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A Voice From The Past by Marillion

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Key: Em
Tuning: E A D G B E

Intro:

Em D A/C# x4
 
Verse 1:
Em               D    A/C# Em         D    A/C#
A voice from the past      entered my head today
Em         D    A/C# Em               D           A/C#
Fresh and alive
full of life and passion and pain
G   D/F#  G        A
  A voice now past
  G         D/F#  G     A     Em   D A/C# Em D A/C#
A beautiful soul, gone, gone, gone
 
Verse 2:
Em                D                A/C#
Speaking clearly, clearer than the living
Em              D     A/C#
Talking perfect sense
G       D/F#      G          A
Used to not being understood
G             D/F#    G            Em   D          A/C# Em D A/C#
While talking perfect sense to the next generation

Verse 3:
Em      D         A/C#
Have we caught up yet?
Em         D A/C#            G  D/F# G
Is it time?       I think it is
 A               G D/F#
Enough is enough
 G
Enough is enough
 
[Instrumental 1]
Em D A/C# x4
G D/F# G A
G D/F# G
Em D A/C# x2
 
Verse 4:
Em               D/F# G          A
A voice from the past entered my head today
Em         D         C
Tiny child sighed in my ear
G      D/F# G         A
Giving up   breathing in
G             D/F# G        Em
Over and out
over and out
         D        A/C#        Em                   D A/C#
Taken by bad luck and the ill fortune of geography
 
Bridge 1:
Em                        D A/C#
Common cold, dirty water, H IV
Em                    D     A/C#
Common apathy, common crime
G       D/F# G        A        G        D/F#   G
Perfect      nonsense   to the next generation
 
Bridge 2:
A              G D/F#
Dead yet alive
A              G D/F#
Dead yet alive
A                 G     D/F#
Gone but shouting anger
A                G       D/F#
Gone but talking perfect sense
 
Verse 5:
Em         D         A/C#
   Have we caught up yet?
Em                  D           A/C#
   Is it time? Well I say it is
  G                    A          G
I say it is, deaf and dumbed-down
 D/F#      G
Enough is enough
 
Bridge 3:
G                A
Give me a smile, hold out your hand
  Bm                       A/C#
I don't want your money, I don't want your land
G             A
Give a smile, hold out your hand
  Bm                       A/C#
I don't want your money, I don't want your land
Em                        D            A/C#
I want you to wake up and do something strange
Em                      D           A/C#         Bm A    G
I want you to listen, I want you to feel someone el-se's pain
        Em A    G
Someone el-se's pain
        Bm A    G
Someone el-se's pain
        Em A    G
Someone el-se's pain
 
[Instrumental 2]
Bm A G Em A G
Bm A G Em A
 
Outro:
Em              D    A/C#
Deaf and dumbed-down
Em              D    A/C#
Deaf and dumbed-down
Em              D    A/C#
Deaf and dumbed-down
Em              D    A/C#
Deaf and dumbed-down
Em
A tap with clean water
Em
A tap with clean water