Light Up Your Candles chords by Graham Coxon

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
| C# minorC#m | C# minorC#m | x4:

Verse:
C# minorC#m           A augmentedA             G#G#
Well I know you say now  "very well done, me old son"
G+G    F#F#          G+G    F#F#    C# minorC#m
But it's hard you know, every day is a dark dark one
C# minorC#m            A augmentedA            G#G#
'Cos my old friend's here,  tug tug tugging at my sleeve
G+G      F#F#             G+G   F#F#   BbmBbm
You know he tugs so hard that he could almost make me leave

Chorus:
BbmBbm          GbGb          FF  E MajorE
Light up your candles,   into the dark we go
EbmEbm         E MajorE   EbmEbm
To be a good man is all I want you know
EbmEbm        G#G#        C# minorC#m
Light up your candles, 'cos here we go

Interlude:
| C# minorC#m | C# minorC#m |

Verse:
C# minorC#m             A augmentedA              G#G#
It's a schlep this old life,  just one slip and you are gone
G+G  F#F#      G+G     F#F#    C# minorC#m
  Back into the void where you came from
C# minorC#m             A augmentedA              G#G#
You can't light your own way  through this dark unholy place
G+G    F#F#       G+G   F#F#  BbmBbm
  With just one candle and a happy face

Chorus:
BbmBbm        GbGb               FF   E MajorE
So light it up now,  fill the darkness with your grace
EbmEbm         E MajorE   EbmEbm
With just one candle and a happy face
EbmEbm       G#G#       C# minorC#m
Light it up now,  your happy face
C# minorC#m  F#F#    FF  E MajorE     EbmEbm
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
EbmEbm       G#G#       C# minorC#m
Light it up now,  your happy face

Interlude:
| C# minorC#m | C# minorC#m |

Solo:
| C# minorC#m | C# minorC#m | A augmentedA | A augmentedA | G#G# | G#G# G+G | F#F# | G+G F#F# | x2:

Verse:
C# minorC#m          A augmentedA                 G#G#
It's too easy somehow,  just grit your teeth and let it go
G+G  F#F#       G+G    F#F#     C# minorC#m
  Last seduction, total destruction
C# minorC#m           A augmentedA               G#G#
So what you gonna do now  with the good life you have found
G+G  F#F#              G+G    F#F#   BbmBbm
  Grin and bear it 'til you're six feet in the ground?

Chorus:
BbmBbm          GbGb          FF  E MajorE
Light up your candles,   into the dark we go
EbmEbm         E MajorE   EbmEbm
To be a good man is all I want you know
EbmEbm        G#G#        C# minorC#m
Light up your candles, 'cos here we go
C# minorC#m F#F#  FF E MajorE EbmEbm
Oh, oh oh oh oh oh
EbmEbm     G#G#        C# minorC#m
Light it up now, 'cos here we go

Outro:
| C# minorC#m | C# minorC#m | x3: