Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve

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Album: Urban Hymns (1997)
Music from the theme of the Andrew Oldham Orchestra cover of The Last Time (Rolling Stones, 1965).

[Intro]
             
e|--0---------
B|--0---0-----
G|--1-1---1---
D|--2---------
A|--2---------
E|--0---------

      
2-----0-------
3-----3---3---
2---2-2-2-----
4-4---0-------
2-----0-------
x-----0-------

         ( = 
0-------|
2---2---|
2-2-----|
2-------|  x4
0-------|
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[Verse]
     
              

             
   Cos' it's a

         
 bittersweet s

         
ymphony that's

    
 life
        
        Trying

             
 to make ends 

           
meet  you're a

         
 slave to the 

             
money then you

       
 die.
        
        I'll t

             
ake you down t

      
he only road I

             
've ever been 

    
down
        
        You kn

             
ow the one tha

           
t takes you to

         
 the places wh

             
ere all the ve

              
ins meet yeah

[Chorus]
             
No change  I c

           
an change  I c

         
an change  I c

    
an change
             
But I'm here i

           
n my mould  I 

         
am here in my 

    
mould.
             
But I'm a mill

              
ion different 

         
people from on

          
e day to the n

ext
              
I can't change

          
 my mould no  

         
no  no  no  no

         
  no  no (have

      
 you ever been

    
 down?)

[Verse]
             
Well I've neve

           
r prayed  but 

        
tonight I'm on

                  
 my knees yeah
             
I need to hear

           
 some sounds t

         
hat recognize 

            
the pain in me

        
 yeah
             
I let the melo

           
dy shine  let 

         
it cleanse my 

            
mind  I feel f

          
ree now
             
but the airwav

           
es are clean a

           
nd there's nob

           
ody singing to

             
 me now

[Chorus]
             
No change  I c

           
an change  I c

         
an change  I c

    
an change
             
But I'm here i

           
n my mould  I 

         
am here in my 

    
mould.
             
And I'm a mill

              
ion different 

         
people from on

          
e day to the n

ext
              
I can't change

          
 my mould no  

         
no  no  no  no

        
  no  no (have

      
 you ever been

    
 down?)
              
I can't change

          
 it you know, 

         
I can't change

                  
 it...

[Verse]
          
Cos' it's a bi

        
ttersweet symp

      
hony that's li

fe
        
        Trying

             
 to make ends 

           
meet, trying t

         
o find some mo

             
ney then you d

       
ie.
        
        I'll t

             
ake you down t

      
he only road I

             
've ever been 

    
down
        
        You kn

             
ow the one tha

           
t takes you to

         
 the places wh

             
ere all the ve

                 
ins meet yeah

[Chorus]
             
You know I can

              
 change  I can

           
 change  I can

         
 change  I can

  
 change
             
But I'm here i

           
n my mould  I 

         
am here in my 

    
mould.
             
And I'm a mill

              
ion different 

         
people from on

          
e day to the n

ext
              
I can't change

          
 my mould no  

         
no  no  no  no

                  
  no  no
              
I can't change

          
 my mould no  

         
no  no  no  no

                  
  no  no
              
I can't change

          
 my mould no  

         
no  no  no  no

                  
  no  no

[Outro]
...
(It’s just sex and violence, melody and silence)
...
(I’ll take you down the only road I've ever been down)
...
(Been down)
(Ever been down)
...