A Life Less Ordinary

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A Life Less Ordinary
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Written by The Levellers, from their 2008 album Letters from the Underground.

Transcribed by Alan Bigham, 22nd May 2016.


INTRO:
A5 G5 F#5 F5


CHORUS:
Am                      F              G
This is your world, and we say "No way, I won't go"
Am               F  G
A life less ordinary is the one I chose
Am                F               G
Far away from the soul, still healing
   Am                       F             G 
We rise to the sun with the hope of freedom


A5 B5 C5
A5 B5 C5
A5 B5 C5
C  G


VERSE I:
Dm                 F    C
Hey, I think we met before
        Dm         F            G
Smoking cigarettes on the dance floor
   Dm                    F          C
By flickering light, the faintest trace
    Dm       F     G
The contours of an old familiar face


CHORUS:
Am                      F              G
This is your world, and we say "No way, I won't go"
Am               F  G
A life less ordinary is the one I chose
Am                F               G
Far away from the soul, still healing
   Am                     F             G 
We rise to the sun to the hope of freedom


A5 B5 C5
A5 B5 C5
A5 B5 C5
C  G


VERSE II:
      Dm                   F     C
Those Thunderbird days those acid nights
  Dm           F        G   
How we set the world to rights
       Dm                  F     C
And We learned to love the motorways
          Dm        F      G
And those roadside parties lasted for days!


CHORUS:
Am                      F              G
This is your world, and we say "No way, I won't go"
Am               F  G
A life less ordinary is the one I chose
Am                F               G
Far away from the soul, still healing
   Am                     F             G 
We rise to the sun to the hope of freedom



BRIDGE:
   E                          Bm
In your eyes the west world's turning
D                   A
Our hearts dream to yearn
E                 Bm
No surrender, we tried to hide
    D                      A
But you and I were born to collide


Am F G
Am F G
Am F G
Am F G


(no chords but you can play the intro sequence of A5 G5 F#5 F5 over this bit)

Well Babylon, we used to say,
It'd burn down to the ground one day,
It's just a broken dream away,
And another ugly morning,


CHORUS:
Am                      F              G
This is your world, and we say "No way, I won't go"
Am               F  G
A life less ordinary is the one I chose
Am                F               G
Far away from the soul, still healing
   Am                     F             G 
We rise to the sun to the hope of freedom
Am                      F              G
This is your world, and we say "No way, I won't go"
Am               F  G
A life less ordinary is the one I chose
Am                F               G
Far away from the soul, still healing
   Am                     F             G 
We rise to the sun to the hope of freedom


OUTRO:
A5 B5 C5
A5 B5 C5
A5 B5 C5
C  G