Poetry Chords by Faithless

[Start]

[Intro]
Cm Csus4 Gm7 Csus4 Gm7 Csus4 Cm7 Gm7
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Csus4 Gm7 Csus4 Gm7 Csus4 Cm7 Fsus4 Cm7
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Fsus4 Cm7 Cm Cm7 Bb Cm7
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[Verse]
         Bb                                Cm7    
Have you looked for the poetry beneath the surface
                   Cm7     
Looked beneath the perfects
Ebmaj7          Cm7                Ebmaj7      
■      Seen the beauty in your day to day urges
Bb                                             
Where the arms of your lovers are like churches
      Cm                            Eb
Where night after night you worship ■ 
         Cm                              
And your morning commutes are like verses
Ebmaj7                      Cm7 Cm
Your poetry is your purpose ■   ■ 
                    Cm                          
Have you looked for the poetry beneath the grind
                              F7                        
Even when you have the weight of the world on your spine
         Cm                    
And your card just got declined
                               Cm                            
But one smile from that pretty woman you were standing behind
      Cm                
Turns your day into wine
   Cm                   
It gets better with time
Eb Cm Eb F7
■  ■  ■  ■ 
             Eb        Cm     
Look for the poetry in laugher
             Cm7            
Look for the poetry in drama
               F7            
'cause there's poetry in pain
        Cm            
There's poetry in gain
Cm                             
There's poetry in our every day
                  Eb       
In the trees when they sway
Cm                          
In the British skies as they
                       Cm                 
Transition between the blues and the greys
                                   Cm                      
In the eyes of the old man when he waits to see another day


[Chorus]
                                 Cm                           
In the eyes of the young boy who says Can you come out to play
             Cm                        
Look for the poetry look for the poetry
        Cm                                         
Because we are the poets writers of our own destiny
                                 Cm               
With a lighter and a pen in your hand indefinitely
Cm                                                                   
Don't fall for the dreams that they sell you 'cause they're temporary
F       Cm                                             
There's poetry living in your heart taking up residency


[Inst]
Eb Cm F7 Cm
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[Verse]
Cm                            
Have you looked for the poetry
             Cm               
Look for the poetry in laugher
             Cm             
Look for the poetry in drama
               Cm             
'cause there's poetry in pains
        Cm             
There's poetry in gains
Eb                            
Look for the poetry in laugher
             Bb        Eb   
Look for the poetry in drama
               Bb             
'cause there's poetry in pains
        Cm        Eb    Cm
There's poetry in gains ■ 
Cm                     
Gains gains gains gains
Cm                     
Gains gains gains gains
Cm                     
Gains gains gains gains


[End]