This Island Life chords by Violent Femmes

Key: Bm

🎸 Intro:

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🎸 Verse 1:
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This tea's too strong for me
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As I await your company
E
I had too much sun today
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Ocean waters wash away
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Nothing but the present
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Presenting its presence

🎸 Chorus:
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This island life
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Separate my right from my wrong


🎸 Verse 2:
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No I am not pagan
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But my heart has been forsaken
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And the hand of God was on my mind
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It took some time from time to time
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Now in the course I know
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Time itself will go when


🎸 Chorus:
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This island life
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Separates my right from my wrong


Guitar 🎸 Solo:
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🎸 Verse 3:
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You forgot your shoes and I
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I have sent a message but I
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There's so many stars in the sky
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It's the truths that will not lie
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There's a you wild native maiden
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Running mad and barefoot to the sea until


🎸 Chorus:
A
This island life
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Separates my rights from my wrongs
A
This island life
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Finally separates my right from my wrong


🎸 Verse 4:
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This tea's too strong for me
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As I await more company
E
I had too much sun today
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Dream of lands lying far away
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Pregnant with the present
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Presenting its presents


🎸 Chorus:
A
This island life
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Separate my right from my wrong
A
This island life
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Will separate my rights from my songs
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Separate my right from my wrong


🎸 Outro:
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