Chords for Will Varley Cover - King for a King (live)

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_ _ [A] _ Six [E] seconds old in the [G#] arms of your mother. _ _ _
Six weeks later, you start to see color.
_ [C#] And you learn pretty [E] soon, [B] if you cry, [C#m] you get tits.
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You learn how to crawl, and you learn how [C#m] to shit.
[A] By the time [E] you can speak, [B] well, they've got you [C#m] in school.
[A] And just [E] asking questions [B] is breaking [C#m] the rules.
[A] Well, ten [E] years [B] later, the system [C#m] has won.
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[E] Thirteen, birthday, [B] they give [C#m] you a drink.
Say, [E] get it all down, you [B] forget how [C#m] to think.
So you [E] tell your first [B] girlfriend you're gonna [C#m] die young.
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_ At the end of [E] her garden, [B] she gives you [C#m] some tongue.
[A] Well, by fourteen, [E] she's left you [B] ill.
Life [C#m] is a prayer, you've got a shay on [E] your T-shirt,
[B] and spikes [C#m] in your hair.
[A] And your best friend [E] from school [B] says,
just [C#m] go to the future. _ _
_ [C] _ [A] You sit on [E] a wall, [B] and you talk [C#m] of the future. _ _
_ Say, keep for [Em] a key, _ _ [A] I've worn out.
_ You [E] still sing, but [Bm] they fall [C#m] from the sky.
[A] This little [E] _ whiskey, [B] it's [C#m] my cup.
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_ _ _ _ [A] You swear, [E] little nasty, _ [B] _ _ _ [A] you swear, little [E] nasty.
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_ _ Well, [A] your [E] teenage years, they scar [C#m] you like [A] daggers.
Your [E] _
[B] insecurities are turned into [C#m] a swagger.
Defensive as a [B] normandy, lacking [G#] _ maturity.
[E] Drink like a [B] fish, and smoke like [C#m] a [A] chimney.
You say, [D#] keep for a [B] key, I've [C#m] worn out.
[A] You [E] still sing, [B] but they fall [C#m] from the sky.
If we [E] stand on the [B] rooftops, we'll scream [C#m] and we'll shout.
If you swear that [E] [B] tomorrow, we'll [C#m] work it all out.
Please swear that [B] tomorrow, we're gonna work this all out.
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_ _ _ [A] Well, by [E] twenty, you're [B] starting to run [C#m] out of steam.
[A] You've got [E] no money, [B] you [C#] can't sell your [A] dreams.
You get a [E] job in an [B] office, like a means [C#m] to an end.
[A] You start [E] wearing [B] shirts, and losing [C#m] your friends.
Well, one [E] night you meet [B] a girl, having [C#m] a smoke.
[A] She looks [E] alright, and [B] she laughs [C#m] at your [A] jokes.
Well, take it [E] all, easy boy.
[B] You can't [C#] be lazy.
[Am] _
Watch [E] out, son.
_ [B] _ You've got a [D] baby.
_ _ Yeah, [E] I did have a boy.
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[C#m] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
_ Six seconds [E] on. _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] Six weeks later, [Bm] she starts to [C#m] see colour.
[A] And you swear [E] no harm will [B] come to her [C#m] or her mother.
[C#] You're [E] mean to it.
[F#] We're starting [C#m] to suffer.
[G#] Say [E] king for a king.
[B] Eye [C#m] for an eye.
The [A] birds [E] still [B] sing, but they fall [C#m] from the [A] sky.
[E] At least we can [B] laugh, and at least [C#m] we can smile.
[A] We [E] all just drop [B] in for a while.
Yes, [C#m] we all just [A] drop in [B] for a while. _ _ _ _
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_ _ Well, [A] your hair's [E] getting grey.
[B] Now, so [C#m] is your [A] moustache.
Your best friend [E] from school.
[B] He dies in [C#m] a car crash.
[A] _ Bury [E] him, it's raining.
[B] You stand by your [A] wife, you say,
What the fuck have I done with my life?
[C#m] I'm just a name [E] in a family [B] tree.
I'm [C#] nothing to history.
[A] But me [E] and my woman, [B] that's all that [G#] it means to me.
King [E] for a king.
[B] _ [G#] Eye for an eye.
The birds [E] still sing, [B] but they fall [C#] from the sky.
[A] Slip [E] a little whiskey [B] now into [C#m] my cup,
And I swear [E] that I'll never [B] grow up. _
[F#m] And I swear that I'll never grow up.
And [A] I swear [E] that I'll never [B] grow up. _
Yes, [F#m] I swear [E] that I'll never [B] grow up.
_ [A] And I [E] swear that I'll never [B] grow up.
_ But we swore that [E] we'd never [B] grow up.
_ Yes, [G#] I swore that I'd never grow up.
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
[A#] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _