You Know It Couldnt Last

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C               Em
 The whisperings, may hurt you
Am                F
 But the printed word might kill you
C               Em
 The whisperings, may hurt you
Am                F
 But the printed word might kill you
 C                 Em             
So don't let the blue, the blue 
  Am
eyes fool you
               A
They're just gelignite, loaded and 
aiming right between your eyes


D                  G       D/F#  
CDs and T-shirts, promos God 
  Em
knows - oh!
     A               D
You know I couldn't last
D    G     D/F#       Em   A
Someone, please take me home


C            Em             Am  
The teenagers, who love you, 
                F
they will wake up, yawn and kill you
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C            Em             Am  
The teenagers, who love you, 
                F
they will wake up, yawn and kill you
    C              Em             
So don't let the blue, the blue 
   Am
eyes fool you
                A
They're just gelignite, loaded and 
aiming right between your eyes


D                  G       D/F#  
CDs and T-shirts, promos God 
  Em
knows - oh!
     A               D
You know I couldn't last
D    G     D/F#       Em   A
Someone, please take me home
                D        G      D/F#
There's a cash register ringing and
Em        A
It weighs so heavy on my back
D    G  D/F#   Em       A
Someone please take me home


C              Em
The critics who, can't break you
Am              F
They somehow help to make you
C              Em
The critics who, can't break you
Am             F
Unwittingly they make you
   C                               
So don't let the good days, of the 
Em                      Am
gold discs, creep up and mug you
         A
No, no - No, no, no-oh!


      D         G D/F# Em    A
With evil legal eagles, you know I 
couldn't last
D          G  D/F# Em     A
accountants rampant, you know I 
couldn't last
D       G        D/F#    Em    
Every -ist and every -ism, 
              A
thrown my way to stay
D               G       D/F#
And the northern leeches go on, 
      Em                  A
removing, removing, removing


C           F                
Then in the end, your royalties 
              C       F
bring you luxuries, your royalties 
bring you
Dm        F   G
luxuries, oh but
D                  G    D       
The squalor of the mind, the 
             G    D               
squalor of the mind, the squalor 
    G
of the mind