The chords over the spoken words:
DO FA DO FA DO REm MIm SOL SOL+ LAm
Apparently they were travelling abroad
And they picked up some hitchhikers...drill
Wake up you're dreaming...what...you're dreaming
We were moving away from the border
Uh what border?
Have a nice day...uh...have a nice day
SOL DO LAm
We were moving away from the border
DO LAmLooking for somewhere to sleep
The two of us sharing the driving
SOL DO LAmTwo hitchhikers slumped in the back seat
Hello
SOL DO LAmI sneaked a quick look in the mirror
She gave me a smile
SOL DO LAmI said "Is anyone hungry?
SOL DO LAmShould we stop for a while?"
So we pulled off into a layby
SOL DO LAmHer dress blew up over her head
DO LAmI said "Would you like to come with me?"
She said something foreign under her breath
FA DOAnd the sun shone down on her lovely young limbs
FA DOI thought to myself she's much too good for him
I lay down beside her with tears in my eyes
SOL FA DO LAm SOL FA DOShe said
4.33 AM Running Shoes
LAm
So I stood by the roadside
FAThe soles of my running shoes gripping the tarmac
Like gunmetal magnets
LAmFixed on the front of her Fassbinder face
FAWas the kind of a smile
That only a rather dull child could have drawn
FAWhile attempting a graveyard in the moonlight
LAmBut she was impressed
You could see that she thought I looked fine
LAmAnd when she turned sweeter
FAThe reason (between you and me) was
She'd just seen my green Lamborghini
So we went for a spin in the country
DO LAmTo feel the wind in our hair
DO LAmTo feel the power of my engine
To feel the thrill of desire
FA DOAnd then in the trees I heard a twig snap
FA DOWarning lights flashed on my map
I opened my eyes and to my surprise
Arabs with Knives and West German Skies
----------------------------------------
There were Arabs with Knives
FA LAmAt the foot of the bed
SOL LAm DORight at the foot of the bed
Oh my God how did they get in here?
DO LAmI thought we were safe home in England
FA DO FAShe said "Come on now kid, it was wrong what you did
You've got to admit it was wrong what you did
SOL FA DOYou got to admit it was wrong"
Oh god....Jesus
DOSleep Sleep
SOLsus4 SOLI know that I'm only dreaming
Leave her alone..get out..out..get out of my house
DOThrough closed eyes
I see West German skies on the ceiling
FAAnd I want to get back
To the girl with the rucksack
To feel her flaxen hair
SOLI want to be there
FASee the sun going down
Behind Krupps steelworks
DO SOLOn the outskirts of some German town
DOGuten Abend meiner Damen und Herren Ha Ha Ha Ha
Willkommen in Konnigsburg Ha Ha Ha Ha
DOWollen zie danzen mit mir oder drinken Bier Ha Ha Ha Ha
SOL7Thank you but......
This young lady and I
DO SOLWill just finish this bottle of wine
FAIt was kind of you...but
I think we'll just say goodnight
Leave us alone
Goodnight
Leave us alone
Could I have the key to one four three please?
FAThere you are
Thank you, goodnight
REm
Hello yes I'd like to order breakfast please
MImI'd like coffee for two, and toast with marmalade
No...marmalade.
For the First Time Today-Part 2
--------------------------------
LAm
For the first time today
I held her naked body next to mine
FA LAm REmIn this hotel overlooking the Rhine
SOL SOL+I made her mine
Ooh babe...ooh babe
SOL SOL+ LAmCome with me and stay with me
FA MImPlease stay with me
Uh...what is it?
FAStay with me
Stay with me
MIm FAStay with me
No...
LAm FA LAmStay with me
Forget it
Sexual Revolution
------------------
MIm
Hey...girl
Take out the dagger
DO RE MImAnd let's have a stab at the sexual revolution
Hey girl
Let freedom for all be our rallying call
DO RE MImTomorrow lets make...our new resolution
DO REYeah, but tonight lie still
While I plunder your sweet grave
DOAnd remember
RE MImOnly the poor can be saved
Hey girl
As I've always said I prefer your lips red
Not what the good Lord made
But what he intended
Hey girl
Don't point the finger at me
I am only a rat in a maze like you
And only the dead go free
So...please hold my hand
As we blunder through the maze
And remember
Nothing can grow without rain
(Thunder)
Don't point
RE MImDon't point your finger at me
SOL SOL/FA# MImI awoke in a fever
The bedclothes were all soaked in sweat
SOL SOL/FA# MImShe said "You've been having a nightmare
SOL SOL/FA# MImAnd it's not over yet"
Then she picked up the doggy in the window
SOL SOL/FA# MIm(The one with the waggly tail)
DO RE MImAnd she put him to bed between two bits of bread
The Remains of Our Love
------------------------
SOL MIm
I just cowered in the corner
My pyjama coat over my head
SOL MImAnd she smiled as she finished her sandwich
SOL MIm
FA DO FA
And her cold eyes fixed me to my dark history
As she brushed the remains
FA DOOf our love from the bed
DO LAmAnd when she had turned back the covers
When all of the prayers had been read
FAShe said "Come on over here you silly boy
FABefore you catch your death of cold
I was only joking
FALet's leave behind the city grime
FALet's not compete
It could be fine in the country
SOL FACouldn't it though...come on lets go
DO FA DO FAI said "OK"
Are we going to go now?
Where would you like to go darling?
Mmm...Vermont...Wyoming (yes)
Wyoming...huh huh
Children...(what) we're going to Wyoming
Darling...Which way is Wyoming?
Hook a right here
You're going the wrong way
I know that
I know children...
Let's see how many...Volvos we pass
On the way to our new life in the country
...One
Jade don't do that, that's really negative
Go Fishing
-----------
As cars go by I cast my mind's eye
Over back packs on roof racks
Beyond the horizon
Where dream makers
Working white plastic processors
Invite the unwary
SOLTo reach for the pie in the sky
Go fishing my boy!
SIsus4
We set out in the spring
REWith a trunk full of books about everything
About solar devices
REAnd how nice natural childbirth is
DOdimWe cut down some trees
And we trailed our ideals
SIsus4 SIThrough the forest glade
DOdimWe dammed up the stream
And the kids cooled their heels
SIsus4 SIIn the fishing pool we'd made
MIm MIm/REWe held hands and we exchanged bands
And we practically lived off the land
SIsus4You adopted a fox cub
REWhose mother was somebody's coat
You fed him by hand
And then snuggled him down
REIn the grandfather bed while I wrote
We grew our own maize
SIsus4And I only occasionally went into town
DOdimTo stock up on antibiotics
And shells for the shotgun that I kept around
MIm MIm/REI told the kids stories while you worked your loom
DO REAnd the sun went down sooner each day.
*Chapter six in which Eeyore has a birthday
DOAnd gets two presents
RE SOLDaddy...come on dad
Eeyore the old grey donkey stood by the side
DOOf the stream and he looked at himself in the water
RE"Pathetic" he said, "That's what it is"
"Good morning Eeyore" said Pooh
DOdim SIsus4 SI"Oh" said Pooh, He thought for a long time
SIsus4
Then the leaves all fell down
Our crops all turned brown
It was over
SIsus4As the first snowflakes fell
REI realized all was not well in the camp
The kids caught bronchitis
SIsus4 SIThe space heater ran out of diesel
DOdimOne weekend a friend from the East,
Rot his soul, stole your heart
MImI said "Fuck it then
MIm/RETake the kids back to town
Maybe I'll see you around"
LAm7 SOL
And so...leaving all our hopes and dreams
DO LAm7 RETo the wind and the rain
Taking only our stash
LAm7 SOLLeft our litter and trash
DOAnd set out on the road again
On the road again
DOOn the road again
RE SOL MImOn the road
Bye Bye Daddy, Bye Daddy
MImYou can bring Pearl she's a darn nice girl
But don't bring Liza
For the First Time Today-Part 1
--------------------------------
LAm
For the first time today
I feel it's really over
FA REmYou were my everyday excuse
SOL SOL+For playing deaf, dumb and blind
Who'd have ever thought
FA SOL DOThis was how it would end for you and me
FA REmTo carry my own millstone
Out of the trees
LAmAnd I have to admit
I don't like it a bit
Being left here beside this lonesome road.
RE/FA#Lonesome road
MI7-10Lonesome road
Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin
------------------------------
Hey kid, you looking for a lift?...Get on up here
How's it going good buddy?
I nailed ducks to the wall
SOL DO LAmKept my heart in dark ruins
SOL DO LAmI built bungalows all over the hills
Dunroamin, duncarin, dunlivin
SOL DO LAmTook my girl to the country
SOL DO LAmTo sleep out under the moon
Next thing she's going crazy
DOWomen are like that kid
LAmWhat the hell can you do?
She waits for the real Mr. Right to come
SOL DO LAmGently removing her heart
FA SOLWith his promises of real communication
I saw a program about that on TV........
FA# FAWho's always picking up the tab
DOWho built a bungalow for his mum and dad
Me FA
Who took you out to all the shows
DOWho worked his fingers to the bone
Me SOL
While you were asleep
It was me...I did
I kept you in buttons and bows
Christ all those clothes
DOSo you could encourage this creep
With his neat feet
DOAnd his clean fingernails
FA# FA DOWith his wise but twinkling eyes
He's a rock standing out in an ocean of doubt
FAGet movin', get off the road ya Goddam faggot
SOLAnd compromise
I'd like to go on with this bit of a song
FA DODescribing this schmuck
FA SOL DOI'd like to go on, but I'm going to throw up
[Not in my rig you don't boy...get the hell out of here]
The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
---------------------------------
REm
An angel on a Harley
LAmPulls across to greet a fellow rolling stone
Puts his bike up on it's stand
Leans back and then extends
LAmA scarred and greasy hand...he said
How ya doin bro?...where ya been?...where ya goin'?
REThen he takes your hand
In some strange Californian handshake
And breaks the bone
Have a nice day
REmA housewife from Encino
Whose husband's on the golf course
LAmWith his book of rules
REmBreaks and makes a 'U' and idles back
To take a second look at you
SOLYou flex your rod
DO LAmFish takes the hook
Sweet vodka and tobacco in her breath
SOLAnother number in your little black book
DO MIm
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
DO MImThese are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
Oh babe, I must be dreaming
REmI'm standing on the leading edge
LAmThe Eastern seaboard spread before my eyes
"Jump" says Yoko Ono
LAm"I'm too scared and too good looking" I cried
SOL"Go on", she says
"Why don't you give it a try?
RE SOLWhy prolong the agony all men must die"
REmDo you remember Dick Tracy?
Do you remember Shane?
And mother wants you
REmCould you see him selling tickets
Where the buzzard circles over [Shane]
The body on the plain
SOLDid you understand the music Yoko
Or was it all in vain? [Shane]
REThe bitch said something mystical "Herro"
SOLSo I stepped back on the kerb again
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
DO MImThese are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
RE SOLOh babe, I must be dreaming again
C Em (repeat and fade)
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
Every Strangers Eyes
---------------------
DO
Hello...you wanna cup of coffee?
I'm sorry, would you like a cup of coffee?
SOLOk you take cream and sugar?
DOIn truck stops and hamburger joints
In Cadillac limousines
REmIn the company of has-beens
SOLAnd bent-backs and sleeping forms
On pavement steps
DOIn libraries and railway stations
In books and banks
In the pages of history
SOLIn suicidal cavalry attacks
DO SOL/SI LAmI recognise...
Myself in every stranger's eyes
And in wheelchairs by monuments
Under tube trains and commuter accidents
REmIn council care and county courts
At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts
DOIn drawing rooms and city morgues
In award winning photographs
Of life rafts in the China seas
REmIn transit camps, under arc lamps
On unloading ramps
In faces blurred by rubber stamps
DO SOL/SI LAmI recognise...
FA SOL DOMyself in every stranger's eyes
DO DO
And now from where I stand
Upon this hill I plundered from the pool
DO DO/MII look around, I search the skies
REm SOLI shade my eyes, so nearly blind
And I see signs of half remembered days
SOL FA DO/MI REm SOLI hear bells that chime in strange familiar ways
DO DO/SI LAmI recogn-a-a-a-a-a-ise...
The hope you kindle in your eyes
It's oh so easy now
FA SOLAs we lie here in the dark
Nothing interferes it's obvious
LAmHow to beat the tears
REmThat threaten to snuff out
The spark of our love
The Moment of Clarity
----------------------
DO
And the moment of clarity
Faded like charity does
Sometimes
I open one eye
And I put out my hand just to touch your soft hair
FA DOTo make sure in the darkness that you were still there
FAAnd I have to admit
I was just a little afraid, oh yeah
LAmBut then...
FAI had a little bit of luck
You were awake
DOI couldn't take another moment alone.
The chords over the spoken
..words:
DO FA DO FA DO REm
Apparently they were
..travelling abroad
And they picked up some
..hitchhikers...drill
Wake up you're
..dreaming...what...you're
..dreaming
We were moving away from
..the border
Uh what border?
Have a nice
..day...uh...have a nice day
SOL DO LAm
We were moving away from the
..border
DO LAmLooking for somewhere to sleep
The two of us sharing the driving
SOL DO LAmTwo hitchhikers slumped in the
..back seat
Hello
I sneaked a quick look in the
..mirror
She gave me a smile
SOL DO LAmI said "Is anyone hungry?
Should we stop for a while?"
LAmDO LAm LAm
So we pulled off into a layby
Her dress blew up over her head
DO LAmI said "Would you like to come
..with me?"
SOL DOShe said something foreign under
LAm..her breath
And the sun shone down on her
..lovely young limbs
I thought to myself she's much too
..good for him
I lay down beside her with tears
..in my eyes
She said
4.33 AM Running Shoes
So I stood by the roadside
FAThe soles of my running shoes
..gripping the tarmac
LAm FALike gunmetal magnets
LAmFixed on the front of her
..Fassbinder face
FAWas the kind of a smile
That only a rather dull child
..could have drawn
While attempting a graveyard in
FA..the moonlight
LAmBut she was impressed
You could see that she thought I
FA..looked fine
LAmAnd when she turned sweeter
The reason (between you and me)
..was
She'd just seen my green
LAm FA..Lamborghini
DO LAm
So we went for a spin in the
..country
DO LAmTo feel the wind in our hair
DO LAmTo feel the power of my engine
To feel the thrill of desire
LAm DOFA DO
And then in the trees I heard a
..twig snap
FA DOWarning lights flashed on my map
I opened my eyes and to my
..surprise
Arabs with Knives and West German
..Skies
----------------------------------------
SOL LA
There were Arabs with Knives
FA LAmAt the foot of the bed
Right at the foot of the bed
DO LAmOh my God how did they get in
..here?
DO LAmI thought we were safe home in
..England
FAShe said "Come on now kid, it was
DO FA..wrong what you did
You've got to admit it was wrong
FA..what you did
SOL FA DOYou got to admit it was wrong"
Oh god....Jesus
DOSleep Sleep
I know that I'm only dreaming
Leave her alone..get out..out..get
..out of my house
DOThrough closed eyes
I see West German skies on the
SOLsus4 SOL..ceiling
FAAnd I want to get back
To the girl with the rucksack
DOTo feel her flaxen hair
SOLI want to be there
See the sun going down
FABehind Krupps steelworks
DO SOLOn the outskirts of some German
..town
DOGuten Abend meiner Damen und
..Herren Ha Ha Ha Ha
SOL7Willkommen in Konnigsburg Ha Ha Ha
..Ha
DOWollen zie danzen mit mir oder
..drinken Bier Ha Ha Ha Ha
SOL7Thank you but......
This young lady and I
Will just finish this bottle of
DO SOL..wine
It was kind of you...but
MImI think we'll just say goodnight
Leave us alone
Goodnight
Leave us alone
DOCould I have the key to
..one four three please?
FAThere you are
Thank you, goodnight
REm
Hello yes I'd like to
..order breakfast please
MImI'd like coffee for two,
..and toast with marmalade
SOL SOL+No...marmalade.
For the First Time Today-Part 2
--------------------------------
For the first time today
FA SOL DOI held her naked body next to mine
FA LAm REmIn this hotel overlooking the
..Rhine
SOL SOL+I made her mine
Ooh babe...ooh babe
LAm REm REmSOL SOL+ LAm
Come with me and stay with me
Please stay with me
Uh...what is it?
Stay with me
MIm FAStay with me
MIm FAStay with me
No...
LAm FA LAmStay with me
Forget it
Sexual Revolution
------------------
Hey...girl
Take out the dagger
And let's have a stab at the
DO RE MIm..sexual revolution
Hey girl
Let freedom for all be our
..rallying call
DO RETomorrow lets make...our new
..resolution
DO REYeah, but tonight lie still
SOL RE MImWhile I plunder your sweet grave
And remember
RE MImOnly the poor can be saved
Hey girl
As I've always said I prefer your
..lips red
Not what the good Lord made
But what he intended
Hey girl
Don't point the finger at me
I am only a rat in a maze like you
And only the dead go free
So...please hold my hand
As we blunder through the maze
And remember
Nothing can grow without rain
(Thunder)
DO
Don't point
RE MImDon't point your finger at me
I awoke in a fever
SOL SOL/FA#The bedclothes were all soaked in
MIm..sweat
She said "You've been having a
..nightmare
And it's not over yet"
DOThen she picked up the doggy in
SOL..the window
(The one with the waggly tail)
DO REAnd she put him to bed between
MIm..two bits of bread
The Remains of Our Love
------------------------
SOL MIm
I just cowered in the corner
My pyjama coat over my head
SOLAnd she smiled as she finished her
MIm..sandwich
SOL MIm
And her cold eyes fixed me to my
DO FA..dark history
SOLAs she brushed the remains
Of our love from the bed
DOAnd when she had turned back the
LAm..covers
When all of the prayers had been
LAm..read
FAShe said "Come on over here you
..silly boy
FABefore you catch your death of
..cold
DOI was only joking
Let's leave behind the city grime
FALet's not compete
DOIt could be fine in the country
Couldn't it though...come on lets
..go
I said "OK"
FA
Are we going to go now?
Where would you like to go
..darling?
Mmm...Vermont...Wyoming
..(yes)
Wyoming...huh huh
Children...(what) we're
..going to Wyoming
Darling...Which way is
..Wyoming?
Hook a right here
You're going the wrong way
I know that
I know children...
Let's see how
..many...Volvos we pass
On the way to our new life
..in the country
...One
Jade don't do that, that's
..really negative
Go Fishing
-----------
As cars go by I cast my mind's eye
Over back packs on roof racks
Beyond the horizon
Where dream makers
Working white plastic processors
Invite the unwary
To reach for the pie in the sky
DOmGo fishing my boy!
SIsus4 SI DOdim SIsus4 SI MIm DO
SIsus4
We set out in the spring
REWith a trunk full of books about
..everything
SIsus4About solar devices
And how nice natural childbirth is
DOdimWe cut down some trees
And we trailed our ideals
Through the forest glade
DOdimWe dammed up the stream
And the kids cooled their heels
In the fishing pool we'd made
MIm MIm/REWe held hands and we exchanged
..bands
DOAnd we practically lived off the
RE..land
You adopted a fox cub
REWhose mother was somebody's coat
SIsus4You fed him by hand
And then snuggled him down
REIn the grandfather bed while I
..wrote
DOdimWe grew our own maize
SIsus4And I only occasionally went into
..town
DOdimTo stock up on antibiotics
And shells for the shotgun that I
SI..kept around
MIm MIm/REI told the kids stories while you
..worked your loom
DOAnd the sun went down sooner each
..day.
SOL*Chapter six in which
..Eeyore has a birthday
DOAnd gets two presents
RE SOLDaddy...come on dad
Eeyore the old grey donkey
..stood by the side
Of the stream and he
..looked at himself in the water
"Pathetic" he said,
.."That's what it is"
"Good morning Eeyore" said
..Pooh
"Oh" said Pooh, He
SI..thought for a long time
SIsus4
Then the leaves all fell down
Our crops all turned brown
It was over
SIsus4As the first snowflakes fell
REI realized all was not well in the
..camp
DOdimThe kids caught bronchitis
The space heater ran out of diesel
SIDOdim
One weekend a friend from the
..East,
SIsus4 SIRot his soul, stole your heart
I said "Fuck it then
MIm/RETake the kids back to town
DO REMaybe I'll see you around"
SOL DO RE SOL LAm7 SOL DO SOL/SI
And so...leaving all our hopes
..and dreams
To the wind and the rain
SOLTaking only our stash
LAm7 SOLLeft our litter and trash
And set out on the road again
SOL/SI LAm7 SOLOn the road again
DOOn the road again
On the road
Bye Bye Daddy, Bye Daddy
MImYou can bring Pearl she's
..a darn nice girl
But don't bring Liza
For the First Time Today-Part 1
--------------------------------
LAm
For the first time today
I feel it's really over
FA REmYou were my everyday excuse
SOL SOL+For playing deaf, dumb and blind
Who'd have ever thought
FA SOLThis was how it would end for you
DO..and me
To carry my own millstone
SOL SOL+Out of the trees
LAmAnd I have to admit
I don't like it a bit
FA LAmBeing left here beside this
..lonesome road.
RE/FA#Lonesome road
MI7-10Lonesome road
Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin
------------------------------
Hey kid, you looking for a
..lift?...Get on up here
How's it going good buddy?
DO LAmI nailed ducks to the wall
Kept my heart in dark ruins
SOL DO LAmI built bungalows all over the
..hills
SOL DO LAmDunroamin, duncarin, dunlivin
SOL DO LAmTook my girl to the country
To sleep out under the moon
DO LAmNext thing she's going crazy
DOWomen are like that kid
What the hell can you do?
SOL DO LAmShe waits for the real Mr. Right
..to come
SOL DO LAmGently removing her heart
FAWith his promises of real
..communication
I saw a program about that
..on TV........
FA# FAWho's always picking up the tab
Who built a bungalow for his mum
..and dad
Who took you out to all the shows
Who worked his fingers to the bone
While you were asleep
It was me...I did
FA# FAI kept you in buttons and bows
Christ all those clothes
So you could encourage this creep
FA# FAWith his neat feet
DOAnd his clean fingernails
With his wise but twinkling eyes
FA DOHe's a rock standing out in an
..ocean of doubt
FAGet movin', get off the
..road ya Goddam faggot
SOLAnd compromise
FA# FA DOI'd like to go on with this bit of
..a song
FA DODescribing this schmuck
I'd like to go on, but I'm going
DO..to throw up
[Not in my rig you don't boy...get
..the hell out of here]
The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
---------------------------------
REm
An angel on a Harley
Pulls across to greet a fellow
..rolling stone
REmPuts his bike up on it's stand
Leans back and then extends
A scarred and greasy hand...he
..said
How ya doin bro?...where ya
DO LAm..been?...where ya goin'?
REThen he takes your hand
In some strange Californian
..handshake
And breaks the bone
Have a nice day
REmA housewife from Encino
Whose husband's on the golf course
LAmWith his book of rules
REmBreaks and makes a 'U' and idles
..back
LAmTo take a second look at you
You flex your rod
DO LAmFish takes the hook
RESweet vodka and tobacco in her
..breath
SOLAnother number in your little
..black book
DO
These are the pros and cons of
MIm..hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of
MIm..hitchhiking
RE SOLOh babe, I must be dreaming
I'm standing on the leading edge
The Eastern seaboard spread before
LAm..my eyes
"Jump" says Yoko Ono
"I'm too scared and too good
LAm..looking" I cried
"Go on", she says
DO"Why don't you give it a try?
LAm
Why prolong the agony all men must
SOL..die"
REmDo you remember Dick Tracy?
Do you remember Shane?
And mother wants you
REmCould you see him selling tickets
Where the buzzard circles over
LAm..[Shane]
The body on the plain
Did you understand the music Yoko
DO LAmOr was it all in vain? [Shane]
REThe bitch said something mystical
.."Herro"
SOLSo I stepped back on the kerb
..again
DOThese are the pros and cons of
..hitchhiking
DOThese are the pros and cons of
MIm..hitchhiking
Oh babe, I must be dreaming
..again
C
..Em (repeat and fade)
These are the pros and cons of
..hitchhiking
Every Strangers Eyes
---------------------
Hello...you wanna cup of coffee?
REmI'm sorry, would you like a cup
..of coffee?
SOLOk you take cream and sugar?
DOIn truck stops and hamburger
..joints
In Cadillac limousines
In the company of has-beens
SOLAnd bent-backs and sleeping
..forms
On pavement steps
DOIn libraries and railway stations
In books and banks
REmIn the pages of history
SOLIn suicidal cavalry attacks
I recognise...
FA SOL DOMyself in every stranger's eyes
DO
And in wheelchairs by monuments
Under tube trains and commuter
..accidents
REmIn council care and county
..courts
SOLAt Easter fairs and sea-side
..resorts
DOIn drawing rooms and city morgues
In award winning photographs
Of life rafts in the China seas
REmIn transit camps, under arc lamps
On unloading ramps
SOLIn faces blurred by rubber stamps
DO SOL/SI LAmI recognise...
Myself in every stranger's eyes
And now from where I stand
REmUpon this hill I plundered from
SOL..the pool
I look around, I search the skies
REm SOLI shade my eyes, so nearly blind
DO DO/SIAnd I see signs of half remembered
..days
SOL FA DO/MII hear bells that chime in
REm SOL..strange familiar ways
I recogn-a-a-a-a-a-ise...
FA SOL DOThe hope you kindle in your eyes
It's oh so easy now
As we lie here in the dark
MImNothing interferes it's obvious
LAmHow to beat the tears
That threaten to snuff out
SOL DOThe spark of our love
The Moment of Clarity
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And the moment of clarity
LAmFaded like charity does
Sometimes
I open one eye
FA DOAnd I put out my hand just to
..touch your soft hair
FATo make sure in the darkness that
DO..you were still there
And I have to admit
DO LAm SOL FAI was just a little afraid,
DO..oh yeah
But then...
FAI had a little bit of luck
You were awake
I couldn't take another moment
..alone.
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