Richard Thompson - A Love You Cant Survive

a love you can’t survive

Am F
now i remember the promise i gave you
C Dm
the night i shipped out as a peace volunteer
Am F
as we sat holding hands in the lamb and flag tavern
C Dm
i swore id be back for you same time next year

but i killed a man in a brazzaville street fight
i tried to hold back , but he taunted me so
5 years till they freed me from that brazzaville prison
out of boredom or pity , i never will know

chorus :
F G
now i bear the stain , the scar on my name
D F G Em
and i never can go back again
Am Dm G Am Dm G
theres a love you cant survive , theres a love you cant survive
F G F G Em Am
and it tears you up inside , theres a love you cant survive

i sailed my boat into new orleans harbour
tied up at the jetty , as bold as you please
with a half – ton of charlie built in to the bulkhead
right under the noses of all them police

now here i sit in my house on the mountain
im king of the clouds and all i survey
theres women who are willing , and the law cant touch me
but yours is the one face that wont go away

chorus

by : jose duarte
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