Mr Richards chords by Frank Turner

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
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One fine day near the end of the tax year
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Mr Richards was gripped by a new fear
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Who would be at his retirement party


Verse 2:
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And though he still had years to go before he
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Slipped over the edge of the workforce
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The question remained and in his wake there came an army

Chorus:
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What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?
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He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out
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And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out
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That's when his roof caved in


Verse 3:
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And so he made a list of all the people he worked with
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And cut it down to the ones he got on with
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Paired each one off with the decade of his career


Verse 4:
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And then he thought of all his friends from back home
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The crazies, the ladies, the lovers he'd known
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And then he looked around his office and wondered why he was still here


Chorus:
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What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?
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He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out
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And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out
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That's when he realised that he scrimped and saved all his precious days
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So he could buy icers and microwaves
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And he only looks forward to his holidays

That's when his roof caved in.

Bridge:
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And it would be nice to have holiday homes and healthy bank statements and
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fat little kids,
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And I guess you can be happy to dream all your dreams as camcorder records
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of the things that you did,
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But as soon as your sleeping does it really matter what mattress you happen
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to be sleeping on?
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As long as your living and your having fun; he always laughed at the
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drop-outs, that he could never live that way.
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But the truth is Mr Richards was a coward, he was afraid.


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Final Verse:
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Mr Richards decided on the very next morning
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To make his life and work the same thing
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