When I look up to the skies I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow I rush home to bed I soak my head I see your face underneath my pillow I wake next.

Pictures of Matchstick Men" Is the first hit single by Status Quo, released in January 1968.

Текст песни: When I look up to the sky I see your eyes in a funny kind of yellow I rush to bed I soak my head I see your face underneath my pillow.

Pictures of Matchstick Men" is the first hit single by Status Quo, released on 5 January 1968. The song reached number seven in the British charts, number eight in Canada, and number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their only hit single in the United States. Francis Rossi confirmed on DVD2 of the Pictures set that it was originally intended to be a B-side to "Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe", but it was decided to swap the B-side and the A-side of the single.

Pictures of matchstick men and you Mirages of matchstick men and you All I ever see is them and you. Windows echo your reflection When I look in their direction gone When will this haunting stop? Your face it just won't leave me alone. Pictures of matchstick men and you Mirages of matchstick men and you All I ever see is them and you. You in the sky, you with this guy You make men cry, you lie You in the sky, you with this guy You make men cry, you lie. Pictures of matchstick men Pictures of matchstick men Pictures of matchstick men Pictures of matchstick men. More on Genius. The matchstick men Status Quo are referring too are the paintings of L. S. Lowry. In this song, the lover is jealous of his ex-girlfriend’s sexual liberation, seeing her in the arms of an army of potential suitors. Pictures of Matchstick Men" Track Info. Written By Francis Rossi. Release Date January 5, 1968.

Two guitarists may be required to play this song. After all, Francis and Rick are both guitarists and have been together for over forty years. This is why some of the bars are doubled; each represents a guitarist’s part; one of them playing the chords (where the vertical digits are located), the other playing the melody (the 12-12-13-13, etc bit). I have joined them together using the symbol in-between the two. The double : symbol indicates the repeat. -- 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Pic - tures of matchstick men Pic - tures of matchstick men (repeat till fade).

Charted: 7 12. Get the Sheet Music License This Song. This song was inspired by the matchstick men paintings of . They were peopled with spindly human figures who looked like matchstick men. . Lowry inspired another hit song, Brian and Michael's 1978 UK chart topper "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs," which was a tribute to the then recently deceased Lowry's life

Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Men (BBC Sessions - Saturday Club 17/2/68). Pictures Of Matchstick Men. Status Quo. 03:07. Download MP3. MP3 320Kbps.

Electronically created stereo. Runouts stamped, beside the last digit, that is engraved about 4 cm from the stamped matrix. Matrix, Runout (Variation 1 runout A): HMA 257 A - 1 △G 4.

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