's illusions I recall.
  C                 D Dsus D   G  G C G C  x4
I really don't know life at all.