Lifeline Cifras

Artist: Citizen Cope
Song: Lifeline
Album: The Rainwater LP
 
These chords can be played in full, but it sounds most like the recording when you
mute the E strings.
 
Listen to the recording for the strum pattern and the pull offs, hammer ons and
slides done during chord transitions.
 
Gm: X5533X
F:  X3321X
C:  X3201X (transition to X3301X just before going to the C7)
C7: X3231X
 
 
[Intro]
 
Gm  F  C  C7 (x2)
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
               Gm        F                   C    C7
When you're so long gone, you can't help yourself 
               Gm        F                  C    C7
When you're so dead wrong, let alone no one else
         Gm                          F           C                      C7
Well the children still dying in the street, And babies still living with disease
        Gm                   F                      C                         C7
And the cops got guns, and the po folk got sons who work for Mr. Franklin every week 
 
 
[Chorus]
 
           Gm                  F         C            C7
And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find
           Gm            F       C                C7
Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime
            Gm    F                 C    C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born 
      Gm      F                         C    C7
To be sure to endure when the storm comes 
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
    Gm                F                  C                 C7
Got them sad eyes, got cat eyes, got the angels tired from saving his life 
              Gm                 F   C                  C7
And you could bet to contain yourself before you end up killed 
    Gm                   F                   C                       C7
Get his bare feet touchin her bare feet, the air breathes sweet near mountains peak 
         Gm                    F    C                  C7
And I forgot what the wise man said about that ancient thread 
 
 
[Chorus]
 
           Gm                  F         C            C7
And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find
           Gm            F       C                C7
Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime
            Gm    F                 C    C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born 
      Gm      F                         C    C7
To be sure to endure when the storm comes 
            Gm    F                 C    C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born 
     Gm       F                 C    C7
To rejoice, rejoice when it succumbs
 
 
[Outro]
 
Gm  F  C  C7 (x6)
(fading out)
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