Living the dream chords by Bernard Butler

SimplifiedG · Asus4 · A · D · Bm …

GuitarPianoUkulele

G
Asus4
A
D
Bm
F#
F#sus4
F#m

Intro 1

Asus4

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