Hot Spot chords

Phil Manzanera

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Intro 

B   F#11  (x14) 

verse 1 

E            D/A 
   I just drove into town today 
E               D/A 
  To sample the flesh pots 
E           D/A 
   And all the girls I talk to say 
E                      D/A 
  "We need help at the hot spot" 
A   A#    B                               A   A# 
  I say well think I've got the help, you see 
B                                   A   A# 
  Been deep-fishing all through the week 
B                                    A 
  And I've never been no radio freak 
   A#      B9                                C# 
So you can teach me the latest dance little darling 

Chorus 

F# 
Come on, let's go where the night sky breaks 
              F#7                       F# 
We've got the noise at a thousand watts 

Where the bass vibrations make the building shake 

And everybody's dancing, dancing at the hot spot 
       B        B7                          B6 
It's a wildfire sensation, you just got to know 
    B        B11+             Badd11     B 
The neon radiation makes your body glow 

verse 2 

E         D/A 
   My pickup told me I'm a lazy dog 
E                   D/A 
  Cause I dig to go cruising 
E         D/A 
    And I was riding high on a hog 
E                       D/A 
  Till saw what she was using 
A   A#     B                          A   A#   B 
  I said hey, baby what do you need a needle for 
                                 A        A# 
She said, it used to be illegal, now it's the law 
B                             A    A#   B9 
  We all shooting atropine to make damn sure 
                                C# 
Every day since they started up third brutal war 

F# 
  Let's go where the night sky breaks 
          F#7                           F# 
With your flame and your bear-skin rugs 

Where the mounting guns make the buildings quake 

And everybody's burning, burning at the hot spot 
       B        B7                        B6 
It's a hellfire creation, nobody wants to know 
    B           B11+             Badd11     B 
The neutron radiation makes your body glow 

Instrumental 

E   D/A  (x4) 

verse 3 

A   A#     B 
  I said man, I read about this in a magazine 
A     A#    B                                 A    A# 
  But I'm not prepared I can't stand what I'm seeing 
B 
There's no fun on the disco scene 
A   A#   B9                               C# 
     And there's no future in America's dream 

   F# 
Oh no, don't go where the night sky breaks 
          F#7                  F# 
Where the white sun rise at midnight 

And there's a heatwave coming, makes the building shake 

And everybody's dying, dying at the hot spot 
       B           B7                          B6 
It's a wildfire sensation, you don't need to know 
    B        B11+             Badd11     B 
The neon radiation makes your body glow 

E    D/A            E 
           It makes your body glow 
D/A 
     At the hot spot. 
E   D/A           E                D/A 
Ooh ooh   Ooh ooh ooh    ooh ooh ooh 

Outro 

B   F#11    
until fadeout