A Century of Fakers

Belle and Sebastian - A Century of Fakers: Guitar Chords

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                        D           A/C#
There are people going hungry every day
            Bm                 A
They've got nothing on their plates
            G                D
And you're filling your fat face with every
 A
different kind of cake
                    D            A/C#
And if you ever go lardy, or go lame
         Bm                A
I will drop you straight away
             G                D
That's the price you have to pay
            A
For every stupid thing you say

There are people going lonely and they'll stay
Lonely far into the year
Cause you're making blinkers fashionable
And fashionably you'll say
All is equal in love and war
And I'm sorry but I've got some things to do
And you pretend to read a book
You'll never finish till the day

Chorus:
           Bm
That the author dedicates it
           G
To a century of fakers
                D
They took your mould and they burned it
                A
on the fire in history today
                   Bm
Yeah, the author dedicates it
           G
To a century of fakers
            D
He was an anarchist, he tried his best but
    A
it wasn't good enough

Did I say I would see you soon
Well I'm sorry, but I just came off my bike
And my face is scarred
And chance has barred me seeing you tonight
I was over the other side of the city
And if the truth be known I'd say
That you looked great from there before you shaved
Your golden hair today

Chorus:
Everybody's trying to make us
Another century of fakers
They took your mould
And burned it on the fire of history today
Everybody's trying to make us
Another cool decade of fakers

Everybody's trying to make us
Another century of fakers
Everybody's trying to make us
Another century of fakers

Everybody's trying to make us
Another century of fakers
Everybody's trying to make us
Another century of fakers

Everybody's trying to make us
Another cool decade of fakers
Everybody's trying to make us
Another century of fakers

Everybody's trying to make us
Another cool decade of fakers
Everybody's trying to make us
Another century of fakers


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Belle and Sebastian - A Century of Fakers: Guitar Chords

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