Shore to Shore chords by Johnny Flynn
Verse 1
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Shore to shore,
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got some land between
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Island life is living from a cup
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of broken queens
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Hit the jackpot rolling through
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a pipe dream in a knot
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And I'm missing what was pissing
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up the wall that I forgot
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I forgot, I forgot
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Verse 2
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I am the bus driver,
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give me some grace
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You've never seen me and
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you don't know my face
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She was no Hattie Carroll it was cold,
it was blue
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And it only happened
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despite me or you
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Me or you, me or you
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Verse 3
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Smoking paper to the crim
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son flashing bars
Drinking cocktail wine or cottage cream
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and passing strangers' cars
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Live in one room housing with a
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roof to meet the sky
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Spelling Jesus won't you please us
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'cos you seem a damn nice guy
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Damn nice guy, damn nice guy
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Verse 4
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We listened to passengers
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stamping old songs
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And we lose what's to lose when
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you haven't done wrong
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Drums too slow for a funeral beat
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No strumming of strings
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and no stamping of feet
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Of feet, of feet
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Verse 5
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It's awfully considerate
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of you to think of me
And it's not so hard to see you smoking
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fags and drinking tea
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It's the crummy lost at seasick
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with a floating on the waves
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To join the other flotsam with the ripped
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up queens and knaves
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Queens and knaves,
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queens and knaves
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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There lies a lady,
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she's gone and she's gone
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She'll be a fine lady before too long
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But I hit her head and
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she finished her walking
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She shouldn't be dead,
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she was too busy talking
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Busy talking, busy talking
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Verse 7
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They can fill a cup or two
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and still disturb the peace
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It's never made it all the way from shore to shore,
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from west to east
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I read that independence was
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a lightness in your step
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You walked away,
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I felt so heavy at the start of every day
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Every day, every day
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Verse 8
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I've been waiting an hour and
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the bus hasn't come
I've been cursing my God
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for the lack of the sun
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I've been ruined by destiny,
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lowered by fate
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And the upshot of this is
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I'm going to be late
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To be late, to be late
Outro 1
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Shore to Shore
Johnny Flynn
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