King For A King Chords by Will Varley

_ _ _ [A] _ _
[B] This song's about growing [A] up.
Growing [E]
up, where did you [B] get your hair cut?
[C#m] _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ When _ _ _ you're six seconds old
[Em] in the [Bm] arms of your mother
_ _ [B] _ _ [E]
six weeks late you start to see colour _ _
and you learn pretty soon
if [B] you cry, you [C#m] get _ tits.
_ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ It's the truth.
_ _ _ _ No, I'm just kidding.
_ [C#m] _
You learn how to [E] crawl
and you learn how [C#m] to shit.
_ By the time you can speak
[G#m] they've got you in [C#] school
_ where [F#] just [E] asking _ questions
is breaking the [C#m] rules.
[A] Where ten [E] years later
the system has won.
You stop asking questions
and sucking your thumb.
[A] _ On your thirteenth [E] birthday
they give you a drink.
_ So you get it all down,
you forget how to think.
_ So you [C#m] tell your first girlfriend
you're gonna die young. _ _
[E] At the end of her _ garden
[B] she gives you some [C#m] tongue. _
_ [E] Well, by fourteen she's left you.
[B] Life is [C#m] unfair.
You've [E] got a shay on your T-shirt
and spikes in [C#m] your head.
[A] And your [E] best friend from school
[B] she just [C#] doesn't suit you.
_ [E] You sit on a wall
and you [B] talk of the [C#] future.
_ [A] Say king [E] for a king, _
pie for a nine.
The _ birds still sing
when they probe from the sky.
_ If I slip a little
whiskey [B] now into [C#m] your cup
you [E] swear that you'll never grow [Bm] up. _ _ _
_ [E] You swear
that you'll never grow [B] up. _ _
_ _ _ _ _
Well, _ [A] you're _ [E]
teenagers.
_ _ [B] Sky you [C#m] like diamonds.
[A] Your _ [E] insecurities
_ [B] turn into [C#m] a swat.
[Em] They fancy fires and omen.
[B] They lack in [C#m] _
maturity.
[A] Drink [E] like a fish,
_ [B] smoke like [C#m] a chimney.
[A] King [E] for a king,
[B] _ pie [C#m] for a nine.
The [A] _ [E] birds still sing
[B] when they probe from the [C#m] sky.
_ _ _ [A] We stand on [E] the rooftops.
We [B] scream and we [C#m] shout.
If [A] you swear [B] that tomorrow will work it [E] out.
If you swear that tomorrow
[B] will work [E] it out.
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Well, [A] by twenty [E] it's starting
to [B] run out of [C#m] steam.
[A] You've got no [E] money
and you [B] can't sell your [C#m] dreams.
You get [A] a job in [E] an office
[B] like a mean [C#m] student.
_ Then you [E] start wearing shirts
[B] and losing [C#m] your friends.
Then [E] one night you'll meet a [B] girl
loving [C#m] a smoke.
[E] She looks alright _ and she laughs
at your [C#m] jokes.
_ _ [A#] [E] Take it all easy, boy.
[B] You can [E] be lazy.
_ _ Watch out, son.
_ _ [B]
You've got [C#] a _ _ baby. _ _ _ _ _
[A] Six [E] seconds old
in [B] the [E] arms of your lover.
_ _ [A] _ Six [E] weeks later
she [B] starts to [C#m] see colour.
And you [A] swear that [E] no harm
[B] will come to her or [C#m] her mother.
[A] Your means [E] to her head
[B] is starting [C#m] to suffer.
[E] King _ for a king,
[B] _ pie [F#] for a nine.
The [A] birds [E] still sing when they [B] probe [C#m] from the sky.
_ _ _ But at [A] least we can [E] laugh.
[B] And at least we can _ [E] smile.
Because we're all just dropping
[B] for a while.
_ _ _ _ Yeah, [E] we're all just dropping _
[B] for a while. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
Now [A] your hair's [B] getting grey
and so is your [C#m]
moustache.
[A] Your best [E] friend from school
[B] who dives in [C#m] a car crash.
You [A] bury him [E] in his drain
and [B] you stand by [C#m] your wife.
You [E] say, what have I done with [B] my life? _
I'm just [A] a name
in a [E]
family tree.
[B] Nothing [C#m] to history [A] like
me and [E] my woman.
[B] That's all [C#m] that it means to [A] me.
King [E] for a king,
[B] _ pie [C#m] _
_ _ [A] _ [E] for a nine.
The birds still sing when [B] they probe from [C#m] the sky.
_ So [A]
signal [E] your
wispy [B] eye into [C#m] my car
and [A] we'll swear [E] that we'll never [B] grow up.
_ Yeah, [A] we'll swear that [E] we'll never grow [B] up.
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