Drift Away chords by The Kinks
Verse 1
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Drift away, just drift away
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Sometimes I wish I could just drift away
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They say there's gonna be
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a river of blood
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It's apocalypse now
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So we're waiting for the flood
Verse 2
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The ice is gonna melt,
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the water gonna rise
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And we'll all go to hell
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So they're keeping us advised
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While the
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Verse 3
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dollar falls down
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The yen gonna climb
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It's a moral decline
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And I'm losing my mind
Verse 4
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I think I'll just drift away
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To that island of my dreams
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Live in total fantasy
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Close my eyes and drift away
Verse 5
Back in the real world
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There's tension everywhere
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And the smell of fear
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Keeps hanging around and
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polluting the air
Verse 6
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The man on the news is
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going over the top
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Now he'll say anything
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so his show don't flop
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Wall street's down, so what
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And according to astute
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market analysis
Verse 7
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The world's gonna stop
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They shout the story to the nation
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Pass on the panic to the population
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This is the end of civilization
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It's all over now
Verse 8
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Meanwhile, I just drift away
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To my island in the sun
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Imaginary paradise, perfection
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Sometimes I wish I
could just drift away
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Drift away (drift away)
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Drift away (drift away)
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Drift away (drift away)
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Verse 9
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Now all the politicians
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are running out of hope
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They've burned all their bridges
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Now they just can't cope
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And who do we blame now
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we're all going broke?
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It's that man over there
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Who's hanging from a rope
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Newsmen winding up the nation
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A little bad news helps circulation
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Pass on the panic to the population
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It's all over, it's all over
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It's all over now
Verse 10
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Times like this, I just drift away
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To my tropical fantasy
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Living on coconuts growing
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on the trees
Sometimes I wish I could just drift away
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Drift away, drift away,
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drift away
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It's apocalypse now, drift away
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Rivers of blood, drift away
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And the man on the news is
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going over the top
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[Chorus]
Outro 1
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Drift Away
The Kinks
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