CAPO ON 3RD FRET Intro: D5 D5 D5 D5 G5 A5 A5 (If you pluck the bottom note of each chord and then the top three strings, it sounds like how Frank plays the intro) D5 D5 D5 D5 Well a teacher of mine once told me that life was just a list of G5 A5 A5 disappointments and defeats and you could only do your best, D5 D5 D5 And I said "Well, that's a fucking cop-out, you're just washed up and you're D5 G5 A5 tired, and when I get to your age, well, I won't be such a coward" E5 G5 B5 But these days I sit at home, known to shout at my TV and Punk Rock didn't A5 live up to what I hoped that it could be E5 G5 And all the things that I believed with all my heart when I was young are B5 A5 just coasters for beers and clean surfaces for drugs G5 E5 G5 A5 D5 And I packed all my pamphlets with my bibles at the back of the shelf D5 D5 D5 G5 A5 A5 D5 Well it was bad enough the feeling, and the first time it hit, when you G5 A5 A5 realised your parents had let the world all go to shit D5 D5 D5 D5 And that the values and ideals for which many had fought and died had been G5 A5 A5 killed off in the committees and left to die by the wayside. E5 G5 B5 But it was worse when we turned to the kids on the left and got let down A5 again by some poor excuse for protest E5 G5 B5 Yeah by idiot fucking hippies in 50 different factions, who are locked A5 inside some kind of 60's battle re-enactment G5 E5 G5 A5 G5 A5 And I hung-up my banner in disgust and I head for the door D5 A5 B5 G5 Oh but once we were young, and we were crass enough to care E5 A5 E5 A5 But I guess you live and learn, we won't make that mistake again, no D5 A5 B5 G5 Oh but surely just for one day, we could fight and we could win E5 A5 E5 A5 And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible B5 A5 Well we've been a good few hours drinking, so I'm going to say what everyone's thinking G5 D5 E5 A5 If we're stuck on this ship and it's sinking, then we might as well have a D5 parade B5 A5 Cos if it's still going to hurt in the morning and a better plan's yet to get forming G5 D5 E5 A5 G5 A5 Then where's the harm spending an evening, in manning the old barricades D5 G5 A5 So come on old friends to the streets let's be 1905 but not 1917 D5 G5 Let's be heroes, let's be martyrs, let's be radical thinkers who never have A5 to test drive the least of their dreams. E5 G5 B5 Let's divide up the world into the damned and safe and then ride to the A5 valleys like the old life brigade E5 G5 B5 And straighten our backs and we won't be afraid and they'll celebrate our A5 deaths with a national parade D5 A5 B5 G5 So come on let's be young, let's be crass enough to care E5 A5 E5 A5 Let's refuse to live and learn, let's make all our mistakes again yes D5 A5 B5 G5 And then darling, just for one day, we can fight and we can win E5 A5 E5 A5 And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible D5 G5 Leave the mourning the to the morning, yes pain can be killed with aspirin A5 tablets and vitamin pills. D5 G5 A5 D5 But memories of hope, and glorious defeat are a little bit harder to beat
