Dire straits chords by Horrorshow

SimplifiedAm · F · Dm · E · G

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Am 
F 
He wraps a smile 'round his tired face
Dm 
To hide the marks of the walk
E 
Am 
of life through dire straits
F 
No brothers in arms
Dm 
E 
The sultan of mood swing
Am 
Moving in tune with the melodies
F 
that truth sings
He knows the music
Dm 
E 
will stop
Am 
And he's okay with that,
F 
Dm 
he can face the facts
E 
He just wants it to mean something to these
Am 
F 
people when he fades to black
Dm 
And he's not sure,
E 
Am 
fighting for a lost cause and effect
F 
He tries to find clarity behind
Dm 
E 
locked doors in his head
Am 
And if you saw him,
F 
Dm 
you wouldn't know it
E 
Hell, his friends don't
Am 
F 
He's just another lost soul who blocks
Dm 
the world out with his headphones
E 
Am 
Words signify nothing,
F 
Dm 
he doesn't feel your complements
E 
Am 
Doesn't believe the things you say when
F 
Dm 
E 
you try to build his confidence
Am 
F 
There is  no success,
Dm 
E 
only an inability to realise a goal
Am 
F 
This blackjack of all trades playing with the rest,
Dm 
E 
he might just fold
Am 
He can see what his opponents hold,
F 
Dm 
E 
read their tactics, call their bluffs
Am 
But he can't  play his own hand right,
F 
Dm 
it's not enough
E 
It's the way he plays,
Am 
F 
convinced he's lost from the first turn
Dm 
He reads the other players fine from
G 
the skirts to the hurt words
Am 
The smirks to the T-  shirts,
F 
the nervous to the certain
G 
Every apple has it's earthworms
Sorry, he gets carried away when
he's writing in the third person