Key: A major
Verse 1
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Looking for a friend,
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looking everywhere
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Walked along the boulevard,
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the boulevard of friends
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All those mild mannered friend
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s I've got
F#m
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They're careless
Verse 2
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All over the place,
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Am
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all over town
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I don't want them talking to me
Verse 3
leaving it up to you
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Have to leave it, leave it,
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leave it up to you
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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All the buildings are breaking down
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Like the whispering in your heart
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And it's sordid how
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life goes on
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When I could
Verse 5
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And if you give me half a chance
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F#m
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I'd do it now, I'd do it now,
Verse 6
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F#m
We could give it all up, we could give,
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give, give it all up
oh the newspapers
Verse 7
And the radio, what about the radios?
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They'd be listening to me
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giving it to you
Verse 8
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Right mama, damn right
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mama
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F#m
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D
Em
Verse 9
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I hear hissing,
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I hear hissing in the distance
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I hear the tanks crawling
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They're crawling over the hill,
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they're crawling over the hill
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Like rattlesnakes in the deser
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t sun
Verse 10
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They're blistering up my spell,
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they're blistering it up
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They're breaking it up,
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they're breaking up my spell
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F#m
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And what else is there,
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what else have I got?
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F#m
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What else have I got but that spell?
Verse 11
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Ah, leaving it, leaving it,
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I'm leaving it up to you
Leaving it, leaving it,
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leaving it up to you
Leaving it, leaving it, leaving it
in the cloakroom for you
Verse 12
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I've got to give it up, I've got to give it up,
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give it up
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Up, up, give it up I
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can't take it
Outro 1
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