C G Am Em

[Verse 1]
          C                        G
Well, you say, you say it's such a small, small world
       Am                       Em
Flying Club Class back from the far-east
          C                    G
Curled up safe and warm in the big chair
         Am                          Em
You were flying through the skies of anywhere
        C                   G
Get the courtesy car to the Sheraton
        Am                 Em               C
There's live on-the-spot reports on the CNN between the ad-breaks
G                Am                             Em
So you think you know what's going on - but you don't
            C                          G
Because you weren't in Belfast, no you weren't there
           Am                      Em
And no you weren't in Waco, no you weren't there
        C                      G
And you weren't in Kosovo, you weren't there
        F                         G
And you weren't in my head so you don't know how it felt
Am             Em                     C
Walking arm in arm with crowds to the square
        G                      F   G  Am       Em
And the banners waving and the sun -  glinting

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C G Am Em

[Verse 2]
         C                 G
All this information swims round and round
       Am                 Em
Like a shoal of fish in a tank going nowhere
C                       G
Up and down between the glass walls
          Am                              Em
You're so safe in the knowledge they're impenetrable
        C                             G
And you look out at the world and see nothing at all
      Am                          Em             C
So go back to sleep and you'll be woken when the time comes
           G                    F                   G
And you'll never know just what hit you or where it came from
            Am                          G
Because you weren't in Bradford, no you weren't there
        F                          G
And you weren't on the hill, no you weren't there
        Am                     G
And you weren't with us so you never saw
          F                            G                          Am
Just what happened when the television crews came knocking on the door
               Em
How the people told them all to go to Hell
C                       G
Smashed the cameras and sent them away
           F                    G
There were sirens going off and policemen coming in
    Am                          Em
And all that you love was being swept away
       C                    G                F
In the rush of a black tide all done in your name
           G                    Am             G
And you'll never know just what happened there
          F     G             Am        Em
Or how it feels - just how it feels . . .