Chords with lyrics
Key: C majorC
Intro: C majorC A minorAm DmDm G+G
C majorC
In truck stops, and hamburger joints,
A minorAm
In Cadillac limosuines, in the company of
DmDm
Has-beens and bent-backs
G+G
And sleeping forms on pavement steps,
C majorC
In libraries and railway stations,
A minorAm
In books and banks,
DmDm
In the pages of history
G+G C majorC A minorAm
And suicidal cavalry attacks I recognize
FF G+G C majorC
Myself in every stranger's eyes.
C majorC
And in wheelchairs by monuments,
A minorAm
Under tube trains, commuter accidents,
DmDm
In council care and county courts,
G+G
At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts,
C majorC
In drawing rooms and city morgues,
A minorAm
In award-winning photographs of life-rafts on the China Seas,
DmDm
In transit camps, under arc lamps, on unloading ramps,
G+G C majorC A minorAm
And faces blurred by rubber stamps I recognize
FF G+G C majorC
Myself in every stranger's eyes.
C majorC A minorAm DmDm
And now, from where I stand, upon this hill I've
G+G
plundered from the pool
C majorC A minorAm DmDm
I look around, I search the sky, I shade my eyes so
G+G
nearly blind
C majorC C/GC/G A minorAm
And I've seen sights of half-remembered days, I
FF E minorEm DmDm G+G
hear bells that chime in strange, familiar ways
C majorC A minorAm FF G+G C majorC
I recognize the hope you kindle in your eyes
(C majorC C FF E minorEm G+G C majorC FF G+G)
C majorC FF G+G
It's oh, so easy now, as we lie here in the dark
E minorEm A minorAm
Nothing interferes, it's obvious how to beat the
DmDm G+G
tears that threaten to snuff out the spark of our
C majorC