The Absence Of You chords by Tim Minchin

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse:
DbDb    Eb MajorEb     AbAb
I take a walk on the Seine,
      DbDb     Eb MajorEb     AbAb
Cross Pont Neuf on my way to St Germain.
        DbDb     Eb MajorEb     AbAb
Love-hearts on padlocks on wire in the mist,
   DbDb      AbAb    Eb7Eb7     F minorFm
Where young lovers kiss and swear to be true.
     Eb MajorEb      AbAb    Eb7Eb7     F minorFm
Echoes of ten thousand signs of love, and yet I
   DbDb    Eb MajorEb     AbAb
Feel only the absence of you.

Verse:
DbDb     Eb MajorEb      AbAb
Out of the window on the thirtieth floor,
DbDb      Eb MajorEb       AbAb
Central park shines with the coming of dawn.
    DbDb       Eb MajorEb    AbAb
Through eyes rendered weary by jet-lag and wine,
    DbDb    AbAb       Eb7Eb7    F minorFm
I turn ‘round to find there’s a girl in my room
   Eb MajorEb    AbAb      Eb7Eb7     F minorFm
For a moment we kiss, but her vodka-soaked lips
   DbDb      Eb MajorEb     AbAb
Taste only of the absence of you.


Chorus:
AbAb   F minorFm
I don’t know
         C minorCm
What all of this means
        DbDb  Eb MajorEb  DbDb
If you are not here with me.
  AbAb  F minorFm
And I am lost
       C minorCm
When we are apart,

There’s a hole in my heart,
         DbDb
That light passes through.

And the pattern it creates is the shape of
        AbAb
The absence of you.

Verse:
        DbDb       Eb MajorEb     AbAb
Spring has been found hanging ‘round Soho square,
       DbDb    Eb MajorEb       AbAb
So I take my coffee and newspaper there,
        DbDb       Eb MajorEb   AbAb
To bask in the not warm enough April sun
     DbDb     AbAb     Eb7Eb7      F minorFm
With the workers who come to eat Pret with no shoes.
    Eb MajorEb      AbAb     Eb7Eb7       F minorFm
But the grass to the side of the patch where I’m lying
  DbDb      Eb MajorEb     AbAb
Is flat with the absence of you.


Chorus:
AbAb    F minorFm
I don’t know
         C minorCm
What all this is for
        DbDb  Eb MajorEb DbDb
If you are not near to me.
  AbAb    F minorFm
And I cannot sleep.
      C minorCm
Sleep is no fun

If the unruly sun,
        DbDb
Will reveal the truth,

A augmentedA space in my bed as cold as the dead,
                         AbAb
Exactly the size and the shape of the absence of you.


Outro:
       C minorCm
More of this beauty runs over and through me
          DbDb
And pools round my shoes.

And the puddle it forms
                     AbAb
Conforms to the shape of the absence of you.