Key: G
Introduction:
G Bm
If I was half alive
A Bm
Then you were dead
G D A
Subsistin' on that same old bread
G Bm
It's the memory that hides
A Bm
the whole wide world
G D A
it's the gas hed's love of america
BA
it's the memory that hides
BA
take your photographs back
BA
for the love of all gods
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B
our gas hed marches on
G Bm
He's a bona-fide man
A Bm
a star amongst his clan
G D A
and the only one that let me ride
G Bm
it's the memory that dies
A Bm
our gas hed was right
G D
when they lanced his skull
A
there was puss and light
it's the memory that dies