FRANK TURNER: POETRY OF THE DEED
G chord in intro and chorus:
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G Em C
G Em F C
G Am Em
They're coming out of the walls, they're coming up through the streets,
F C
they're quicksilver wracked by some invisible beat.
G Am Em
Right outside of your door the very stones come alive.
F C Am
They are the spring in the step, the distant look in the eyes.
F Am
Put your Baudelaire away
F G
and come outside and play.
Em C G
Me and all my friends are poets of the deed,
Em C G
we're exactly what this country needs.
Em C G
We scratch until we're drunk, we drink until we bleed.
Em F C
We are what we believe.
G Am Em
Pentameter in attack, iambic pulse in the veins,
F C
free verse powered of the street light mains,
G Am Em
an Iliad played out without a shadow of doubt
F C Am
between the end of the club and the sun coming out.
F Am
Leave Kerouac at his desk,
F G
we have romance in our risks.
Em C G
Me and all my friends are poets of the deed,
Em C G
we're exactly what this country needs.
Em C G
We scratch until we're drunk, we drink until we bleed.
And here’s what we believe.
Em C
before we get bored, let's be inspired,
Em C
let's ignore the applause and set the theatre on fire,
Em C
fight every war like the drunks in the choir,
Am D
put our art where our mouths are: Poetry of the deed.
C C/B Am
enough with words and technical theses,
C C/B Am
let's grab life by the throat and live it to pieces.
C C/B Am
We can choose, we can change,
G D
and if we don't, we're just afraid of living life
C C/B
like we're loved and in love and alive
Am
to all the things we could be if we just believed that
G C D/F#
life is too short to be lived without poetry.
Bm D
If you've got soul darling now come on and show it me.
G C D/F#
But life is too long to just sing the one song,
Bm D C
so we'll burn like a beacon and then we'll be gone
