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(Nina Gordon)
From the album 'Tonight and The Rest of My Life' by Nina Gordon
Transcription by Phil Gardner

Intro: D-A-C-G

D  A      D     G         F#m     E       A
So here I go, I know this feeling awfully well,
       D       A      D      G       F#m    E        A
I could build a camera custom made to tape record the smell,
      G               A                       D          C      G
Of the perfume that we used to share until you spilled it on the floor,
    A          C
What more could anybody ask for?

D          A      E   G
I remember you in Polaroid,
   D               A        E        G   
The glitter and the glue and all that noise,
D        G        A     Bm
I should probably sorta miss you,
     D               A       C   G
But I see you all the time in Polaroid.

D   A  D    G        F#m    E      A
Up, up and away in my beautiful cliché,
      D      A        D        G      F#m      E    A
I have wasted too much precious time pretending I'm ok,
          G              A                        D       C         G
Oh I gotta get out of the kitchen next time when I can not stand the heat,
  A         C
My feet were colder than the Hebrides.

D          A      E   G
I remember you in Polaroid,
   D               A        E        G   
The glitter and the glue and all that noise,
D        G        A     Bm
I should probably sorta miss you,
     D               A       C   G    C-G-C-G
But I see you all the time in Polaroid.

A                        Bm              G   C-G-C-G
We were bored, there was nothing else to do,
A                   Bm            G    C-G-C-G
Playing records and posing in the nude,
A               Bm             C
It was dirty of mind so it was cool, and I always thought I'd know you.

Instrumental Break: D-G-E-G (x3) D-A-C-G

D    A    D        G          F#m        E         A
Everybody knew the score, they knew they could not trust us,
   D       A        D      G       F#m        E       A
But I could peel you like a pear and God would call it justice,
                  G               A                         D   C     G     A
Oh I guess there's nothing left to do but live with just the memory of you I do,
  C
In sixties pink and light blue.

D          A      E   G
I remember you in Polaroid,
   D               A        E        G   
The glitter and the glue and all that noise,
D        G        A     Bm
I should probably sorta miss you,
D        G        A     Bm
I should probably sorta miss you,
D        G        A     B
I should probably sorta miss you,
     D               A       C   G   
But I see you all the time in Polaroid.


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