Key: F major•
Intro 1
C
Gsus4
Csus2
Gsus4
Gm
Verse 1
Dm
C
Am
give or take a sum,
F
Am
Bb
Gm
The sum of that experience
Gm
F
Dm
O I know justice,
Bb
C
it's a birthright if you're born right,
F
Bb
Dm
and I know how handsome is
Bb
C
that trick of the light,
Bb
Gm
thinking I'll do right
C
F
Bb
C
given the chance to do wrong
F
Bb
F
Gm
again and again.
Verse 2
Dm
C
casing the park,
Am
Bb
by the uniform urinals of
Gm
C
love's rural province.
Gm
F
Dm
O don't you know time,
Bb
C
with its petty vial of sands,
F
Dm
Bb
C
inscrutable face and merciless hands?
Bb
Gm
It's a whirlwind of feathers,
C
F
tickles you to your nethers and
Bb
Gm
leaves a terrain of despair…
Verse 3
F
Dm
And I know when grief goes unchecked,
Am
Bb
Gm
There's a kind of relief in the wreckage
C
Gm
for the wrecked…
Verse 4
Dm
last
Gm
C
the world and the war?
F
Dm
O I know young fathers who
Bb
C
once were like soldiers,
F
Dm
AWOL in flung places
Bb
C
or without standing orders,
Bb
Gm
C
to time and it's killing,
F
Bb
C
Bb
C
Gm
F
no vic timless crime again and again.
Dm
Am
Interlude 1
Bb
Gm
C
F
Dm
Bb
C
F
Dm
Bb
C
Verse 5
Gm
F
Monday night,
Dm
Am
Goodies and The Doctor,
Gm
C
time for pyjamas.
F
Dm
O I know self pity,
Bb
C
it begins with nostalgia,
F
Dm
and you'll die of melancholy
Bb
C
if the dolor don't get ya,
Bb
Gm
wall next to a picture
C
F
of a dick and a fanny,
Bb
C
by a smear of regret.
Verse 6
Gm
F
Dm
And it sings of its own long demise,
Am
Bb
something about im perium,
Gm
C
and a new sun will rise,
F
Dm
Bb
C
and "O please don't go with those horrible guys,
F
Bb
they only want one thing."
Gm
F
Dm
Bb
C
O please don't go with those horrible guys,
F
Bb
they only want one thing,
C
Bb
C
Bb
C
Gm
Again an d again.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC Gsus4 Csus2 Gm F...
C
Gsus4
Csus2
Gm
F
Dm
Am
Bb
Capo: 3
Transpose: 0
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