Sword Of Damocles - Externally chords by
Lou Reed

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Intro 1
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Gm Gm 3
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C C 
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Gm Gm 3
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Gm Gm 3
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C C 
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Gm Gm 3
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G G 
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C C 
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Verse 1
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I see the sword of Damocles
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is right above your head.
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They're trying a new treatment
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to get you out of bed.
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But radiation kills both bad and good,
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it cannot differentiate.
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So to cure you, they must kill you.
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The sword a Dan McLeese
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hangs above your head.
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G G 
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Now I've seen lots of people
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die from car crashes or drugs.
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Last night on 33rd street
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I saw a kid get hit by a bus
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But this drawn out torture
over which part of you lives
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is very hard to take
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To do  you they must kill you
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The sod of Damocles above your
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C C 
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head
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That mix of morphine and dexedrine,
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we use it on the street
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It kills the pain and keeps you up,
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your very soul to keep
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But this guessing game has its own rules,
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the good don't always win
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And might makes right,
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the sword of Damocles
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is hanging above your head
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It seems everything's done
that must be done
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from over here,
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though things don't seem fair.
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But there are things that
we can't know,
maybe there's something
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over there.
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Some other world that we don't know about,
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I know you hate that mystic shit.
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It's just another way of seeing
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the sort of damage
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that gleans above your head.
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you
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