The Gap chords by Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
 (E minor) Wake up
G 
Em 
G 
in a strange  (G major) land  (E minor)  (G major) 
Em 
G 
E 
Em 
 (E minor) One of forty thieves  (G major)  (E major)  (E minor) 
G 
Em 
G 
And I see for the first time  (G major)  (E minor)  (G major) 
Em 
G 
E 
Em 
 (E minor) Just what you believe  (G major)  (E major)  (E minor) 

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Verse 2

I go down to the market

There I can buy or sell

And listen to the chanting

And all the lies the wise ones tell

They say

Verse 3
Em 
 (E minor) 
G 
Em 
East is east, west is west  (G major)  (E minor) ooh
Am 
Two  (A minor) diff'rent colors on the map
E 
Em 
 (E major) We  (E minor) say break the line,
G 
Em 
chew the fat  (G major)  (E minor) 
G 
E 
Em 
Keep moving out  (G major) into the gap  (E major)  (E minor) 

Verse 4
Em 
G 
Em 
G 
 (E minor) Beggars in the back  (G major) streets  (E minor)  (G major) 
Em 
E 
G 
Em 
E 
 (E minor) There for all the  (E major) world  (G major) to leave  (E minor)  (E major) 
Em 
 (E minor) It's you that's begging
G 
Em 
G 
for at (G major) tention  (E minor)  (G major) 
Em 
G 
E 
Em 
 (E minor) Well it's all the same  (G major) to me  (E major)  (E minor) 

Verse 5
Em 
G 
Em 
G 
And I  (E minor) won't ask per (G major) mission  (E minor)  (G major) 
Em 
 (E minor) Not from teachers or from
G 
E 
Em 
kings  (G major)  (E major)  (E minor) 
G 
Em 
'Cause I can see for my (G major) self  (E minor) 
G 
Am 
Em 
E 
 (G major) All  (A minor) the pain  (E minor) that you will bring  (E major) 
Em 
 (E minor) And you say

Verse 6
Em 
 (E minor) 
G 
Am 
East is east, west is west  (G major)  (A minor) ooh
E 
Em 
Two diff'rent rhythms to the rap  (E major)  (E minor) 
We say break the line, chew the fat
G 
Em 
E 
Keep moving out  (G major) in (E minor) to  the gap  (E major) 
Em 
Hey Oo (E minor) h

Verse 7
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
East
Ooh
West
Ooh
E 
Em 
East  (E major)  (E minor) 
Ooh
Bm 
West  (B minor) 
Ooh
Em 
 (E minor) East
Ooh
West
Ooh
East
Ooh
West
Ooh
East
Ooh
West
Ooh
East
Ooh
West
E 
Em 
E 
Em 
 (E major)  (E minor)  (E major)  (E minor) 

Verse 8

East is east, west is west

Two diff'rent colors on the map

We say break the line, chew the fat

Keep moving out into the gap

Verse 9
Em 
 (E minor) Can you smell the perfume
E 
Em 
Of a hundred thousand years?  (E major)  (E minor) 
G 
Dare you look into the eye (G major) s
Em 
G 
Em 
E 
That  (E minor) hide a hundred million  (G major) tears?  (E minor)  (E major) 
Em 
But there's  (E minor) no need

Verse 10
Em 
 (E minor) to
G 
Em 
be so  (G major) frightene (E minor) d
Of all the figures in the night
G 
Em 
E 
Em 
 (G major)  (E minor)  (E major)  (E minor) 
'Cause we share the same emotions
G 
Em 
 (G major) And no  (E minor) one's wrong
G 
E 
and no one's  (G major) right  (E major) 
Em 
 (E minor) 'Cause they say

Verse 11
Em 
 (E minor) 
G 
Am 
East is east, west is west  (G major)  (A minor) ooh
E 
Two diff'rent colors on the map  (E major) 
Em 
E 
G 
Am 
 (E minor) We say break the line, chew  (E major) the fat  (G major)  (A minor) 
Em 
D 
G 
Am 
E 
Em 
 (E minor) Keep  (D major) moving out  (G major) in (A minor) to  the gap  (E major)  (E minor) 

Verse 12
Em 
They say  (E minor) 
G 
Em 
G 
Em 
East is east,  (G major)  (E minor) west is west  (G major)  (E minor) ooh
Am 
E 
Em 
 (A minor) Two diff'rent colors on the map  (E major)  (E minor) 
We say break the line,
G 
Em 
chew the fat  (G major)  (E minor) 
G 
Em 
E 
Keep moving out  (G major) in (E minor) to  the gap  (E major) 
Em 
 (E minor) They say

Verse 13
Em 
 (E minor) 
East is east, west is west ooh
E 
Two diff'rent rhythms  (E major) to the rap
Em 
We say break  (E minor) the line, chew the fat
Keep moving out into the gap