Life During Wartime Chords by Talking Heads

[Start]

[Intro]
A7 Am7 A7 Am A7 Am A7
■  ■   ■  ■  ■  ■  ■ 


[Chorus]
                      A7                 
Heard of a van that's loaded with weapons
                       A7
Packed up and ready to go
A7                                         
Heard of some gravesites out by the highway
              Am     A7    Am
A place where nobody knows ■ 


[Verse]
A7                                      
The sound of gunfire off in the distance
                       A7 
I'm getting used to it now
A7                                     
Lived in a brownstone lived in a ghetto
                         Am  
I've lived all over this town


[Chorus]
E7                                     
This ain't no party this ain't no disco
              E             
This ain't no fooling around
E7 E                                
■  No time for dancing or loveydovey
                          E7 
I ain't got time for that now


[Verse]
A7                                  
Transmit the message to the receiver
                   A7     
Hope for an answer someday
A7                                     
I got three passports a couple of visas
                            A7  
You don't even know my real name
A7                                       
High on a hillside the trucks are loading
                      Am  
Everything's ready to roll
  A7                                             
I ■  sleep in the daytime I work in the nighttime
Am                       
I might not ever get home


[Chorus]
E                                      
This ain't no party this ain't no disco
                      E     
This ain't no fooling around
              E7               
This ain't no Mudd Club or CBGB
                              A7 Am
I ain't got time for that now ■  ■ 


[Inst]

[Verse]
Am                                     
Heard about Houston Heard about Detroit
      Am                 
Heard about Pittsburgh PA
    Am                                    
You oughta know not to stand by the window
                    Am   
Somebody see you up there
                     Am                
I got some groceries some peanut butter
                    Am  
To last a couple of days
Am                                                 
But I ain't got no speakers ain't got no headphones
                     Am     
Ain't got no records to play


[Chorus]
E           E7      E                     
Why stay in college Why go to night school
                        E   
Gonna be different this time
      E                                    
Can't write a letter can't send no postcard
                          E7  A7
I ain't got time for that now ■ 
           Am                               
Trouble in transit got through the roadblock
A7                     Am   
We blended in with the crowd
A7               Am                       
We got computers we're tapping phone lines
                       Am     
I know that that ain't allowed
   Am                                          
We dress like students we dress like housewives
                   Am 
Or in a suit and a tie
                       Am               
I changed my hairstyle so many times now
                         Am  
I don't know what I look like
                          A7       
You make me shiver I feel so tender
Am                        
We make a pretty good team
      Am                                
Don't get exhausted I'll do some driving
                          Am   
You ought to get you some sleep


[Outro]
       Am                                      
Burned all my notebooks what good are notebooks
     Am           
They won't help me