Failure chords by Swans

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Am 
I,  I've been lonely
And I, I've been blind
And I,. I've learned nothing
So my hands are firmly tied
F 
To the sinking leadweight
Am 
Of  failure

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Verse 2

I've worked hard all my life

Money slips through my hands

My face in the mirror tells me

It's no surprise that I'm

Pushing the stone up the hill

Verse 3
Of failure
Am 
They tempt me with violence
They punish me with ideals
And they crush me with an image of my
Life that's nothing but unreal
F 
Am 
Except on the goddamned slaveship

Verse 4
Of failure
Am 
I'll drown here trying
To get up for some air
But each time I think I breathe
I'm laid on with a double share
Of the punishing burden
F 
Am 
Of failure

Verse 5
Am 
I don't deserve to be down here
But I'll never leave
And I've learned one thing
You can't escape the beast
F 
In the null and void pit
Am 
Of failure

Interlude 1

Verse 6
Am 
When I get my hands on  some money
I'll kiss it's green skin
And I'll ask it's dirty face
"Where the hell have
you been?"
F 
Am 
"I am the fuel that fires the engine
Of failure."

Verse 7
Am 
I'll be old and broken down
I'll forget who and where I am
I'll be senile or forgotten
But I'll remember and understand
You can bank your hard-earned money
F 
money
Am 
On failure

Verse 8
Am 
I saw my father crying
I saw my mother break her hand
On a wall that wouldn't weep
But that certainly held in
F 
Am 
The mechanical moans of a dying man
Who was a failure

Verse 9
Am 
My back hurts me when I bend
Because I carry a load
My brain hurts me like a knife-hole
Because Because I've yet to be shown
F 
How to pull myself out from
Am 
The sucking quicksand

Interlude 2

Of failure

Verse 10
Am 
Some people live in hell
Many bastards succeed
But I. I've learned nothing
I can't even elegantly bleed
F 
Out the poison blood
Am 
Of failure