No Mercy for the Muse chords by
Neil Halstead

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Verse 1

Shabby boy?s kept you

F#m

up all night

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Oh, sentimental drinkers

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Sing songs that end in fights about fights

Verse 2

And they'll swear to you

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That they just can't help it

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Know that poem in their head

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That painting of your bed, it must out

Verse 3
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Does time stand still
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When you cross the room?
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Oh, surely it must do
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When they write a song
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That goes on    and on about you

Verse 4

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Does your golden hair, fall in waves?

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No mention of a spot

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Tantrum or tooth rot, not for them

Verse 5
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Just pearly smiles and Mona Lisa  wiles
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For your coterie of stars
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Your barrel of charlatans
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Verse 6
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Celebrate, and they will venerate
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Hold their heads in the morning glare
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For with some faint praise
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They will hold  your gaze
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And dedicate it all to you
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Yeah, dedicate it all to you
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Interlude 1

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Verse 7

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Oh, you live your life in black and white

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No subtlety for you,

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no mercy for the muse

It?s true

Verse 8

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Come in again, number 10

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Oh, your army of typewriters

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Your consequence of biters

won't last long

Verse 9

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And life will burden you not

Love will carry on with a

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thrust

Verse 10
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And they'll swear to you
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That they just can't help it
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That poem in their head
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That painting of your bed
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It must out, it must out

Verse 11
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Celebrate and they will venerate
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Hold their heads in the morning glare
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For with some faint praise
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They will hold  your gaze
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And dedicate it all to you
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Yeah, dedicate it all to you
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Yeah, dedicate it all to you

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