Intro: Ebm  Abm  Gb  Db  Gb  Bbm7  Ebm  Abm  Gb  Db  Ab  Db

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Well grey clouds wraped 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 
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dancing around in the rain
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While laundrettes cleaned clothes, high heals rub toes
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Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows
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Dressed in their suits and their 
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boots well they all look the same
 

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I took myself down to the cafe to find all the 
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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
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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
                      Ebm
Or you're better off dead


Interlude: Abm  Gb  Db  Gb  Bbm7  Ebm  Abm  Gb  Db  Ab  Db


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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 
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it fell of the wall
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While pigeon's pecked trains, sparks flew like planes
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The rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains
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And we all had new iPhones but 
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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
            B         
Don't you cry for the lost
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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
 

Interlude: Bbm  B  Gb  Bbm7  Ebm  Bbm  Db  Ab  Db


          Ebm                       Bmaj7
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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You can have them back son when you've 
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paid off your mortgage and loans
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Oh 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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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
            B         
Don't you cry for the lost
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Smile for the living
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Get what you need and give what you're given
          B                        Db
You know life's for the living so live it
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Or you're better off dead
 

            B      
Don't you cry for the lost
  Db    
Smile for the living
 Gb           Bbm7       Ebm               Db
Get what you need and give what you're given
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Life's for the living so live it
                             
Or you're better off dead