Key: E
Introduction:
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Let's begin at the beginning, we're lovers and we're losers
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We're heroes and we're pioneers, we're beggars and we're choosers
E F#m
Skirting 'round the edges of the ideal demographic
E D2
We're always on the guest list,but we're always stuck in traffic
A A4
We've watched our close associates up and play their parts
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They're chatting up the it girls, and they're tearing up the charts,
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While we were paying with coppers to get our round in at the bar.
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Justin is the last great romantic poet
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He's the only one among us who is ever gonna' make it
E F#m
We planned the revolution from a cheap Southampton bistro
E D2
I don't remember details, but there were English boys with Banjos
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Jay is our St George and he's standing on a wooden chair
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And he sings songs and he slays dragons and he's losing all his hair
E F#m
And Adam is the resurrected spirit of Gram Parsons
E D2
In plaid instead of Rhinestone and living in South London
E F#m
And no one's really clear about Tommy's job description
E D2
But it's pretty clear he's vital to the whole damn operation
E F#m
And Dave Danger smiles at strangers, Tre's the safest girl I know
E D2
And sullen hearts will scamper off to victory in the City we call home
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And we won't change our ways, we will proud remain,
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when the glory fades, when the glory fades
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Yeah they're waiting to be famous, and they're wondering why they do this
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And I know I'm not the one who is habitually optimistic
E D2
But I'm the one who's got the microphone here so just remember this
A A4
Yeah, well life is about love, lost minutes and lost evening
A A4
About fire in our bellies and about furtive little feelings
E F#m
And the aching amplitudes that set our needles all a-flickering
E D2
And they help us with remembering that the only thing that's left to do is
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live yeah the only thing that's left to do is
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live, after all of the loving and losing, after all the heroes and the pioneers
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The only thing that's left to do is get another round in at the bar.