You Know It Couldn't Last chords by Morrissey

MORRISSEY - You know I couldn't last

(from album You are the Quarry)

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Em
 The whisperings, may hurt you
F
 But the printed word might kill you
Em
 The whisperings, may hurt you
F
 But the printed word might kill you
 Am
So don't let the blue, the blue eyes fool you
        A
They're just gelignite, loaded and aiming right between your eyes

Em
CDs and T-shirts, promos God knows - oh!
   D
You know I couldn't last
A
Someone, please take me home


F
The teenagers, who love you, they will wake up, yawn and kill you
F
The teenagers, who love you, they will wake up, yawn and kill you
  Am
So don't let the blue, the blue eyes fool you
        A
They're just gelignite, loaded and aiming right between your eyes


Em
CDs and T-shirts, promos God knows - oh!
   D
You know I couldn't last
A
Someone, please take me home
        D/F#
There's a cash register ringing and
A
It weighs so heavy on my back
A
Someone please take me home


Em
The critics who, can't break you
F
They somehow help to make you
Em
The critics who, can't break you
F
Unwittingly they make you
  Am
So don't let the good days, of the gold discs, creep up and mug you
     A
No, no - No, no, no-oh!


   A
With evil legal eagles, you know I couldn't last
A
accountants rampant, you know I couldn't last
A
Every -ist and every -ism, thrown my way to stay
A
And the northern leeches go on, removing, removing, removing


F
Then in the end, your royalties bring you luxuries, your royalties bring you
G
luxuries, oh but
G