• Song:

    You Know It Couldnt Last

  • Artist:

    Morrissey

MORRISSEY - You know I couldn't last

(from album You are the Quarry)

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C (x32010@1)             Em (022000@1)The whisperings, may hurt you 
Am (x02210@1)              F (133211@1)But the printed word might kill you
C (x32010@1)             Em (022000@1)The whisperings, may hurt you 
Am (x02210@1)              F (133211@1)But the printed word might kill you
 C (x32010@1)               Em (022000@1)             AmSo (x02210@1)don't let the blue, the blue eyes fool you 
               AThey're (x02220@1)just gelignite, loaded and aiming right between your eyes

D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)     D/F# (200232@1)  EmCDs (022000@1)and T-shirts, promos God knows - oh!
     A (x02220@1)             D (xx0232@1)You know I couldn't last
D (xx0232@1)  G (320003@1)   D/F# (200232@1)     Em (022000@1) ASomeone, (x02220@1)please take me home

C (x32010@1)          Em (022000@1)           Am (x02210@1)                FThe (133211@1)teenagers, who love you, they will wake up, yawn and kill you
C (x32010@1)          Em (022000@1)           Am (x02210@1)                FThe (133211@1)teenagers, who love you, they will wake up, yawn and kill you
    C (x32010@1)            Em (022000@1)              AmSo (x02210@1)don't let the blue, the blue eyes fool you
                AThey're (x02220@1)just gelignite, loaded and aiming right between your eyes

D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)     D/F# (200232@1)  EmCDs (022000@1)and T-shirts, promos God knows - oh!
     A (x02220@1)             D (xx0232@1)You know I couldn't last
D (xx0232@1)  G (320003@1)   D/F# (200232@1)     Em (022000@1) ASomeone, (x02220@1)please take me home
                D (xx0232@1)      G (320003@1)    D/F#There's (200232@1)a cash register ringing and
Em (022000@1)      AIt (x02220@1)weighs so heavy on my back 
D (xx0232@1)  G (320003@1)D/F# (200232@1) Em (022000@1)     ASomeone (x02220@1)please take me home

C (x32010@1)            Em (022000@1)The critics who, can't break you
Am (x02210@1)            FThey (133211@1)somehow help to make you
C (x32010@1)            Em (022000@1)                
The critics who, can't break you 
Am (x02210@1)           FUnwittingly (133211@1)they make you
   C (x32010@1)                             Em (022000@1)                    Am (x02210@1)                
So don't let the good days, of the gold discs, creep up and mug you
         ANo, (x02220@1)no - No, no, no-oh!

D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)name="chord_200232@1">D/F# Em (022000@1)  A (x02220@1)                         
With evil legal eagles, you know I couldn't last
D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)D/F# (200232@1)name="chord_022000@1">Em     Aaccountants (x02220@1)rampant, you know I couldn't last
D (xx0232@1)     G (320003@1)      D/F# (200232@1)  Em (022000@1)                AEvery (x02220@1)-ist and every -ism, thrown my way to stay 
D (xx0232@1)             G (320003@1)     D/F# (200232@1)    Em (022000@1)                AAnd (x02220@1)the northern leeches go on, removing, removing, removing

C (x32010@1)         F (133211@1)                            C (x32010@1)     FThen (133211@1)in the end, your royalties bring you luxuries, your royalties bring you
Dm (xx0231@1)      F (133211@1) Gluxuries, (320003@1)oh but
D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1)                  G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1)                 GThe (320003@1)squalor of the mind, the squalor of the mind, the squalor of the mind
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