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Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)

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Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) is the twelfth track on the 2001 James album Pleased To Meet You and was the first and only single to be released from that album.

It was previewed on the 2000 Autumn tour under the title Daniel’s Saving Grace and in press pre-release promos as just Saving Grace.

It started life as an upbeat romp and is apparently one of Tim’s favourites on the Pleased To Meet You album and very similar in style to 80s classic unreleased track Gregory’s Town.

It was slowed down and was released as the first single reaching number 22. It has been a stalwart of James’ live shows over the years and according to Tim their ‘unofficial theme’ song.

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Are you aching for the blade?
That's okay, we're insured
Are you aching for the grave?
That's okay, we're insured

Getting away with it, all messed up
Getting away with it, all messed up
That's the living
We're getting away with it, all messed up
Getting away with it, all messed up
That's called living

Daniel's saving Grace
She's out in deep water
I hope he's a good swimmer
Daniel plays his ace
Deep inside his temple
He knows how to serve her

Getting away with it, all messed up
Getting away with it, all messed up
That's the living
We're getting away with it, all messed up
Getting away with it, all messed up
That's the living

Daniel drinks his weight
Drinks like Richard Burton
Dance like John Travolta now
Daniel's saving Grace
She was all but drowning
Now they live like dolphins

Getting away with it, all messed up
Getting away with it, all messed up
That's the living
We're getting away with it, all messed up
Getting away with it, all messed up
That's the living

Getting away with it, all messed up
Getting away with it, all messed up
That's the living
Getting away with it, all messed up
Getting away with it, all messed up
That's the living

Oh, we're getting away with it, all messed up
Getting away with it, all messed up
That's the living
Yeah, that's called living

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Song:Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)
Released:25th June 2001
Main Associated Album (or Single):Pleased To Meet You
First Heard Live:Leeds University - 21st October 2000
Played at:
James - Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)

Taken from the album Pleased To Meet You

Written and performed by James.


Main Arpeggio:

e-----1--1-----1-----------1--1-----1------------0--0-----0-----------3--3-----3-----
B----------3-----3--------------1-----1---------------1-----1--------------0-----0---
G---2--------2-----2-----2--------2-----2------0--------0-----0-----0--------0-----0-
D-0--------------------3---------------------2--------------------0------------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


"Solo"

e------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B----------1-------------1-----1-----3---3---3---------------------------------------
G-----2------2-------------------------0---0-----------------------------------------
D---0----------3---------------------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------3------3-------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Song Structure:
Mike plays an acoustic guitar with a capo at the 5th fret, and strums the chords Am C G D (relative to capo)
throught the whole song. Adrian plays the lead lines as detailed above, playing the main arpeggio until the
end of the second chorus, at which point he starts playing the "solo," which continues until the end of the song.
Saul comes in at various points in the song playing the chord progression Dm F C G on a highly distorted electric guitar.

Lyrics/Chords:

Dm
F
Are you aching for the blade

C
That's OK

G Dm
We're insured

F
Are you aching for the grave

C
That's OK

G Dm
We're insured


F
We're getting away with it, all messed up

C
Getting away with it, all messed up

G Dm
That's the living


F
Daniel's saving grace

C
She's out in deep water

G Dm
Hope he's a good swimmer


F
Daniel plays his ace

C
Deep inside his temple

G Dm
He knows how to surf her



Getting away with it, all messed up

Getting away with it, all messed up

That's the living



Getting away with it, all messed up

Getting away with it, all messed up

That's the living



Daniel drinks his weight

Drinks like Richard Burton

Dances like John Travolta

Now



Daniel's saving grace

He was all for drowning

Now they live like dolphins



We're getting away with it, all messed up

Getting away with it, all messed up

That's the living



We're getting away with it, all messed up

We're getting away with it, all messed up

That's the living



We're getting away with it, all messed up

We're getting away with it, all messsed up

That's the living



Are we getting away with it?

All messed up

Getting away with it, all messed up

That's the living



Getting away with it

We're getting away with it

That's the living

That's the living



Transcribed by Alex Carter 2001.

alex@shandy3000.fsnet.co.uk
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