How Long

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"How Long (Have we known each other now?)" by Die Haut (from "Head On")

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Music by Jochen Arbeit, Christoph Dreher, Rainer Lingk, & Thomas Wydler

Words by Blixa Bargeld and Anita Lane

Chords transcribed by Greg O'Beirne (gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)

A (x8) C (x8)

A (x8) C (x8)

How long have we known each other now? Five, ten years, and I

A (x4) C (x4)

guess we've changed, and we'd

A (x4) C (x4)

run into each other in the subterranean

D (x8)

world... With the extras in their fright wigs and fins

F (x8)

on their way from funkhole to dugout... and

D (x8)

one night would keel over into another,

and there never would seem to be a day, and

F (x8)

hey, you used to say you were polishing up on your survival tactics

D (x8)

(techinques) for the end of the world... and

C (x4) A# (x4)

you, you used to dig your beak into my ear and say "nothing"

F (x4) A# (x4)

like a secret...

D(Gbass) (x4) C(Fbass) (x4) D(Gbass) (x4) C(Fbass) (x4)

How long have we known each other now? Fifteen, twenty years maybe, and

C (x4) A# (x4)

certainly we've changed... and we'd

C (x4) A# (x4)

run into each other in the subterranean

D (x8)

world...

C (x8)

And before I knew you or before we met

oh yes, way before then I was

D (x8)

itching in the cradle, making my way to the slime pits & the sludge traps

F (x8)

looking for love... and

D (x8)

all the bushy brats turned out from the western burgs

C (x8)

minced in the powdermills, noctambulating around

D (x8)

nowheresville

D (x8)

and some were so desperate for sleep the only retreat was the

C (x4) A# (x4) F (x4) A# (x4)

sad dormitory... yes, one would go for a rest (or a test?)

D(Gbass) (x4) C(Fbass) (x4) D(Gbass) (x4) C(Fbass) (x4)

How long have we known each other now? up to thirty years I guess, and

C (x4) A# (x4)

maybe we've changed... and

C (x4) A# (x4)

didn't we see each other in the subterranean

D (x8)

world?

F (x8)

You, did you really have your headress? - Hmmm.... yes

I used to dress up

D (x8)

like a girl, and how did you ever make it back home? I... I...

F (x8)

I'd leave a trail of pearls. Did you ever see a doctor - or a priest?

D (x8)

oh yeah - a priest

D (x8)

do you remember the guy with the sign "the end is nigh"? That was

F (x8)

me (do you remember what was written on the back?)

D (x8)

and

F (x8)

Do remember the guy with a boxful of wind? or maybe it was a cassette

D (x8)

I don't really... I don't know either - or was it me?

C (x4) A# (x4) F (x4) A# (x4)

D (x8) F (x8)

How long have we known each other now? I've never seen you in my life

(forty years?)

D (x8) F (x8)

How long have we known each other now? I've never seen you in my life

(fifty years)

C (x8) A# (x8)

How long have we known each other now? I've never seen you in my life

(sixty, seventy, eighty three years)

C (x4) A# (x4)

I hope that we've changed... and

C (x4) A# (x4)

we've never seen each other in the subterranean

A (x8) C (x8) D (finish)

life...