Live it up (1985)    (video)

 

    G - Bm - C - D

 

    G

1.      How can you see looking through those tears,

                     Em

    don't you know you're worth your weight in gold.

D

    I can't believe that you're alone in here,

                 C

    let me warm your hands against the cold.

 

    G

2.      A close encounter with a hard-hearted man,

                      Em

    who never gave half of what he got

D

    has made you wish that you'd never been born,

                    C

    that's a shame ‘cause you got the lot.

 

  G                                  Em  D

Hey, yeah, you with the sad face,

                    D     C                     G

come up to my place and live it up !

                          Em       D

You beside the dance floor,

                     D   C                       G

what do you cry for ? Let's live it up !

 

   G

3.    If you just smile, the walls fall down,

                    Em

    on all the people in this pickup joint,

D

    but if you laugh you level this town,

            C

    hey, lonely girl, that's just the point.

 

+  CHORUS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    F#                                               Bm

+      Just answer me the question why

C                                                                              D    D7

    you stand alone by the phone in the corner and cry, baby ?

 

+ instrumental = verse 1 (2x)     

 

+ repeat verse 1   +  repeat verse 3

 

  G                                  Em  D

Hey, yeah, you with the sad face,

                    D     C                     G

come up to my place and live it up !

                          Em       D

You beside the dance floor,

                     D   C                       G

what do you cry for ? Let's live it up !

 

                     Em           D                     C

+  Let's live it up, live it up, mm, live it up !

                        G                Em

    Hey, yeah, you with the sad face,

                       D                                 C                         - D

    come up to my place, come up to my place, baby !

 

+  CHORUS (2x)

 

+  instrumental = CHORUS

 

    (Mental As Anything)