Loves Labours Lost - Are You A Man
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: FCapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Verse 1]
Bbmaj7
Bbmaj7/G
Bbmaj7 Bbmaj7/G
Consider what you first did swear unto,
Fmaj7 Fmaj7/D
To fast, to study, and to see no woman
Bbmaj7
But here's the trick: it's flat treason
Bbmaj7/G
gainst the kingly state of youth
F
Your stomachs are too young to fast,
F/D
And abstinence will make you sick
Bbmaj7
We made a vow to study lords, and
Bbmaj7/G
In that vow
Fmaj7
we have forsworn our books,
Fmaj7/D
We've lost the war
Bbmaj7 Bbmaj7/G
For when would you, or you, or you
Fmaj7
Have ever found such words in books
Fmaj7/G Bb Bb/C
As the poems you sang before for love?
D
What is a vow except to be broken?
D/B
What is an oath except to be unspoken?
D/G
What is contract but a meaningless token?
[Chorus]
Bb C Am
Are you a man or just the plan your parents made?
Bb C Am
Are you a man or just a flannel suit waiting to get paid?
Bb C Am Dm
Are you a man or just some Bran Flakes and another inside trade?
[Verse 2]
Bbmaj7 Bbmaj7/G
Love courses swift as thought in every power,
Fmaj7
And gives to every power,
Fmaj7/D
A double power,
Bbmaj7 Bbmaj7/G
A lover's eye will gaze an eagle blind,
Dm Gm Gm/A Bb
A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound
[Chorus]
C Am F F/G F/A Bb
Are you a man or just a Xanax and a bleeding ulcer?
C Am F F/G F/A Bb
Are you a man or just a fantasy football girl-repulser?
C Am
Are you a man and can you learn to see,
[Verse 3]
D Bm
That women are the arts, the books, the academes
Gmaj7 F#m
That teach and show and nourish all the world?
F#m/G F#m/A
Then fools you
D Bm
were these women to forswear,
G A
or keeping what is sworn you will prove fools!
G G/A F#m Bm
For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,
G G/A F#m Bm
Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men,
G G/A F#m Bm
Or for men's sake, the authors of these women,
G G/A F#m A
Or for women's sake, by whom we men are men!
[Chorus]
Bb C
Are you a man
Am F F/G F/A Bb
Or just a can of old ideas and words?
C
Are you a man
Am Dm
Or just a channel playing Revenge of the Nerds?
Bb C
Are you a man
Am Dm
Or just an MBA candidate who followed the herd?
[Verse 4]
Dm
Love is learning,
F C/E Dm
And the heart and brain are one,
Bb
Love is learning,
Gm7 F Am
And before this night is done,
Bb Gm7
F Am
Bb C Am N.C.
Pues, ¿sos un hombre o sólo haces lo que tus papas te dicen?
Bb C Am Dm
G G/A F#m Bm
Let's lose our oaths to find ourselves,
G G/A F#m Bm
Not lose ourselves to keep our oaths,
G G/A F#m Bm
We'll learn to love our ladies, then
G G/A F#m A
Our learning will surely make us men!
[Chorus]
Bb C Am
Are you a man or just the plan your parents made?
Bb C Am
(Let's lose our oaths to find ourselves)
Bb C Am
(What is a vow except to be broken?)
Bb C Am
Are you a man or just a flannel suit waiting to get paid?
Bb C Am
(Not lose ourselves to keep our oaths)
Bb C Am
(What is an oath except to be unspoken?)
Bb C Am Dm
Are you a man or just some Bran Flakes and another inside trade?
Bb C Am
(We'll learn to love our ladies, then)
Bb C Am
(What is contract but a meaningless token?)
Bb
Let's lose our oaths to find ourselves,
Bb
Not lose ourselves to keep our oaths,
Gm7
We'll learn to love our ladies, then
C F
Our learning will surely make us men!
How to play Loves Labours Lost - Are You A Man
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