One Off Pretender chords by The View

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
Living on them pills,
Em 
he was lying in squalor
D 
Bm 
That's the life of the late night bar crawler
C 
Em 
Most outrageous man I met he once said
D 
I could take a belly full of lead
Bm 
Em 
and wouldn't wind up dead

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Verse 2

He wanted his song to make you shiver

A little like there's a ghost

coming your way

Have you ever been told

that something's forever

And had your heart broken

the very next day?

Verse 3

Shout it from the rooftop

You can shout it from the rooftop

But you can't tell it to the paper

They've already been paid

Verse 4
C 
Em 
To be ten different people that's easy
D 
Bm 
It's easier than being yourself
C 
I'm the one who pretend
Em 
s   that I'm not happy
D 
Picking life off the shelf
Bm 
He taught me

Verse 5
C 
Em 
time wasted
D 
Bm 
is time spent well
Em 
C 
The a man's dead if he doesn't
Em 
have a story to tell
D 
Dead if he's lying in a
Am 
Bm 
dirty jail cell

Verse 6
G 
'Cause when your down they'll
kick you
Bm 
The jury doesn't matter at all,
G 
the jury doesn't matter at all
C 
G 
Am 
Tell me officer when your baton kissed me did it make you feel tall?
C 
Em 

Interlude 1

And no one asked

Verse 7
D 
you
Bm 
C 
where you come from
Em 
D 
Bm 
C 
No  one told you of these times
Em 
D 
Bm 
C 
No one asked you where you come from
Em 
D 
Em 
Am 
No  one told you of  these times
Em 
D 
Am 
Em 
Am 
Em 

Verse 8
Em 
D 
This is your life don't waste it
Bm 
Why don't you run away?
C 
A man to reckon with,
Em 
he knows how to persuade
D 
You won't get a sun tan in this
Bm 
C 
government shade
Em 
Does it make you quiver a little

Verse 9
D 
Bm 
the way they say
C 
Em 
That we're gonna fuck you
D 
Take a little bit of freedom away
Em 
Bm 
everyday

Verse 10
G 
Bm 
You can shout it from the rooftops
G 
D 
Bm 
You can shout it from the rooftops
G 
D 
You can shout it from the rooftops
C 
But you can't tell it to the paper
Em 
D 
They've already been paid