SIMPLE LIFE

Year:  1992
Album:  THE ONE
Writers:  Elton John\ Bernie Taupin

F   Bb/F  C9sus4/F

F   Bb/F  C9sus4/F   F    

Ab Ð F     Ab Ð Eb   Bb  Eb/Bb - Bb   Bb

Ab Ð F     Ab Ð Eb   Bb  Eb/Bb - Bb   Bb


	     Bb\F F	       Bb\F F
There's a breakdown on the run- way

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And the timeless flights are gone

      Bb\F   F          Eb(add2)   Bb\D 
I'm a year a-head of  myself these days

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And I'm locomotive strong

   Bb\F F              Bb\F   F
My ci-  ty spread like cannon fire

     Bb/F           F
In a yellow nervous state

        Bb\F    F         Eb(add2)   Bb\D
I can't cut the ties that bind   -   me

                  F
To horoscopes and fate


       Eb\Bb Bb		  Eb\Bb Bb
And I won't  break and I won't   bend

    Eb\Bb Bb  Bbsus2  Bb    Bb\F  F
But some- day soon    we'll sail away

   C         C9      C  C9  F    F9
To innocence and the bitter end

       Eb\Bb  Bb          Eb\Bb Bb
And I won't   break and I won't bend

	        Eb\Bb Bb     Bbsus2 Bb\F F
And with the last  breath we     ever take

            C               C9     C    C9  Bb/F  F
We're gonna get back to the simple life a - gain

Ab Ð F     Ab Ð Eb   Bb  Eb/Bb - Bb   Bb
(All right!)
Ab Ð F     Ab Ð Eb   Bb  Eb/Bb - Bb   Bb


	   Bb\F  F           Bb\F F
When we break out of this blindfold

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I'm gonna take you from this place

  Bb\F       F              Eb(add2) Bb\D
Until  we're free from this ball and chain

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I'm still hard behind the eight

   Bb\F F             Bb\F       F 
My ci-  ty beats like ham- mered steel

     Bb/F          F
On a shallow cruel rock

 	       Bb\F       F     Eb    Bb\D
If we could walk proud after mid - night

                   F
We'd never have to stop


(CHORUS)

INSTRUMENTAL:  Bb7   F   Bb7   F

(CHORUS, REPEAT & FADE) 

Note:  The intro may benefit from harmonica, or synthesized harmonica from a keyboard, as on the recording.