Life During Wartime Chords by Talking Heads

[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]