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Broken Promise

New Order

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New Order - Broken Promise (from Brotherhood album)

Guitar chords: Dm, Am, C, G
Standard Tuning

Intro: 2 measures instrumental

Verse:
Dm		     Am
Oh, I don't know why people lie
    C		     G
and I don't know why people die
Dm		    Am
EVerytime I see you shout at me
	 C				     G	
cause of all of the things in the world that I can't see

Pre Chorus: (2nd verse, substitute words in parentheses)
Dm		      Am
And what I think goes on in this world
      C				G
for a mother and a father and a boy and a girl (kid)
	    Dm		      Am
is that the more you earn the less you learn
	  C		     G		
there's a fact in life where you (we) will burn

Chorus:
G		  Dm
And I never could believe it
      Am	     C
and I never could be true
	G		    Dm
father, things that mean so much to me
      Am		C
don't mean that much to you
      G		  Dm
and I never could believe the way 
    Am		  C
you told me I was wrong
       G		    Dm
if I'm right and if you are simple sin
    Am		     C
for God's sake I was wrong

2 measures instrumental: Dm Am C G

Verse:
Oh I don't know how I think this way
how you sit there looking at me all day
there's more to you than I can see
there's a shadow of a mother hanging over me

Pre chorus
Chorus

4 measures instrumental: Dm Am C G

Outro Chorus:
G		     Dm		  Am		  C
Oh I tell you out of heaven and I tell you out of hell
and I see your life in ruins, you're just earning that as well
and I cry out in my loneliness, well used to be your peace
but you'll never see my face again, oh I need words like these

Outro: 6 measures instrumental: G Dm Am C

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