Spent Gladiator 2 chords by The Mountain Goats

Intro
Am G Am G
Am G Am G

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

      F
Just stay alive
Am           G
Keep your eyes on the pay line

Am Am

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


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

F F Am Am

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


   F
Stay alive
Am            G
Maybe spit blood at the camera
      Am
Just stay alive
Am       G
Stay forever alive

Outro
Am Am Am Am