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[Verse 1]
     Em                            C
Well great clouds wrapped round the town like elastic
G                              D
Cars stood like toys made from Taiwanese plastic
     Em                        C                    D
the boy laughed at the spastic dancing around in the rain
G                               D
While laundrettes clean clothes high heals rub toes
     Em                        C
Puddles splashed huddles of bus top crows
G                               D                                C
Dressed in their suits and their boots where they all looked the same

[Chorus 1]
     Em                        C
I took myself down to the cafe to find all, 
    G                      D
the boys lost in books and crackling vinyl, 
   Em                 C                    D       
and carved out a poem above the urinal that read..

          Em                D
Don't you cry for the lost, smile for the living, 
G                     C
get what you need and give what your given, 
Em                        C                           D
life is for the living so live it, or your better off dead.

[Verse 2]
     Em                          C
Well the evening pulled the moon out of its package
    G                             D
The stars shun like buttons on an old mans jacket
   Em                   C                              D
We needed a nail but we tapped it till it fell off the wall
      G                  D
While pigeons Peg drains sparks flew like planes 
    Em                             C
the rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains
   G                       D                    Em
We all had new iPhones but no one had no one to call

[Chorus 2]
     G                      D
When I stumbled down to the stomach of the town 
      Em                           C
where the window takes memories to slowly drown, 
       G                     D                  Em
with a hand to the sky and a mist in her eye she said..

          Em                D
Don't you cry for the lost, smile for the living, 
G                     C
get what you need and give what your given, 
Em                        C                           D
life is for the living so live it, or your better off dead.

[Verse 3]
    Em                     C          
I'm sick of this town this blind mans forage
   G                             D
we take the dreams down and they stick em in storage
    Em                       C                                      D
and you can have em back son when you've paid off your mortgage and loans
   G                        D    
oh hell with this place ill go it my own way 
     Em                     C
I'll stick out my thumb and trudge down the highway
G                       D            C
someday someone must be going my way home

[Chorus 3]
           Em                      C
until then I'll make my bed from a Disused car 
           G                         D
and with a mattress and leaves and a blanket of stars 
      Em                         C                       D
and I stitched the words into my heart with a needle and thread..

          Em                D
Don't you cry for the lost, smile for the living, 
G                     C
get what you need and give what your given, 
Em                        C                           D
life is for the living so live it, or your better off dead.

          Em                D
Don't you cry for the lost, smile for the living, 
G                     C
get what you need and give what your given, 
Em                        C                           D
life is for the living so live it, or your better off dead.