Chords with lyrics
Intro:
(half time, repeat four times)
Dmaj7Dmaj7 E minor 7Em7
Verse:
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm G+G x 2
D MajorD A augmentedA
In a village in the hills
Asus4Asus4 G+G
House buried to the window sills in snow
D MajorD A augmentedA
In a prison yard at night
Asus4Asus4 G+G
An Alsatian barking for the stars to go
D MajorD A augmentedA
In the attic of a house
Asus4Asus4 G+G
In the slats of light which creep across the room
D MajorD A augmentedA
In a forest grove at dawn
Asus4Asus4 G+G
Where the animals sleep hidden in the gloom
Chorus:
Bb majorBb B minorBm
On the 97th floor overlooking Tokyo
Bb majorBb B minorBm
In Camden road in a second floor flat with Dilworth down below
Bb majorBb B minorBm
There is only one thing
Bb majorBb A augmentedA D MajorD
There is only one thing
Verse:
D MajorD A augmentedA
In a cancer ward where the patients sit
Asus4Asus4 G+G
Waiting patiently to die
D MajorD A augmentedA
In an aeroplane high above the place
Asus4Asus4 G+G
You finally left behind
D MajorD A augmentedA
In a cage where only one thing could be free
Asus4Asus4 G+G
And it's not you and I
D MajorD A augmentedA
In a cage where only one thing could be free
Asus4Asus4 G+G
And it's not you and I
Chorus:
Bb majorBb B minorBm
In every single place that has ever ever been
Bb majorBb B minorBm
Hiroshima, Los Angeles and each town in between
Bb majorBb
There is only one thing
B minorBm Bb majorBb A augmentedA
There is only one thing
Intro:
(half time again, repeat four times again then straight into the verse)
Dmaj7Dmaj7 E minorEm
One thing
Verse:
D MajorD A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 G+G
In the darkest part of you that you have ever seen
D MajorD A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 G+G
In the smile of the child staring at the TV screen
D MajorD A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 G+G
In the diary of a priest, in the sheets that lie upon his bed
D MajorD A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 G+G
Out there amongst the waves and inside your lover's head
Chorus:
Bb majorBb
There is only one thing
B minorBm
There is only one thing
Bb majorBb
There is only one thing
B minorBm
There is only one thing
Bb majorBb
There is only one thing
B minorBm
There is only one thing
Bb majorBb A augmentedA
There is only
N.C.
one thing
Outro:
(tempo slows down)
E minor 7Em7 G+G D MajorD x 2
E minor 7Em7 G+G D MajorD
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever
E minor 7Em7 G+G D MajorD
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever
E minor 7Em7 G+G D MajorD
10 years on the coast figuring out the weather
E minor 7Em7
Another decade getting high
G+G
until you're free
D MajorD
There's nothing after that but you and I
Nothing after that buy you and me
E minor 7Em7 G+G D MajorD
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever
E minor 7Em7 G+G D MajorD
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever