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Well grey clouds wraped round the town like elastic
G C Em7
Cars stood like toys made of Taiwanese plastic
Am F7M G G4 G
The boy laughed at the spastic dancing around in the rain
Am F7M
While laundrettes cleaned clothes, high heals rub toes
G C Em7
Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows
Am F7M
Dressed in their suits and their boots well they all
G G4 G
look the same
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I took myself down to the cafe to find all the boys lost in books
Am G
and crackling vinyl
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And carved out a poem above the urinal that read
F
Don't you cry for the lost
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Smile for the living
C Em7 Am G
Get what you need and give what you're given
F G
Life's for the living so live it
Am
Or you're better off dead
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Am F7M
While the evening pulled the moon out of it's packet
G C Em7
Stars shone like buttons on an old man's jacket
Am F7M G G4 G
We needed a nail but we tacked it 'til it fell of the wall
Am F7M
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 no one had no one to call
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And I stumbled down to the stomach of the town
C Em7 Am G
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
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Smile for the living
C Em7 Am G
Get what you need and give what you're given
F G
Life's for the living so live it
Am
Or you're better off dead
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Am 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
Am F7M
You can have them back son when you've paid off
G G4 G
your mortgage and loans
Am F7M
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
C Em7 Am G
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
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Smile for the living
C Em7 Am G
Get what you need and give what you're given
F G
You know life's for the living so live it
C C7 C C7
Or you're better off dead
F
Don't you cry for the lost
G
Smile for the living
C Em7 Am G
Get what you need and give what you're given
F G
Life's for the living so live it
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Or you're better off dead
