Ivory Road Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][B][C][Am]
[C][G][Am][D][G]

[Verse 1]
[G]You're
the nose on my bullet
The trigger on my gun
You're [B]the sandbank in the ocean
Oxygen in my blood
You're the [Am]fastest of the fish

[Verse 2]
[Am]
You're the prickliest pear
You're a [G]chameleon in the night
You're the sahara's sun glare

[Verse 3]
You're my [G]mind's rest
You're the strings on my guitar
You're the [Am]wax in my moustache
The keys to my car

[Verse 4]
You're the ma[D]gical mermaid's
hollowed illusion
You cool them, fool them
And they hope so much
And you [G]let them down
And you watch from your rock
And your heart beats fast as

[Verse 5]
you watch their's stop
[G]I will keep on loving
'Cos I believe in love
[D]I d[Am]on't mind dying
If you follow me up

[Verse 6]
Your [G]victory's your defeat
Your head above your heart
[Am]Only the brave surrender
[D]Death cannot tear us apart

[Interlude 1]
[G][Am]
[D][G]

[Verse 7]
Well my [G]smile is wider
Than your's when we meet
And the [B]winter is colder
For me underneath
And I [C]know that you glow
From the inside out
You [G]can keep it for yourself

[Verse 8]
And I'll go without
[G]You are the fire and I'm the chimney
You'll burn away and I'll
choke on your memory
All the [Am]words, my sense,
you're the poet to my pen
You're the dream that brings
the morning sadness
[D]Start the day storm in my [G]head

[Verse 9]
Well you're [G]the Oscar Wilde short
stories in my bookcase
You're [Am]positively 4th street
isolated in my itunes
You're the [D]word in the dictionary
that I can't spell
Can't describe,
can[G]'t put in a sentence but use all the time

[Verse 10]
Your [G]own pair of trousers
look better on me
The [Am]boots of spanish leather
And the bottom of the sea
Every [D]symbol of love that
doesn't relate to a meaning
Every [G]feeling, every sensation

[Verse 11]
Only real when I'm dreaming
[G]I will keep on loving
'Cos I believe in love
[Am]I don't mind dying
If you follow me up

[Verse 12]
Your [G]victory's your defeat
Your head above your heart
[Am]Only the brave surrender
[D]Death cannot tear us apa[G]rt
Well I wish we were animals free of loves games

[Verse 13]
I wish [D]we
were snails
with really big shells
I wish I [Am]was a lion, I'd be king of the wild
I'd command [D]all the beasts to carry
[Am]you when you're tired

[Verse 14]
I'm the elephant in the [Am]circus
Oh, you're my trainer
You'd never let me [D]go
But if you did I would stay here
In love there is freedom
But it must be returned
There must be sacrifice
Love must be learnt

[Verse 15]
A donkey, a mule, a lifetime of work In death he rests [D]his
head from
his reins
No burden to bare but work left
him lame
And the lion on the moun
[G]tain chased from his pride
His lioness stolen, his rival survives
The sound of his cubs in
death are dim
He knows his world well,

[Verse 16]
no pain can defeat him
[G]Wild horses in the [Am]wilderness
Will [D]know no journey [G]home
Well my love is locked in [Am]chains
[D]The lion walks [G]alone
Oh the lion [Am]walks alone
[D]Nature is cruel
But he [G]knows it's his home

[Verse 17]
[G]He to his demons
And [Am]you to your own
[D]Please let me stand by [G]you
And we'll [Am]conquer them [D]all
We will [G]conquer them all

[Verse 18]
[G]Oh [Am]I wil[D]l conque[G]r them all (x3)