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/ The Kinks / Word of Mouth (1984) / Living on a Thin Line guitar tab

From: Harlan L Thompson 

LIVING ON A THIN LINE- The Kinks

D                                    C               G
All the stories we've been told of kings and days of old
                  D                     F       C
But there's no England now (there's no England now)
 D
All the wars that were won and lost
  C       G                        D            F  C
Somehow don't seem to matter very much anymore
 D
All the lies we were told (all the lies we were told)
C                      G                       D                  F  C
All the lives of the people running round and castles that burned
 D                     C                G      D
Now I see change but inside we're the same as we ever were

D                     C  G                                         D
Living on a thin line oooohh tell me now what are we supposed to do?
D                     C  G                                        D
Living on a thin line oooohh tell me now what are we supposed to do?
D                         C                   G
Living on a thin line, living this way, each day's a dream
                                      D
What am I, what are we supposed to do?
 D                      C   G                                      D
Living on a thin line, oooohh tell me now what are we supposed to do?

C     G                 D
Now another century nearly gone (gone, gone)
C             G      D
What are we gonna leave for the young?
            C                      G                D
What we couldn't do, or what we wouldn't do, disappoint but does it matter?
           C                   G
Does it matter much, does it matter much to you?
          D
Does it ever really matter? Yes, it really really matters!

Living on a thin line oooohh tell me now what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line oooohh tell me now what are we supposed to do?

F                              G                                  Em
Then another (leave us cents), break their hearts and break some heads
                        G        F  Am
Is there nothing we can say or do?
 Am                       G                          C
Blame the future on the past, always lost in bloody guts
                   D
And when they're gone it tears you

Living on a thin line oooohh tell me now what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line oooohh tell me now what are we supposed to do?
D                     F   C   D
Living on a thin line oooohh


NOTE: I'm not sure of all the words, especially the "leave us cents" part.
(from Word of Mouth, 1984)
(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)


The Kinks albums
1996 To the Bone
1994 The Early Years
1986 Think Visual
1984 Word of Mouth
1983 State of Confusion
1981 Give the People What They Want
1978 Misfits
1973 The Great Lost Kinks Album
1972 Everybody's in Show-Biz
1971 Muswell Hillbillies
1971 Percy (Original Soundtrack)
1970 Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1
1969 Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
1968 The Village Green Preservation Society
1967 Something Else by the Kinks
1966 Face to Face
1965 You Really Got Me
1965 The Kink Kontroversy
1964 Kinks
Word of Mouth tabs
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