Intro: F5           D5        (x2)

                        F5
It's a struggle, it's a shame
                   D5
It's all give and no take
              C5                         Bb5
Whatever, it is now, it's right up to our waist
                    F5                        D5
It's a pity, it's a shame to see it all slip away
                 C5                         Bb5
I've seen you worried babe, but never this way
            F5                C5
We hold our ground, we don't kneel
      D5  Dm(7M)  Bb5
If we go            down we go
Bb5             F5
Down on our own shield
                F5
It's a river of tears
                    D5
And we're in over our ears
               C5                  Bb5
In the dark it rides off with our better years
                F5
It's a bottomless well
            D5
It's a little overkill
                 C5
It's the end of a dragon's tail
               Bb5
That's whipping round our heels
            F5               C5
But we don't bow, we make no deals
      D5  Dm(7M)  Bb5
If we go            down we go
Bb5             F5
Down on our own shield
D5                          F5
   In this corner ladies and gentlemen
         C5                         G5
Weighing in, all along my love for her is strong
Bb5                  F5                   Bb5
   We scaled pillars to here tonight
                           C5
It's not the kind of trick you get to pull twice
               F5
It's an ambush girl
               D5
A cold-blooded low down dirty world
         C5
See them yellow lanters walk
           Bb5
A circle around our bit of earth
                    F5
It's a turn for the worse
                    D5
It's off with their heads if they don't learn
           C5
We do this over their dead bodies
             Bb5
Before it's over mine or yours
         F5            C5
We don't beg for mercy dear
      D5  Dm(7M) Bb5
If we go           down we go
Bb5             F5
Down on our own shield
D5   Dm(7M) Bb5
Down  we      go
Bb5
Down on our own shield
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I am a songwriter (or at least like to call myself one) and this is one of the most
heart breakingly poignant songs I have heard in a long time.

Note - the Dm(7M)-B7M run during the chorus is just my attempt to include the bass
line run in an acoustic accompaniment. When researching the names for these chords the
chord that I have labeled as Dm(7M) was also marked as D m7 (which didn't jive with my 
understanding of theory and chord building) and as an F6 (which it is, just inverted).