Biography:
Amelia Curran is a Canadian singer, playwright,
and songwriter. She was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador and currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The National Post describes her music as “a bit like Leonard Cohen being channeled in a dusty saloon by Patsy Cline.”
Curran started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager and eventually dropped out of university in order to busk on the streets of St. John’s. That led to her first album release in 2000, and since then she has released four more.
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Amelia Curran – Mad World, Outlive Me
Capo 3rd fret
Intro: Am/E Am/B C F
Verse:
C
Feast on the labour
G
Of your mind
F
And you go hungry
C G
And you won’t go blind
Am
Feed on the pictures
Am/B F
Of all you’ve left behind
E
Knowing they are just pictures
Am Am/B C (Csus4 C) F
Still and sad and refined
Pre-Chorus:
C
It’s a mad world
G
To be stuck on the living
F
And it’s a heartbreaker
C G
To succumb to forgetting
Am
I keep wishing for something
F
And it gets in my way
E
My path is a jungle
Am Am/B C (Csus4 C)
It’s got too much to say
Chorus:
F
Outlive me outlive me
Am Am/B C (Csus4 C) G
I love you too much
G Am
Rubies and emeralds
Am/B C (Csus4 C)
And sapphires and such
F
Outlive me outlive me
C C/B Am
I love you too much
E Am
Coal into diamonds
Am/B C (Csus4 C) F
Ashes and dust
Verse:
There is a fire
In place of a stone
It softens the letters
And it takes you back home
Where once it was written
The lines we obeyed
Now tenderly questions
The choices we’ve made
Chorus:
Outlive me outlive me
I love you too much
Rubies and emeralds
And sapphires and such
Outlive me outlive me
I love you too much
Coal into diamonds
Ashes and dust
End: C C/B Am C G C
Capo 3rd fret
Intro: Am/E Am/B C F
Verse:
C
Feast on the labour
G
Of your mind
F
And you go hungry
C G
And you won’t go blind
Am
Feed on the pictures
Am/B F
Of all you’ve left behind
E
Knowing they are just pictures
Am Am/B C (Csus4 C) F
Still and sad and refined
Pre-Chorus:
C
It’s a mad world
G
To be stuck on the living
F
And it’s a heartbreaker
C G
To succumb to forgetting
Am
I keep wishing for something
F
And it gets in my way
E
My path is a jungle
Am Am/B C (Csus4 C)
It’s got too much to say
Chorus:
F
Outlive me outlive me
Am Am/B C (Csus4 C) G
I love you too much
G Am
Rubies and emeralds
Am/B C (Csus4 C)
And sapphires and such
F
Outlive me outlive me
C C/B Am
I love you too much
E Am
Coal into diamonds
Am/B C (Csus4 C) F
Ashes and dust
Verse:
There is a fire
In place of a stone
It softens the letters
And it takes you back home
Where once it was written
The lines we obeyed
Now tenderly questions
The choices we’ve made
Chorus:
Outlive me outlive me
I love you too much
Rubies and emeralds
And sapphires and such
Outlive me outlive me
I love you too much
Coal into diamonds
Ashes and dust
End: C C/B Am C G C
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