This Is London

Chords
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e-3-----3-------0-------2---|
B-3-----3-------1-------3---|
G-0-----0-------0-------2---|
D-0-----0-------2-------0---|
A-2-----2-------3-------x---|
E-3-----2-------x-------x---|




Intro

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        G       G(F#)                    G        G(F#)
This is London, the place where you're a god or a disgrace

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The whole wide world at your feet to see the look upon your face

        C           G                       C                G
And you watch the BBC and you think, "Well, what if that was me?"

        C        G       C        C
Such a promising life to waste.



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You told me, "Just be brave. Remember all the gifts you gave.

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And how you felt like you were saved,

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Like you were singing from beyond the grave."

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And you said you'd wait for me until the day I could sing on key

              C         G          C
"There's just something about your face."



           C             G              D                 C
Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me,

      G            D       C     G             C           G
And I wanted us to be fast asleep, closer than anything to me,

     C       G    C         C
Like we were home again...



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There was just no way to know what was real and what was show

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A future unfolding before my eyes, and a past that I could not let go

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And how the feeling is so deep

                    C               G
when you're running down the London streets

             C       G       C     C
Like there's nowhere left to go.



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Among the faceless dizzy whores, the unimaginable bores,

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Evenings stumbling from the pub, mornings shivering on the floor

         C                G                        C              G
Then the careless way you say, "Yeah, we were just glad we got to play."

            C     G      C
When you're empty to the core.



           C             G         D                      C
Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me,

      G            D       C      G               C          G
And I wanted us to be fast asleep,   closer than anything to me,

     C       G    C      C
Like we were home again.

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I'm so tired of the rain.


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This is London, the place where you get lost without a trace

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Among the beautiful remains of this shattered human race

        C             G               C                G
All the words that go unsaid, all the sacrifices of the dead,

             C               G                  C                G
"We'll fall quietly into the past or we'll just burn the streets instead"

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In the clamoring of the crowd, you think, "I'll just stay quiet, instead."



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All the fallen dizzy angels crawling through the street,

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The pleas of people weary on their feet,

 G                   C              G
   And you're half a world away from me,

       C      G         C
As the clouds drown the light.


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I wonder where you are tonight.