Every Defeat A Divorce Three Lions chords by Los Campesinos!

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
| D MajorD   | D MajorD   | D MajorD   | D MajorD   |
| D MajorD   |


Verse 1:
      A augmentedA          Bm7Bm7    G+G
I am not a crutch, although my knees are rife with woodworm
G+G            A augmentedA          Bm7Bm7   G+G
 And the mealworms I misheard for lunch are rotting in my guts
G+G          A augmentedA        Bm7Bm7    G+G
 With a childhood of fingernails that ripped my throat to shreds
G+G            A augmentedA         Bm7Bm7    G+G           G+G
 A augmentedA walk that chimes like church bells from all these loose joints in my legs
E minor 7Em7
These three lions that were sitting on my chest
      D/F#D/F#
Are clawing hard into my skin as I am gasping for my breath
      G+G
And as they each play noughts and crosses on the scratches they have left
     D/F#D/F#
I have to screw up both my eyes as it goes into sudden death
   E minor 7Em7
They whisper, "Really all these noughts are circles holed, bereft
       D/F#D/F#
And all these crosses, crucifixes spreading guilt and sense of dread"
     G+G
And as we stumbled homeward up the hill to where you used to live
          D/F#D/F#
The cold makes ice upon our cheeks from all the tears that we have shed

Pre-Chorus:
E minor 7Em7
These things rattle 'round my head
   E minor 7Em7
If he hasn't blown the whistle then it isn't quite the end


Chorus:
G+G        E minor 7Em7
Every defeat a divorce
                G+G           D MajorD
Although I look surprised, it's par for the course
I guess
G+G        E minor 7Em7
Every defeat a divorce
                G+G           D MajorD
Although I look surprised, it's par for the course
I guess
      E minor 7Em7          D/F#D/F#
And I don't really know now what I thought I knew then
    G+G               D/F#D/F#
You can lead a horse to water, but it won't drown itself

Instrumental:
| D MajorD C majorC  | B minorBm   |
| D MajorD C majorC  | B minorBm   |


Verse 2:
        A augmentedA      Bm7Bm7     G+G
This one family photograph always floats to the top
        A augmentedA           Bm7Bm7  G+G
Like a beaming, bloated corpse, though having been made up
        A augmentedA       Bm7Bm7 G+G
My memories are sepia, but the photograph is not
        A augmentedA           Bm7Bm7  G+G
An historian is fucking with them, as deadly as garrotte
        E minor 7Em7
Where they're standing in the kitchen with his arms around her waist
     D/F#D/F#
With no idea of what's to come and with a smile across your face
      G+G
And all the fittings are the same but every other thing has changed
      D/F#D/F#
Must forget everything you know as though your mouth and tongue estranged
 E minor 7Em7
Small comforts found in ABBA Gold and electronic chess
   D/F#D/F#
When West Clewes was my Waterloo, my most dramatic test
       G+G
Now I've been walking down the shortcuts and the alleys in the dark
      D/F#D/F#
Because I'm not scared of the shadows, they're no blacker than my heart


Pre-Chorus:
E minor 7Em7
These things rattle 'round my head
   E minor 7Em7
If he hasn't blown the whistle then it isn't quite the end


Chorus:
G+G        E minor 7Em7
Every defeat a divorce
                G+G           D MajorD
Although I look surprised, it's par for the course
I guess
G+G        E minor 7Em7
Every defeat a divorce
                G+G           D MajorD
Although I look surprised, it's par for the course
I guess
  G+G         D MajorD
But how could I ever refuse?
 G+G           D MajorD
I feel like I lose when I lose
      E minor 7Em7         D/F#D/F#
And I don't even know now what I thought I knew then
    G+G               D/F#D/F#
You can lead a horse to water, but it won't drown itself


Outro:
| D MajorD C majorC  | B minorBm   |
| D MajorD C majorC  | B minorBm   |
| D MajorD C majorC  | B minorBm   |
| D MajorD C majorC  | B minorBm   | D MajorD   | D MajorD   |