David Bowie

I'd Rather Be High(Chords)

David Bowie

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Nobokov is sun-licked now 
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Upon the beach at Gruenwald 
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Brilliant and naked just 
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The way that authors looks 

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Clare and Lady Manners drink 
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Until the other cows go home 
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Gossip till their lips are bleeding 
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Politics and all 

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I'd rather be high 
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I'd rather be flying 
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I'd rather be dead 
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Or out of my head 
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Than training these guns on those men in the sand 
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I'd rather be high 

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The Thames was black, the tower dark 
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I flew to Cairo, find my regiment 
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City's full of generals 
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And generals full of shit 

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I stumble to the graveyard and I 
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Lay down by my parents, whisper 
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Just remember duckies 
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Everybody gets got 

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I'd rather be high 
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I'd rather be flying 
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I'd rather be dead 
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Or out of my head 
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Than training these guns of those men in the sand 
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I'd rather be high 

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I'm seventeen and my looks can prove it 
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I'm so afraid that I will lose it 
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I'd rather smoke and phone my ex 
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Be pleading for some teenage sex 
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Yeah 

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I'd rather be high 
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I'd rather be flying 
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I'd rather be dead 
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Or out of my head 
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Than training these guns on the men in the sand 
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I'd rather be high
	        

Written by David Bowie

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