Every Defeat a Divorce (Three Lions) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
I am not [A]a crutch
[D]Although my [Bm]knees [D]are rife
[G]with woodworm
And the mealworms I mis
[A]heard [D]for lunch
Are rotting in my [G]guts
[D]With a childhood of finger[A]nails
That [G]ripped my throat to shreds
A walk that chimes like [A]church bells
From [G]all these loose joints in my legs

[Verse 2]
[G]These three [Em]lions that were
sitting on my chest
Are clawing hard into my [D]skin
As I am gasping for my breath
And as they [G]each play
noughts and crosses
On the scratches they have left
I have to screw up both my [D]eyes
As it goes into sudden [F#m]death.
They [Em]whisper
"Really all these noughts
are circles holed, bereft
And all these [D]crosses crucifixes,
Spreading guilt and sense of dread."
And as we [G]stumbled homeward up the hill
To where you used to live
The cold makes ice upon our [D]cheeks
From all the tears that we have shed

[Verse 3]
[Em]These things rattle round my head
If he hasn't blown the whistle
Then it isn't quite the [G]end.

[Verse 4]
Every defeat a divor[Em]ce
Although I look surprised
It's [G]par for the course I [D]guess
[G]Every defeat a divor[Em]ce
Although I look surprised
It's [G]par for the course I [D]guess

[Verse 5]
And I don't [Em]really know now
What I [D]thought I knew then
[F#m]You can lead a[G] horse to water
But it won't drown [Bm]it se[D]lf
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[Interlude 1]
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[D]This one family pho

[Verse 6]
[A]tograph
Al[Bm]ways floats [G]to [D]the top[G]
Like a [D]beaming, [A]bloated corpse
Though [Bm]having been [G]made up
My memories are [A]sepia
But the [Bm]photograph [G]is not
An historian is [A]fucking with them
As [Bm]deadly [G]as garrotte

[Verse 7]
Where they're [G]standing
in the [Em]kit chen
With his arms around her waist
With no idea of what's to [D]come
And a smile across your face
And all the [G]fittings are the same
But every other thing has changed
Must forget everything you [D]know
As though your mouth
and tongue estranged
Small [Em]comforts found
in ABBA Gold
And electronic chess
When [D]West Clewes was my Waterloo
My most dramatic test
Now I've been [G]walking
down the shortcuts
And the alleys in the dark
Because I'm [D]not scared
of the shadows
They're no blacker than my heart

[Verse 8]
[Em]These things rattle round my head
If he hasn't blown the whistle
Then it isn't quite the [G]end.

[Verse 9]
Every defeat a divor[Em]ce
Although I look surprised
It's [G]par for the course I [D]guess
[G]Every defeat a divor[Em]ce
Although I look surprised
It's [G]par for the course I [D]guess

[Verse 10]
But [G]how could I ever [D]refuse
[G]I feel like I lose when [D]I lose

[Verse 11]
And I don't [Em]really know now
What I [D]thought I knew then
You can [G]lead a horse to water
But it won't drown [D]itself

[Outro 1]
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