I want the world to stop: Belle and Sebastian

Thanks to Mysotis for suggesting this lovely song which we will be pronouncing then singing in ‘Musica in Classe’ on Tuesday 22nd May 2012 at ‘Italian Mood’ in Second Life.
If you want to be top of the class, start practising now!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjW3tZhdnyw
Guitar tabs: http://www.guitaretab.com/b/belle-and-sebastian/250022.html
Lyrics and Chords:

Intro: Am Dm C E 4x

Am Dm
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
C E
Give me the morning (give me the understanding)
Am Dm
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
C E
Give me the morning, give me the afternoon
Am A
The night, the night

Dm G
Let me step out of my shell
C E Am Am
That’s wrapped in sheets of milky winter disorder [bar free]
Dm G C
Let me feel the air again, the talk of friends
E Am G F E
The mind of someone my equal

Am Dm
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
C E
Give me the morning (give me the understanding)
Am Dm
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
C E
Give me the morning, give me the afternoon
Am A
The night, the night
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/b/belle-and-sebastian/250022.html ]
Dm G C
Tinseltown has followed me from Tinseltown to
E Am
Grey adorable city by the docks
Dm G
Girls will walk in moving air
C E
The sun hangs low, the girls don’t care
Am G F, E Dm, C Bm, E
As they paint themselves at dusk

Am G F, E Dm, C Bm, E

Am Dm
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
C E
Give me the morning, give me the afternoon
Am A
The night, the night

[Dm G C
Towns’ and cities’ populations up and grow
E Am Am
The workers move to the suburbs [blank bar]
Dm G
In between I watch and go
C E]
I run alongside rush hour traffic
Am G F, E (2 beats)
A prayer for every car

Am Dm C E
Am Dm C E

Am Dm
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
C E
Give me the morning (give me the understanding)
Am Dm
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
C E
Give me the morning, give me the afternoon
Am Dm
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
C E
Give me the morning (give me the understanding)
Am Dm
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
C E
Give me the morning, give me the afternoon

Am A
The night, the night

Dm G
I want to write a message to you
C E Am
Every day at ten o’clock in the evening
Dm G
Yellow pearl my city is
C E
This is your art This is your Balzac,
Am G F, E Dm, C Bm E
your Brookside, and your Bach

Am G F, E Dm, C Bm E x 8!