Don't Die chords by Richard Hell And The Voidoids

Tuning: EADGBE

Intro:
Gm Gm Gm Gm
Gm Gm Gm Gm

Verse:
Gm
I see the passionate who killed themselves with drink
Gm
Or drugs or speeding cars in order not to think
Gm
They must have felt like there just nothing was to do
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Oh why hast thou murdered those who see the most in search of a true thrill or clue

Break:
Gm Gm Gm Gm
Gm Gm Gm Gm

Verse:
Gm
There's something wrong here where the best ones want to go
Gm
Parker, Lautreamont, Monroe they held it just to throw
Gm
The world away who were its grace before they left
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To choose to have a point of view oblivious that leaves the rest of us bereft

Chorus 1:
Gm      F                          Eb                          D
There I see the piercing eyes that look through all until they see their back
Gm                           F                      Eb         D
There where any thought will think about itself and that's the only fact
Gm              F                     Eb                 D        Gm
There a man has left just death, delerium, and drugs, or feel the lack

Break:
Gm Gm Gm Gm
Gm Gm Gm Gm

Verse:
Gm
The air is cool today the time is drawing near
Gm
My walls are white and so's my brain afloat in self-made fear
Gm
A banal feeling of the sort "I ain't insane"
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No fate worse than to never leave yourself and it's as well the most repulsive pain

Instrumental:
Gm F Eb D
Eb Cm D D7
Gm F Gm D

Break:
Gm Gm Gm Gm
Gm Gm Gm Gm

Verse:
Gm
The air is cool today that whistles through my ribs
Gm
My skull is full of sand that dribbles down upon my bib
Gm
I call out "Baby" but her face looks like a clock
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Tick tock, alive, triumphant victims so surprised we can't recover from the shock

Chorus 2:
Gm    F                      Eb               D
Me, I like a joke as much as anybody else but some are rough
Gm            F                               Eb               D
Yeah when the joke's on you though you're the joker too you've had enough
Gm                   F                             Eb                 D         Gm