Chords with lyrics
CAPO ON 3RD FRET
Intro: 
D MajorD 
D/AD/A 
D/F#D/F# D MajorD 
G+G 
A augmentedA 
A/EA/E (If you pluck the bottom note of each chord
and then the top three strings, it sounds like how Frank plays the intro)
D MajorD D/AD/A D/F#D/F# D MajorD
Well a teacher of mine once told me that life was just a list of
G+G A augmentedA A/EA/E
disappointments and defeats and you could only do your best,
D MajorD D/AD/A D/F#D/F#
And I said "Well, that's a fucking cop-out, you're just washed up and you're
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
tired, and when I get to your age, well, I won't be such a coward"
E minorEm G+G 
B minorBm
But these days I sit at home, known to shout at my TV and Punk Rock didn't
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live up to what I hoped that it could be
E minorEm G+G
And all the things that I believed with all my heart when I was young are
B minorBm A augmentedA
just coasters for beers and clean surfaces for drugs
G+G E minorEm G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
And I packed all my pamphlets with my bibles at the back of the shelf
D/AD/A D/F#D/F# D MajorD G+G A augmentedA A/EA/E
D MajorD
Well it was bad enough the feeling, and the first time it hit, when you
G+G A augmentedA A/EA/E
realised your parents had let the world all go to shit
D MajorD D/AD/A D/F#D/F# D MajorD
And that the values and ideals for which many had fought and died had been
G+G A augmentedA A/EA/E
killed off in the committees and left to die by the wayside.
E minorEm G+G B minorBm
But it was worse when we turned to the kids on the left and got let down
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again by some poor excuse for protest
E minorEm G+G B minorBm
Yeah by idiot fucking hippies in 50 different factions, who are locked
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inside some kind of 60's battle re-enactment
G+G E minorEm G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA
And I hung-up my banner in disgust and I head for the door
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm G+G
Oh but once we were young, and we were crass enough to care
E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
But I guess you live and learn, we won't make that mistake again, no
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm G+G
Oh but surely just for one day, we could fight and we could win
E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible
B minorBm A augmentedA
Well we've been a good few hours drinking, so I'm going to say what everyone's thinking
G+G D MajorD E minorEm A augmentedA
If we're stuck on this ship and it's sinking, then we might as well have a
D MajorD
parade
B minorBm A augmentedA
Cos if it's still going to hurt in the morning and a better plan's yet to get forming
G+G D MajorD E minorEm A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA
Then where's the harm spending an evening, in manning the old barricades
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
So come on old friends to the streets let's be 1905 but not 1917
D MajorD G+G
Let's be heroes, let's be martyrs, let's be radical thinkers who never have
A augmentedA
to test drive the least of their dreams.
E minorEm G+G B minorBm
Let's divide up the world into the damned and safe and then ride to the
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valleys like the old life brigade
E minorEm G+G B minorBm
And straighten our backs and we won't be afraid and they'll celebrate our
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deaths with a national parade
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm G+G
So come on let's be young, let's be crass enough to care
E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
Let's refuse to live and learn, let's make all our mistakes again yes
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm G+G
And then darling, just for one day, we can fight and we can win
E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible
D MajorD G+G
Leave the mourning the to the morning, yes pain can be killed with aspirin
A augmentedA
tablets and vitamin pills.
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
But memories of hope, and glorious defeat are a little bit harder to beat
Other versions of Love Ire And Song
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