Key: Am
Introduction:
Am Am/B F C
You are watching a programme for exactly an hour
G
All of these hours they will add up to a day
Am F
You will sit there till they're done now there are 24 to play
C G
And there are rims around your eyelballs by the 7th or the 8th
F G Am
But if you go to sleep tonight you will be older when you wake
F G
And you say one man is the parachute and the other is the knife that cuts
Am
the brakes
Am Am/B F
First we were born then we ran slowly out of luck
C G
You are still not Charles Bukowski and I am not Diane Cluck
Am F
And i would suck the life from you if there was any left to suck
C G
And i would love you if you told me there was something there to love
F
I would marry you for money
G
I would marry you for money
C G Am
I would marry you for money if it stuck
F G Am
I would marry you for money but I don't suppose you'll ever have enough
Am Am/B F
Man on the screen he has done more in a minute
C G
Than you have achieved in your whole entire life
Am F
When you finally realise I was the best thing you had init
C G
We'll be closing up your eyelids on the bed on which you die
F
And I'll be sorry if it happens to you
G
Sorry if it happens to you
C G Am
Sorry if it happens to you but
F G
They say one life is the cancer and another is the blade that
Am
makes the cut
C F C
24 for every year that we have slipped
Am G
Day by day into the neck of the abyss
C F C
And I am 24 today i don't believe I'll sit
Am G
Through another year of this while you are sewing up your lips
F
And I'll be sorry that you happened to me
G
Sorry that you happened to me
C G Am
Sorry that you happened to me but
F G
They say that one man is the accident the other is the hand that stops the
Am
blood
F G Am
And I am looking for the other one, for the hand to stop the blood