Why Write A Letter That You'll Never Send tab by The Drones

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[Verse 1]
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We don't write letters any more
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there ain't the time or place
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but a friend mine wrote something like
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a letter yesterday
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It was smuggled through my inbox
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just this morning, 3am
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more impotent than important
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but let me read it now, verbatim
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He say's "I got that same old feeling
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the one that turns the birds to brutes
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the sky is like a bad dream
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and the Earth is in cahoots
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I don't believe no one no more
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I don't care what no one say's
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I just wanna make the world
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a much less painful place
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We look fonder on the good old days
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as they drift further away
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but why if everyone feels so homesick
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are they always setting sail?
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'Cause it's all bad news up there on deck
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and each headland masks the next
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I'd just as soon dive in the ocean
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and forego the blood and sweat
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Forego all aspirations
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they just put everyone at odds
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if idle hands are the devil's work
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then where's the time for God's?

[Prechorus]
D MajorD                   C majorC     E MajorE
And why write a letter that you'll never send away

[Chorus]
        G# minorG#m  F# minorF#m   E MajorE   F# minorF#m
Why won't you stay with me, wait and see
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all you need know
E MajorE              D MajorD  Dsus2Dsus2 D MajorD D7D7  G# minorG#m
nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark
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stay with me, wait you'll see
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all you need know
E MajorE                D MajorD   Dsus2Dsus2 D MajorD D7D7 F# minorF#m
everybody's hurting and their needs are always stark
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stay with me
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stay (with me)
Dsus2Dsus2

[Verse 2]
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And who cares about wars of choice in lands
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where states indulge their passions
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and all the new shoots just jackbootscoot
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all dissent out of fashion
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Like Fred Astaires' at a film premier
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that is all about them
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it's stirring stuff, transformative
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they don't care where they're sent
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They're all kiss chasing childish
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dreams of privileged masculinity
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'till they're spent by shock and discharged
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home to small town and big city
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The rest are the type left dying or dead
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from trying to be useful
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they've been handy in the years gone by
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and they'll be handy in the future
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And who cares for their survival
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and who cares about the Yanks
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who cares if they get overrun
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by Chinese nukes and tanks
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Who cares about the holocaust
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man we didn't learn nothing there
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and all it's memory does is
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keep the History Channel on air
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Who cares about the Vatican
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man everybody knows
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and who's surprised they went and
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chose a nazi for a pope?
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Who cares about fakes like anarchists
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man they never want to dance
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let's mambo Mogadishu
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give anarchy a chance
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I'm saying life is cruel, you know it's true
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but all sides still try and recruit you
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for shangri-las as practical
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as doing the karma sutra

[Prechorus]
D MajorD       C majorC               E MajorE
why write a letter that you'll never send away

[Chorus]
        G# minorG#m F# minorF#m   E MajorE    F# minorF#m
why won't you stay with me, wait and see
D MajorD
all you need know
E MajorE              D MajorD  Dsus2Dsus2 D MajorD  D7D7 F# minorF#m
nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark
     A augmentedA   D MajorD   F# minorF#m
stay with me, wait you'll see
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all you need know
E MajorE              D MajorD   Dsus2Dsus2 D MajorD   D7D7 F# minorF#m
everybody skirts the fact their needs are always stark
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stay with me
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[Verse 3]
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And who cares if the starving millions
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know if it's christmas or your birthday
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or what movie stars in Africa
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or the guy from U2 says
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Or all the statesmen never telling
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lies as truth or gospel
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who cares what's true or false
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the truth's the world won't go to hospital
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But who needs to live forever
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who needs the extra miles
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we won't need bees or seed banks
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in the Arctic for a while
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We play the game to start again
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not to better life for all
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it's the appropriate opiate
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when a better way's impossible
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Some honesty now wouldn't go astray
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if not, then what's the use?
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we're animals, we can't help doing
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what all animals do
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So goodbye my friend, i'm hitting send
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forgive me talking straight
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I'm only trying to make the world
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a much less painful place

[Outro]
D MajorD                  C majorC     E MajorE
And why write a letter that you'll never send away?
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away
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away
E minorEm
away
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away