Giving Up The Gun chords by Vampire Weekend

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Your sword's
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grown old and rusty
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Burnt beneath the rising sun
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It's locked up like a trophy
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Forgetting all the things it's done
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And though it's been a long time
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You're right back where
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you started from
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I see it in your eyes
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That now you're giving up the gun
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When I was seventeen,

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Verse 2
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I had wrists like steel
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And I felt complete
And now my body fades
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behind a brass charade
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And I'm obsolete
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But if the chance remains
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to see those better days
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I'd cut the cannons down
My ears are blown to bits
from all the rifle hits
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But still I crave that sound

Verse 3
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Your sword's grown old and rusty
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D 
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Burnt beneath the rising sun
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It's locked up like a trophy
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D 
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C 
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Forgetting all the things it's done
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Em 
And though it's been a long time
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D 
You're right back where
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you started from
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I see it in your eyes
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C 
That now you're giving up the gun
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I heard you play

Verse 4
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guitar down
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at  a seedy bar
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Where skinheads used to fight
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Your Tokugawa smile and
your garbage style
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Used to save the night
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You felt the coming wave,
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told me we'd all be brave
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You said you wouldn't flinch
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But in the years that passed,
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since I saw you last
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You haven't moved an inch

Verse 5
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Your sword's grown old and rusty
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Burnt beneath the rising sun
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It's locked up like a trophy
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G 
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Forgetting all the things it's done
Em 
And though it's been a long time
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D 
You're right back where
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you started from
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I see it in your eyes
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G 
C 
That now you're giving up the gun
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Em 

Interlude 1

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I see

Verse 6
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you shine in your way
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Go on, go  on, go on
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I see you shine in your way
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Go on, go on, go on
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I  see you shine in your way
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Go on, go on, go on
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I  see you shine in your way
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Go on, go on, go on
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I see you shine in your way
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Go on, go on, go on
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I see you shine in your way
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Go on, go on,
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go on
(I see you shine in your way
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Go on, go on, go on)
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(I see you shine
in your way
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Go on, go on, go on)

Verse 7
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Your sword's grown old and rusty
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G 
Burnt beneath the rising sun
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It's locked up like a trophy
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G 
C 
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Forgetting all the things it's done
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Em 
And though it's been a long time
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You're right back where
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you      started from
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I see it in your eyes
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G 
C 
That now you're giving up the gun
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