Mad World, Outlive Me
Amelia Curran ? Mad World, Outlive Me
Capo 3rd fret
Intro: Am/E Am/B C F
Verse:
C
Feast on the labour
G
Of your mind
F
And you go hungry
C G
And you won?t go blind
Am
Feed on the pictures
Am/B F
Of all you?ve left behind
E
Knowing they are just pictures
Am F)sus4
Still and sad and refined
Pre-Chorus:
C
It?s a mad world
G
To be stuck on the living
F
And it?s a heartbreaker
C G
To succumb to forgetting
Am
I keep wishing for something
F
And it gets in my way
E
My path is a jungle
AmC)sus4
It?s got too much to say
Chorus:
F
Outlive me outlive me
Am Am/B G)sus4
I love you too much
G Am
Rubies and emeralds
Am/B C C)sus4
And sapphires and such
F
Outlive me outlive me
C C/B Am
I love you too much
E Am
Coal into diamonds
Am/B C F)sus4
Ashes and dust
Verse:
There is a fire
In place of a stone
It softens the letters
And it takes you back home
Where once it was written
The lines we obeyed
Now tenderly questions
The choices we?ve made
Chorus:
Outlive me outlive me
I love you too much
Rubies and emeralds
And sapphires and such
Outlive me outlive me
I love you too much
Coal into diamonds
Ashes and dust
End: C C/B Am C G C