Key: Am
Introduction: Am
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Well, grey clouds wrapped round the town like elastic
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Cars stood like toys made of Taiwanese plastic
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F7M
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The boy laughed at the spastic dancing around in the rain
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F7M
While laundrettes cleaned clothes, high heels rub toes
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Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows
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F7M
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Dressed in their suits and their boots, well they all look the same
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I took myself down to the cafe to find all
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the boys lost in books and crackling vinyl
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And carved out a poem above the urinal that read
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Don't you cry for the lost, smile for the living
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Get what you need and give what you're given
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Life's for the living so live it
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Or you're better off dead
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Dm
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G4
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F7M
While the evening pulled the moon out of its packet
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Stars shone like buttons on an old man's jacket
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F7M
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G4
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We needed a nail but we tacked it till it fell off the wall
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F7M
While pigeons pecked drains, sparks flew like planes
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The rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains
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F7M
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And we all had new iPhones but no one had no one to call
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And I stumbled down to the stomach of the town
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Where the widow takes memories to slowly drown
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With a hand to the sky and a mist in her eye she said
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Don't you cry for the lost, smile for the living
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Am
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Get what you need and give what you're given
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Life's for the living so live it
Am
Or you're better off dead
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) Em
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Em
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G4
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F7M
Well, I'm sick of this town, this blind man's forage
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They take your dreams down and stick them in storage
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F7M
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G4
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You can have them back son when you've paid off your mortgage and loans
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F7M
Yeah, hell with this place, I'll go it my own way
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I'll stick out my thumb and I trudge down the highway
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F7M
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Someday someone must be going my way home
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Till then I'll make my bed from a disused car
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With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars
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And I'll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread
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Don't you cry for the lost, smile for the living
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C/B
Am
G
Get what you need and give what you're given
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G
You know life's for the living so live it
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C7
Or you're better off dead
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Don't you cry for the lost
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Smile for the living
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C/B
Am
G
Get what you need and give what you're given
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G
You know, life is for the living so live it
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