Life Is Sweet
Natalie Merchant
Song is actually recorded in G#m on the album "Ophelia".
It appears here in Am, feel free to capo any fret you wish.
It's a pity it's a crying shame
Who pulled you down again
How painful it must be
To bruise so easily inside
It's a pity it's a downright crime
It happens all the time
You want to stay little daddy's girl
You want to hide from the vicious world outside
Don't cry
You know the tears will do no good
So dry your eyes
Oh, your daddy he's the iron man
A battleship wrecked on dry land
Your mamma she's a bitter bride
She'll never be satisfied you know
And that's not right
But don't cry
You know the tears will do no good
So dry your eyes
Oh, they told you life is hard
Misery from the start
It's dull it's slow it's painful
But, I tell you life is sweet
In spite of the misery
There's so much more be grateful
Well, who do you believe?
Who will you listen to who will it be?
Because it's high time that you decide
In your own mind
I've tried to comfort you
I've tried to tell you to be patient
That they are blind and they can't see
Fortune gonna come one day
They're all gonna fade away
Your daddy the war machine
And your momma the long and suffering
Prisoner of what she can not see
SOLO:
For they've told you life is hard
Misery from the start
It's dull it's slow it's painful
But, I tell you life is sweet
In spite of the misery
There's so much more be grateful
So, who will you believe?
Who will you listen to who will it be?
Because it's high time that you decide
It's time to make up your own your own sweet little mind
SOLO:
Oh, they've told you life is long
Be thankful when it's done
Don't ask for more be grateful
But, I tell you life is short
Be thankful because
Before you know it will be over
'Cause life is sweet
Life is oh so very short
Life is sweet
And life is oh so very short
Life is sweet
Repeat and fade