Chords with lyrics
Capo 4
Intro: C majorC (8 bars)
C majorC
I can't live this way
A minorAm
Breaking all my rules again
E minorEm
Choking on my gin
BB
You push 'til I give in
C majorC
'Til the loser always wins
A minorAm
Somehow with his beckoning
E minorEm
Bruising with his threads
BB
Confusing what he says
C majorC
But I won't live that way (ay-ee-ay)
A minorAm
Though I kind of want to anyway
E minorEm
Kind of want to play
BB
With all the pretty and the pure
C majorC
Well I return to the earth
A minorAm
I return to the dust
E minorEm
No more beauty by the pound
BB
And this I do not... trust
A minorAm C majorC
'Cause nothing forgives
FF E minorEm
Rules and narrow margins
G+G A minorAm
(ehhh, ehhh, ehhhhhh)
C majorC
In our lives
FF E minorEm
It's rules and narrow margins
G+G C majorC
But I will slip by (-yyyyy)
C majorC
I can't find the time
E minorEm
I don't know the future
A minorAm
I couldn't bring that past back
G+G
I waste what little time I have
C majorC
But I swear I almost touched it
E minorEm
Yet it slipped between my fingers
A minorAm
Sent shivers down my spine
G+G
Cut a splinter in my mind
A minorAm C majorC
But it wasn't nothing, again
FF E minorEm
This rules and narrow margins
G+G A minorAm
(ehhh, ehhh, ehhhhhh)
C majorC
But our life
FF E minorEm
Is rules and narrow margins
G+G C majorC
But I will slip by
FF E minorEm
Rules and narrow margins
G+G
(eeeh, ehhh)
FF E minorEm
Rules and narrow margins
G+G C majorC
But I will slip by (-yyyy)