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For The Life Of Me

The Wallflowers
Version1
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
Am
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--1-----1-----3-----2-----3-----3----3----1--
--0-----0-----2-----3-----2-----0----4----2--
--2-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0----4----2--
--3-----2-----X-----X-----X-----2----2----0--
--X-----X-----X-----X-----X-----3----2----x--
I know  you  find it hard to smile
To  keep your  happiness in style
You  pass  in silence in the morning
You  know  you shouldn't ever try to ignore me
And  you look  to be pretty nervous
Sweaty  hands  and blood shot eyes
So  hard to  identify you
Just  a  loser  in a loser's disguise
With  your  fingernails painted red
And  your  eyes all ready to wed
Decorated  from head to toe
Like  a  magician  in a talent show
So  you've  smoked your last cigarette
Blindfolded  on a train from Tibet
Broke your  last bottle of wine
And  unraveled  your last ball of twine
 Break...just mess around with the chords
 and move up the neck with C a little
 *CHORUS*
She  don't back down
And  she won't  come around here
And  there's all this talk about dying
Man,  I  don't get it for the life of me
Well  I  know  you find it hard to smile
To  keep your  happiness in style
Pass  in silence  in the morning
You  know  you don't need to ignore me
Now  there's all this talkin' about dying
Man,  I  don't get it for the life of me.

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Readable chord sheet for For The Life Of Me by The Wallflowers

[C]    [C/B]    [D]    [Dsus4] [Dsus2]   [G]   [Bm]   [Am]
--0-----0-----2-----0-----3-----3----2----0--
--1-----1-----3-----2-----3-----3----3----1--
--0-----0-----2-----3-----2-----0----4----2--
--2-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0----4----2--
--3-----2-----X-----X-----X-----2----2----0--
--X-----X-----X-----X-----X-----3----2----x--

[C]I [C/B]know[D] y[Dsus4]ou find it hard to smile
[C]To[C/B] kee[D]p [Dsus4]your happiness in style
[C]Yo[C/B]u pa[D]ss[Dsus4] in silence in the morning
[C]Yo[C/B]u kn[D]ow[Dsus4] you shouldn't ever try to ignore me

[C]An[C/B]d yo[D]u [Dsus4]look to be pretty nervous
[C]Sw[C/B]eaty[D] h[Dsus4]ands and blood shot eyes
[C]So[C/B] har[D]d [Dsus4]to identify you
[C]Ju[C/B]st a[D] l[Dsus4]oser in a loser's disguise

[C]Wi[C/B]th y[D]ou[Dsus4]r fingernails painted red
[C]An[C/B]d yo[D]ur[Dsus4] eyes all ready to wed
[C]De[C/B]cora[D]te[Dsus4]d from head to toe
[C]Li[C/B]ke a[D] m[Dsus4]agician in a talent show

[C]So[C/B] you[D]'v[Dsus4]e smoked your last cigarette
[C]Bl[C/B]indf[D]ol[Dsus4]ded on a train from Tibet
[C]Br[C/B]oke [D]yo[Dsus4]ur last bottle of wine
[C]An[C/B]d un[D]ra[Dsus4]veled your last ball of twine

Break...just mess around with the chords
and move up the neck with C a little

*CHORUS*
[Bm]She[C] don't back down
[D]An[Dsus2]d she [G]won't come around here
[Em]And[C] there's all this talk about dying
[C]Ma[C/B]n, I[Am] don't get it for the life of me

[C]We[C/B]ll I[D] k[Dsus4]now you find it hard to smile
[C]To[C/B] kee[D]p [Dsus4]your happiness in style
[C]Pa[C/B]ss i[D]n [Dsus4]silence in the morning
[C]Yo[C/B]u kn[D]ow[Dsus4] you don't need to ignore me

[Em]Now[C] there's all this talkin' about dying
[C]Ma[C/B]n, I[Am] don't get it for the life of me.

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