Elegy chords by Howard Jones

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Intro 1

Verse 1

Please don't look at me this way

I am from the same seed as you

Take me back to the womb

I am weary of this life

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Verse 2

Don't believe in my eyes

Don't believe in my mind

Don't believe in right or wrong

Don't believe in

cruel or kind

Verse 3
Am 
A 
D 
 (A minor) But all this talk is  (A major) only  (D major) poetry
Asus4 
A 
Em 
 (Asus4)  (A major) Only  (E minor) as true
Am 
C 
as  (A minor) we    (C major) would believe
Am 
 (A minor) We must live to fight
D 
Asus4 
the neg (D major) ative  (Asus4) 
D 
Em 
Am 
D 
Not  (D major) to court  (E minor) the self  (A minor) in  (D major) 
C 
D 
C 
Em 
defeat  (C major)  (D major) oh oh oh  (C major) oh  (E minor) 
C 
Em 
In defeat  (C major) oh oh  (E minor) oh oh

Verse 4
D 
Em 
Oh the pain  (D major) of life  (E minor) is sweet
D 
Em 
Is it wrong  (D major) to long for  (E minor) death?
D 
Must I  (D major) cling to the thrills of life
Em 
D 
 (E minor) Ash to ash  (D major) and dust
Esus4 
Em 
Am 
to  (Esus4)  (E minor) dust  (A minor) 

Verse 5
D 
But all this talk is only  (D major) poetry
Em 
Am 
C 
Only  (E minor) as true  (A minor) as   we would  (C major) believe
Am 
D 
 (A minor) We   must live to fight the negat (D major) ive
Em 
D 
C 
Bm 
Not  (E minor) court the  (D major) self  (C major) in  (B minor) 
Em 
C 
Em 
 (E minor) defeat  (C major) oh  (E minor) oh   oh oh
C 
In defeat  (C major) oh oh oh oh
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 6
D 
Em 
You have looked  (D major) at me this  (E minor) way
D 
Em 
D 
A 
D 
Em 
 (D major) We are  (E minor) all  (D major) from  (A major) the same  (D major)  (E minor) seed
D 
Take us  (D major) forward through the tomb
Em 
D 
There's no  (E minor) finish  (D major) to a life
Em 
 (E minor) 