Intro: |
E5 F#5 E5 F#5 |
E5 F#5 E5 F#5 |
F#5 A5 E5 F#5 |
F#m |
Ticking away the moments |
A |
That make up a dull day |
E |
Fritter and waste |
F#m |
The hours in an offhand way |
F#m |
Kicking around on a piece of |
A |
Ground in your hometown |
E |
Waiting for someone or something |
F#m |
To show you the way |
Dmaj7 |
Tired of lying in the sunshine |
Amaj7 |
Staying home to watch the rain |
Dmaj7 |
You are young and life is long |
Amaj7 |
And there is time |
Dmaj7 |
To kill today |
C#m |
And then one day you find |
C#m |
Ten years have got behind you |
Bm7 E |
No one told you when to run |
E |
You missed the starting gun |
Bridge: |
F#m A E F#m |
F#m A E F#m |
F#m A E F#m |
F#m A E F#m |
Dmaj7 Amaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7 |
Dmaj7 C#m Bm7 E |
F#m |
And you run, and you run to |
F#m |
Catch up with the sun |
A |
But it's sinking |
E |
Racing around to come up |
F#m |
Behind you again |
F#m |
The sun is the same in a |
A |
Relative way but you're older |
E |
Shorter of breath |
F#m |
And one day closer to death |
Dmaj7 |
Every year is getting shorter |
Amaj7 |
Never seem to find the time |
Dmaj7 |
Plans that either come to naught |
Amaj7 |
Or half a page of scribbled lines |
Dmaj7 C#m |
Hanging on in quiet desperation |
C#m |
Is the English way |
Bm7 |
The time is gone, the song is over |
Bm B7b9 |
Thought I'd something more to say |
Bridge: |
F#5 F#m E5 E5 x2 |
Bridge: |
Em A Em A |
Em |
Bridge: |
F#5 F#m E5 E5 x2 |
Em A Em |
Home, home again |
A Em |
I like to be here when I can |
A |
And when I come home cold and tired |
Em |
It's good to warm my bones |
A |
Beside the fire |
Cmaj7 |
Far away across the field |
Bm |
The tolling of the iron bell |
Am7 |
Calls the faithful to their knees |
G D7#9 |
To hear the softly spoken |
D#dim7 Bm |
Magic spells |
Ending: |
E5 E5 F#5 F#m x2 |