Verse
G-F#
One fine day near the end of the tax year
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Mr Richards was gripped by a new fear
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Who would be at his retirement party
Verse 2:
G-F#
And though he still had years to go before he
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Slipped over the edge of the workforce
G# D#m F# G# G-F#
The question remained and in his wake there came an army
Chorus:
A#m F# C# G#
What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?
A#m F# C# G#
He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out
A#m F# C# G#
And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out
A#m F# (Back to main riff)G-F#
That's when his roof caved in
Verse 3:
G-F#
And so he made a list of all the people he worked with
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And cut it down to the ones he got on with
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Paired each one off with the decade of his career
Verse 4:
G-F#
And then he thought of all his friends from back home
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The crazies, the ladies, the lovers he'd known
G# D#m F# G# G-F#
And then he looked around his office and wondered why he was still here
Chorus:
A#m F# C# G#
What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?
A#m F# C# G#
He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out
A#m F# C# G#
And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out
A#m F# C#
That's when he realised that he scrimped and saved all his precious days
F#sus4
So he could buy icers and microwaves
A#m G# F#
And he only looks forward to his holidays
That's when his roof caved in.
Bridge:
G# A#m D#m F# F#/F
And it would be nice to have holiday homes and healthy bank statements and
D#m G#
fat little kids,
G# A#m D#m F# F#/F
And I guess you can be happy to dream all your dreams as camcorder records
D#m G#
of the things that you did,
G# A#m D#m F# F#/F
But as soon as your sleeping does it really matter what mattress you happen
D#m G#
to be sleeping on?
G# A#m Csus4(Let Ring)
As long as your living and your having fun; he always laughed at the
F#(Let Ring) G-C
drop-outs, that he could never live that way.
F#sus4 F#sus A#m
But the truth is Mr Richards was a coward, he was afraid.
Instrumental Break. A#m F# C# G# A#m F# C# C# F#sus4 F#sus4 C# A#m F# F#
final Verse:
C-C#
Mr Richards decided on the very next morning
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To make his life and work the same thing
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Cleared he desk, he hit the road and he never retired.
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