Belong Nowhere by the Fatima Mansions
From the Fatima Mansions’ 1994 Lost in the Former West album. Written by Cathal Coughlan. No capo.
INTRO
[Dm] [Am] (x4)
VERSE 1
No [A7] dates to miss, no home to phone
No [A7] face to kiss, no good alone
No [A7] family, no history, a permanent delinquen [C] cy
VERSE 2
No [A7] will to smile, no room to cry
No [A7] time to think
Just [A7] watch, don’t flinch
Why [A7] yes, that’s you in your millionth clinch
You [A7] murder every time you [C] blink
BRIDGE 1
[Dm] Some flee disasters for their lives
[Dm] You flee the spawn of grubby lies
[Dm] Like the graveyard dust and shipyard rust
[Dm] Too loose to trust
[Dm] You’ll [C] heal [Bb] so much [A7] faster
If your [C] homeland [Bb] is your [A7] master
VERSE 3
No [A7] dirt-cheap Adriatic sun
No [A7] heart of gold back of the gun
No [A7] death camps built for less than fun
No [A7] white man’s bond, no civil [C] ization
VERSE 4
No [A7] right to more than birth and death
From the [A7] driveling drones of the former west
Their [A7] credo dead like Brezhnev’s bones
Their [A7] headless spears and special malnu [C] trition zones
BRIDGE 2
[Dm] No death camps here, I tell you
[Dm] Just grey convenience hell
[Dm] Ten civil wars unended
[Dm] ‘neath billboard signs which yell
“You [C] need [Bb] someone [A7] pretty
Someone [C] En [Bb] glish and [A7] shifty”
CHORUS 1
Let the [F] dirt cover [Dm7] all, cover [Eb] all, cover [C] all
Let the [F] dirt cover [Dm7] al [Eb] [C] l
For it’s the [F] mother of us [Dm7] all and our [Eb] bed when we [C] fall
[C] We belong nowhere
INTERLUDE
[D7] [C7]
And by the way, you’re [A7] dirt! [G7]
[A7] Dirt! [G7]
You’re [A7] dirt! [G7]
Always [G7] know your [A7] worth [G7]
As you [A7] roam this mirthless [G7] earth
You’re [A7] dirt! [G7]
[A7] Dirt!
VERSE 5
No [A7] sleep, the phone, God knows what time
Just a [A7] wordless click on the end of the line
And a [A7] thud at the door out back in the dark
As some [A7] wirehair creature spins ’round the [C] yard
VERSE 6
Why [A7] do you run? Why do you hide?
Why [A7] do you bruise and then decide?
You [A7] didn’t mean it, you didn’t see
Well, [A7] now you’re run to rags and so is [C] she
BRIDGE 3
[Dm] You’ll drink the Balkan brandy
[Dm] You will forget your name
[Dm] You will become a captain
[Dm] And you will lose all shame
You [C] need [Bb] someone [A7] pretty
Someone [C] En [Bb] glish and [A7] shifty
CHORUS 2
Let the [F] dirt cover [Dm7] all, cover [Eb] all, cover [C] all
Let the [F] dirt cover [Dm7] all, cover [Eb] all, cover [C] all
For it’s the [F] mother of us [Dm7] all and our [Eb] bed when we [C] fall
[C] Do you all know where
CHORUS 3
Let the [F] dirt cover [Dm7] all, cover [Eb] all, cover [C] all
Let the [F] dirt cover [Dm7] al [Eb] [C] l
From the [F] veil to the [Dm7] shawl, from the [Eb] flirt to the [C] brawl
[C] Do you all know where
FADE
[D7] We belong nowhere