Life's For The Living original guitar chords by
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Key: G major•

Intro 1

G

G

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Am

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G

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Dsus4

Dsus4

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D

D

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G

G

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D/F#

D/F#

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Em7

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Am

Am

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G

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Dsus4

Dsus4

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D

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Verse 1
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Well grey clouds wrapped round
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the town like elastic
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Cars stood like toys
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made of Taiwanese plastic
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The boy laughed at the spastic
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D D 
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Dsus4 Dsus4 
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D D 
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dancing around in the rain
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While laundrettes cleaned clothes,
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high heels rub toes
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Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows
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Dressed in their suits and their boots
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Dsus4 Dsus4 
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Well they all look the same

Pre-chorus 1

Cmaj7

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D

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I took myself down to the cafe to find all

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G/F#

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Em7

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The boys lost in books and crackling vinyl

Cmaj7

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And carved out a poem

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G7

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above the urinal that read

Chorus 1
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Don't you cry      for the lost
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Smile for the living
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Get what you need
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D D 
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and give  what you're given
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D D 
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Life's   for the living so live it

Interlude 1
Or you're better off dead
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G G 
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G G 
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Verse 2
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While the evening pulled the moon
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out      of it's packet
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Stars shone like buttons
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on an old man's jacket
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We needed a nail but we tacked   it
'til it fell of the wall
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Dsus4 Dsus4 
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While pigeon's pecked trains,
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sparks   flew like planes
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The rain showed the rainbows
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in the oil stains
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And we all   had new iPhone's
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but no       one had no one to call
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Pre-chorus 2
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And I        stumbled down
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to the stomach of the town
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Where the widow takes memories
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D D 
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to slowly drown
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With a hand     to the sky
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and a mist in her eye, she said
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Chorus 2
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Don't you cry      for the lost
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Smile for the living
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Get what you need
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D D 
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and give  what you're given
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Life's   for the living so live it

Interlude 2
Or you're better off dead
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G G 
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D D 
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Verse 3
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Well I'm sick  of this town,
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this blind    man's forage
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They take your dreams down
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and they stick them in storage
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You can have  them back son
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when you've paid     off
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your mortgage and loans
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Oh hell  with this place,
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I'll go       it my own way
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I'll stick out my thumb
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and I trudge down the highway
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Someday someone must be going
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D D 
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my way home

Pre-chorus 3
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Till then I'll     make my bed from a disused car
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With a mattress of leaves
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and a blanket of stars
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And I'll stitch   the words into my heart
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with a needle and thread

Chorus 3
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Don't you cry      for the lost
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Smile for the living
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Get what you need
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and give  what you're given
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You know life's   for the living so live it
Or you're better off dead
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Outro 1
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Don't you cry for the lost
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Smile for the living
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Get what you need
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and give  what you're given
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Life's for the living so live it
Or you're better off dead

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ChordsG Am Dsus4 D D/F#...

G
Am
Dsus4
D
D/F#
Em7
Em
C
G/F#
Cmaj7
G7
Bm
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Chords

G
Am
Dsus4
D
D/F#
Em7
Em
C
G/F#
Cmaj7
G7
Bm
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