Living On A Thin Line

Words & Music:

Ray Davies

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.)

All the wars that were won and lost

C G D F C

Somehow don't seem to matter very much, anymore.

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, oohh, tell me now what are we supposed to do?

D C G D

Living on a thin line, oohh, 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.

What am I, what are we supposed to do?

D C G D

Living on a thin line, oohh, 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

What we couldn't do, or what we wouldn't do,

It's a crime but does it matter?

C G

Does it matter much, does it matter much to you?

Does it ever really matter? Yes, it really really matters!

D C G D

Living on a thin line, oohh, tell me now what are we supposed to do?

D C G D

Living on a thin line, oohh, tell me now what are we supposed to do?

F G Em

Then another leader says, 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

And when they're gone it's me & you

D C G D

Living on a thin line, oohh, tell me now what are we supposed to do?

D C G D

Living on a thin line, oohh, tell me now what are we supposed to do?

D F C D

Living on a thin line oooohh