Louis Dunford - Londons Requiem

[Intro]
B F# E B

[Verse 1]
B F#
As I look out upon my city, so bright and so pretty
E B
Under this black London sky
F# E B
And get lost in this maze of concrete and stone
F#
Tales of sex, drugs and romance and victims of bad chance
E B
The kids who live and die by the knife
F# E B
So many lives lost but so few stories are told
F#
From the tramps on the pavements with a ten-year engagement
E B
To a needle and a bottle of wine
F# E
No kind words spoken, but to die alone and broken
B
Is the fate of the poor
F#
‘Cause the drugs are a hеaler, on every cornеr a dealer
E B
Prescribing his medicine so fine
F# E B
But his patients will suffer a fate that no doctor could cure

[Chorus]

G#m F# E B
Oh, no, have you heard the news today?
G#m F# E B
They say London’s burning down once again
G#m F# E B
And from the streets, you hear the people sing
G#m F# E B
From the streets, you hear the London requiem

[Verse 2]
B F#
As the sirens of the night play out the London lullaby
E B
A sound that sends a chill down your spine
F# E B
A sound that echoes through this artificial ghetto we call London town
F#
‘Cause the armies of the street, they march for victory, not defeat
E B
And though their mothers told them never to play with knives
F# E B
Another solider of sixteen, no older, will fall to the ground
F#
But still the sirens carry on long after his body is dead and gone
E B
And will ring through these streets forevermore
F# E B
He won’t be the only boy to die lonely on the cold London stone
F#
Other sisters and brothers, other fathers and mothers
E B
Will wait for a knock upon their door
F# E B
Their poor young solder of sixteen, no older, did not make it home

[Chorus]
G#m F# E B
Oh, no, have you heard the news today?
G#m F# E B
They say London’s burning down once again
G#m F# E B
And from the streets, you hear the people sing
G#m F# E B
From the streets, you hear the London requiem

[Bridge]
F# G#m
But that’s just the everyday
E
Nothing seems to change
B F#
All that we know
G#m
Is the bills get paid
E F#
So we can stay in this shit hole

[Chorus]
G#m F# E B
Oh, no, have you heard the news today?
G#m F# E B
They say London’s burning down once again
F# E B
And from the streets, you hear the people sing
G#m F# E B
From the streets, you hear the London requiem