Love Ire And Song chords by Frank Turner

CAPO ON 3RD FRET
Intro: D D/A D/F# D G  A A/E (If you pluck the bottom note of each chord
and then the top three strings, it sounds like how Frank plays the intro)

     D          D/A     D/F#       D
Well a teacher of mine once told me that life was just a list of
  G                   A      A/E
disappointments and defeats and you could only do your best,
         D        D/A         D/F#
And I said "Well, that's a fucking cop-out, you're just washed up and you're
D        G             A
tired, and when I get to your age, well, I won't be such a coward"
     Em              G         Bm
But these days I sit at home, known to shout at my TV and Punk Rock didn't
         A
live up to what I hoped that it could be
      Em                 G
And all the things that I believed with all my heart when I was young are
   Bm              A
just coasters for beers and clean surfaces for drugs
   G       Em        G       A       D
And I packed all my pamphlets with my bibles at the back of the shelf

D/A D/F# D G A A/E

D
Well it was bad enough the feeling, and the first time it hit, when you
G                 A        A/E
realised your parents had let the world all go to shit
       D      D/A       D/F#        D
And that the values and ideals for which many had fought and died had been
    G                 A     A/E
killed off in the committees and left to die by the wayside.
      Em              G            Bm
But it was worse when we turned to the kids on the left and got let down
       A
again by some poor excuse for protest
    Em            G               Bm
Yeah by idiot fucking hippies in 50 different factions, who are locked
             A
inside some kind of 60's battle re-enactment
   G     Em     G      A       G  A
And I hung-up my banner in disgust and I head for the door

D       A        Bm       G
Oh but once we were young, and we were crass enough to care
        Em      A           Em      A
But I guess you live and learn, we won't make that mistake again, no
    D          A       Bm         G
Oh but surely just for one day, we could fight and we could win
         Em      A             Em      A
And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible

Bm                       A
Well we've been a good few hours drinking, so I'm going to say what everyone's thinking
     G              D        Em      A
If we're stuck on this ship and it's sinking, then we might as well have a
D
parade
      Bm                    A
Cos if it's still going to hurt in the morning and a better plan's yet to get forming
   G              D      Em     A    G  A
Then where's the harm spending an evening, in manning the old barricades

D                     G      A
So come on old friends to the streets let's be 1905 but not 1917
     D                            G
Let's be heroes, let's be martyrs, let's be radical thinkers who never have
         A
to test drive the least of their dreams.
   Em              G            Bm
Let's divide up the world into the damned and safe and then ride to the
           A
valleys like the old life brigade
  Em             G              Bm
And straighten our backs and we won't be afraid and they'll celebrate our
        A
deaths with a national parade

D       A        Bm       G
So come on let's be young, let's be crass enough to care
         Em      A            Em      A
Let's refuse to live and learn, let's make all our mistakes again yes
     D          A      Bm        G
And then darling, just for one day, we can fight and we can win
          Em    A              Em   A
And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible

D                            G
Leave the mourning the to the morning, yes pain can be killed with aspirin
      A
tablets and vitamin pills.
   D                     G     A      D
But memories of hope, and glorious defeat are a little bit harder to beat