Intro:
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F                                Dm
Lying on my bed I was reading French
C                              Dm     Am
With the light too bright for my senses
F                                      Dm
From this hiding place, life was way too much
C                                 Dm  Am
It was loud and rough round the edges
C                                    Dm
So I faced the wall when an old man called
C                              Dm   Am
Out of dreams that I would die there
C                                     Dm
But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings
C                         Dm   Am
And you had a different idea
F                                  Dm
I was like a child, I was light as straw
C                               Dm   Am
When my father lifted me up there
F                                      Dm
Took me to a place where they checked my body
C                         Dm  Am
My soul was floating in thin air
C                               Dm
I clung to the bed, and I clung to the past
C                                Dm  Am
And I clung to the welcome darkness
C
But at the end of the night
                       Dm
There's a green green light
C                           Dm  Am
It's the quiet before the madness
  Dm
There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell
                                                   F   C
She put out her arm and she touched me when I was in hell


F                                Dm
Someone sang a song and I sang along
C                                Dm  Am
Cause I knew the words from my childhood
F                              Dm
Intellect, ambition they fell away
C                           Dm  Am
They locked me up for my own good
C                                       Dm
But I didn't mind cause the silence was kind
C                          Dm Am
And you spoke to me in whispers
C                                               Dm
There was the sound of the wind in the cold cold dawn
C                      Dm   Am
And the quiet hum of 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 your doing

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F          Dm                        C                    Dm Am
Lying on my side you were half awake and your face was tired and crumpled
F                  Dm                  C           Dm   Am
If I had a camera I'd snap you now cos there's beauty in every stumble
C                                     Dm
We are out of practise we're out of sight
C                       Dm  Am
On the edge of nobody's empire
C                                Dm
If we live by books and we live by hope
C                               Dm Am
Does that make us targets for gunfire?

F                              Dm
Now I look at you you're a mother of two
C                                Dm Am
You're a quiet revolution
F                                     Dm
Marching with the crowd singing dirty and loud
C                    Dm Am
For the people's emancipation
C                      Dm
Did I do ok, did I pave the way
C                          Dm Am
Was I strong when you were wanting
C                                  Dm
I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke
C                            Dm
Who was stern but never daunting
Dm
And he told me to push and he made me feel well
                                                 F C
And he told me to leave that vision of hell to the dying

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