CAPO ON 3RD FRET
[Intro]
D D/A D/F# D G A A/E (If you pluck the bottom note of each chord
and then the top three strings, it sounds like how Frank plays the intro)
[Verse 1]
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Well a teacher of mine once told me that life was just a list of
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disappointments and defeats and you could only do your best,
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And I said "Well, that's a fucking cop-out, you're just washed up and you're
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tired, and when I get to your age, well, I won't be such a coward"
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But these days I sit at home, known to shout at my TV and Punk Rock didn't
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live up to what I hoped that it could be
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And all the things that I believed with all my heart when I was young are
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just coasters for beers and clean surfaces for drugs
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And I packed all my pamphlets with my bibles at the back of the shelf
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
D
Well it was bad enough the feeling, and the first time it hit, when you
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realised your parents had let the world all go to shit
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And that the values and ideals for which many had fought and died had been
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killed off in the committees and left to die by the wayside.
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But it was worse when we turned to the kids on the left and got let down
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again by some poor excuse for protest
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Yeah by idiot fucking hippies in 50 different factions, who are locked
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inside some kind of 60's battle re-enactment
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And I hung-up my banner in disgust and I head for the door
[Chorus 1]
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Oh but once we were young, and we were crass enough to care
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But I guess you live and learn, we won't make that mistake again, no
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Oh but surely just for one day, we could fight and we could win
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And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible
[Verse 3]
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Well we've been a good few hours drinking, so I'm going to say what everyone's thinking
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If we're stuck on this ship and it's sinking, then we might as well have a
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parade
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Cos if it's still going to hurt in the morning and a better plan's yet to get forming
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Then where's the harm spending an evening, in manning the old barricades
[Bridge]
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So come on old friends to the streets let's be 1905 but not 1917
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Let's be heroes, let's be martyrs, let's be radical thinkers who never have
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to test drive the least of their dreams.
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Let's divide up the world into the damned and safe and then ride to the
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valleys like the old life brigade
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And straighten our backs and we won't be afraid and they'll celebrate our
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deaths with a national parade
[Chorus 2]
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So come on let's be young, let's be crass enough to care
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Let's refuse to live and learn, let's make all our mistakes again yes
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And then darling, just for one day, we can fight and we can win
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And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible
[Outro]
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Leave the mourning the to the morning, yes pain can be killed with aspirin
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tablets and vitamin pills.
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But memories of hope, and glorious defeat are a little bit harder to beat
