David Bowie – We Are The Dead (Guitar)

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[Intro] Gm Bb/F F Gm Bb/F F [Verse 1]
Gm                Bb/F   F
Something kind of hit me today, I looked at you and

Dm                 D          Eb   Bb/D
Wondered if you saw things my way

F           D7/F#      Gm
People will hold us to blame

   Bb/F      Eb     C7/E   F
It hit me today, it hit me today
[Verse 2]
      Gm        Bb/F          F
We're taking it hard all the time

                     Dm       D            Eb               Bb/D
Why don't we pass it by, just reply you've changed your mind

      F                 D7/F#       Gm
We're fighting with the eyes of the blind

Bb/F      Eb    C7/E      F         F/Eb  Dm7  Bb
Taking it hard, taking it hard, yet now
[Chorus]
   Ab               Gb6     F                   Cm
We feel that we are paper, choking on you nightly

     Eb/Bb            Ab            Gb6                F
They tell me son, we want you, be elusive, but don't walk far

          Cm              Eb/Bb     Ab                   Gb6
For we're breaking in the new boys, deceive your next of kin

           F                 Cm           Eb/Bb       Ab
For you're dancing where the dogs decay, defecating ecstasy

               Gb6         F
You're just an ally of the leecher

 Cm             Eb/Bb               Ab               Gb6
Locator for the virgin King, but I love you in your fuck me pumps

         F                 Cm
And your nimble dress that trails

    Eb/Bb               Ab                Gb6              F
Oh, dress yourself, my urchin one, for I hear them on the rails

           Cm            Bb           Ab
Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said

Gb6         D  C/E  D  C/E
We are the dead
[Verse 3]
Gm                Bb/F          F
One thing kind of touched me today

                    Dm             D            Eb  Bb/D
I looked at you and counted all the times we had laid

F            D7/F#             Gm
Pressing our love through the night

Bb/F         Eb     C7/E            F
Knowing it's right, knowing it's right
[Verse 4]
Gm             Bb/F            F
Now I'm hoping some one will care

              Dm          D          Eb     Bb/D
Living on the breath of a hope to be shared

F               D7/F#        Gm
Trusting on the sons of our love

     Bb/F         Eb    C7/E         F         F/Eb  Dm7  Bb
That someone will care, someone will care, but now
[Chorus]
        Ab              Gb6         F                          Cm
We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature

Eb/Bb             Ab          Gb6               F
Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell

       Cm               Bb             Ab               Gb6
It's a twenty four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell

        F                   Cm
And the streets are full of press men

        Bb               Ab
Bent on getting hung and buried

        Gb6        F            Cm                Bb
And the legendary curtains are drawn round Baby Bankrupt

    Ab                     Gb6
Who sucks you while you're sleeping

         F            Cm
It's the theater of financiers

            Bb            Ab
Count them, fifty round a table

Gb6                   F
White and dressed to kill

     Cm                 Bb
Oh caress yourself, my juicy

       Ab                 Gb6
For my hands have all but withered

   F                 Cm                 Bb               Ab
Oh dress yourself my urchin one, for I hear them on the stairs

           Gb6            F
Because of all we've seen

Cm         Bb
Because of all we've said

D          C/E   D
We are the dead

C/E          D   C/E  D
We are the dead

C/E          D   C/E  D  C/E
We are the dead
[Outro] Gm Bb/F F