Lifes For The Living

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Well, grey clouds wrapped round the
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 town like elastic
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Cars stood like toys made of 
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Taiwanese plastic
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The boy laughed at the spastic 
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dancing around in the rain
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While laundrettes cleaned clothes, 
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high heels rub toes
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Puddles splashed huddles of bus 
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stop crows
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Dressed in their suits and their 
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boots, well they all look the same
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[Bridge 1]
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I took myself down to the cafe to 
find all
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the boys lost in books and 
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crackling vinyl
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And carved out a poem above the 
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urinal that read


[Chorus]
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Don't you cry for the lost, smile 
for the living
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Get what you need and give what 
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you're given
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Life's for the living so live it
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Or you're better off dead


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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While the evening pulled the moon 
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out of its packet
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Stars shone like buttons on an old
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 man's jacket
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We needed a nail but we tacked it 
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till it fell off the wall
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While pigeons pecked drains, sparks 
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flew like planes
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The rain showed the rainbows in the
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 oil stains
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And we all had new iPhones but 
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no one had no one to call


[Bridge 2]
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And I stumbled down to the stomach 
of the town
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Where the widow takes memories to 
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slowly drown
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With a hand to the sky and a mist 
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in her eye she said


[Chorus]
            F                G
Don't you cry for the lost, smile 
for the living
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Get what you need and give what 
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you're given
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Life's for the living so live it
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Or you're better off dead


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Well, I'm sick of this town, this 
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blind man's forage
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They take your dreams down and 
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stick them in storage
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You can have them back son when 
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you've paid off your mortgage and 
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loans
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Yeah, hell with this place, I'll 
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go it my own way
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I'll stick out my thumb and I 
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trudge down the highway
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Someday someone must be going my 
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way home


[Bridge 3]
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Till then I'll make my bed from a 
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disused car
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With a mattress of leaves and a 
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blanket of stars
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And I'll stitch the words into my 
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heart with a needle and thread


[Chorus]
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Don't you cry for the lost, smile 
for the living
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Get what you need and give what 
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you're given
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You know life's for the living so 
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live it
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Or you're better off dead


[Other]
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Don't you cry for the lost
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Smile for the living
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Get what you need and give what 
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you're given
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You know, life is for the living so
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 live it
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Or you're better off dead