Never Arriving chords by New Model Army

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G#m

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G#m


Verse 1:
G#m
I drove you South through the landscape that you love
G#m
All those medieval towns with theâ??cobbledâ??stones
G#m
Washed by the?blood of the martyrs
G#m
In the lastâ??great stand of the true believers

Verse 2:
G#m
The hilltop villages baking in the afternoon sun
G#m
The walls pocked with old bullet holes
G#m
And the iron and the stone that broke the people's backs
G#m
All played out for the tourists
G#m
I've always considered it best never to disturb ghosts
G#m
But it seems that women always want to go straight to the heart of things
G#m
And as you said, you have your reasons


Chorus:
        E                                            C#m
And the roads are like the lines in the palm of my hand
                      G#m
Wearing deeper and dividing
        E                                       C#m
And for 3am confessions the safest place that I know
                                B                  G#m
Is here between departing and arriving but never arriving


Verse 3:
G#m
There was that club we used to go to way out by the park
G#m
Where the music was loud and the corners were dark
G#m
And we'd sit in those corners like some kind of witches coven


Verse 4:
G#m
We were so young and brave, always looking for trouble
G#m
It's easy to find it when you're looking for trouble
G#m
We'd take on all comers when no more would come we'd take on each other
G#m
So when the phone call came I wasn't really so surprised
G#m
I set off with good intentions but soon I was lost
G#m
And the signs were all graffitied out and the compass needle spinning


Chorus:
        E                                          C#m
And the roads are like the lines in the palm of my hand
                     G#m
Wearing deeper and dividing
        E                                     C#m
And for 3am confessions the safest place that I know
                                B                   G#m
Is here between departing and arriving but never arriving
       C#      E(7th)                      G#
Never arriving         still still never arriving


Bridge 1:
G#m
G#m G#m G#m F#
G#m G#m G#m F#


Bridge 2:
             E                                    C#m
And now I've seen the very worst that you could be
                                               B
And you'd have been the witness to the same of me
                                G#m
Somehow it should be easy to forgive everything that happened


Chorus:
            E                                               C#m
Back on the roads that are like the lines in the palm of my hand
                     G#m
Wearing deeper and dividing
        E                                        C#m
And for cowards like me the safest place that we know
                                B                  G#m
Is here between departing and arriving but never arriving
        E        C#m         B                G#m
Never arriving       Never arriving   Never arriving