"Gigabyte Wars" by New Model Army (from the album "Strange Brotherhood")
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Transcribed by: Juergen Bohn <nma@jjbohn.com>



[Instrumental]

| Bm  F#  E  E | F#  F#  E   E  |

| Bm  F#  A  A | F#  F#  F#  F# |



[Verse 1]

Bm                                     

Well, you never grow up, you just get older, 

                               A

carrying all the familiar burdens with you, 

Bm                                                        A

walking back on the hometown streets on a night devoid of stars.

            Bm                      

No one ever said it was going to be just, you really

                                   A      Bm

ought to know by now how She's all red in tooth and claw;

                                             A

after all, weren't you the one screaming for more?



[Chorus]

       E               

In the gigabyte wars - round and round we go,

            D                        

beneath the vapour trails - 

                       E

tangled up inside in a web of lies,

                        D    

hostages of fortune and savage tales.





Well, you entered stage in blood and pain, gulped for air

and then you cried out - this is just the way it comes;

that's Stupid Questions again . . .

It's not the things that you fear that come to get you,

But all the things you don't expect, face down in the

drowning pool of unfulfilled desire



[Chorus]

In the gigabyte wars . . .



[Instrumental]



[Verse 3]

Then comes the rain - just seems to make the night grow hotter,

we listen to the drops as they clatter on the roofs of the cars;

sometimes it seems like you're going to suffocate in this

conspiracy of noise - but though the ties they stretch to 

break-point,

still they hold, still they hold, 

and blood runs still in crimson streams

and dries like the earth - but still they hold



[Chorus]

In the gigabyte wars, once we were lost, then we were found;

once we were found - then we were lost again.

Get real, if a real exists - there's nothing more than this,

Strung out on nothingness . . .



[Instrumental]



©1998 New Model Army. All rights reserved. Published by Attack Attack



Chords for guitar by Juergen Bohn, April 1998.

(http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un3g/nma.html)