Sword Of Damocles - Externally chords by Lou Reed

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I see  (E minor) the sword of Damocles
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is  (C major) right above your head.  (G major) 
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They're  (E minor) trying a new treatment
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to  (C major) get you out of bed.  (G major) 
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But radiation  (E minor) kills both bad and good,
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it cannot  (C major) differentiate.  (G major) 
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So to  (E minor) cure you, they must kill you.
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The  (C major) sword a Dan McLeese
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hangs above  (G major) your head.
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Now  (E minor) I've seen lots of people
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die from car  (C major) crashes or drugs.  (G major) 
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Last  (E minor) night on 33rd street
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I saw a kid  (C major) get hit by a bus  (G major) 
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But this drawn out  (E minor) torture
over which part of you lives
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is  (C major) very hard to take  (G major) 
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To  (E minor) do  you they must kill you
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The  (C major) sod of Damocles above your
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head  (G major)  (E minor)  (C major) 
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That mix of  (E minor) morphine and dexedrine,
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we  (C major) use it on the street  (G major) 
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It kills the  (E minor) pain and keeps you up,
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your  (C major) very soul to keep  (G major) 
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But this guessing  (E minor) game has its own rules,
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the  (C major) good don't always win  (G major) 
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And  (E minor) might makes right,
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the sword of  (C major) Damocles
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is hanging above your head  (G major) 
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It seems everything's  (E minor) done
that must be done
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from over  (C major) here,
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though things don't seem fair.  (G major) 
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But there are thing (E minor) s that
we can't know,
maybe there's something
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 (C major) over there.  (G major) 
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Some other world  (E minor) that we don't know about,
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I  (C major) know you hate that mystic shit.  (G major) 
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It's just another  (E minor) way of seeing
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the  (C major) sort of damage
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that gleans above your head.  (G major) 
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you
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