Every strangers eyes

Intro: C Am Dm G

   C
In truck stops, and hamburger 
joints,
Am
   In Cadillac limosuines, in the 
company of
Dm
Has-beens and bent-backs
G
  And sleeping forms on pavement 
steps,
   C
In libraries and railway stations,
Am
   In books and banks,
Dm
   In the pages of history
    G                         
And suicidal cavalry attacks I 
          C Am
recognize
F           G                C
  Myself in every stranger's eyes.
       C
And in wheelchairs by monuments,
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Am
   Under tube trains, commuter 
accidents,
Dm
   In council care and county 
courts,
G
  At Easter fairs and sea-side 
resorts,
C
  In drawing rooms and city morgues,
                 Am
In award-winning photographs of 
life-rafts on the China Seas,
   Dm
In transit camps, under arc lamps, 
on unloading ramps,
G                                 
  And faces blurred by rubber 
              C Am
stamps I recognize
F           G                C
  Myself in every stranger's eyes.
    C                 Am          
And now, from where I stand, upon 
      Dm
this hill I've
                   G
plundered from the pool
        C                   Am    
I look around, I search the sky, I
        Dm
 shade my eyes so
        G
nearly blind
              C        
And I've seen sights of 
       C/G       Am
half-remembered days, I
                 F Em Dm         
hear bells that chime  in 
         G
strange, familiar ways
      C Am        F               
I recognize      the hope you 
G            C
kindle in your eyes

(C F G Em Am Dm G)

C                             F  
  It's oh, so easy now, as we lie
             G
 here in the dark
        Em                         
Nothing interferes, it's obvious 
     Am
how to beat the
           Dm                      
tears that threaten to snuff out 
     G
the spark of our
  C
love.