Key: B major
Intro 1
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C
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Bb
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Bb
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Verse 1
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Born up in the city streets
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How did she get tired of me?
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How come you dare to dare
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to be different?
You were my [?]
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C
You had the world so [?]
My folks said,
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"Join the bloody army," yeah
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Got a job at the cemetery
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[?] but the CME
My feet were bruised,
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my hands were bleedin'
Playin' guitar in the streets alone
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Wo man stared,
wouldn't leave me alone
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God said, "Love being a vagrant," yeah
Verse 3
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Was this a rebel without reason?
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A hot potato without coals?
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Or was this youthful desolation?
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So much to learn, nowhere to turn
Verse 4
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Days of rage
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Years of promise
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Who to be like mine
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Who to be like yours
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Days of rage
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Years of promise
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Don't let it slip by
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Without wondering why
Interlude 2
Ow!
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Verse 5
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Strut back aside, came out
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The old man said I was a lazy sod
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Runnin' 'round with thieves and
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runners from the West End
Take a piss, stay up all night
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Told [?] gon' start a fight
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The beer was warm, the women freezing
Verse 6
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It was a time in decisions
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New [?] glass, new mercy given
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I searched for truth in words of wisdom
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Turned back the clock, [?] or not
Verse 7
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Days of rage
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Years of promise
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Who to be like mine
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Who to be like yours
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Days of rage
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Years of promise
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It'll pass you by
Interlude 3
With a wink of an eye
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Verse 8
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The immigrants love our nation
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We wrote on every wall and station
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No home, no job,
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D
no expectations
Nothing's changed,
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so who's to blame?
Verse 9
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Days of rage
D
Years of promise
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Don't be like mine
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Better be like yours
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Days of rage
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Years of promise
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It'll pass you by
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With a wink of an eye
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Days of rage
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Years of promise
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Who to be like mine
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Better be like yours
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Days of rage
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Years of promise
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Don't let it slip by
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Without wondering why
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Days of rage
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Years of promise
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Who to be like mine
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Who to be like yours
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Days of rage
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Years of promise
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Don't let it slip by
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Without wondering why
Verse 10
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Yeah, yeah
Yeah
Fuckin' yeah
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C F Bb D
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