A Lasting Place Live chords by Loyle Carner

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Performance: hugo: reimagined

Intro:

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Interlude:
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What kind of man weeps at the feet of his wife in pain
                      Abm7
Holds up the pink and shrieking thing and feels the throb of time
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What kind of man wraps a cloth around his waist and holds the baby to his chest
                                  Bmaj7
Walks through the streets swaying like a drunk in the morning
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What kind of man feels the rage of men and only swallows at his daughter's fists
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What kind of man bends to hold them in their suffering
                                           Bmaj7
In their questions, in their garbled turns of phrase
                                      Ebm
What kind of man admits his failures, turns over his heavy stones
                      Bmaj7
Stands at the feet of grief and wanting and does not turn away
Abm7
What kind of man becomes a father, A Lasting Place

Verse 1:

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Uh, she see my father in me
                             Abm7
That's why she argue with me
                                 Bmaj7
That's why they can't forgive me
Ebm
Uh, rock and a hard place
Ebm
I wear a hard face
Bmaj7
Close the door, leave my house like I'm Scarface
Abm7
Yeah, sweet success that I can't taste
Bmaj7
I heard the bang, still finishing the last race

Verse 2:

Ebm
Lapping me, a year ago, yo, they was clapping me
Bmaj7
Nobody told me that I'd lose it so rapidly
Abm7
I thought this was the kind of thing that goes gradually
Bmaj7
My hair line, the good guys I was glad to be
Ebm
Grim Reaper's catching me, yeah
Bmaj7
Yeah, it's like I work for him
Abm7
I'm being punished for the times that I would sin
Bmaj7
When I tried to do right, still I did the wrong thing
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I thought I was a king
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I thought I was a king

Break:

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Trouble in the one-six-nine
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I almost lost my life

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Trouble in the one-six-nine

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Verse 3:

                                  Ebm
So how am I supposed to sum it up?
                                    Bmaj7
Listen, this is what the summer does
                                                 Abm7
And I ain't losing any one of us, a mother's love
Abm7
Yeah, mother's love
Bmaj7
I know it isn't what it is, I wished it was
Ebm
The love is great
                              Bmaj7
To raise the man that you hate
Bmaj7
Growing in the man that you make
Abm7
Uh, knowing if you plan your escape
Bmaj7
Then the next man's handed his fate

Verse 4:

Ebm
They say that time waits for no man, uh (da, da, da, da-da-da)
Ebm
At least it didn't for my old man
Bmaj7
So fuck it, me and the Devil we can slow dance
Abm7
A slow dance through the city, through that cold sand
Bmaj7
I'm here all fucking week and ain't got no plans
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Was staring back at the reflections of a grown man
Abm7
We're staring back at the reflections of a grown man
Bmaj7
But I don't want to be an old man

Outro:

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Trouble in the one-six-nine
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I almost lost my life

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Ebm  Bmaj7  Abm7  Bmaj7
                       Abm7   Bmaj7  Abm7  Bmaj7
Trouble in the one-six-nine
Ebm                  Bmaj7
You almost lost your life
Abm7                 Bmaj7
You almost lost your life

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