[Intro] C  G  Am  F 
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C                     F       C
Lying on my bed I was reading french
      Am        G        F  C
With the light too bright for my senses
C                    F      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                         F        C
I was like a child, I was light as straw
    Am     G      F  C
When my father lifted me up there
C                  F      C
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

C                         F      C
Someone sang a song and I sang along
     Am     G        F   C
Cause I knew the words from my childhood
C                 F    C
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
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 a business
     Dm
Let me dangle a while in this waiting room
     F                              C
I don't need to go I don't need to know what you're doing
  G
To know what you're doing

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C                         F      C             Am       G        F   C
Lying on my side you were half awake and your face was tired and crumpled
C              F      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?

C                          F         C
Now I look at you you're a mother of two
      Am    G    F C
You're a quiet revolution
C                   F     C
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

[Final] C  G  Am
        D/F#  F  C  G