MORRISSEY - You know I couldn't last
(from album You are the Quarry)
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C Em
The whisperings, may hurt you
Am F
But the printed word might kill you
C Em
The whisperings, may hurt you
Am F
But the printed word might kill you
C Em Am
So don't let the blue, the blue eyes fool you
A
They're just gelignite, loaded and aiming right between your eyes
D G D/F# Em
CDs and T-shirts, promos God knows - oh!
A D
You know I couldn't last
D G D/F# Em A
Someone, please take me home
C Em Am F
The teenagers, who love you, they will wake up, yawn and kill you
C Em Am F
The teenagers, who love you, they will wake up, yawn and kill you
C Em Am
So don't let the blue, the blue eyes fool you
A
They're just gelignite, loaded and aiming right between your eyes
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D G D/F# Em
CDs and T-shirts, promos God knows - oh!
A D
You know I couldn't last
D G D/F# Em A
Someone, please take me home
D G D/F#
There's a cash register ringing and
Em A
It weighs so heavy on my back
D G D/F# Em A
Someone please take me home
C Em
The critics who, can't break you
Am F
They somehow help to make you
C Em
The critics who, can't break you
Am F
Unwittingly they make you
C Em Am
So don't let the good days, of the gold discs, creep up and mug you
A
No, no - No, no, no-oh!
D G D/F# Em A
With evil legal eagles, you know I couldn't last
D G D/F# Em A
accountants rampant, you know I couldn't last
D G D/F# Em A
Every -ist and every -ism, thrown my way to stay
D G D/F# Em A
And the northern leeches go on, removing, removing, removing
C F C F
Then in the end, your royalties bring you luxuries, your royalties bring you
Dm F G
luxuries, oh but
D G D G D G
The squalor of the mind, the squalor of the mind, the squalor of the mind
