Intro and end of every verse
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FA LAm SOLm SIb
Another day dawns grey, It's enough to make my spit
FA LAm SIb SOLm
Still we go on our way, just putting up with it
DO REm DO SIb SOLm
And when I try to make my feelings known to you
FA LAm SIb SOLm FA
It sounds like you have changed from red to blue
FA LAm SOLm SIb
Well you're a father now, you see things in different ways
FA LAm SIb SOLm
For every parent will, gain perspective on their wilder days
DO REm DO SIb SOLm
But that alone does not explain, the change I see in you
FA LAm SIb SOLm FA
The way you've drifted off from red to blue
REm DO SIb FA
Sometimes I think to myself
SIb FA SIb FA
Should I vote red for my class or green for our children?
REm DO SIb FA
But whatever choice I make
SIb
I will not foresake e ----------------|
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G --9---7---5---3-|
D 10---8----7--5---| (not quite right -
A ----------------| but sounds good anyway)
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FA LAm SOLm SIb
So you bought it all, the best your money could buy
FA LAm SIb SOLm
And I watched you sell your soul for their bright shining lie
DO REm DO SIb SOLm
Where are the principles of the friend I thought I knew?
FA LAm SIb SOLm FA
I guess you let them fade from red to blue
FA LAm SOLm SIb
I hate the compromises that life forces us to make
FA LAm SIb SOLm
We must all bend a little if we are not to break
DO REm DO SIb SOLm
But the ideals you opted out of, I still hold them to be true
F Am Bb Gm F (hold)
I guess they weren't so firmly held by you.
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