Expensive Being Poor
Trans by: Mark Cheney
Am C (x4)
Am C Am
And the car is off the road but I never had a car.
C Am G
And I pay more for my food 'cause the supermarket's too far
C Am C
It's expensive being poor because everything cost more,
Am F
knocking on a closing door, it's expensive being poor,
G Am
someone threw me down some crumbs I will eat them off the floor,
C Am G
it's expensive being poor but i look good when I get desperate.
Am C (x2)
Am C Am
And the box is on the fritz, it's a black and white, or was,
C Am G
I tried taking it to bits now the picture's just a grey fuzz.
C Am C
It's expensive being poor because everything cost more,
Am F
someone pick me off the floor, it's expensive being poor,
G Am
how can I live with what I did when the cinema's six quid?
C Am G
It's expensive being poor but i look good when I get desperate.
Am C (x4)
F G
Let the good times roll into a bottomless hole with
Am C
job, friends and future my ideal home furniture,
F G Am C
let the trumpets sound as my house falls down.
Am C Am
And the dust begins to clear and I'm lying on the ground,
C Am
and I'm standing on a path in an unknown part of town,
C Am
and the path leads me away over hills and out of sight,
C Am
in the blazing sun by day and the hanging moon by night,
C Am
and I wind up in a place where I never have to count,
C Am G
and I never see the waves as I push my leaking boat out.
C Am C
It's expensive being poor because everything hurts more,
Am F
knocking on a bolted door, it's expensive being poor.
G Am
Someone throw me down some crumbs I will eat them off the floor,
C Am G
it's expensive being poor but i look good when I get desperate.
Am G Am G Am G Am
desperate, desperate, desperate
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