Talk it to death chords by
Del Amitri
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Key: F major
Intro 1
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You have to laugh a lot
Verse 1
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At what we throw away that
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half the Earth's not got
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And who's in charge
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When there's barbed- wire fences
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'round the graveyards?
Verse 2
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And I know it's about time
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We got to the point we've been denying
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Maligning problems of the world is fine
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But I can't keep talking when
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it's running through my mind
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So
Verse 3
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I've got the feeling and you've got the feeling,
I guess
It's on the tips of our tongues,
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it's at the base of our breath
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But though the night is young it
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will grow up before too long
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So say yes before we talk, talk,
Interlude 1
talk it to death
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Beneath the sewers there's stone
Verse 4
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Beneath the stone there's the wa
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ter which we pipe into our homes
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So when the rich mock
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what's below them
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They mock the whiskey and the beer
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and every burgundy they own
Verse 5
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And I know now who's in love with you
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So let's stop the conversation and see
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I don't want you to think or hesitate
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When I declare that who to be me
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So
Verse 6
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I've got the feeling and
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you've got the feeling, I guess
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It's on the tips of our tongues,
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it's at the base of our breath
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But though the night is young it
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will grow up before too long
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F#m
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So say yes before we talk, talk,
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talk it to death
Interlude 2
Before we talk it to death
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Verse 7
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Okay girl, we both know
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Outside this room there's
boardrooms of creeps
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Calling famine kids cannibals
and killing for cameras
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But tonight, it's right
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And forgive me for noticing
you're wearing a dress
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So let's not talk this to death
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Interlude 3
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Verse 8
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Now I'm stuffing coins into a meter
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And I'm cold and I'm bored
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and I've wasted all my food
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My mind is rotting while
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my eyes are glued
To the last few minutes of
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the flickering tube
Verse 9
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And we know things get repeated
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So no one gives themselves away
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We try to disguise our feelings
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But we just talk them all completely away
Verse 10
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So I've got the feeling and you've got the feeling,
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I guess
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F#

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F#
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It's on the tips of our tongues,
it's at the base of our breath
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A

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B

But though the night is young it
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will grow up before too long
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A

B
B

So say yes before we talk, talk,
talk it to death
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Verse 11
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Talk it to death
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Talk it to death
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Mmm, talk it to death
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Talk it to death
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Verse 12
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Talk, talk,
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talk,
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talk
Outro 1
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