The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
“Contender”
One line of the lyrics in the first verse wasn’t included in their lyric press release
I had to do my best to guess at it. As for the chords they should be pretty accurate for
solo instrumentalist.
Capo 2
Intro:
Look what you’ve done, look what you’ve done,
what do you have now?
Things that never come, I’m laying here in a dead-end room (best lyric guess)
Is it time to come down?
Chorus:
At the back of a crowded scene
You saw the boys in white sing
“I’m a pretender”
But you never were, you never were a contender
contender
Verse 2:
I heard your same old tune, singing city sins
Like you were the first one.
Gave up books for film, gave up film for time
Now that you’ve got none.
Chorus:
At the back of a crowded scene
You saw the boys in white sing
“I’m a pretender”
But you never were, you never were a contender
contender