Poetry Of The Deed chords by Frank Turner

Chords with lyrics

FRANK TURNER: POETRY OF THE DEED

G+G chord in intro and chorus:

E-------------------------------
B-0-1-1-0-0-1-1-0-0-1-0-1-3-3-3-
G-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
D-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
A-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-
D-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-


G+G        E minorEm       C majorC
G+G        E minorEm       FF   C majorC

G+G             A minorAm                  E minorEm
They're coming out of the walls, they're coming up through the streets,
                FF          C majorC
they're quicksilver wracked by some invisible beat.
G+G            A minorAm            E minorEm
Right outside of your door the very stones come alive.
              FF        C majorC      A minorAm
They are the spring in the step, the distant look in the eyes.

     FF           A minorAm
Put your Baudelaire away
     FF           G+G
 and come outside and play.

E minorEm        C majorC              G+G
Me and all my friends are poets of the deed,
E minorEm       C majorC            G+G
we're exactly what this country needs.
E minorEm            C majorC            G+G
We scratch until we're drunk, we drink until we bleed.
             E minorEm      FF     C majorC
We are what we believe.

G+G        A minorAm            E minorEm
Pentameter in attack, iambic pulse in the veins,
      FF       C majorC
free verse powered of the street light mains,
G+G        A minorAm           E minorEm
an Iliad played out without a shadow of doubt
            FF       C majorC        A minorAm
between the end of the club and the sun coming out.
    FF            A minorAm
Leave Kerouac at his desk,
     FF          G+G
we have romance in our risks.

E minorEm       C majorC               G+G
Me and all my friends are poets of the deed,
E minorEm       C majorC         G+G
we're exactly what this country needs.
E minorEm           C majorC            G+G
We scratch until we're drunk, we drink until we bleed.

And here’s what we believe.

E minorEm            C majorC
before we get bored, let's be inspired,
E minorEm               C majorC
let's ignore the applause and set the theatre on fire,
E minorEm            C majorC
fight every war like the drunks in the choir,
A minorAm               D MajorD
put our art where our mouths are: Poetry of the deed.
C majorC   C/BC/B    A minorAm
         enough with words and technical theses,

C majorC   C/BC/B    A minorAm
          let's grab life by the throat and live it to pieces.

C majorC      C/BC/B       A minorAm
   We can choose, we can change,
 G+G             D MajorD
and if we don't, we're just afraid of living life
      C majorC          C/BC/B
like we're loved and in love and alive
              A minorAm
to all the things we could be if we just believed that

G+G      C majorC            D/F#D/F#
life is too short to be lived without poetry.
        B minorBm        D MajorD
If you've got soul darling now come on and show it me.
G+G        C majorC            D/F#D/F#
But life is too long to just sing the one song,
           B minorBm     D MajorD       C majorC
so we'll burn like a beacon and then we'll be gone