G.    3,2,0,0,3,3
C.    x,3,2,0,1,0
D/F#. 2,x,0,2,3,2 or x,x,3,2,3,1
Dm/F. 1,x,0,2,3,1
C/E.  0,3,2,0,1,0
G/B.  x,2,0,0,0,3
A7.   x,0,2,0,2,0
C/D.  x,5,5,5,5,x or x,x,0,0,1,0
D.    x,x,0,2,3,2
Em.   0,2,2,0,0,0
G/D.  x,x,0,4,3,3 or x,x,0,0,0,3 
Am.   x,0,2,2,1,0
G7.   3,5,3,4,3,3
Cmaj7 x,3,2,0,0,0
Cm.   x,3,5,5,4,3
B7.   x,2,1,2,0,(2)

[intro]

| G | G | C | C | G | G | C |

[verse 1]

C            G                   D/F#
Well it's so easy to be witty in retrospect
            Dm/F                          C/E
When you're out of door you pause a moment to reflect
           G                            A7
On all the crushing one-liners that you should have said
        C                            C/D
But you always were reduced to angry words instead

[chorus]

G        D/F#   Em         G/D
Fighting talk on...the stairs
  C          G/B    Am      D
Is enough to show who never cared
G        D/F#     Em         G/D
Fighting talk, who will be spared
    C                  G/B            Am     D
The abuse that's always hurled as you curse
    Em     D
and swear

[verse 2]
            G                        D/F#
But it's so cruel how the moment can let you down
       Dm/F                        C/E                        G
And how eloquence deserts when you find yourself on sensitive ground
G                     A7
You slam the door and turn the catch
               C                         C/D
You turned your home into a prison conversation into a slanging match

[chorus]

G        D/F#   Em         G/D
Fighting talk on...the stairs
  C          G/B    Am      D
Is enough to show who never cared
G        D/F#     Em         G/D
Fighting talk, who will be spared
    C                  G/B            Am     D
The abuse that's always hurled as you curse
    G      G7
and swear

[interlude]

    Cmaj7          Cm
But oh my love I'm sick and tired
   B7              Em
Of all the cruelty love's acquired
A7
We never more need come to harm
      C                   D
If you lay your head here on my faithless

G   D/F#   Em    G/D
arm.................
C   G/B    Am    D
....................

[chorus]

G        D/F#   Em         G/D
Fighting talk on...the stairs
  C          G/B    Am      D
Is enough to show who never cared
G        D/F#     Em         G/D
Fighting talk, who will be spared
    C                  G/B            Am     D
The abuse that's always hurled as you curse    and..

[outro]

G   D/F#   Em    G/D
..swear.................
C   G/B    Am    D
...........Figh..ting..
G   D/F#   Em    G/D
..talk............oohoo
C   G/B    Am    D
........Figh..ting....
G   D/F#   Em    G/D
...........fighting...oohoo
C   G/B    Am    D
talk...........Figh..ting..