The Kinks - 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)