Key: C
Introduction:
C G F C
I was born in the northwest of England
C G F C
Where industrial shells like monuments stand
Am G F C
Crumbling tombs from a forgotten land
Am G F
The price for which progress was sold
C G F
There lies the truth so I'm told.
C G F C
If together you set out to conquer a mountain
C G F C
Pity the man who dares fall behind
Am G F C
It's on the trip to the top that temperaments are tested
Am G F C
It's on the decent that men tend to die
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Can you recognise a sin when you're sinning?
C G F C
Likewise tell that you're winning 'til you've won?
Am G F C
Triumph is nothing if not shared with someone
Am G F
Take mercy succumb to the cold
C G F
There lies the truth so I'm told
C G F C
Somewhere upon a godforsaken island
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Craggy and damp fallen men lie
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For thirty years have their widows been weeping
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Now their babies are waving goodbye
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Could I without question take sides for someone?
Am G F C
Tie a bayonet to the end of the gun
Am G F
And let them decorate me with gold?
C G F
There lies the truth so I'm told
C G F C
Is there such thing as a proud surrender?
C G F C
Is it ever the right time to run?
Am G F C
What will you tell your sweetheart at the station
Am G F
When her pretty waist you do hold?
C G F C
Have I the heart to love without limit?
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Have I the stomach to suffer unsure?
Am G F C
Have I the nerve to believe for a lifetime
Am G F
Fortune will favour the bold?
C G F C
I'm tired of waiting to be pleasantly saved
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From the purgatory my own recklessness made
Am G F Am
Some days I long in the distance to hear
C G F
A jackboot crack down the road
C G F
There lies the truth so I'm told
C G F
There lies the truth so I'm told