Em D

I’m hanging on a cliff

F Am
Above me lies heaven

Em Am
Below the sharp rocks

C Em
Of your rejection

My mind’s in a spin
I’m facing the barrel of a gun
Your finger’s on the trigger
Of my anticipation

G D

You gotta tell what’s gonna be

Am D
Oh baby just be straight with me

G C D Em
My heart can’t take much more of this

G Am

It beats like it’s gonna break

C D

I gotta know if you’ll ever take

G C D Em

Me into your life I’m hurting inside

G Am C C9

My heart can’t take much more of this

I’m looking at your face

For the trace of a sign

But I see only mystery

In your expression

My blood’s running fast

And I’m not that strong

Give me just one chance

To see through your complexion

You gotta make it plain to see

Just put me out of this misery

F C Am G

Is this a game with my soul you’re playing

Dm Am Bb Am

You like to hear me saying and saying

G Am C D

Hey baby what’s going down

G D Am D

Is it over or do you still want me around

If I had a dime

Am F

For each and every time

C G Am

You turned away and put me down

I’d be driving fast cars

But I’d still hurt in my heart

Be the saddest guy around

F G

What can I say

G/E F - G

There’s got to be another way and...

Chorus:

Am7 Em

I’m trying

Am7 Em

Yeh I’m trying

F G

Every waking hour

Am F

Doing all in my power

Am G F9

And I’m dying

G F

Maybe failures just my style

C – Bm – Am - G

I should have gone that extra mile

Am G

But what can I do

G/E F - G

I can’t help myself from loving you and...

Don’t close the door

I’ve still got a lifetime more

To put things all to right

I’m not giving up the fight

Till I’ve turned from black to white

[F]

And love is in your eyes. And...

Is this what you call Shangri-La

A D A

Did my number come up at last

A E A

Is this the reason I travelled so far

A D E

Should I turn and spit on the past

D E

Well I don’t think the future’s looking so fine

A Bm

Change aint always a step up the line. This is...

F#m – Bm7 – F#m – Bm7

Hard times – every single night

F#m – Bm – A - E

Hard times – every day is a fight

D E

Hard times - with everything that I do

A - E – F#m – D A

Hard times – since I met you

So you led me to your promised land

But I swear oh lord its a dive

I should have never taken your hand

I’d be better dead than barely alive. With these...

F#m – Bm – A - D

Hey babe I want my money back

A – D – A - E

Stuck in this hell like a snake in a sack

F#m – Bm – A - D

You weren’t the lady I thought you’d be

A – D – Bm7

And I gotta say you’re only giving me..

Hard times – every hour of the day

Hard times – with the games you play

Hard times - in this one dog town

Hard times – since you came around

Twisted by time

G/E F

Strong as a mountain lion

Am7 G/E

Meaner than chance

F G/E

Cold as a steely glance

Bitten by rage

Its arms make a prison cage

Blacker than coal

With only dust in its soul

C G

This heart is ironwood

F G

It won’t break no more

Am7 G

Don’t think that you ever could

F G

Make it hurt no more

Em Am7 Dm7 G

It won’t soften to your touch

Em Am Em Am

Twist around in a gentle sway

Em Am7 Dm7 G

Won’t bear fruit from your love,

F C Dm7

Its thorns will drive you away

This heart is ironwood

It don’t feel a thing

Don’t think that’s it’s any good

To try to change a thing

Hurt as a child

Too scared to be mild

Grown hard with age

And a lifetime of pain

Em Am7 Dm7 G

Its roots are deep like despair

F C Dm7

It’s bark is harsh and it don’t care

I can run for miles

G C D Am7

Cross many seas

G C D Am7

But when I gaze up to the skies

G C D Am7

I see the same stars you see

Bm7 Am7

And the signs on the road

G D C D

Are all telling me..

G D Em C

All roads lead to you

G Bm7 C D

Don’t matter where I go

G D Em C

My heart will always know

Em D C

All roads lead to you

I tried to get away

Escape responsibility

But I’m gonna have to face

Those promises won’t set me free

Bm7 Am7

Will you keep the door ajar

G D C D

Forget I’ve been so far

Em C G D

From your love

Bm7 Am7

Will you ask me to stay

G D C D

Say you need me to stay

Em C G D

For all time

I’m waiting

G Em C D

Holding on for your touch

G Em C D

Gettin ready to ride

G Em C D

Just open me up wide

C

Come soon

D

I want you

C D

I need your love inside

C

I said come soon

D

I want you

G Em C D

To feel you deep inside

G Em C D

Yeh come

G Em C D

I’m ready

I’m gasping

Moving with your flow

You’re taking your time

And I’m raring to go

C D

I’m doing all that I can

C D

To bring you close as I can

Em C G D

Make you satisfied

C D

And I guess you’re the guy

C D

That can make me cry

Em C G D G Em C D

Turn my moans into sighs

Wanting something

G Am G F G

So bad it almost hurts too much

Am Dm Em Dm

To think about the way you touched

Am G F G

My soul

I’d do anything

Just to see your face

Know your heart’s in the same place

As mine

F G C Dm7

How can I write

Am Em F G

To let you know how I feel

F G C Dm7

When all I’ve got is a hopeless cause

F G Am Em

And I’d have to end it, sign my name

Dm7

Desperately yours

You gave me hope

For a glimpse it all became so clear

When you smiled I could almost hear

My joy

Then it all broke down

My dreams crashed on the floor

I might as well have fallen for

An angel

How can I hide

To turn away so you can’t see

The sadness that’s like a force

I’d have to say I’ll always be

Desperately yours

F G Am Em

Is this how it has to end

F G Am Em

The same way every time I send

Dm7 Em

I guess I’ll stay for evermore

Dm7

Desperately yours

C

Desperately yours

C G

Sometimes you know

Am G

When something seems so right

Em Am

You don’t care about reason

Em G

When your heart burns so bright

Think of excuses

Why you’re fooling yourself

But when you look for an answer

It don’t make no sense. But...

F G

We should be together

Am – G F

However crazy that seems

C G

We should be together

Dm

That’s how it should be

Don’t care how long

Takes to see this through

All I know is I’m strong

And I’ve got to have you

There’s so many ways

It could all fall apart

But I’d rather be wrong

Then never give it a chance

C Am

Your face tells a story

G F

And it can only stay true

C G

But your eyes see the future

Dm

And we share the same view

Strange chemistry

Em Am G D

And sleepless nights

Half of me wanting to die

And half feeling so alive

Long sadness

And feeling so high

Trying to picture your face

Making prayers to the sky

G C D Em

The state of being in love

G Em C D

Is this somewhere I want to be

G C D Em

The state of being in love

G C D C

Is a place that’s killing me

Bm7 Am7

I never meant to come

Em Bm7 C D

Just strayed on a summer’s day

Bm7 Am7

Caught your smile then lost my way

Em C D

Found myself here alone

This is a hard land

Only big enough for one

The only time I’ll see the sun

Is when you feel the same

The state of being in love

Is this somewhere I can stay

The state of being in love

Is a place where you gotta pay

Strange chemistry

And sleepless nights

Half of me wanting to die

And half feeling so alive

Smouldering too long

Am-Em Fmaj7

Burning into the night

D Am-Em

Just because it’s wrong

Am-Em Fmaj7

Don’t mean the time aint right

Em Am

Kick up the heat

Em Am

Set this thing on fire

Em Am

We’re gonna kick up the heat

G Gm7

Set our hearts on fire

I seen it in your eyes

The brushwood dry as desire

Your passion’s ready to light

Put a match to this pyre

Cm7 Gm7

No more small talk

Fm7

Or whispers in the dark

Cm7 Gm7

Just forget about thought

Bbm7 Fm7 C9

Let me be the spark

There’s a new craze about town

G C D C G C D C

And I can’t help myself gotta get on down

G C D C G C D C

Get on the bandwagon sign up my name

G C D C G C D C

Gonna be the best at this loving game. Cos I’m

A D F

Into you

A D F

Yeh I’m hooked on you

C G F G

Gonna spend all my time on you

E7

Cos I’m into you

Gonna blow all the money I can

On showing you I’m your biggest fan

You’ll see me wherever you go

Can’t help myself gotta let you know

Am G

You’re better than Pokemon

F D

I think about you all day long

Am G

I’m living a life of fiction

F F E7

But I aint letting go of this addiction. Cos I’m

Yeh I’m into you

There aint nobody but you

I wanna spend my life with you

Cos I’m into you

We’re walking on a high wire

Dm7 Cm7 Dm7 Cm7 Dm7 Cm7 Dm7 Cm7

There’s a load of trouble below

Eb Bb Cm7 Dm7

And I know if we get much higher

Eb Bb Cm7 Bb

There’ll be nowhere left to go

I’m holding fast your hand

Saying just keep your eyes on mine

We’re doing all that we can

[end on Dm7 ]

To keep this thing on the line

Bb F Eb

Don’t look down

Bb F

You don’t want to know

Cm7

What’s down there below

Bb F Eb

Back on the ground

We both want to take a chance

Like danger draws us close as one

You don’t want to even glance

Back to where we’ve come from

Don’t look down

You could trip and fall

Back to where there’d be no more

Of me around

Eb Bb Cm7

Just keep gazing in my eyes

Eb Bb Gm7

And keep your mind on the sky

Eb Bb Cm7

You can keep on holding on

Eb Bb Gm7 Am7

If we stay together we can do no wrong

Hiding under covers

Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7

Shielding your face

C D Am7 G

Your mind’s a maze of colours

Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7

In a cold and lonely place

Talking in whispers

Eyes screwed up tight

Your dreams are full of monsters

In a gothic stormy night

G D Am7 C

Little girl blue

G D C

You lost all your sheep

G D Am7 C

You’ll never get to sleep

Em C D

Like a child

Missing out on friendship

Skipping of from school

There’s a tremble on your lip

And your eyes are brimming full

Little girl blue

What you been through

What did they do

To make you wild

Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7

Little girl blue

Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7

What scared you so

Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7

Something only you can know

Cmaj7 Em7 Am7 Em7

And never tell

C D Em Am

Keep it deep inside

C D Em Am

Where only demons hide

C D Em Am

And don’t let those sighs

C Em Am7

Ever reach the sky

I’m walking along the strand

E G#m F#m G#m

Treading slow my feet in the sand

E G#m A B

Got the paper in my hand

F#m

And I’m dreaming

You could say I’m doing nothing

But I don’t care what’s happening

Got no worries about a thing

And I’m singing

E F#m G#m A

I’m treading time

E F#m G#m F#m

Treating life like a glass of wine

E F#m G#m A

Sipping slowly cos it tastes so fine

F#m

Treading time

Watching people pass me by

Trailing last in the race to die

Going nowhere don’t ask me why

I’m laughing

G#m F#m G#m F#m

So I aint got cash to burn

E F#m A B

And people say I missed my turn

G#m F#m G#m F#m

But I know where I want to be

E F#m A

It don’t take money to set me free

Its enough

Bb Am G

To know you feel the way I do

C G

Just to touch

Bb Am G

Without the chance to see things through

C D

We can stand so close

Am

And let attraction play

G D

See the look in our eyes

Am

Without a word to say. When we can...

C G

Sway

Am

Just sway

C G

Sway

Am

Just sway

G C

And we both can stay

Am

And let our bodies sway

We can linger

Until the last song has died

But there’s no singer

Can capture what we know inside

We can leave

Our problems for another day

Let the music tell

The story another way. And we can...

Bb F

We’ll know what could have been

Bb C

But not care what we’ve never seen

Bb F

Let our minds make a fantasy

Bb Am

And the night carry us away. And we can....

So reality bites

Em F#m7

And spits you out the other side

Bm7 C#m7

Turns to change your world

F#m7

So you’ve nowhere left to hide

And you know

Existence is just suffering

A game played on a child

With no rhyme or reason

Bm7 C#m7

I’m just a ghost

Bm7 C#m7

A ghost of a ghost

Bm7 C#m7

Rattling round this home

F#m7

Since you’ve gone

Memories bring pain

And photos cut like a knife

Its gonna take more than time

To bring me back to life

No more religion

Or words to comfort the soul

Just a blank screen of loss

And centuries to grow old

I’m just a ghost

A ghost of a ghost

Don’t scare noone but myself

Since you’ve gone

C#m7-Bm7 C#m7 – Bm7

There can be silence here

F#m7

Let the light not shine

C#m7-Bm7 C#m7 – Bm7

Move slowly only by night

F#m7

Till the days have died

We speak in tongues

C G Am D

And dance on desert shores

C G Am Em

You’re all I ever wanted

F

The essence of my soul

There’s no difference

Can draw us far apart

I never want to walk

Unless it’s by your side

Am G

You’re all there is

F

And all I need

Am G

I can’t ever live

F

Without you here with me

No love could be so strong

As the passion in my heart

I only need to take your hand

To feel so complete

Like the waves on the sand

We will roll as one

And the tide will carry us along

Into the deep

Am F

You’re All I see

Am F

The air that I breathe

Am G

I can face anything

F

If you’re here with me

There was trust

Fmaj7 Cmaj7

The years of learning how to make a bond

Em7 Fmaj7

That could last a lifetime

Am7

Muddling on

Gm7 Am7

Too far apart to ever sort things out

Fmaj7 Bb

But close enough to need each other’s touch

Am7

From time to time

F

This aint it

G Am7

A marriage made in heaven

Cm7 Dm7

Now I don’t know if we’ll ever

Gm7

Pick up the pieces again

Eb Bb

Trying so hard

Cm7 Dm7

When love is just a forgotten dream

Eb Bb

And everywhere everything just seems

Am7

Like something you’ll never be

Time’s running away

And taking all our hopes away

We’re left standing with nothing

Left to say

Witing for children to fly

So we can close the door

On this house of wasted years

And run away

Trying so hard

When love is just a forgotten dream

And you know you’ll never ever be

Completely free

Am7 G

When I die

Am7 G F

There’ll be no sound of wailing all around

G F G

Noone will come to see my body down

Am7

Deep in the ground

Bm7 Am7

They’ll carry on

Em Am Em Am

With other things to fill their lives

G F

Soon forget how I touched their lives

Am7

And was ever by their side

G

This is me

F Am7

The guy who always picks up the bill

G F

The one who’s always on the window sill

Am7

When the dancing starts

Bm7 F

Sorry I can’t pull the crowds

G F G F

I can’t compete can’t shout so loud

C Dm7

When I say come round everyone’s out of town

Am7

Just having a good time

This is me

The one they just forgot to ask

Who always gets to be served last

When the laughter starts

When I go

There’ll be noone left to say goodbye

And all I can say is I really tried

To get somewhere

Turning on the screen in my mind

C C+2 Am7

Your fingers tell me secrets

C+2 C - G G

Don’t matter what’s going on behind

C C+2 Am7

I want to hear your feelings

Bm7 C

I’ll tell you what you want to hear

Am7 G

Be anything you want

Bm7 C

You know we never need be near

Em

To touch each others’ hearts

Am G

We’ll play on words

Am G

And dance in the air

Bm7 C

Speak soft innuendos

Am7 D

See each other where

Am – G - F

Noone can ever know

Am7

What’s really there

And we never need to speak

‘Cept in our keystrokes tongue

And we’ll say nothing for a week

The everything at once

Chorus B:

We’ll play on words

And waltz in the sky

Whisper in lower case

And caress deep in our minds

Where noone can ever know

What’s inside

Am G

And noone gets hurt

Am G

And noone needs to know

Bm7 C

And emotions dry in the sun

G

Of tomorrow

I owe you everything

Bm A G

You’ve no idea how holding you

D G

Could change my life around

D G

Made me see just how far down

A

A man can fall

Bm G

You pulled me up

F#m G

Took me somewhere I’d never been

Bm G

Showed me things I’d never seen

A

But needed for so long

G D Em D

You’re the best I ever had

F#m G

Now nothing takes me back

F#m G

I can’t ever make it back

A

To where I was before

I only knew your name to call

But we joined like a jigsaw

Two pieces in a game

Wanting love just the same

Even for an hour

You breathed in my heat

And gave me your soul

Now I can only be whole

If you’re here with me

You’re the best I ever had

I can’t live anymore

The way I was before

You came along

Em D

Now all the years I’ve lost

Em D

Make me an empty ghost

F#m G

And I know in my heart

G D Em

It’ll never be the same again

Daddy pulled me out of school

C F G C

Said get a job don’t play the fool

C F G Am

Sent me out to make some dough

F G

Gonna take the bus and go

F G

I’m heading for the city

F G

And I aint looking for your pity

Am G F

I’m gonna make it my own way

F G

Listen up and hear me say

F G C Em

I aint old enough to care

F G C Em

But I’m young enough to dare

F G C Em

Do anything anywhere

Am G F

I’m old enough to swear

I’ll meet someone with cash to burn

And I aint ever gonna earn

No dollars made from serving beers

To two bit cowboys with a couple of steer

I ain’t old enough to care

And I’m going somwhere

Gonna make them stop and stare

I ‘m old enough to share

Em F

I don’t think I’ll settle down

Em F

With a couple of kids on the nice side of town

C G

I’m only in it for kicks

F G

And I’m old enough to pull some tricks

So you think you’ve got problems

G D G C

Everything’s gone awry

G D G C

Well I can tell you one thing honey

G Em D

Don’t wanna hear your cry

So your baby left town

With a new piece of stuff

That aint nothing to what I got

You think you got it rough? Well...

G D Em C

Tell me about It

G D Em C

I got trouble to burn

D C

And there’s two things you gotta learn

G D G D

Be strong

G D G D

Act tough

C D

You can’t be hard enough

G C D

To carry on

So you lost all your money

On the fall of a game

But you aint got what I got honey

A heartful of pain

G D

You go running back to mama

G C

Take your tears on the road

G D

You just come back sometime next summer

G Em D

Don’t ask me to carry your load. Just...

The heat is rising

Em A Em Bm7

Reaching that point of no return

Em A Em Bm7

Our hearts are writhing

Em A Em Bm7

Our skin begins to burn

I’m looking

At your face flushed with desire

You’re body’s cooking

Going up like a house on fire

G D Em A

And we melt into one

Em A Em Bm7

And we become one

A G

We’ll never be closer than where

A G

We’re at in that moment we share

Em A Em Bm7 Em A Em Bm7

When we melt as one

D C

As I look into your eyes

G D

I can only sigh

C Em

Try to capture the moment

D C

Stay forever where I was meant to be

C Em

Stay firm in your arms

D C

Never let you go far from me

We’re kissing

And don’t care about what’s in store

And we regret nothing

Just want to get together once more

This girl is ready to burn

A E F#m D

And there aint nothing she can’t learn

A E F#m D

She must’ve been studying nights

A E F#m D

And she knows how to treat you right

She’s fluent in the language of love

A Master of arts with a velvet glove

She’s majored in sensuality

With a Phd in ecstasy

A D A D

She’ll do anything

A D A D

Your heart’s desire

F#m D

You just sing and she’s ready to swing

F#m G D

She’ll do anything at all

She don’t care about convention

Her mind’s a twisted web of invention

She don’t know the word taboo

Say what you want and she’ll say I do

F#m G

She won’t say your name around town

D A

Your secret’s safe she won’t drag you down

F#m G

She’s doing it just for fun

D E7

And she won’t stop till she knows you’re done

You ask me what it is I need

D A

Well I don’t want much, don’t suffer from greed

E G

But there’s three things of which I’m kinda short

D A

Just the basic things of course. Just give me...

E G D A E G DA

Love Strength and Money

C#m A

Love to keep me warm at night

G A

Strength to keep up the fight

E G D A E G DA

Money to make everything seem all right

These are things in short supply

Love don’t come with a blink of an eye

My body’s weak I won’t live long

And I need money to carry on. Just give me...

Am7 G

You can keep honour and trust

D A

Don’t need looks as a definite must

Am7 G

My career can go into a stall

D A

With Love strength and money I got it all... Just give me...

That girl she plays punk all day

C Em F G

And I’m running down the shops to pay

C Am Em F

Buy the latest on CD

C Em F G

So I can tell she’s got the same taste as me

She’s wearing platform shoes

That went out of fashion in 1982

But I gotta get me a pair

So I can pass her with my head in the air

C G F G

If she’s got it, I want it

C Em F G

I guess I’m in love with her style

C Em F G

And I gotta get her just to smile

Am G F

Anything she likes is the best that can be

C G F G Am G F

If she’s got it, I want the same thing for me

It may be true that I’m twice her age

But that don’t matter if I’m all the rage

If she rides a scooter I want one too

I’m gonna do everything that she do

Dm7 G

My buddy told me she’d got a rash

Dm7 G

That she’d caught something I could catch

Am G F

Well I turned around and told him ‘Son

F G

If its good enough for her then I want some’

When you hear me call your name

G Bb

You’ll come quick as a burning flame

F C

Beat a path straight to my door

Dm Bb C

Your heart racing and your face on the floor

You’ll say is there anything you want

I say I’ll come straight to the point

You just get down on your knees

I’m gonna need something doing for me

G D

And you won’t ever dare say no

C D

I can see in your eyes that you’ll go..

A – C – G –D

Begging for it

A – C – G –D

Yeh begging for it

Em D

Your face down to the ground

Em G C

You won’t ever let me down

A – C – G –D

You’re begging for it

A – C – G –D

Yeh begging for it

You stare with those big sad eyes

As if to ask the reason why

I won’t treat you better than I do

But you like it and you’ll go

You want ever answer back

While I’ve got you down on the rack you’re..

Bb F

You’re begging for my love

Gm C

And whining for attention

Dm Am

You say that I’m treating you rough

G D

But you’re just pining, for my condescension. And...

Intro: Dmaj7 Gadd6 x4

Dmaj7 Gadd6

Standing in the rain

C Em7/A

And nothing like Gene Kelly

C Em7

Acting the same kind of fool

A9

I’ve been all these years

Hopelessly romantic

I sometimes wonder if anyone

Feels things as deep as I do

And looks so tragic. I’m...

G Bm7 Am7

Singing my heart out for you

G C

In a voice that’s broken and blue

Em7 Am7

Hoping one day you’ll see as I do I’m

G Bm7 Am7

Singing my heart out for you

The lost causes are the best

They can last you a lifetime

They’ll be your friend on a lonely night

And share your dreams

The more you need something

The more unhappy you’ll be

If you get it in your hand

And you’ve nothing more you’ll need

Cmaj7 Am7

So you keep on carrying on

Em7 Am7

Like I’m wasting space in your life

G/E Bm7

Block out your ears

G/E Bm7

Never answer my calls

C G Am7

Tell everyone I’m just that sad guy. Thats...

Born on the back of a wagon train

C G

My daddy died in a poker game

C G

Learned to ride when just a boy

F Em

Got a best pal’s name is Roy

I drink to drown my sorrows

Tell everyone my life is hollow

My baby ran off with another guy

F G

Gotta tell you the reason why...

Bm – G – Em - A

My life’s a country song

D A Em

Been said so many times before

Bm – G – Em - A

There aint a singer could a single line more

C G D

My life’s a country song

I love my mom and I loved my Pa

Got a dog that sits in my car

Lie with my buddies under the moon

And wait for someone to sing me a tune

My life’s a country song

I’m living in a cliched state

Only thing original is my number plate

My life’s a country song

Am D

Maybe I should try something new

Em D

Like listening to a new kind of groove

C G

But the story’ll end the way it always does

F G

With a corny ending and a crash of the drums

I spend my days gazing at glass

Looking out at through the window of my pain

hoping that you'll come like a ray of light

back into my life again

The reasons you left

Are too hard for me to understand

But in my mind you must be a shining star

and I'm waiting for you to take my hand

Chorus:

Waiting on the window sill

I could spend my life this way

Waiting for the love that walked away

Hoping for yet another day

Waiting on the window sill

Won't you come back just for one day

My mother won't mention your name

Speaks in whispers with tears in her eyes

But she's got your face in her heart

And all I've got is forgotten memories

I need to know where I'm from

So I know where I'm gonna go

And I need your face in front of mine

To let me know if this love should grow

Chorus

Bridge:

I don't care if you're tall

Or wear a suit made of pearls

You can have dust in your pockets

You will always be my world

Chorus

Looking up at the night

F#m Bm7 F#m Bm7

Breathing in the secrets of the dark

G Em Bm7 C

Wishing you were here with me

F#m Bm7 F#m Bm7

To share this moonlight walk

C#m7 Em

But deep inside

F#m Bm7

There’s a light that glows

G#m A B

Stronger than the whole of the sky. There’s a ...

E A B

Star in my heart

E A B

Shining just for you

C#m F#m

It can reach you far away

C#m Em

Feel its heat in the coldest day

A B

There’s a star in my heart

A B C#m

And it’ll stay here for you

It’ll bring hope to my life

And joy to my soul

Can you feel its strong fire

End on B

Drawing you ever close

And deep inside

It will keep us true

It will never die. There’s a ...

Here they come

Those emotions that steal in through the gate

Know how to break locks

And find their way into my private place

Whisper in my ear

Make me forget all the promises I made

Tell me stories that make me see not so clear

And do the things that seem like they can’t wait

I gotta get a hold of my life

Gonna close my eyes and shout...

Don’t dwell here

Find another soul to torment

You aint welcome in my house

Don’t dwell in my house

When they’ve had their way

They’ll disappear into the guilty night

Leave me with my heart in my hands

Not knowing how I can ever put things right

And I’ll crawl to my bed

Like the jack who stole the tarts

Proying no-one will ever know

And people can never be that smart

I gotta make a fresh start

Gonna block off my ears and shout...

Don’t dwell here

Take your poison to the sea

Don’t let it wash all over me

Don’t dwell in my house

Intro: D C G A x4

This aint a fairy tale ‘bout two people who failed to make bail

Ended up sailing all the way to jail, chained, maimed and became lame

Tied and lied by each others’ side

Bored floored and looking for some more hardcore

This is a lie, why d’ya try to see the reason why

Nobody’s gonna fry buying from this sly guy spinning a yarn down on the funny farm

Harming no-one calming and smarming he’s so charming

Toss him a dime and he’ll rhyme away his time on wine

Chorus:

F#m G D A

This is what it’s all about

F#m G D A

Life going round the same old route

F#m G D A

Stealing and wheeling and feeling no doubt

G A G A G A G A

‘Cos this is what, life is all about...

Am G F C

Raiding the drugstore, whoring for a tall score

Am G F C

Cruisin’, smoozin’, using all the loose things

Am G F C

Pimping, limping, sinking in a drink binge

Am G F C

Loving hating kissing till the birds sing

Chorus

This aint a fable aint no moral like a cable under the table

You’ll stay the same no fame thats the name of the game middle aged, minimum waged laying in a bird cage

Jaded shaded with your beige days faded

Stoned boned cloned and unphoned.

Chorus x2

Shutters drawn, candles long out

C Am7 Em

You could think this was a dead place

A9 Cmaj7 Bm7 Em

But souls inhabit the halls, there’s people lying in these walls

C Am7 Em

And there’s life behind this silent face

Am7-Bm7-C-D

This is a house of sleep

Em – Am7 – Bm7 - C

Lovers talking only in dreams

Am7-Bm7-C-D

Nothing is quite as it seems

Em – Am7 – Bm7 – Am7

In this house of sleep

Parties died, music don’t play

We speak only in our deaf tongue

Don’t say what we really feel, eyes shut with lids of steel

And forget those love songs we sung

This is a house of sleep

Breathing just to stay alive

Easier to slumber than to try

In this house of sleep

Dm7 Am7

Will you ever try to wake me

G F

Whisper in my ear and shake me

Dm7 C

Say we gotta sort things out

Am7-Bm7-C-D

But I don’t think we’ll ever make it out of this

Em D Am7

House of sleep