Intro: C G Am F x4
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Lying on my bed I was reading french
Am G F C
With the light too bright for my senses
C
From this hiding place, life was way too much
Am G F C
It was loud and rough round the edges
G F
So I faced the wall when an old man called
G F C
Out of dreams that I would die there
G F
But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings
G F C
And you had a different idea
C
I was like a child, I was light as straw
Am G F C
When my father lifted me up there
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Took me to a place where they checked my body
Am G F C
My soul was floating in thin air
G F
I clung to the bed, and I clung to the past
G F C
And I clung to the welcome darkness
G F
But at the end of the night, there's a green green light
G F C
It's the quiet before the madness
Dm
There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell
F C G
She put out her arm and she touched me when I was in hell when I was in hell
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Someone sang a song and I sang along
Am G F C
Cause I knew the words from my childhood
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Intellect, ambition they fell away
Am G F C
They locked me up for my own good
G F
But I didn't mind cause the silence was kind
G F C
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And you spoke to me in whispers
G F
There was the sound of the wind in the cold cold dawn
G F C
And the quiet hum of business
Dm
Let me dangle a while in this waiting room
F C G
I don't need to go I don't need to know what your doing what your doing
C G Am D/F# F F C G x2
C Am G F C
Lying on my side you were half awake and your face was tired and crumpled
C Am G F C
If I had a camera I'd snap you now cos there's beauty in every stumble
G F
We are out of practise we're out of sight
G F C
On the edge of nobody's empire
G F
If we live by books and we live by hope
G F C
Does that make us targets for gunfire?
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Now I look at you you're a mother of two
Am G F C
You're a quiet revolution
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Marching with the crowd singing dirty and loud
Am G F C
For the people's emancipation
G F
Did I do ok, did I pave the way
G F C
Was I strong when you were wanting
G F
I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke
G F C
Who was stern but never daunting
Dm
And he told me to push and he made me feel well
F C G
And he told me to leave that vision of hell to the dying oh to the dying
C G Am D/F# F F C G x2
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