Happiness Is an Option
Pet Shop Boys - Happiness Is An Option (Tennant/Lowe)
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Transcribed by he_rocker@hotmail.com
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Chords:
Amaj7 x02120
B7 x21202
B/A x04442
C#7 x4342x
C#7sus4 x4442x
C#m x46654
C#m7 x46454
C#m/B x22120
C#m/E xx2120
E/G# 4x2400
D7 xx0212
Emaj7/G# 466400
F244222
F242222
G464544
G#m7 464444
G#7sus4/D# xx1122
Intro:
N.C. F#m7 B7 C#m7
It is not ea__sy__
F#m E/G# G#CC#m
It is not ea__sy__
Verse 1:
C#m/B Amaj7
Looking from a window at the back of a house at the edge of a town_
B/A G#m7
It's grey_ like the day when I lost it
Emaj7/G# F#m7
Clouds over head talked to a flower that was almost dead
C#m/E
A body in prison. Why did I do it?
G#7sus4/D# D7 C#7sus4
Someone told me not to but I still went through it
Chorus:
C#7 F#m7 B7C#m7
It is not ea__sy__
(But don't give up_ now_)
F#m E/G# GC#m
It is not ea__sy__
(Happiness is an op_tion_)
Verse 2:
C#m/B Amaj7
Needed some-where to clear my head
B/A G#m7
Find some strenght, a warmer bed
Emaj7/G# F#m7
Maximum love in a minimum world, I'd never achieved it, but then I believed it
C#m/E G#7sus4/D#
So when I lost it, how, I'm not sure now
D7 C#7sus4
It was a strange feeling, like a law repealing itself
Chorus:
C#7 F#m7 B7C#m7
It is not ea__sy__
(But don't give up_ now_)
F#m E/G# GC#m
It is not ea__sy__
(Happiness is an op_tion_)
F#m7 B7C#m7
It is not ea__sy__
(But don't give up_ now_)
F#m E/G# GC#m
It is not ea__sy__
(Happiness is an op_tion_)
Verse 3:
C#m/B Amaj7 B/A
I can wake up in the morning and not believe what I see_
G#m7
I look in the mirror and think if that's really me
Emaj7/G# F#m7
I don't think I suit my face
C#m/E
It's not a ca-tas-tro-phe, it's more a phi-lo-so-phy
G#7sus4/D# D7 C#7sus4
Like the Russians wondering why_ they're born under a blue sky
C#7
But die in a dark forest
It is not
Chorus:
F#m7 B7C#m7
ea__sy__
(But don't give up_ now_)
F#m E/G# GC#m
It is not ea__sy__
(Happiness is an op_tion_)
F#m7 B7C#m7
It is not ea__sy__
(But don't give up_ now_)
F#m E/G# GC#m
It is not ea__sy__
(Happiness is an op_tion_)
Verse 4:
C#m/B
This is neither old nor new, it's always forever
B/A G#m7
Be-tween sense and ambition, pleasure and decision, we have to make a choice
Emaj7/G# F#m7
What do we want? Everyone is singing
C#m/E
'War, what is it good for', while planning the next one
G#7sus4/D# D7 C#7sus4
I don't need to win, you don't have to lose, you can choose
C#7
Happiness is an option
It is not
Chorus:
F#m7 B7C#m7
ea__sy__
(But don't give up_ now_)
F#m E/G# GC#m
It is not ea__sy__
(Happiness is an op_tion_)
Bridge:
F#m7B7 C#m7
It isn't easy___ the war with-in_ us_
F#m E/G# G#7 C#m
But it gets ea_sier_ the more we learn__
F#B7 C#m7
I don't need to win_ you don't have to lose__
F#m E/G# G#7 C#m
You can choose__ hap_piness is an op_tion
Chorus:
F#m7 B7C#m7
It is not ea__sy__
(But don't give up_ now_)
F#m E/G# GF#m7
It is not ea__sy__
(Happiness is an op_tion_)
Outro:
B7 C#m7
You don't have to lose__
F#m E/G# G#7 C#m C#m
You can choose__ hap_piness is an op_tion