Life During Wartime Chords by Talking Heads

[Start]

[Intro]
A7 Am7 A7 Am
■  ■   ■  ■ 


[Verse]
A7                                        
Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons
                       A7
Packed up and ready to go
A7                                          
Heard of some grave sites out by the highway
              Am     A7    Am
A place where nobody knows ■ 
             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  
I've lived all over this town


[Chorus]
E          E7       E    E7            
This ain't no party this ain't no disco
E                           
This ain't no fooling around
   E                              
No time for dancing or lovey dovey
                          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
                                  Am     
High on a hillside the trucks are loading
A7           Am           
Everything's ready to roll
  A7                                                
I ■  sleep in the daytime and I work in the nightime
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
E7                           
I ain't got time for that now


[Inst]
      G     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
                        Am  
Ain't got no records to play


[Chorus]
E           E7                            
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


[Outro]
           Am                                  
Burned all my notebooks what good are notebooks
Am                        
They won't help me survive
         Am                            
My chest is aching burns like a furnace


[End]