Johnny Flynn

Shore To Shore by Johnny Flynn

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Shore to shore got some land between
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Island life is living through a cup of broken queens
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hit the jackpot rolling through a pipe dream in a knot
  C  
and I'm missing what was pissing up the wall that I forgot
     G 
I forgot
      F 
I forgot


C

C
I am the masked rider, give me some grace
C
You've never seen me and you don't know my face
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She was no [Incomprehensible] it was cold, it was blue
 C  
And it only happened despite me or you
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Me or you, me or you
C
Smoking paper to the crimson flashing bars
C
Drinking cocktail wine or cottage cream and passing strangers' cars
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Live in one room housing with a roof to meet the sky
  C  
Spelling Jesus won't you please us 'cos you seem a damn nice guy
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Damn nice guy, damn nice guy


C
We listened to passengers stamping old songs
C
And we lose what's to lose when you haven't done wrong
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Drums too slow for a funeral beat
  C  
No strumming of strings and no stamping of feet
F 
Of feet, of feet


C
It's awfully considerate of you to think of me
C
And it's not so hard to see you smoking fags and drinking tea
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It's the crummy lost at seasick with a floating on the waves
  C  
To join the other flotsam with the ripped up queens and knaves
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Queens and knaves, queens and knaves



C
There lies a lady, she's gone and she's gone
C
She'll be a fine lady before too long
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But I hit her head and she finished her walking
  C  
She shouldn't be dead, she was too busy talking
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Busy talking, busy talking


C
They can fill a cup or two and still disturb the peace
C
It's never made it all the way from shore to shore, from west to east
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I read that independence was a lightness in your step
  C  
You walked away, I felt so heavy at the start of every day
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Every day, every day


C
I've been waiting an hour and the bus hasn't come
C
I've been cursing my God for the lack of the sun
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I've been ruined by destiny, lowered by fate
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And the upshot of this is I'm going to be late
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