Chords for Why Write A Letter That You'll Never Send

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_ _ [A] _ _ _ We _
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_ _ _ [E] don't write letters _ anymore, [Ab] there ain't the time or place, _ [A] but a friend of mine wrote
something like a [C] letter _ yesterday.
[C] It [E] was smuggled through my inbox just this [Ab] morning, _ [Ab]
3am.
_ More [A] important than important, let me [C] read it now _ _ verbatim. _ _ _
He [E] says I got that same old feeling, [Gb] the one [Ab] that turns the birds to broods.
_ [E] _ The [A] sky is like a bad [Dbm] dream and [C] the earth is in _ cahoots.
_ [E] I don't believe no one no more, [Ab] I don't care what no one says.
[Ebm] I just [A] want to make the world a much [C] less _ painful place.
We [E] look fonder _ on the good old [Db] days as they [Ab] drift further away.
_ _ [B] But why [A] if everyone feels so homesick are they [C] _
always setting sail?
[D] _ [E] Cause it's all bad news up there on deck and [Ab] each headland masks the next.
_ I just [A]
assumed I'd been in the ocean and [C] forgot the blood and sweat.
_ _ [E]
Forgot all _ aspirations, _ [Ebm] they just [Ab] put everyone at odds.
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[A] If I'd all handed the devil's [Ab] word [C] then where's the time for God's, are you?
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_ Why write a letter [C] that you'll never send _ _ _ _ [E] away? _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Ab] Stay _ _ [D] with _ me, [Dbm] wait _ [A] and see.
[B] And all you [Bm] need know, _ [E] _ _ _ nobody's _ perfect [A] and the things [Gbm] are _ [E]
always [D] _ starved. _ _ _ _
_ [Dbm] Wait, _ you'll see, [B] all _ [Db] you [D] need know, _ [Gb] _
[E] _ _ _ everybody's hurt and [A]
the [Abm] needs are [Gbm] _ always [D] _
_ starved.
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_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [E] Who cares about wars of choice in [Ab] lands where states indulge their passions?
_ [B]
[A] And all the new shoots just jackboots scoot [C] all dissent.
Out of fashion, [G]
[E] like Fred Astaire's at a film premiere [Db]
[Ab] that is all about them.
_ [B]
[A] It's stirring stuff, _ transformative, [E]
[C] they don't care where they're sitting. _
And [E] they're all kiss-chasing childish [Bb] dreams [Ab] of a privileged _ masculinity. _
[A] Till they're spent by shock and discharged home [C] to small town and big city.
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And [E] the rest of the type left dying or dead from [Ab] just trying to be useful.
They've [A] been handy in the years gone by and they'll [C] be handy in the future.
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And who [E] cares for their survival? _
And [Ab] who cares about the yanks?
[Am]
Who [A] cares if they get [Ab] overrun [C] by Chinese nukes and tanks?
[E] And who cares about the Holocaust?
[Ab] Man, we didn't learn nothing there.
_ [E]
[A] And all it's memory does is keep [C] the history channel on air.
And [E] who cares about that Vatican?
_ Man, [Ab]
everybody _ knows.
_ And [A] who's surprised that when they chose a [C] Nazi for a pole?
And [E] who cares about fakes like anarchists?
Man, [Ab] they never want to dance.
_ [A] Let's make a boomerang additional, give [C] _ anarchy a chance.
I'm [E] saying life is cruel, you know it's true.
But all [Ab] sides still try to recruit ya.
But _ _ sheckelized and practical [C] and steward of Kama Sutra. _
_ [D] _ Why write a letter that [C] you'll never send _ _ _ _ [E] away? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Stay [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [D] with me, _
[Dbm] wait _ and see.
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And [Db] all [D] you need know, _ [E] _
_ nobody's perfect and [A] their [Dbm] needs are _ [E] _ always [Ab] starved.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Dbm] Wait and see, [B] and all [Bm] you need [Gb] know, [E] _ _ _ everybody's got the fact their [Abm] needs are _ [E] _
[D] always _ _ starved. _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [E] And who cares if you're starving millions?
No, if [Ab] it's Christmas or your birthday.
[A] Or what movie [Gbm] stars in Africa [C] or the guy from U2 says.
_ [E]
Or all the statesmen never telling [Ab] lies as truth or _ gospels.
[A] Who cares what's true or false, the truth's [C] the world won't go to hospital.
[E] Who needs to live forever _ and [Ab] who needs the extra _ miles?
[A] We won't need bees [Gbm] or seed banks in [C] the Arctic for a while.
_ _ [E] And play the game, _ start again, [Ab] that's a better life for all.
_ It's the [A] _
appropriate _ _ opiate [C] when the better way is impossible.
_ [E] Some honesty now wouldn't go astray [Ab] and if not, well what's the [Eb] use?
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We're animals, we can't help [C] doing what all animals do. _
[E] So goodbye my friend, I'm hitting send.
[Ab] Forgive me, talking straight. _ _
[A] I'm only trying to make the world [C] a much less painful place. _
[D] _ _ Why write a letter that [C] you'll never send? _ _ _ _
[E] Away. _ _ _ _ _ _
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