The Icing On The World chords by Cardiacs

• Difficulty: Intermediate

♫ Intro:

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

♫ Refrain:
F Db Ab C C
E E E E E E E

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

♫ Chorus:
Db      B      A          G     Eb Bb Eb E E D
Look
I know everything, knowledge forms the best of me
Db          A                B
After all I've done, don't blame me, no, not all the time
   Bb    Am   D   D D C Bb Bb
I put the icing on the world

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

♫ Refrain:
F Db Ab C C
E E E E E E E

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

♫ Chorus:
Db       B     A        G   Eb Bb Eb E E D
Dull seems the evergreen style of all our unity
Db          A               B      Bb
And over the fence an old mother's sympathy makes a spectacle of life
Bb     Am   D  D D C
All for the sake of love

♫ Interlude:
Bb Bb Ab Gb (x2)

♫ Chorus:
Db      B      A          G     Eb Bb Eb E E D
Look
I know everything, knowledge forms the best of me
Db          A                B
After all I've done, don't blame me, no, not all the time
   Bb    Am   D   D D C Bb Ab
I put the icing on the world

♫ Chorus:
Db      B      A          G     Eb Bb Eb E E D
Look
I know everything, knowledge forms the best of me
Db          A                B
After all I've done, don't blame me, no, not all the time
   Bb    Am   D
I put the icing on the world