F G C
F G C
F G C F C E7 Am
E7 Am E7 Am
F G C
[Verse 1]
F G C
I take a walk on the Seine
F G C
Cross Pont Neuf on my way to St. Germain
F G C
Love-hearts on padlocks on wire in the mist
F C
Where young lovers kiss
E7 Am
And swear to be true
E7 Am E7
Echoes of ten thousand sighs of love
Am
And yet I
F G C
Feel only the absence of you
[Verse 2]
F G C
Out of a window on the thirtieth floor
F G C
Central Park shines with the coming of dawn
F G C
Through eyes rendered weary by jetlag and wine
F C
I turn round to find
E7 Am
There’s a girl in my room
E7 Am
For a moment we kiss
E7 Am
But her vodka-soaked lips
F G C
Taste only of the absence of you
[Chorus]
C Am
I don’t know
Em*
What all of this means
F
If you are not here with me
C Am
And I am lost
Em
When we are apart
There’s a hole in my heart
F
That light passes through
F
And the pattern it creates
Is the shape of
C
The absence of you
[Verse 3]
F G C
Spring has been found hanging round Soho Square
F G C
So I take my coffee and newspaper there
F G C
To bask in the not-warm-enough April sun
F C
With the workers who come
E7 Am
To eat Pret with no shoes
E7 Am
But the grass to the side
E7 Am
Of the patch where I’m lying
F G C
Is flat with the absence of you
[Chorus 2]
C Am
I don’t know
Em
What all this is for
F
If you are not near to me
C Am
And I can’t sleep
Em
Sleep is no fun when the unruly sun
F
Will reveal the truth
F
A space in my bed as cold as the dead
Exactly the size and the shape of
C
The absence of you
[Ending]
Am Em
And all of this beauty
Runs over and through me
F
And pools round my shoes
And the puddle it forms
Conforms to the shape of
C
The absence of you
