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Living the dream chords by
Bernard Butler
Bernard Butler

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Intro 1
G
Asus4
A
D

Verse 1
D
G

The cool night soothes
A

my tired face with a healing hand
Bm

Is there a blessing or a curse that
G

carries the weight of man?

The heartache of a sleeping world
D
A
D

Distorted by all the noise of time
G

Oh, in this complicated life of mine
A

I always feel I'm in decline
Bm

Coincidence, a dream,
D
G

that's a mystery

So I plumb myself beneath a tree
Asus4
A

I watched the ocean peel
D

away my dreams

But the killing me
G

Is not what I thought life
A

would turn out to be
D
A
D

Oh, when I was seventeen
Bm

I was living the dream
D
G

And not what I thought life was
F#
F#sus4
F#

gonna be
D
G

Oh, there's no conflict,

character, no point
A

No dramas, only dust and joy
Bm

The pilgrims only progress
G

Cause they were ahead of the tide

All this troubled summer, I shall try
A

To catch the moonbeams
Bm
D

while I'm riding high
G

Oh, so I try to hold a conversation
A

With a memory occupied
Bm

by visions of riverbanks
G

I give it back for history

I'm not walking with my

head in my hands
A

It's just that all the better

luck I'll be stealing
D
Bm

Dreams, oh, they trouble me
D
G

That's not what I thought
A

life would turn out to be
Bm
A
D

Oh, when I was seventeen
Bm

I was living in a dream
D
G
F#

That's not what I thought my life would turn out to be
Bm
F#
F#m
G
D
Asus4
A
D

G
Asus4

A
D

Oh, I'm living the dream,
Bm

and it's killing me
D
G

It's not what I thought life
D

would turn out to be
A
D
A
D

Oh, now I'm living the dream,
Bm

and what you're doing with me
D
G

It's not how I thought
A

life was gonna be
G

Oh, and this complicated life of mine
A

I'll always feel I'm in decline
D
D

Ooh, ooh, ooh

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Chords
  • G

  • Asus4

  • A

  • D

  • Bm

    2
  • F#

    2
  • F#sus4

    2
  • F#m

    2

Capo: 4

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