The Icing On The World chords by Cardiacs

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

♫ Intro:

DbDb


♫ Verse 1:
DbDb         FF      DbDb     G+G     DbDb
When is it good or not good to perceive a petrifying life
DbDb  FF     DbDb       G+G       A augmentedA
Or to solving a problem that's here tomorrow, gone today
DmDm       G+G       FF          G+G    DmDm
"I am a worthy subject," says one person catching somebody out
DmDm        G+G     FF          G+G    FF
"And I'm tired of all that I am doing now," says somebody else

♫ Refrain:
FF DbDb AbAb C majorC C
E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE

♫ Verse 2:
DbDb         FF      DbDb    G+G         DbDb
Not to reason why, ours is but to do and die, says you says I
DbDb    FF      DbDb       G+G      A augmentedA
Yes, it's starting to show, but it's already pie in the sky
DmDm      G+G     FF        G+G    DmDm
No reason if adapted for ordinary use in everyday lives
DmDm           G+G      FF          G+G     FF
There's a clause that's not written down, we assume it's just a disguise

♫ Chorus:
DbDb      BB      A augmentedA          G+G     Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb E MajorE E D MajorD
Look
I know everything, knowledge forms the best of me
DbDb          A augmentedA                BB
After all I've done, don't blame me, no, not all the time
   Bb majorBb    A minorAm   D MajorD   D MajorD D C majorC Bb majorBb Bb
I put the icing on the world

♫ Verse 3:
DbDb           FF     DbDb      G+G         DbDb
Something is wrong, so how is it now? Is there something on your mind?
DbDb     FF     DbDb     G+G          A augmentedA
Or are your problems deleting the course that was set in your mind?
DmDm           G+G      FF          G+G      DmDm
Now we are calm, don't tell me you are living now what you lived before
DmDm        G+G     FF        G+G      FF
There's a will in everyone's mind to exude an air of some kind

♫ Refrain:
FF DbDb AbAb C majorC C
E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE

♫ Verse 4:
DbDb             FF      DbDb       G+G        DbDb
Think back some years, the age of ten, that's not you, that was someone else
DbDb    FF        DbDb     G+G       A augmentedA
Different thoughts and surroundings, just memories exist today
DmDm         G+G      FF        G+G     DmDm
When is it good? Tomorrow? The day after? Is living but a farce?
DmDm         G+G     FF             G+G       FF
There must be truth in what I say seeing as how the sun shines out my arse

♫ Chorus:
DbDb       BB     A augmentedA        G+G   Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb E MajorE E D MajorD
Dull seems the evergreen style of all our unity
DbDb          A augmentedA               BB      Bb majorBb
And over the fence an old mother's sympathy makes a spectacle of life
Bb majorBb     A minorAm   D MajorD  D MajorD D C majorC
All for the sake of love

♫ Interlude:
Bb majorBb Bb AbAb GbGb (x2)

♫ Chorus:
DbDb      BB      A augmentedA          G+G     Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb E MajorE E D MajorD
Look
I know everything, knowledge forms the best of me
DbDb          A augmentedA                BB
After all I've done, don't blame me, no, not all the time
   Bb majorBb    A minorAm   D MajorD   D MajorD D C majorC Bb majorBb AbAb
I put the icing on the world

♫ Chorus:
DbDb      BB      A augmentedA          G+G     Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb E MajorE E D MajorD
Look
I know everything, knowledge forms the best of me
DbDb          A augmentedA                BB
After all I've done, don't blame me, no, not all the time
   Bb majorBb    A minorAm   D MajorD
I put the icing on the world