Key: D major
Intro 1
E
F#m
A
E
B
E
F#m
A
E
Verse 1
E
Sittin' in a
A
cafe watchin' girls walk by
B
Watchin' the sun break through
C#m
the cloudy autumn sky
B
E
I can't think of anything,
A
B
C#m
no power or design except to lie inside your loving arms one more time
F#m
She said if we could live in paradise,
C#m
oh wouldn't that be nice
F#m
G#m
But the name of the game is sacrifice,
C#m
B
sacrifice
E
F#m
A
E
A
Drink a cup of coffee, buy a loaf of bread,
B
C#m
B
Try to do a little work to nullify my head.
E
All I can accomplish is an
A
other grain of sand,
B
All washed away by a
C#m
wave of fate's hand.
F#m
But I try not to exaggerate
C#m
the pain of my life
F#m
G#m
Because the name of the game is sacrifice,
sacrifice
C#m
B
E
F#m
A
E
F#m
A
E
F#m
Timmy was a petty thief,
C#m
F#m
shot by the police he came to in
Las
C#m
Vegas in a penthouse suite
F#m
He had a magic butler,
C#m
gave him all that he desired
F#m
A feast of wine and women till
G#
his pas sions were expired
C#m
He couldn't understand
G#m
why a crook like him
C#m
Had died and gone to heaven
G#m
when his life was full of sin
C#m
And when he shot pool and
G#m
every ball quickly fell
F#m
he saw his butler was the devil,
G#
E
F#m
A
E
F#m
his penthouse was in hell.
A
E
A
Life goes round like a washing machine,
B
Maybe to live it's getting dirty,
C#m
to die it's getting clean
B
E
To win a war is just impossible,
A
the battle never ends
B
Life and death and birth and love,
C#m
just feel all that you can
F#m
And in the land of
C#m
China, everybody's eating rice and tea
F#m
And as men square,
G#m
C#m
it's just another sacrifice
F#m
G#m
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice,
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sac rifice
F#m
G#m
Sacrifice,
C#m
F#m
Sacrifice
G#m
Sac rifice,
C#m
Sacrifice
Outro 1
C#m
B
E
F#m
A
E
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