People In Love chords by Loudon Wainwright III

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I see people in love and I
don't know why
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They can't seem to fight it and
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they don't even try
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Guess it's because it makes
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the world go around
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Yeah we're spinning through
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space on shaky ground
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I see

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Verse 2

people in love and

I'm glad I'm not

It's just a disease and thank God I ain't got it

I see 'em holding hands,

makes me wince

Yeah, she's just trying to turn

that frog in to a prince

Verse 3
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Oh, movie stars smooching in an
old movie
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A kid turns away, says it's 'yucky'
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That kid knows something
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that the grown- ups don't
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When the kid grows up,
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after that the kid won't

Verse 4
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People in love, I wanna laugh
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Check out the statistics,
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take a look at the graph
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On the park bench sits mister and miss
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He's trying to make her his princess
with his wake- up kiss
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Verse 5

People in love, People in love,

People in love

Verse 6
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Oh... You'd think that you could make
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a person be what you want
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But the chances aren't slim,
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the chances are gone
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People ain't people, Streisand sang it
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But the chances aren't slim,
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the chances are fat

Verse 7
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Hey, People in love I wanna yell
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Right now your in Heaven,
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but you'll end up in Hell
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You think that your safe and
that you're home free
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And that love lasts forever,
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that's the big fantasy

Verse 8
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I see people in love and I
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feel sorry for them
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There's petals on the rose,
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there's a thorn on the stem
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Like famine and earthquake,
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love's part of the plan
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Mother Nature's inhuman
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ity towards man
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People in love,

Verse 9

People in love,

People in love

Verse 10
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So you pick up a check and
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you prepare a meal
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Suddenly you're thinking
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that you're somebody's ideal
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You know that you're different,
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but you think you can change
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You wanna be normal,
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but people are strange

Verse 11
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Hey, People in love and it
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makes me sick
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I wanna run up and tell
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'em it's a trap and a trick
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I been through it and I know
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what they're gonna go through
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Not so long ago, I went through it with you
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People in love,