Intro
C#
[Verse 1]
C# B
Well they crowned me with thorns on the day I was born
F# C#
By the light of a cold television
C# B
And I remember the bars on his uniform
F# C#
As he marched from the field of vision
C# B F# C#
[Verse 2]
C# B
When he didn't come home, it was just us alone
F# C#
The brat and the widowed civilian
C# B
Then one April night after Ma took her life
F# C#
I fell down the street to oblivion
[Chorus 1]
B F# C#
And I took what the dumpsters were giving
B F# C#
And I did my best to survive
B F# C#
'Cause I figured that life's for the living
G#
While you're alive
C#
While you're alive
[Verse 3]
C# B
Bring out the gin and the small violins
F# C#
I'm a raging success as a failure
C# B
And it's colder than hell in this cardboard hotel
F# C#
Which I share with a chronic embezzler
[Verse 4]
C# B
So I beat my retreat down Collister Street
F# C#
To one of my holy places
C# B
And they tangled my wings with wire and string
F# C#
But I'm spinning in a whirlpool of faces
[Chorus 2]
B F# C#
And I'll take what the dumpsters are giving
B F# C#
And I'll do my best to survive
B F# C#
'Cause I still think that life's for the living
B F# A F#
Yes I still think that life's for the li---ving
[Instrumental Build]
A B C#
[Singing comes back in]
C# B F# C# [x4]
[Chorus 3]
B F# C#
And I'll take what the dumpsters are giving
B F# C#
And I'll pray every night to St. Giles
B F# C#
But I still think that life's for the living
G#
At least for a while
C#
At least for a while
[Outro]
C# B F#
End on D