Standing In The Light

Level 42 - Standing in the Light (M
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  . King, P. Gould & W. Badarou)
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[Intro]
E7  Am7  Bm7 x4

[Verse]
E7                             
A summer's day in sixty-eight, 
Am7                Bm7       
sunlight through a window falls 
     E7             Am7  Bm7
a-cross the page
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A young boy tries to concentrate, 
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his mind would rather fly beyond 
    E7             Am7  Bm7
the classroom cage
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He can take the teacher's voice, 
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turn it into music from a-nother
         Am7  Bm7
 place
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All the other kids don't have that
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 choice, hanging on to every word 
    E7           Am7  Bm7
the teacher says

[Chorus]
Dm7 Am7 G       A7             
Day and night - we will be 
     Dm7      Am7    G       
touched, Standing in the 
F#m7      G       B7     E7  
light - don't sha-dow the 
Am7  Bm7 E7  Am7  Bm7
genius

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[Verse]
E7                               
So out of school he walks alone, 
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soon his thoughts are flowing 
    E7             Am7  Bm7
like a golden stream

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An empty house he calls his own, 
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this place becomes a temple to a 
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silent dream
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Sometimes he will clap and sing, 
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then deep in medi-tation he will 
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learn to be

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And only birds upon the wing, 
               Bm7             E7 
with upward fasci-nation claim to 
            Am7  Bm7
be so free

[Chorus]
Dm7 Am7 G       A7             
Day and night - we will be 
     Dm7      Am7    G       
touched, Standing in the 
F#m7      G       B7     E7  
light - don't sha-dow the 
Am7  Bm7 E7  Am7  Bm7
genius

[Bridge]
Bb7  C7        Bb7  C7          
     Your smile,    your 
Bb7  C7       D7       F#7
freedom,    comes to you from within
Bb7  C7           Bb7  C7
     Still a child     with a 
            Bb7  C7        D7    
reason,     you're af-raid but 
        E7
it's time to begin
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     Blow the wind of  change, 
           Bb7       C7       Bb7 
though the words are strange -    
A7 G#  F#7
to hear
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     Say what's on your mind, 
      Bb7     C7         Bm7   E7
now is not the time - for fear
  Am7  Bm7  E7  Am7  Bm7  E7  

Am7  Bm7


[Verse]
E7                         
A summer's day in eight-one, 
  Am7                Bm7      
sunlight through a window falls 
      E7             Am7  Bm7
a-cross the page
E7                                
A young man's fight has just 
  Am7              Bm7           
begun, and rising up in-side him 
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is a burning rage
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They called his dream a fantasy, 
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a song that every child has sung 
      E7         Am7  Bm7
since time began
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But just as long as he believes, 
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standing in the light he'll make 
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them understand               
Am7  Bm7
        (Fade)