Citizen Cope – Lifeline (Guitar)

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Artist: Citizen Cope Song: Lifeline Album: The Rainwater LP These chords can be played in full, but it sounds most like the recording when you mute the E strings. Listen to the recording for the strum pattern and the pull offs, hammer ons and slides done during chord transitions. Gm: X5533X F: X3321X C: X3201X (transition to X3301X just before going to the C7) C7: X3231X [Intro] Gm F C C7 (x2) [Verse 1]
               Gm        F                   C    C7
When you're so long gone, you can't help yourself 

               Gm        F                  C    C7
When you're so dead wrong, let alone no one else

         Gm                          F           C                      C7        
Well the children still dying in the street, And babies still living with disease

        Gm                   F                      C                         C7    
And the cops got guns, and the po folk got sons who work for Mr. Franklin every week 
[Chorus]
           Gm                  F         C            C7
And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find

           Gm            F       C                C7
Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime

            Gm    F                 C    C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born 

      Gm      F                         C    C7       
To be sure to endure when the storm comes 
[Verse 2]
    Gm                F                  C                 C7
Got them sad eyes, got cat eyes, got the angels tired from saving his life 

              Gm                 F   C                  C7
And you could bet to contain yourself before you end up killed 

    Gm                   F                   C                       C7             
Get his bare feet touchin her bare feet, the air breathes sweet near mountains peak 

         Gm                    F    C                  C7
And I forgot what the wise man said about that ancient thread 
[Chorus]
           Gm                  F         C            C7
And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find

           Gm            F       C                C7
Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime

            Gm    F                 C    C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born 

      Gm      F                         C    C7      
To be sure to endure when the storm comes 

            Gm    F                 C    C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born 

     Gm       F                 C    C7      
To rejoice, rejoice when it succumbs
[Outro]
Gm  F  C  C7 (x6) 
(fading out)