The Losing Side chords by Grace Petrie

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: A

🎸 Verse 1:
            A                       E
From common grief to Bristol up in flames
   F#m                           D
We came here begging justice and instead we got the blame
     A                                  E
For peace disturbed, out on the streets tonight



     F#m                    D
And watching on the BBC you know something's not right
              A                          E
When mourners come with candles and with flowers
    F#m                                     D
Are wrestled three on one, and pinned down by the state's full powers
              A                              E
This is their world. And these have been the rules
             F#m                              D
But we have come to break it down with bloody fingernails for tools

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
               F#m                      A
This threat of violence, this tightrope wire
    D                             A               E
We can no longer bear it, we are all too fucking tired
            F#m                  A
No minutes' silence, we will sing higher
       D                                      E
Don't tell us to light a candle when we have come to start a fire


🎸 Chorus:
         A                     F#m    D
And if I spend my life on the losing side
         A                  F#m       D
You can lay me down knowing that I tried
          A                     F#m   D
There's a better world and on a quiet day
       A                     F#m     D
When I hold my breath I can hear her say
             A
She's on her way

She's on her way


🎸 Verse 2:
        A                     E
Safe at home, you watch it on TV
                      F#m                D
And never think that one day you could be the enemy
               A                    E
That you might be one day be under attack
       F#m                                  D
From all that should protect you, hoping someone has your back
            A                            E
The history books are screaming from the shelves
         F#m                               D
That no government who outlaws speaking to defend ourselves
                A                       E
Has good things planned. A storm ahead I see
         F#m                             D
And not one of us will bear it without solidarity


🎸 Pre-Chorus:
          F#m            A
Oh I see trouble all my days
     D                                   A                  E
This ailing failing world sends signs of fire and flood and plague
             F#m              A
But from the rubble, from the razed
    D                               E
The mightiest cathedral from these ashes we will raise


🎸 Chorus:
         A                     F#m
And if I spend my life on the losing side
         A                   F#m   D
You can lay me down knowing that I tried
          A                    F#m
There's a better world and on a quiet day
       A                    F#m       D
When I hold my breath I can hear her say
              A
Take heart my sisters
          E
And this fire will never die
                   A
And take heart my comrades
           E
And no one left behind

🎸 Chorus:
         A                    F#m    D
And if I spend my life on the losing side
         A                   F#m    D
You can lay me down knowing that I tried
          A                     F#m   D
There's a better world and on a quiet day
        A                   F#m        D
When I hold my breath I can hear her say

           A                   F#m   D
That if I spend my life on the losing side (Take heart my sisters)
         A     E              F#m     D
You can lay me down knowing that I tried (This fire will never die)
          A                   F#m     D
There's a better world and on a quiet day (And take heart my comrades)
        A        E           F#m       D
When I hold my breath I can hear her say (No one left behind)

          A                     F#m
That if I spend my life on the losing side
         A     E             F#m     D
You can lay me down knowing that I tried
          A                    F#m
There's a better world and on a quiet day
         A         E          F#m     D
When I hold my breath I can hear her say
         A
She's on her way