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  Crashing By Design
  By Pete Townshend
  >From White City, 1985
  Written by Pete Townshend, ©1985 Eel Pie Publishing Ltd.
  
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  transcribed by
  litgo@aol.com
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  Capo on 1 (tape speed is slightly off, so to match CD, slightly detune)
  
  
  [intro pattern]
  
   G#                   C#/G#   
  |4-------|-----------|3------|------------|
  |4-------|<13>-------|2------|------------|
  |1-------|<13>-------|1------|--4^^^^--|
  |1-------|<13>-------|3------|------------|
  |--------|-----------|-------|------------|
  |4-------|-----------|4------|------------|
  
  [chorus]
  
  |G# |             D#/G#    |C#/G#  |C#/G#      D#/G# |G#
       Nothing must pass this line, unless it is well-defined
     |G#           D#/G|C#/G       |
  You just have to be resigned, 
                      |E     |C#m  |B   |F#    
  You're crashing by design
  
            |G#                              |          D#
  You once believed that crazy accidents were happening to you
          |C#                  |    D#
  You were chasing a capricious wind
          |G#                           |      D#
  Whenever bad luck and trouble happened to pursue you
     |C#                         |     (D#)
  The dice would surely save your skin
  
     |Fm                         |          D# D#
  But when you look back you must realize
      |Fm                      |      C# C# 
  That nothing in your life's divine
  |Fm                      |              D# D#
   Everything that's ever befallen you
          |Fm                           |
  Happened simply 'cause it crossed your mind
         D#       C#  |G#
  You're crashing by design
  
  [repeat chorus]
  
  [solo]
  |E     |C#m   |B      |F#        |
  |---7--|---9--|---11--|-11---14--|
  |9-----|7-----|9------|----------|
  |------|------|-------|----------|
  |------|------|-------|----------|
  |------|------|-------|----------|
  |------|------|-------|----------|
  
  In your single-roomed flat in a courtyard building
  You sit alone just like a broken toy
  Where's your mother, where's your lover
  And where are the children
  Are you a man or are you still a boy?
  Who left you behind, or did you run
  From the crush of so many options?
  Now you know the special despair of the man
  Discussed, debated and offered for adoption
  
  [repeat chorus]
  
         |E            |F#
  Another man without a woman
  |G#                            |Bb
   Dropped like a useless tool no longer required
   |B                    |C#                   |D#
  A man who longs for the stifling milk-flowing bosom
                 |
  A fool who's no longer desired
  
  [solo2]
  |G#    |      D#/G# |C#/G#     D#/G#|G#   |    D#/G#|C#/G#     |
  
         |B            |        F# F#
  Another man without a woman
                         (Nothing can pass this line)
  |B                  |              F#   F#      
   Too many rages have cost you this time  
                      (Unless it is well-defined)
         |B          |               F# F#
  Another man among a hundred children
               (You'll just have to be resigned)
  
  |B                           |F# F F# F F#|G#
     You're just a child who is lost      in time
  
  (It all happens by design...)
  Nothing can pass this line
  Unless it is well-defined
  You'll just have to be resigned
  You're crashing by design
  
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  litgo@aol.com
  

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