Things Ive Been Telling Myself For Years chords by Elbow

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:


: A#m  F#  Cm  Fm  A#m :

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 Things I've been telling myself for years

🎸 Verse:
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I can read people, yeah
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  Blushing peccadillos, twisted bents, and buried fears
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 Things I've been telling myself for years
A#m
I'm the dashboard hula girl of nodding self-deception
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Here's to never accepting slight adjustment or correction
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Here's to a doting mother's voice assisting me in every choice
          A#m
Saying, "Chorister, binman, or barrister? So lucky, son, to have you"
 A#m
Here's to walking in evеry room like ascending for an Oscar
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Kissing hands and shaking babies, Blackpool rock impostеr
   Cm
A# cannon loosed, a golden goose
   Fm
Leo Sayer of the unsaid sooths
     A#m
I'll fix you with a cosmic stare
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I'll fix your life, go fix your hair, I dare you

🎸 Interlude:

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🎸 Verse 2:
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Of course, I'll live to ninety-six and fix the welfare state
      F#
I'll build a house with these two hands, my face above the gate
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I haven't paid for cabs or beers or met a cunt in twenty years
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Like all that outrun poverty, all I have was coming to me

🎸 Outro:
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Things I've been telling myself for years, Ohhhh
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All of these things I've been telling myself for years
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Things I've been telling myself for years