Spent Gladiator 2 chords by The Mountain Goats

Chords with lyrics

Intro
A minorAm G+G A minorAm G+G
A minorAm G+G A minorAm G+G

Verse 1:
A minorAm           G+G
Like a spent gladiator
A minorAm               G+G
Crawling in the Colosseum dust
A minorAm                  G+G
Who can count on his remaining limbs
A minorAm
All the people he can trust
A minorAm                 G+G
Like the one who stands behind him
A minorAm        G+G
Cheering him on
A minorAm               G+G
Ecstatic when he stands defiant
A minorAm
Wild with abandon when he's gone

      FF
Just stay alive
A minorAm           G+G
Keep your eyes on the pay line

A minorAm Am

Verse 2:
A minorAm              G+G
Like a village on the steppe
A minorAm             G+G
About to get collectivized
A minorAm                        G+G
When the men emerge with rifles from the haystack
A minorAm
Everybody looks surprised
A minorAm                  G+G
Like the mice in the forgotten grain
A minorAm            G+G
Way up on the top shelf
A minorAm                         G+G
Like someone who's found a small town to escape to
A minorAm
Keeps one eye on his abandoned, former self


       FF
Stay in the game
A minorAm              G+G
Just try to play through the pain
     FF                 A minorAm       G+G
Like a fighter who's been told it's finally time for him to quit
   FF
Show up in shining colours
     A minorAm         G+G
And then stand there and get hit

FF F A minorAm Am

Verse 3:
A minorAm                  G+G
Like the clock that ticks in Dresden
A minorAm                  G+G
When the whole town's been destroyed
A minorAm                 G+G
Like the nagging flash of insight
A minorAm
You're always desperate to avoid
A minorAm                G+G
Like the bloody-knuckled gunman
A minorAm               G+G
Still stationed at the breach
A minorAm                   G+G
Like that board game with the sliders
A minorAm
And the children on the beach


   FF
Stay alive
A minorAm            G+G
Maybe spit blood at the camera
      A minorAm
Just stay alive
A minorAm       G+G
Stay forever alive

Outro
A minorAm Am A minorAm Am