Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Verse 1:
F# minorF#m
Ticking away the moments
A augmentedA
That make up a dull day
E MajorE
Fritter and waste the hours
F# minorF#m
In an off-hand way
F# minorF#m
Kicking around on a piece of ground
A augmentedA
In your home town
E MajorE
Waiting for someone or something
F# minorF#m
To show you the way
D MajorD
Tired of lying in the sunshine
A augmentedA
Staying home to watch the rain
D MajorD
You are young and life is long
A augmentedA
And there is time to kill today
D MajorD
And then the one day you find
C# minorC#m
Ten years have gone behind you
B minorBm
No one told you when to run
E MajorE
You missed the starting gun
Solo:
F# minorF#m A augmentedA E MajorE F# minorF#m A augmentedA E MajorE F# minorF#m
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD C# minorC#m B minorBm E MajorE
F# minorF#m A augmentedA E MajorE F# minorF#m A augmentedA E MajorE F# minorF#m
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD C# minorC#m B minorBm E MajorE
Verse 2:
F# minorF#m
So you run and you run
A augmentedA
To catch up with the sun but it's sinking
E MajorE F# minorF#m
Racing around to come up behind you again
F# minorF#m
The sun is the same in a relative way
A augmentedA
But you're older,
E MajorE
shorter of breath
F# minorF#m
And one day closer to death
D MajorD
Every year is getting shorter
A augmentedA
Never seem to find the time
D MajorD
Plans that either come to naught
A augmentedA
Or half a page of scribbled lines
D MajorD C# minorC#m
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
B minorBm
The time is gone, the song is over
FF
Thought I'd something more to say
Solo:
F# minorF#m A augmentedA E MajorE F# minorF#m A augmentedA E MajorE F# minorF#m
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD C# minorC#m B minorBm FF
Outro:
E minorEm
Home
A augmentedA
Home again
E minorEm
I like to be here
A augmentedA
When I can
E minorEm
When I come home
A augmentedA
Cold and tired
E minorEm
It's good to warm my bones
A augmentedA
Beside the fire
C majorC
Far away
C majorC
Across the field
B minorBm
Tolling on the iron bell
FF
Calls the faithful to their knees
E minorEm D#D# D MajorD B minorBm
To hear the softly spoken magic spell