Life During Wartime Chords by Talking Heads
- Key: A
- BPM: 133
- Capo: no capo
DOWNBEAT
LIFE DURING WARTIME CHORDS
[Start] [Intro] A7 Am A7 Am A7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] 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 A7 A place where nobody knows Am A7 ■ The sound of gunfire off in the distance Am A7 I'm getting used to it now A7 Lived in a brownstone lived in a ghetto Am E I've lived all over this town ■ [Chorus] E7 E E7 E This ain't no party this ain't no disco E This ain't no fooling around E7 No time for dancing or loveydovey E E7 G 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 E7 I might not ever get home [Chorus] E This ain't no party this ain't no disco E7 This ain't no fooling around ■ E E7 This ain't no Mudd Club or CBGB E I ain't got time for that now [Inst] E7 Am Heard about Houston ■ Heard about Detroit [Verse] 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 E Ain't got no records to play ■ [Chorus] 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 I ain't got time for that now ■ Am ■ Trouble in transit got through the roadblock Am We blended in with the crowd 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 Am 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 Am Burned all my notebooks what good are notebooks [Outro] Am They won't help me survive Am My chest is aching burns like [End]