Intro: D Bm G A
D
Somewhere a long time ago
G D
In the blue night
G D
You had a dream
G D
A love supreme
D
And that dream, it gave you a fright
G D
An insight
D
You need something you come to me
G D etc....
Come to me
You turn on your heel
And you ran away from me
Said, you knew, you'd get neurotic about it
Eventually
Seeing someone
Yeah I see you
If it's meant to be
After this
Bm A
It's not the arrival
D A
It's what happens on the journey
Chorus:
G A D
When day is done, when the day is through
G A D
And I'm stuck, still stuck on you
G A D
When day is done, when the day is through
G A D
And I'm stuck, still stuck on you
I was seeing this girl
Trouble, what else is there?
It's all trouble
And we're laughing maniacally
On the telephone
Talking to her
It was no trouble at all
No trouble at all
Chorus
It was winter
And it was bitterly cold
She got some new kinda flu
It was a precarious time for us all
And all I knew was that
Chorus
D G D G
Patti Labelle was singing, "going down makes me shiver"
D G D G
Sooner or later we're all going down to that river
D G D G
We'll meet our maker and he'll take care of all the details
G
And when he wails
D
I know what you need
G
Someday we'll all be freed
D
Well what are we going to say
A
If it doesn't quite work out that way
Bm
A life is a life
Bm
More or less
G Em
A life is a life
Em
An SOS
You were dancin' to the SOS band's "just be good to me"
Keep your feet on the ground, your hopes up high and mighty
Life is just a waiting room, don't collapse like a pile of bricks
Lighten up, kick against the pricks
I know what you need
Someday we'll all be freed
Well what are we going to say
If it doesn't quite work out that way
A life is a life
More or less
A life is a life
An SOS
C#m F#m C#m(7?) F#m
I'm in no condition, to discuss this condition, that I find myself in
A F#m
It's just wishful thinking
C#m F#m
My heart was sinking
C#m (A?)
Sometimes I miss you a helluvva lot
Chorus:
E C#m
A screwed up state of affairs
E C#m
And no one even cares
E C#m
A screwed up state of affairs
E C#m
And no one even cares
E C#m E C#m
I'm well aware there's someone else somewhere just like you
E C#m E C#m
We were talking in bed, when I think you said you met someone new
F#m C#m
I was trying to figure out where it all went wrong
F#m C#m
You said, hey (Craig) you're so headstrong
You're way off groove
You can't make a move
Without screwing up
That's what you're doing
Chorus
A E
You're wasting away
F# E
Today clouds were low and grey
E C#m
A man alone is easy prey
Chorus
Intro: A D A
A
It was the kind of day, you wished you'd never got up
A
Smell of rain in the air about to erupt
G Gmaj7 Gmaj6 Gmaj7 A Esus A
When there's too much coincidence
G Gmaj7 Gmaj6 Gmaj7 A Esus A
And you more or less admit defeat
G Gmaj7 Gmaj6 Gmaj7 A Esus A
And you bump into an old flame on the street
G Gmaj7 Gmaj6 Gmaj7 A Esus A
Your both shuffling your feet
D G
Running away
D G
I wasn't even running away
G
I was just catching my breath
Everything takes longer than you expect it to
I'd been out walking, trying to get a hold of you
Good morning blues, you're so punctual, please come on in
With her skin like porcelain
She balanced her coffee on her knee
Told me about her family
Running away
I wasn't even running away
I was just catching my breath
Yeah, but still I get frightened and my shoulders feel tight
And I can't get back to sleep in the middle of the night
Walked you home, kissed you at your front gate
Your wrote your phone number on a scrap of paper, while I wait
Then we talked about life, death and uncertainty
And made a tentative date to see an American movie
But I'm not...
Running away
I wasn't even running away
I was just catching my breath
Intro: Bm7 B7 sus4 B11 Bm7 B11 Bm7
Em7 E7 sus4 E11 Em7 E11 Em7
Bm7 B7 sus4 B11 Bm7 B11 Bm7
The spirit is fragile
And climbs up on the roof
Em7 E7 sus4 E11 Em7 E11 Em7
Who said love
Was foolproof
Bm7 B7 sus4 B11 Bm7 B11 Bm7
The ceiling is leaking
We're not speaking
Em7 E7 sus4 E11 Em7 E11 Em7
We were the closest of friends
D Em A
And when darkest night descends
A
She threw her hands up in despair
D Em
I ran mine through my hair
G
I asked her for a cab fare
Enough is enough
Folks have a certain way of doing stuff
She said you don't care one bit, don't care what you forfeit
She'd been hurt, I should have been more alert
I was digging a ditch with this train of thought
We were both distraught
We needed support
Then she said
A D G Gmaj7 Gmaj6 Gmaj7
Your house is falling, falling apart
A D G Gmaj7 Gmaj6 Gmaj7
Your house is falling, falling apart
I was connecting the unconnectable
Unscrewing the unscruitable
The M.O. is so familiar
It's beautiful
Grateful kiss
It's weariness
And the rain fell all over the town
And I tell ya, it's not the coffee that keeps me from sleep
Drops me in the deep
It gave me quite a start, when she said
Your house is falling, falling apart
Your house is falling, falling apart
Your house is falling, falling apart
Your house is falling, falling apart
Your house is falling, falling apart (oh tumbling down)
Your house is falling, falling apart (falling apart)
Your house is falling, falling apart
Your house is falling, falling apart
(ad lib and fade)
Slumped against the bar, chewing the fat with a friend The door opened and shut and then opened and shut again Pangs of disappointment, pride's about to take a fall Beams from the car lights made patterns on the wall "Don't be mad at me", my friend broke down and did confess That he was having a liaison with our favourite waitress I was dumbfounded, obviously in distress Jane is her name, Jane is wearing a Picasso print dress Chorus: F C G This is the melancholy, melancholy hour F C G This is the melancholy, melancholy hour Well rain was still falling, hey look what the cat's dragged in It was Jane and she was soaked to the skin I said Jane tell me, why him? She said, it was my night off, it doesn't mean anything Well I said if on that wet night what if it had been me She said it wouldn't have happened, you were too melancholy You're talking to stay awake, tell me Jane is anything wrong She said, don't ever use this against me in some dumb song Chorus Don't fall asleep behind the wheel of your car on your way home tonight Watch the clouds baby, not the building sites! Anyone may fall from grace into the arms of temptation Don't be harsh on me, someday you might be in the same situation Happily that's how this story ends Jane and I are still friends Slumped against the bar, still chewing the fat with the same friends The door opens and shuts, opens and shuts again Disappointment, pride's about to take a fall Beams from the car lights made patterns on the wall
D C
Your heartbeat flames my confusion
G C7
As beauty blunders into my room
D C
This improbable world can be an impossible pain
G C7
Some miracles gonna have to happen soon
Well the day disappears and it seems like
There's nothing I can say or do
I thought well I'll change and you'll change, it'll even out
Then you said, now I don't even like you
D C G C7
As silent as the grave
D C G C7
As silent as the grave
Foolish heart, you upset me so
You don't really believe that do you, heaven be praised, no
And so our quarrel continued from room to room
Yeah well nobody wants to be the last to go
You've got eyes baby, what's the story, can't you see
You might have to take a dive for your dreams eventually
Even if we mess up that good thing that we once had
Cheerful or fearful, happy or sad
Verse 2nd time: Key change
E A D A7
As silent as the grave
As silent as the grave
As silent as the grave
As silent as the grave
D
When love comes back to haunt you
G D
You drink too much, you think too much and fall
Bm D
For the memory of it all
G D
It was nothing at all
And it does you no good to think that the past
Has a ghost of a chance to return again
Though I tell myself over and over that love can never end
Em D
When love comes back to haunt you
Em D
It whispers the pain you thought had gone
G D G D Em
Had been waiting like a thief all along
When love comes back to haunt you
All the magic disappears from your sky
And you know you're going to keep on living
But you want to die
What we must have had was a haunting melody
To cast a spell on you
And we danced such a pretty dance
That we were quite delirious
When love comes back to haunt you
You don't need to draw a diagram
Paint a picture
Or talk ad nauseam
When love comes back to haunt you
It whispers the pain you thought had gone
Had been waiting like a thief all along
D Bm
The car was moving
G Em
Swaying across the white lines
Bm D (picked) G A
Fires lit across the flatlands
Bm
Smoke hung at tree level
D Bm
A world stretched out flat
G Em
Like cinemascope
Bm D (pick) G
Disorder, disruption, darkness
A Bm
Light and hope
Out here the starts really shine
Almost caress your skin
Here at the river's edge
In search of a direction
People like us go forward
Almost timid at heart
Strange magic of the highway
Impatient to depart
Chorus:
D (riff) Em
Come on, come on
D (riff) Em(7)
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
A calmness
A yearning
Seems like we're always too late
New moon shimmering
Reluctantly
We arrived at dawn
The rising sun a ball of fire
I'll drive she said
Just as soon as we fix this flat tyre
Chorus (x3)
Come on, come on
Come on, come on