Debt Collector - Words & music by Anthony Hill

Intro: C#m G#m F#m Bb (used as fill)

E	C#m		G#m
The debt collector’s on his way
		F#m		E
He’ll break your bones and make you pay
C#m	G#m	F#m	Bb
He’ll make you pay, yeah

Verse 1
F#m	Bb	C#m	G#m	
Fill your life with stuff that you don’t need
F#m	Bb	C#m	G#m	
Expensive things you can’t afford to keep
F#m		Bb	
Common sense? You haven’t got a lot!
F#m		Bb
Your priorities are all over the shop!

*Fill*

F#m	Bb	C#m	G#m
You survive eating all your meals out of tins
F#m	Bb	C#m	G#m 
Only work to fund your Friday night binge
F#m		Bb	
In bed ‘til 3pm every weekend
F#m		Bb	
You’re losing sleep like you lost all your friends

*Double Fill*

Bridge	
F#m	G#m	A	Bb	
Don’t you know the years have got a funny way
F#m	G#m	A	Bb 
Of sneaking up on you every time you waste a day?

Chorus
E	C#m		G#m
The debt collector’s on his way
		F#m		E
He’ll break your bones and make you pay
C#m	G#m	F#m
He’ll make you pay, yeah
E	C#m		G#m
The debt collector’s on his way
		F#m		E
He’ll break your bones and make you pay
C#m	G#m	F#m	Bb
He’ll make you pay, yeah


Verse 2
F#m	Bb	C#m	G#m 
Your birthday marks the end of another rubbish year
F#m	Bb	C#m	G#m 
You don’t feel any older but your hair’s looking thinner
F#m		Bb	
Ignorance isn’t always bliss
F#m		Bb	
Your life could be a lot better than this

*Fill*

F#m	Bb	C#m	G#m 
Now it’s time for you to change your ways
F#m	Bb	C#m	G#m 
Make something of yourself one of these days
F#m		Bb 
You owe your life to a health inspector
F#m		Bb	
Spent time you didn’t have and now the debt collector
C#m	G#m 	F#m	Bb
Is onto you
C#m	G#m 	F#m	Bb
He’s after you

Bridge	
F#m	G#m	A	Bb	
Don’t you know the years have got a funny way
F#m	G#m	A	Bb	
Of sneaking up on you every time you waste a day?
F#m	G#m	A	Bb	
Haven’t you hear what comes to those who waste their lives
F#m	G#m	A	Bb	
Just living every single day the same as everybody else?

Chorus
E	C#m		G#m
The debt collector’s on his way
		F#m		E
He’ll break your bones and make you pay
C#m	G#m	F#m
He’ll make you pay, yeah
E	C#m		G#m
The debt collector’s on his way
		F#m		E
He’ll break your bones and make you pay
C#m	G#m	F#m	Bb
He’ll make you pay, yeah

*Repeat Chorus*