Passenger – Lifes For The Living (Guitar Acoustic)

Capo 6 Video Lesson
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Chords: C/B x22010 Gadd4 320013 Fmaj7 103210 [Intro] Am Dm C G C C/B Am Dm C G Gadd4 G [Verse 1]
       Am                           Fmaj7
Well, grey clouds wrapped round the town like elastic

 G                            C         C/B
Cars stood like toys made of Taiwanese plastic

    Am                          Fmaj7                G    Gadd4  G
The boy laughed at the spastic dancing around in the rain

       Am                               Fmaj7
While laundrettes cleaned clothes, high heels rub toes

 G                          C        C/B
Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows

  Am                             Fmaj7                         G    Gadd4  G
Dressed in their suits and their boots, well they all look the same
[Bridge 1]
   F                       G
I took myself down to the cafe to find all

    C            C/B         Am      G
the boys lost in books and crackling vinyl

     F                 G                     C    C7
And carved out a poem above the urinal that read
[Chorus]
            F                G
Don't you cry for the lost, smile for the living

 C           C/B           Am                G
Get what you need and give what you're given

 F                        G
Life's for the living so live it

                      Am
Or you're better off dead
[Instrumental] (Am) Dm C G C C/B Am Dm C G Gadd4 G [Verse 2]
          Am                      Fmaj7
While the evening pulled the moon out of its packet

  G                            C          C/B
Stars shone like buttons on an old man's jacket

    Am                   Fmaj7                          G   Gadd4  G
We needed a nail but we tacked it till it fell off the wall

       Am                      Fmaj7
While pigeons pecked drains, sparks flew like planes

     G                              C       C/B
The rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains

       Am                       Fmaj7                G   Gadd4  G
And we all had new iPhones but no one had no one to call
[Bridge 2]
    F                       G
And I stumbled down to the stomach of the town

           C           C/B           Am        G
Where the widow takes memories to slowly drown

        F                     G                   C    C7
With a hand to the sky and a mist in her eye she said
[Chorus]
            F                G
Don't you cry for the lost, smile for the living

 C           C/B           Am                G
Get what you need and give what you're given

 F                        G
Life's for the living so live it

                      Am
Or you're better off dead
[Instrumental] (Am) Em F C C/B Am Em G Gadd4 G [Verse 3]
           Am                       Fmaj7
Well, I'm sick of this town, this blind man's forage

      G                          C             C/B
They take your dreams down and stick them in storage

         Am                             Fmaj7                      G    Gadd4  G
You can have them back son when you've paid off your mortgage and loans

       Am                        Fmaj7
Yeah, hell with this place, I'll go it my own way

       G                        C             C/B
I'll stick out my thumb and I trudge down the highway

 Am                     Fmaj7         G    Gadd4  G
Someday someone must be going my way home
[Bridge 3]
          F                        G
Till then I'll make my bed from a disused car

        C           C/B           Am             G
With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars

           F                       G                         C    C7
And I'll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread
[Chorus]
            F                G
Don't you cry for the lost, smile for the living

 C           C/B           Am                G
Get what you need and give what you're given

          F                        G
You know life's for the living so live it

                      C    C7
Or you're better off dead
[Outro]
            F
Don't you cry for the lost

  G    
Smile for the living

 C           C/B           Am                G
Get what you need and give what you're given

           F                         G
You know, life is for the living so live it
N.C. Or you're better off dead