Lirik dan Chord Lagu Mine for Life - Ultravox

Lagu berdurasi 4 menit 44 detik ini dirilis secara resmi pada tahun 1982 melalui label Chrysalis Records.

“Mine for Life” dimuat sebagai trek ketiga dalam album studio keenam band yang bertajuk Quartet.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Mine for Life” dari Ultravox.

[Chorus]
Am
         A life as a stranger
Am G
         Hands through a wire
Am
         Forbidden desires
Am           Em
         are mine for life

[Verse 1]
Am      G             Em
Looking from a spiral
C           Bm      Em
staircase at a man with a
Am      G            Em            F
suitcase as he shades his eyes

[Verse 2]
Am         G             Em
Watching from a stained glass
C        Bm Em
shelter. He bides his
D
time and thinks there must be
E Fdim
more to life than...

[Ulangi Chorus]

[Verse 3]
             Am G            Em
The poet reads his words out
C    Bm       Em
loud to a make-believe
Am     G           Em               F
crowd in the quiet of his room

[Verse 4]
Am      G                  Em
Careful where the tears are
C      Bm Em
falling. He closed
        D
the book and cried. There must be
E             Fdim
more to love than

[Verse 5]
Am  G             Em
this. See the boy on the
C          Bm                  Em
walkway Where the young have their
Am       G            Em         F
own say and it screams from the wall

[Verse 6]
         Am    G                Em
He's writing for the hundredth
C             Bm Em
time there. I hate it
D
all, but there must be
E            Fdim
more to hate than...

[Ulangi Chorus]

[Instrumental]
Fm Cm
Fm Eb
Cm Gm
Cm Bb
Ab A

Fm Cm
Fm Eb
Db D

[Ulangi Chorus x3]