The Libertines

Dead For Love

The Libertines


Tom: Em

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                     DEAD FOR LOVE - The Libertines
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Chords used:
Bm: x24432, Bm/Bb: X14321, B: x24442, G: 355433, F#: 244322, F: 133211, D: x00232

Em: 022000, Em7: 020000

I don't know if the name of Bm/Bb is correct, but that's how I play the chord.

I'm not entirely sure of the intro, but here's a try:
    Bm - Bm/Bb - ?
E|----------------13-12---|
B|----------------14-11---|
G|------------------------|
D|------------------------|
A|------------------------|
E|------------------------|

Bm                    G
The only rule to stay alive 
Bm                            G
Just keep breathing you’ll be fine 
Bm                        G
You know she’s pulling up outside 
Bm                              G       F#
The car lights crawl across the curtain
Bm                         G
So put the gun back on the wall
Bm                         G
Take the suitcase from the wardrobe
Bm                        G
There’s a dead man on the floor
               Bm
He’s not going anywhere
                     G     F#
You’re moving to the door

B                      G
And everything he ever did
F#                       B
He only ever did for love
B                      G    
And everything he ever said
F#                        B
Was only ever said for love
                     G
And now, now he lies dead,
F#               B
He’s dead for love
                                 G   F#
His mind’s at ease, he sleeps in peace

Bm                     G
Your reflection in her eyes
Bm                   G
You just don’t recognise
Bm                  G
And soon you’ll realise
Bm                    G     F#
This guy’s not going anywhere
Bm                         G
Now he’s done with you once more
Bm                           G
Race with the shadows to the door
Bm                          G
A guy like this needs to be sure
Bm                         G             F#
No one was there when the devil rode out before

B                      G
And everything he ever did
F#                       B
He only ever did for love
B                      G    
And everything he ever said
F#                        B
He only ever said for love
                     G
And now, now he lies dead,
F#                B
Oh, he’s dead for love
                                 G   F#
His mind’s at ease, he sleeps in peace

Bm                     
And in the shadows you will walk tall
Bm/Bb
And there you’ll stay until you fall
D
And when the final hour arrives
Em
It’s only lovers left alive
Em7
Wretched souls and gangsters’ molls
  B
Beyond the valley of the dolls
    F#          F   F#        F F#
The story they will never tell
F F#    F F#  F F#  F F#  F     ----Not exactly sure how many of this, just hear the song
Because their lips are sealed

B                       G
And everything you ever did
F#                        B
You only ever did for love
B                       G    
And everything you ever said
F#                         B
You only ever said for love
                     G
And now, now he lies dead,
F#               B
He’s dead for love
                                  G   F#
Your mind’s at ease, you sleep in peace       (Repeat last chorus twice)