Failure Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am]

[Verse 1]
[Am]I, I've been lonely
And I, I've been blind
And I,. I've learned nothing
So my hands are firmly tied
To [F]the sinking leadweight
[Am]Of failure

[Verse 2]
[Am]
I've worked hard all my life
Money slips through [F]my [Am]hands
My face in the mirror tells me
It's no surprise that I'm
Pushing [F]the stone up [Am]the hill

[Verse 3]
Of failure
[Am]
They tempt me with violence
They punish me with ideals
And they crush me with an image of my
Life that's nothing but unreal
Except on [F]the goddamned [Am]slaveship

[Verse 4]
Of failure
[Am]
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
Of the punishing burden
[F]Of [Am]failure

[Verse 5]
[Am]
I don't deserve to be down here
But I'll never leave
And I've learned one thing
You can't escape the beast
In the null [F]and void pit
Of [Am]failure

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 6]
When I get my hands [Am]on some money
I'll kiss it's green skin
And I'll ask it's dirty face
"Where the hell have
you been?"
"I am the fuel that fires[F] the engin[Am]e
Of failure."

[Verse 7]
I'll be old and [Am]broken down
I'll forget who and where I am
I'll be senile or forgotten
But I'll remember and understand
You can bank your hard-earned money
[F]money
[Am]On failure

[Verse 8]
[Am]
I saw my father crying
I saw my mother break her hand
On a wall that wouldn't weep
But that certainly held in
The mechanical [F]moans [Am]of a dying man
Who was a failure

[Verse 9]
My back hurts me [Am]when I bend
Because I carry a load
My brain hurts me like a knife-hole
Because Because I've yet to be shown
How to pull myself [F]out from
[Am]The sucking quicksand

[Interlude 2]
Of failure
[Am]

[Verse 10]
Some people live [Am]in hell
Many bastards succeed
But I. I've learned nothing
I can't even elegantly bleed
Out the poison [F]blood
Of [Am]failure

[Outro 1]
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