[Intro]
C G F C
[Verse]
C G
Duty, who's your master?
F
Who gave you fingers?
C
Who gave you to me?
C G
And why do we always dream of disaster
F C
When we pay our dues to disaster with some loyalty?
G C G F
And when its work is done, and we ought to just pick up and run, we
Ab C
Sleep in the place we have slept for so long...
[Chorus]
Am G F Em Dm C
So long, for so long, so long in the place we should run from
[Verse]
C G F
And when I, when I have forgotten, when I have forgotten me how to
C
Stand and sing
C G F
I will raise up, raise one finger, one finger of the truth that wears no
C
Ring
G C G F
And when its work is done, and the stitch of my smile has come
Ab Am
Undone, I'll tell you why I wore it for so long...
[Chorus]
Am G F Em Dm C
So long, for so long, so long in the place we should run from
[Bridge]
C G
But I wasn't so drunk that I didn't hear you dreaming
Bb F C
All seized up and wretched and baying blue hell at the ceiling of the room we're always dying to leave alright
[Break]
C C G F C
C C G F F Em Dm C
[Verse]
C G
Duty, who's your master?
F
Who gave you fingers?
C
Who gave you to me?
C G
And why are we always dreaming of disaster
F C
When we live our lives so careless and so comfortably?
G C G F Ab
O but underneath this song, I can hear another song, it tells me I'm
Am
Not wrong to stay so long...
[Chorus]
Am G F Em Dm C
So long, for so long, so long in the place we should run from
Am G F Em Dm C
So long, for so long, so long in the place we should run from
(repeat last phrase 3x)
[Outro]
C G Bb Am
And I wasn't so drunk that I didn't hear you dreaming