Life’ll Kill Ya Chords

LIFE'LL KILL YOU
As recorded by Warren Zevon
(From the 2000 Album LIFE'LL KILL YOU)
 
[Intro]
G   E  G
 
 
[Verse 1]
G             C               G
You've got an invalid haircut
       C                    G
And it hurts when you smile
             C
You'd better get out of town
G           C                G
Before your nickname expires
         C                      G
It's the kingdom of the spiders
         C                  G
It's the empire of the ants
           C               G
You need a permit to walk around downtown
           C                G
You need a license to dance
 
 
[Chorus]
          Em      C
Life will kill you
Am
That's what I said
Em        G
Life will kill you
    C              D
And then you'll be dead
          Em
Life will find you
    C
Wherever you go
D             Em
Requiescat in pace
G      C            Em C
That's all she wrote
 
 
[Verse 2]
C                                Em    G
From the President of the United States
C                             G   C
To the lowliest rock and roll star
                 Em
The doctor is in and he'll see you now
Am                    G   D
He don't care who you are
C                         G
Some get the awful, awful diseases
C                                G
Some get the knife, some get the gun
C                            G    C
And some get to die in their sleep
                            G
At the age of a hundred and one
 
 
[Chorus]
              Em      G C
But life will kill you
Am
That's what I said
Em        G
Life will kill you
    C              D
And then you'll be dead
          Em
Life will find you
    C
Wherever you go
G             Em
Requiescat in pace
G      C            Em C D
That's all she wrote
 
 
[Bridge]
Em   C
Maybe you'll go to Heaven
Gm               Bb
See uncle Al and uncle Lou
    Am              D
And maybe you'll be reincarnated
C                  G
Maybe that stuff's true
Bb
Maybe if you were good
       Am
You'll come back as someone nice
    G
And maybe if you were bad
                       D
You'll have to pay the price
 
 
[Chorus]
              Em      G C
But life will kill you
Am
That's what I said
Em        G
Life will kill you
    C              D
And then you'll be dead
          Em
Life will find you
    C
Wherever you go
G             Em
Requiescat in pace
G
That's all she wrote
 
 
[Outro]
G   Em