[Intro]
D/F# Em G Am C
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D/F# Em G Am C
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D/F# Em G Am C
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[Chorus 1]
D/F# Em G
………I love you, I love you, I told you I do
Am C D/F# Em
It’s all I’ve ever felt, I’ve never felt so well
G Am
And if you don’t know it, I wrote you this tune
C D/F# Em
To be here loving you when I’m in the tomb
G Am
I’ve eddied the heart now, from Dublin to Paris
C D/F# Em
And if there was sunshine, it was never on me
G Am C
So close, the rain, so pronounced is the pain….
Yeah
[Interlude]
D/F# Em G Am C
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D/F# Em G Am C
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[Chorus 2]
D/F# Em G Am
..Well, I love you, imagine a world without you
C D/F# Em
It’s only ever you, I only think of you
G Am
And if it’s a blessing, I want it for you
C D/F# Em
If I must have a future, I want to with you
G Am
Syst?m in our hearts, you only had it before
C D/F# Em
You only op?n the window, never open up the door
G Am C
And I love you, I love you, told you I do…..
[Interlude]
D/F# Em G Am C
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D/F# Em G Am C
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[Verse 1]
D/F# Em G
……Selling genocide and half-cut pride, I understand
Am C
I had to be there from the start, I had to be the ******* man
D/F# Em G
It was a clamber of the life, I sucked the ring off every hand
Am C
Had ’em plying me with drink, even met with their demands
D/F# Em G
When the cherries lined up, I kept the spoilings for myself
Am C
‘Til I had thirty ways of dying looking at me from the shelf
D/F# Em G
Cloud-parting smile I had, a real good child I was
Am C
But this island’s run by sharks with children’s bones stuck in their jaws
D/F# Em G
Now the morning’s filled with cokeys tryna talk you through it all
Am C
Is their mammy Fine Gael and is their daddy Fianna Fáil?
D/F# Em G
And they say they love the land, but they don’t feel it Go to waste
Am C
Hold a mirror to the youth and they will only see their face
D/F# Em G
Makes flowers read like broadsheets, every young man wants to die
Am C
Say it to the man who profits, and the bastard walks by
D/F# Em G
And the bastard walks by, and the bastard walks by
Am C
Say it to him fifty times and still the bastard won’t cry
D/F# Em G Am C
Would I lie?………..
[Chorus 3]
D/F# Em G Am
……I love you, I love you, I told you I do
C D/F# Em
It’s all I’ve ever felt, I’ve never felt so well
G Am
And if you don’t know it, I wrote you this tune
C D/F# Em
To be here loving you when I’m in the tomb
G Am
System in our hearts, you only had it before
C D/F# Em
Echo, echo, echo, the lights, they go
G
The lights, they go, the lights, they go
Am C
Echo, echo….
[Verse 2]
D/F# Em G
……..Selling genocide and half-cut pride, I understand
Am C
I had to be there from the start, I had to be the ******* man
D/F# Em G
It was a clamber of the life, I sucked the ring off every hand
Am C
Had ’em plying me with drink, even met with their demands
D/F# Em G
And I loved you like a penny loves the pocket of a priest
Am C
And I’ll love you ’til the grass around my gravestone is deceased
D/F# Em G
And I’m heading for the cokeys, I will tell them ’bout it all
Am C
About the gall of Fine Gael and the fail of Fianna Fáil
D/F# Em F
And now the flowers read like broadsheets, every young man wants to die
Am C
Say it to the man who profits, and the bastard walks by
D/F# Em G
And the bastard walks by, and the bastard walks by
Am C
Say it to him fifty times and still the bastard won’t cry
D/F# Em G Am C
Would I lie?……….