Disgruntled Lover
Composer: Henning Ohlenbusch
Album: School for the Dead - A Telephone Built for Two


[Verse]
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Well I went to a shiny diner filled with gals and guys
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I wore a fake, huge mustache. I was traveling in disguise
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But the juke box saw right through me, Brenda Lee was apologizing
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And I muscled my way up to the counter, all the while realizing
                  D                                 G
I was one of those disgruntled lovers, one of those disgruntled lovers
D
Maybe next time I will succeed.

 

[Verse]
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I surveyed my surroundings, everybody staring at their soups
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And if you asked any one of them, they'd each say they were duped
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The room so full of suffering, I never felt so at home
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With numbers we were buffering the pain of being alone
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'Cause we were all disgruntled lovers, we were all disgruntled lovers
D
Maybe next time we will succeed.


[Chorus]
       C           D                G        D/F#         Em
'Cause everybody's moving on, while I'm just still here hanging out
C           D               G   E7
I'd move on too if I had my druthers
      C           D                G D/F#       Em
Yeah, everybody's taking off while I seem to be taking on
    C           D        G   E7
The air of a disgruntled lover
    C          D         G
The air of a disgruntled lover



[Verse]
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So I grabbed my book and backpack and I headed for a river
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Hoping to get one of those epiphanies that they sometimes deliver
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But when I got down to the bank there were people all around
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It seems that someone left a note and then that someone drowned
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It was a disgruntled lover, one of them disgruntled lovers
D
Maybe below they will prevail.


[Chorus]
       C           D                G        D/F#         Em
'Cause everybody's moving on, while I'm just still here hanging out
C           D               G   E7
I'd move on too if I had my druthers
      C           D                G D/F#       Em
Yeah, everybody's taking off while I seem to be taking on
    C           D        G   E7
The air of a disgruntled lover
    C          D         Em
The air of a disgruntled lover


[Bridge]
  C               D
I know my name is me
    C                  D
And that's not bad for now
     C                  D
Some things are hard to see
     C                 D
Some things are harder now


[Chorus]
       C           D                G        D/F#         Em
'Cause everybody's moving on, while I'm just still here hanging out
C           D               G   E7
I'd move on too if I had my druthers
      C           D                G D/F#       Em
Yeah, everybody's taking off while I seem to be taking on
    C           D        G   
The air of a disgruntled lover
                  B7
You know what I'm talking about
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The air of a disgruntled lover
                                   B7
I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about
    C           D        G   
The air of a disgruntled lover