Transcribed first by Mario.Dorion@Sun.Com – 1993

Album: Seventeen Seconds (1980)

The Em* chord in the final interlude is x79987

[Intro]
(drums)

(Harmonics onl
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B|-12-----7---
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A|------------
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y)
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B|------------
G|----6---6---
D|------------
A|--4---4---4-
E|------------

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[Verse 1]
           
It's not a cas

              
e of doing wha

            
t's right, it'

             
s just the way

             
 I feel that m


atters
             
Tell me I'm wr

              
ong, I don't r

      
eally care

           
It's not a cas

              
e of share and

            
 share alike, 

             
I take what I 

  
require
             
I don't unders

              
tand, you say 

         
it's not fair

[Chorus]
           
You expect me 

   
to act like a 

lover
           
Consider my mo

          
ves and deserv

e the reward
          
To hold you in

             
 my arms and w

#
ait ...
    
And wait ...
              
And wait for s

            
omething to ha

     
ppen

[Interlude]
               
            

[Verse 2]
           
It's not a cas

              
e of telling t

            
he truth, some

             
 lines just fi

           
t the situatio

n
             
Call me a liar

              
, you would an

     
yway

           
It's not a cas

              
e of aiming to

            
 please, you k

             
now you're alw

           
ays crying
              
It's just your

            
 part in the p

lay for today

[Interlude]
*   *   *     
            
            

[Outro]
       

        
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