true to life chords by Uncle Tupelo

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
D 
C 
I can only sing it loud
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Always try to sing it clear
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D 
What the hell are we
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D 
all doing here
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D 
Making too much of nothing
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D 
Or creating one unholy mess
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D 
C 
D 
An un fair study in survival, I guess

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Verse 2
Em 
C 
But it always comes down to
G 
D 
What to do when it's all around you
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D 
And this tightwire act
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G 
Leaving us here for dead
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to news of the world
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D 
And liquor piles up ahead
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D 
C 
Dodging those with words of power
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Forever on their breath
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D 
When the quality of life gets
Am 
C 
tripped upstrangled like death
D 
C 
It seems it's getting harder out thereespecially without
Am 
time enough to see

Interlude 1

Verse 3
G 
D 
C 
D 
G 
True to life is another hangover
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C 
D 
G 
True to life is more and more politics
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C 
D 
G 
True to life is always having to look over your
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C 
shouldertrue to life is assembly-line sickness
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sickness

Verse 4

But it always comes down to

What to do when it's all around you

Verse 5
G 
D 
And this tightwire actleaving us
C 
G 
D 
here for dead to news of the world
C 
D 
And liquor piles up ahead
G 
D 
C 
Dodging those with words of power
D 
Forever on their breath
G 
D 
When the quality of life gets
Am 
C 
tripped upand strangled like death
D 
C 
It seems it's getting harder out thereespecially without
Am 
time enough to see