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CAPO ON 3RD FRET Intro: D D/A D/F# D G A A/E (If you pluck the bottom note of each chord and then the top three strings, it sounds like how Frank plays the intro) D D/A D/F# D Well a teacher of mine once told me that life was just a list of G A A/E disappointments and defeats and you could only do your best, D D/A D/F# And I said "Well, that's a fucking cop-out, you're just washed up and you're D G A tired, and when I get to your age, well, I won't be such a coward" Em G Bm But these days I sit at home, known to shout at my TV and Punk Rock didn't A live up to what I hoped that it could be Em G And all the things that I believed with all my heart when I was young are Bm A just coasters for beers and clean surfaces for drugs G Em G A D And I packed all my pamphlets with my bibles at the back of the shelf D/A D/F# D G A A/E D Well it was bad enough the feeling, and the first time it hit, when you G A A/E realised your parents had let the world all go to shit D D/A D/F# D And that the values and ideals for which many had fought and died had been G A A/E killed off in the committees and left to die by the wayside. Em G Bm But it was worse when we turned to the kids on the left and got let down A again by some poor excuse for protest Em G Bm Yeah by idiot fucking hippies in 50 different factions, who are locked A inside some kind of 60's battle re-enactment G Em G A G A And I hung-up my banner in disgust and I head for the door [ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/f/frank-turner/323618.html ] D A Bm G Oh but once we were young, and we were crass enough to care Em A Em A But I guess you live and learn, we won't make that mistake again, no D A Bm G Oh but surely just for one day, we could fight and we could win Em A Em A And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible Bm A Well we've been a good few hours drinking, so I'm going to say what everyone's thinking G D Em A If we're stuck on this ship and it's sinking, then we might as well have a D parade Bm A Cos if it's still going to hurt in the morning and a better plan's yet to get forming G D Em A G A Then where's the harm spending an evening, in manning the old barricades D G A So come on old friends to the streets let's be 1905 but not 1917 D G Let's be heroes, let's be martyrs, let's be radical thinkers who never have A to test drive the least of their dreams. Em G Bm Let's divide up the world into the damned and safe and then ride to the A valleys like the old life brigade Em G Bm And straighten our backs and we won't be afraid and they'll celebrate our A deaths with a national parade D A Bm G So come on let's be young, let's be crass enough to care Em A Em A Let's refuse to live and learn, let's make all our mistakes again yes D A Bm G And then darling, just for one day, we can fight and we can win Em A Em A And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible D G Leave the mourning the to the morning, yes pain can be killed with aspirin A tablets and vitamin pills. D G A D But memories of hope, and glorious defeat are a little bit harder to beat |