45 Chords by Elvis Costello

[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ There's a [Gm] chime in the [D] victory.
[D] _ _ [C] There's a [G] page back in history.
_ [Am] Fortified. _
[A] _ _ _ [G] _ [A] _ They came [D] back to the world that [G] they fought [D] for.
Didn't turn out [G] just like they thought.
[A] _ Fortified.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ Here [E] is a song we _ [D] sing to [E] do the measuring.
_ [D] _ Why do you lose?
[E] Why do you gain?
Why do you win? _ _
[G] _ Nine years later, a child is born.
_ There's a record so you put it on.
Fortified. _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ Nine years [D] more, we'll be looking _ [Em]
[D] now.
Nine [G]-year-old bitches running down.
_ Fortified.
_ [A] _ _ _ [G] _
[A] _ Every [G] [D] scratch, every click, every heartbeat,
every [G] breath that I held for you.
[A] Fortified.
[G] _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _
[A] _ There's [G] a [D] stack that you're lacking, my [G] _
[D] love.
Which is [G] yours and which is [A] mine?
_ Fortified.
_ _ _ [G] _
[D] _ _ Here [E] is a song we [D] sing to do [E] the measuring. _
[D] _ Why do you [E] lose?
Why do you gain?
Why do you win?
_ _ _ _ [G] Basing trouble heal every _ [D] hurt.
[G] There's a rebel in a nylon shirt.
[A] _ But the [G]
[D] words are a mystery, [F#m] I've heard.
Till you turn it [Bm] down to 33 and a [A] third.
Cause [G] it [D] helps with the [G] _ [D] elocution.
_ _ [G]
Corporations turned _ revolutions.
_ [A] Fortified.
[Gm] _
[A] _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ So don't [E] you weep in shame.
[D] _ Just change [E] and then escape.
_ [D] _ [A] Why do you lose [E] when it all goes through your _ head? _
_ [A] I had [E] something [D] peculiar _ said.
Perhaps has got a [G] shot now is dead.
_ [A] Fortified.
_ _ _ _ [D#] _
[A] _ [D] Bells are jingling and tears are _ falling.
It creeps [G] up on you without a warning.
[A] _ Fortified.
[G] _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _
[A] _ Every [G] scratch, [D] every click, every [G] heartbeat,
[D] _ every breath [G] that I blessed, I've been lost, I confess.
_ [Am] _ Fortified.
[G] _
[A] _ _ _ [G] _ [A] _ Fortified.
[G] _
[A] _ _ _ [G] _ [A] _ Fortified.
[G] _
[A] _ _ _ [G] _ [A] Fortified. Fortified. _
_ _ [G] _ [A] Yeah!
_ _ [G]
[A] Wooo!
_ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _
Wooo!
_ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] Wooo!
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _