Spent Gladiator 2 chords by The Mountain Goats
Intro 1
Dm
Am
Dm
Am
Verse 1
C
Em
F
Like a spent gladiator,
E
Am
C
Crawling in the Colosseum dust,
Em
E
F
E
Who can count on his remaining limbs,
Am
All the people he can trust.
E
F
Like the one who stands behind him,
E
Am
Cheering him on.
E
F
E
Ecstatic when he stands defiant,
Am
Dm
Am
Wild with abandon when he's gone.
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Verse 2
F
C
Just stay alive.
Keep your eyes on the
G
pay line.
A
Am
Verse 3
C
Em
F
E
Like a vil lage on the steppe,
Am
About to get collectivized.
C
Em
When the men emerge with rifles
F
E
Am
from the haystack,
A
Am
Everybody looks surprised.
C
Em
F
E
Like the mice in the forgotten grain,
Am
A
Way up on the top shelf.
Am
Like someone who's found
E
F
E
a small town to escape to,
Am
A
Keeps one eye on his abandoned,
Am
former self.
Verse 4
F
Stay in the game.
C
G
Dm
Just try to play through the pain.
F
Like a fighter who's been told it's
Em
C
finally time for him to quit.
F
Am
Show up in shining colors,
E
And then stand there and get hit.
Interlude 1
Dm
Am
G
Am
Dm
D
Dm
Am
F
Like the clock that ticks in Dresden,
Verse 5
E
Am
When the whole town's
A
Am
been destroyed.
E
F
E
Like the nagging flash of insight,
Am
You're always desperate to avoid.
C
Em
F
E
Like the bloody- knuckled gunman,
A
Am
Still stationed at the breach.
C
Em
F
Like that board game with the sliders,
E
A
Am
And the children on
A
Am
the beach.
Verse 6
F
Stay alive.
C
G
Maybe spit some blood at the camera.
F
Just stay alive.
C
F
C
Stay forever alive.
G
Am
Spent Gladiator 2
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