Key: F major
Intro 1
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B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
Verse 1
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B
Millionaires and pauper
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B
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B
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B
s walk the hungry streets
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B
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Rich and poor companions of the
D#m
C#
B
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G#sus4
restless beat
A#m
B
Strangers in a foreign land,
B
A#m
trembling hand,
D#m
B
C#
B
lend too much to ever
F#
G#sus4
B
But nobody's
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B
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F#sus4
F#
from the flower lady
F#
B
away their happiness
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B
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B
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B
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Kisses crumble in a web
D#m
C#
B
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of loneliness
G#sus4
A#m
It's written by
A#m
B
Voices break before they bend
D#m
B
it's over once again
C#
B
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G#sus4
But nobody's
B
C#
buying flowers
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F#sus4
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F#sus4
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from the flower
B
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B
Poets agonize, they cannot find the words
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B
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B
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An d the stone
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D#m
and asks, are you absurd?
G#sus4
C#
B
F#
G#sus4
A#m
B
The painter paints his brushes black
A#m
D#m
The portrait of the pain never
B
C#
answers back
B
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G#sus4
But nobody's
B
C#
buying flowers
F#
Bm
B
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F#sus4
F#
for the flower lady
B
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Soldiers' disillusion come home
B
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B
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B
from the war
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B
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Sarcastic students tell them not to
C#
B
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G#sus4
fight no more
A#m
B
An d they argue through the night
A#m
B
Black is black and white is white
A#m
B
They walk away both knowing
C#
B
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that they're right
G#sus4
B
C#
F#
Still nobody's buying flowers
B
F#
F#sus4
F#
in the flower lady
B
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Smoke dreams of escaping souls
B
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B
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B
are drifting by
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B
D#m
Dull the pain of living as they
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B
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G#sus4
slowly die
A#m
B
Smiles change into a sneer
A#m
B
Washed away by whiskey tears
D#m
B
they disappear
C#
B
F#
G#sus4
Still nobody's
B
C#
buying flowers
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B
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F#sus4
F#
And the flower lady
B
F#
Feeble aged people almost
B
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B
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B
to their knees
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B
Complain about the present
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G#sus4
using memories
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B
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G#sus4
A#m
Never
B
A#m
weary halls
D#m
C#
B
F#
you're old, you're old
G#sus4
B
C#
But nobody's buying flowers
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B
F#
F#sus4
from the flower lady
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B
F#
The flower lady hobbles home
B
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without a sale
Tattered shreds of petals
D#m
C#
B
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G#sus4
leave a fading trail
A#m
B
Not a pause to hold a rose
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B
And even she no longer knows
D#m
B
the evening now is closed
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B
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G#
G#sus4
An d nobody's
B
C#
buying flowers
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B
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F#sus4
from the flower
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B
C#
And nobody's buying flowers
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B
from the flower lady
F#
F#sus4
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