Life's For The Living chords by Passenger (Official Version)
Intro 1
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Dm
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Gsus4
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Am7
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Gsus4
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Verse 1
Am
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
Am
The boy laughed at the spastic
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G
Gsus4
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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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Gsus4
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Well they all look the same
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Pre-chorus 1
Fmaj7
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I took myself down to the cafe to find all
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C/B
Am7
G
The boys lost in books and crackling vinyl
Fmaj7
And carved out a poem
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C
C7
above the urinal that read
Chorus 1
Fmaj7
Don't you cry for the lost
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Smile for the living
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C/B
Get what you need
Am7
G
and give what you're given
Fmaj7
G
Life's for the living so live it
Interlude 1
Or you're better off dead
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Dm
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G
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Am7
Dm
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Gsus4
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Verse 2
Am7
While the evening pulled the moon
Fmaj7
out of it's packet
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Stars shone like buttons
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on an old man's jacket
Am7
Fmaj7
We needed a nail but we tacked it
'til it fell of the wall
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Gsus4
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Am7
While pigeon's pecked trains,
Fmaj7
sparks flew like planes
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The rain showed the rainbows
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in the oil stains
Am7
And we all had new iPhone's
Fmaj7
but no one had no one to call
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Gsus4
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Pre-chorus 2
Fmaj7
And I stumbled down
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to the stomach of the town
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Where the widow takes memories
Am7
G
to slowly drown
Fmaj7
With a hand to the sky
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and a mist in her eye, she said
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C7
Chorus 2
Fmaj7
Don't you cry for the lost
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Smile for the living
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C/B
Get what you need
Am7
G
and give what you're given
Fmaj7
G
Life's for the living so live it
Interlude 2
Or you're better off dead
Am7
Em
Fmaj7
C
G/B
Am7
Em
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Gsus4
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Am7
Em
Fmaj7
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G/B
Am7
Em
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Gsus4
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Verse 3
Am7
Well I'm sick of this town,
Fmaj7
this blind man's forage
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They take your dreams down
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and they stick them in storage
Am7
You can have them back son
Fmaj7
when you've paid off
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Gsus4
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your mortgage and loans
Am7
Oh hell with this place,
Fmaj7
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
Am7
Fmaj7
Someday someone must be going
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Gsus4
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my way home
Pre-chorus 3
Fmaj7
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Till then I'll make my bed from a disused car
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With a mattress of leaves
Am7
G
and a blanket of stars
Fmaj7
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And I'll stitch the words into my heart
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C7
with a needle and thread
Chorus 3
Fmaj7
Don't you cry for the lost
G
Smile for the living
C
C/B
Get what you need
Am7
G
and give what you're given
Fmaj7
G
You know life's for the living so live it
Or you're better off dead
C
C7
Outro 1
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Don't you cry for the lost
G
Smile for the living
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C/B
Get what you need
Am7
G
and give what you're given
F
G
Life's for the living so live it
Or you're better off dead
Life's For The Living
Passenger
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