Lifes For The Living

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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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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The boy laughed at the spastic dancing around in the rain
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 While laundrettes cleaned clothes,
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high heels rub toes
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Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows
Am
Dressed in their suits and their boots
F
 Well they all look the same

[Chorus]
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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
C C7             Fmaj7
    Don't you cry     for the lost
G
Smile for the living
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Get what you need and give what you're given
Fmaj7                         G
Life's for the living so live it
Or you're better off dead

[Pre-Verse]
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[Verse 2]
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While the evening pulled the moon out of it's packet
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Stars shone like buttons on an old man's jacket
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We needed a nail but we tacked it 'til it fell of the wall
G      Am
 While pigeon's pecked trains,
F
sparks flew like planes
    G                               C         Em7
The rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains
       Am                       F                    G
And we all had new iPhone's but no one had no one to call

[Chorus]
    Fmaj7                     G
And I    stumbled down to the stomach of the town
          C           Em7         Am          G
Where the widow takes memories to slowly drown
           Fmaj7                 G
With a hand     to the sky and a mist in her eye she said
C C7             Fmaj7
    Don't you cry     for the lost
G
Smile for the living
C                G         Am               G
Get what you need and give what you're given
Fmaj7                         G
Life's for the living so live it
Or you're better off dead

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Well I'm sick of this town,
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this blind man's forage
     G                          C               Em7
They take your dreams down and stick them in storage
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You can have them back son when you've paid off
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Your mortgage and loans
   Am
Oh hell with this place,
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I'll go it my own way
     G                        C                  Em7
I'll stick out my thumb and I trudge down the highway
Am                      F            G
Someday someone must be going my way home

[Chorus]
          Fmaj7                     G
Till then I'll make my bed from a disused car
       C           Em7              Am          G
With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars
         Fmaj7                         G
And I'll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and
thread
C C7             Fmaj7
    Don't you cry     for the lost
G
Smile for the living
C                G         Am            G
Get what you need and give what you're given
         Fmaj7                         G
You know Life's for the living so live it
Or you're better off dead
C C7             F
    Don't you cry for the lost
G
Smile for the living
C            G        Am                 G
Get what you need and give what you're given
F
Life's for the living so live it
G
 Or you're better off dead