Chords for Failure

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_ [Dm] _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] And _
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_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [D] I [Dm] _ have been lonely _ And [A]
I _ have been blind
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[D] And I [Dm] _ have learned nothing So [A] my hands are firmly tied
_ [D] To the sinking _ _ land [Bb] way _ [D] of _ failure
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [D] _ I've worked hard all my life [Dm] _ _ [A] _
Money slips through my hand
_ My face in the [D] mirror tells [Dm] me [A] It's no surprise that I am _
_ [G] _ [Dm] _ Pushing [E] the [Bb] stone [A] up the hill of failure
_ _ _ And they tempt me with violence _ _ _ And they punish me with ideals
And they crush me with an image of my life That's nothing but unreal _
[Dm] Except on the _ [E] goddamn slave [Bb]
ship [A] of _ failure _ _
And _ _ I'll drown here trying _ To _ get up for some air
_ But each time I think I breathe _ _ I'm laid on with a double share
[Am] Of the [Dm] punishing _ [E] _ burden _ _
[A] of failure
_ _ I _ _ _ don't deserve to be down here But _ _ I'll never leave
_ _ And I, _ I've learned one thing You can't escape the beast
[Dm] In the null and _ void in a _ [A] _
failure _ world
_ Mmm, [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
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_ _ _ when I get my hands on some money _ I'll kiss its green skin
And I'll ask its dirty face Where the hell _ have you been?
[D] I'm the fuel that [Bb] fires _ [D] the engines of [A] failure.
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_ [D] _ And I'll be old and broken [Am] down, _ [A] _ and I'll forget who and where [Am] I am.
I'll [A] be senile _ or forgotten, _ but I'll remember _ and understand.
[Dm] And you can bank your [E] hard-earned money _ _ [A] on _ failure. _ _ _ _ _
I saw my father crying. _ _
_ I saw my mother break her hair on a wall _ that wouldn't weep, but that certainly _ held in
_ The [Dm] mechanical _ _
_ [Bb] maws [E] of [A] a dying man who was a failure. _ _ _
My back hurts me when I bend, _ _ cause I carry a load.
_ And my brain _ hurts like a knife hole, cause I've yet to be shown _
[C] How to [Dm] pull _ [E] myself out from the sucking whips and the failure. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Some [Dm] people lie in hell.
_ _ _ [D] _ [A] Many bastards succeed.
_ _ But I, _ I've learned nothing.
I can't even elegantly bleed _ [Am] out the _ [Dm] poison _ [E] _ blood _ [A] of _ failure. _ _ _ _
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