Lyrics of a song Graham Parker - Empty Lives

This one has  bunch of chords that are easy to play if 

the capo is at 4. Chords mapped out as if they were open. 

 

Intro Em   Cmaj7    Em    Cmaj7

 

     Esus4   Em       Cmaj7

I'm  just a tick in a box on a questionnaire

  Esus4  Em         Cmaj7

another moment that flashes into nowhere

  Esus4  Em       Cmaj7                     C

a brand name on a pill that get's you there,   ah ah ah ah

 

     Esus4   Em          Cmaj7

I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion

Esus4   Em       Cmaj7

the    past aint even worth livin in

    Esus4   Em       Cmaj7                  C                D7

its just a nail that keeps being driven in    ah ah ah ah 

 

 

     Esus4  Em            Cmaj7

I'm cold   blooded and completely relaxed

     Esus4   Em       Cmaj7

I'm breaking legs and avoiding the facts

           Esus4 Em       Cmaj7                     C

on the up escalator going down all the cracks, yeah   ah ah ah ah

 

    Esus4   Em         Cmaj7

You are the dummies of another frightened nation

        Esus4  Em       Cmaj7

I am a  candidate for elevation

            Em       Dsus4                  C

 but when i woke   up this morning I'd lost all sensation

D7

all sensation

 

        Em        C        Am

So get them, get him, but don't get me 

Bm                 Em         C

ah uh ah ah can't hear your cries

    Am       Bm      C          

so don't get me to fill up your empty lives

                Em    Cmaj7         Em

i   i   i   i  ives   Empty lives    

Cmaj7                  Em    Cmaj7               Em      Cmaj7

      Your empty lives              Empty lives 

 

Esus4  Em         Cmaj7

Be obedient, there is no escape

         Esus4  Em          Cmaj7

Forms to fill, time to kill love death and rape

     Esus4 Em               Cmaj7            C

Sleep baby sleep, don't let nothing awaken you   ahhhhhhhh

 

          Esus4  Em           Cmaj7

Don't look for tomorrow, it's given you the slip

        Esus4  Em          Cmaj7

that's all contained on a silicon chip 

            Em            Dsus4                  C

I'm losing shape for the eighties feeling everybody's grip slip

D7

everybody's grip slip

 

        Em        C        Am

So get them, get him, but don't get me 

Bm                 Em         C

ah uh ah ah can't hear your cries

    Am       Bm      C          

so don't get me to fill up your empty lives

                Em            D

i   i   i   i  ives   Empty lives   

 

C

Just there waiting to be filled 

       D

with someone else's stronger will

      Am                            C

Just can't reason to survive with empty empty 

                                                          D     

you got the empty empty, You got the empty empty, empty lives!

 

 

Yeah!   (solo)

 

    Esus4  Em    Cmaj7

Bring me water, bring me cocaine

          Esus4  Em            Cmaj7

Bring me something lethal, something that leaves a stain

      Em             Dsus4           C

But please don't make me feel that emptiness again

           D7

Feel the emptyness again 

 

        Em        C        Am

So get them, get him, but don't get me 

Bm               Em         C

ah uh ah ah get fat it's your size but

    Am       Bm      C

   don't get me to fill up your empty

    Am       Bm      C

   don't get me to fill up your empty

    Am       Bm      C

   don't get me to fill up your empty lives

                        Em     Cmaj7                   Em

i   i  i  i  i  i   i  ives            Your empty lives

 

Cmaj7                  Em

      Your empty lives

 

repeat andfade with ad libbing on "don't get me"  to end on chorus

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