{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2148625,"song":"Living And The Dead","artist":"David Dondero","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11464466-living-and-the-dead-chords-by-david-dondero/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2148625?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"Threw this together real quick after watching his live radio performance.. \r\nHis tempo changes here and there, check out a couple different live versions to get the feel. Thanks!\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nChose an easy rhyme to fill these moments of your time[/tab]\r\n\r\nI tried to keep between the line, looking forward and behind\r\n\r\nI studied highway archeology, poetry and rhythm\r\n\r\nAs I'm tapping in the forniac this moment of expression\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]\r\nIt's evolving and dissolving, connecting and exploding,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBuilding up and then eroding[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's the end and I keep rolling[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F[/ch]                                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI played a skinny, skinny indie white boy blues in a scuffed up military style shoes[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI'm a convenient store connoisseur[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOn a broken shoestring budget tour[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFlap or float, just barley float[/tab]\r\nSing it fast and now get them all\r\nGet no one knows success\r\nIt's soon forgotten, put to rest\r\nCrossed the country a million times\r\nTrillion roads, gazillion signs\r\nA re-enactment is this life\r\n[tab]                                                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThese words are just a bite from all those heroes that I heard[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Fmaj7[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nJust paraphrasing words. To leave behind a song,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA re-enactment of a song[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHey I'm in love with this living and the dead[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHey I'm in love with the living and the dead[/tab]\r\nLiving and the dead\r\nI'm in love with a lover whose dead\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI've seen some highs and lows[/tab]\r\nI've seen those Akron’s and Toledo's.\r\nAnd you know we’ve done some shows, not a single person goes.\r\nDriven fourteen hours\r\nJust to play into the sound guys\r\nHe's reading his book\r\nYou’ve got to suck it up and try\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                                         [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]\r\nSome bartender's playing on that mega touch machine[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHearing on her long fingernails tapping on that screen[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd it's a cold bleak night as the poles bleeding light[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nDetroit's abandoned, no casinos in my sights.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nI Got to kill my time, I’m a ghost out on these streets.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI'll be sleeping in my truck tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd not sleeping in your ice cold sheets[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nCause I got a scrambled heart, it's a little over cooked[/tab]\r\nGot a novel full of wishes missing from your book\r\nThere's no insurance in this life\r\nNo protection from the night\r\nToo many rules and no direction\r\nYou walk under a knife\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]\r\nIt's just this temporality, of creating fleeting moments[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIf your lacking in permanent[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou better make your moment potent ah ugh[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHey I'm in love with this living and the dead[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHey I'm in love with the living and the dying[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHey I'm in love with the living and the dead[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHey I'm in love with the living and the dying[/tab]\r\n\r\nLiving and the dead\r\nI'm in love with the living and the dead\r\nLiving and the dead\r\nI'm in love with a lover whose dead","plain_text":"Threw this together real quick after watching his live radio performance.. \nHis tempo changes here and there, check out a couple different live versions to get the feel. Thanks!\n\n[Verse]\n\n\nI tried to keep between the line, looking forward and behind\n\nI studied highway archeology, poetry and rhythm\n\nAs I'm tapping in the forniac this moment of expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSing it fast and now get them all\nGet no one knows success\nIt's soon forgotten, put to rest\nCrossed the country a million times\nTrillion roads, gazillion signs\nA re-enactment is this life\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\nLiving and the dead\nI'm in love with a lover whose dead\n\n[Verse]\n\nI've seen those Akron’s and Toledo's.\nAnd you know we’ve done some shows, not a single person goes.\nDriven fourteen hours\nJust to play into the sound guys\nHe's reading his book\nYou’ve got to suck it up and try\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGot a novel full of wishes missing from your book\nThere's no insurance in this life\nNo protection from the night\nToo many rules and no direction\nYou walk under a knife\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\nLiving and the dead\nI'm in love with the living and the dead\nLiving and the dead\nI'm in love with a lover whose dead","chords":["C","G","Fmaj7","F","A","Am"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"Fmaj7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,0,3,4,2,0],"frets":[1,-1,2,2,1,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}