Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Living In Paradise (Bass Tab)

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[Intro]
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                           [Verse 1]
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                            I don't like those looking at your 
                              other guys               curves

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                                                  I don't like you walking   
                                                        round with 

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  physical jerks

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 Everything they say  getting on my nerves
        and do is

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 Soon they will be lucky picking up the perks                                     'cause                
[Pre-Chorus]
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  when they pull the  throw up in the dark, find that all the dogs much worse than 
   shutters down and                they'll   outside bite           they bark

[Chorus 1]
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 Here we are living  a-dise,       living in a lux ury          Oh the...
           in  par...
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 the thrill is here won't last long  have your fun before it
           but it         you better

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    moves along and    your'e already look..ing for another.. a fool like    

                                           .  .  . [Verse 2]  
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   me....                                         I call you Betty Felon
                                                            'cause you 

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  are a pretty villain

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                                              and I think that I should tell
                                                    them that make

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  a pretty killing                                        'cause meanwhile up in heaven 
                                                                           they are  

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  waiting at the gate                                                 sayin' "we

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  always knew you'd  think you'd come                                          and...
   make it, didn't    this  late"     

[Pre-Chorus]
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   now it's much too  stop what you've begun everyone in paradise carries a gun
         dangerous to                 when   

[Chorus 2]
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 Here we are living   adise,         living in alux ury         Oh the...
           in  par...
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  the thrill is here,   won't last long   have your fun before it
              but it        you better

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  moves along and your'e already   look..ing for another     a fool like 

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  me                                               Later in the evening
                                                           when

[Verse 3]
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 arrangements are made                                                          

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  I'll be at the  your bedroom door                                       'Cause
  keyhole  outside

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 I'm the first to know plans are laid
      whenever the

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 that never go further floor to floor
                than 

[Pre-Chorus]
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   You think that I don't  boy that you're    I'll be at the    I will be watching
               know the     touching, but         video and

[Outro]
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   Here we are living dise...(in paradise)  
      in  par...

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 Here we are living  dise,            living in a lux ury       Oh the...
           in  para...                        
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  thrill is here,but it won't last long   have your fun before it
                             you better

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  moves along and your'e  already  look...ing for another           a fool like 

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  me...                   already    look..ing for another      a fool like 

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   me                       your'e already look... ing for another     fool like 

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                      your'e already look... ing for another    fool like 

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{legend} / - slide up \ - slide down h - hammer on