Tom: Am
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[Verse 1]
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Run your hand along my arm, inside my jacket sleeve
C F Am G
Let your tears fall in your smile, I can hardly breathe
F C Am G
With my hands upon your hips you took our flag down to half mast
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When we turned to face each other we were already in the past
[Verse 2]
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The emptiness fills me and it’s tidal like the Thames
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If the numbness ever leaves me I won’t want this pain to end
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Is it possible to change this, what would you like to ask
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Is there a river we can follow ceaselessly towards the past
[Chorus 1]
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I was blind to all those candles, heard the music felt your dress
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I shut my eyes your lips you gave to me for one last sweet caress
F C E Am G
Don’t you give our love a eulogy I can’t watch you close the door
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It was winter time the first time but time’s not been stopped before
[Verse 3]
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You said you dreamed that I was holding you, I kissed your eyes your lips your hair
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You cried that was my goodbye to you, I only wish babe I’d been there
F C Am G
Remember when I ran away to Dublin you wrote and told me to stay strong
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You’ve only been gone a few hours but they’re tortuously long
[Verse 4]
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The chalice holds the poison and it’s fermented by our fear
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Put our love into a four foot hole, a foot for every year
F C Am G
Yesterday I had you, but it would be the last
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The doors are locked and they’ve been bolted, and it’s trapped us in the past
[Chorus 2]
F C E Am G
I can picture you so perfectly your hat down to your shoes
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You said I’ve never been an adult and not belonged to you
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Remember Magheramore that time I held you safe in both my hands
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But the tide was unrelenting breaks the rocks down into sand
[Verse 5]
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We didn’t wait to hear the bell this time we knew it had just been rung
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Our cobbled streets they were alive with all the carols being sung
F C Am G
Can our love end so suddenly, I’m not sure if it’s true
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'Cos every time I dry my heavy eyes I still think I’ll see you
[Verse 6]
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I drove for hours and for miles after you got out of the car
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I couldn’t listen to those love sick songs, they don’t know who we are
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I reached across to feel you but nothing now feels right
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The stars are dancing heel to toe across the endless night
[Verse 7]
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I will draw the curtain you can take a sweeping bow
C F Am G
We remembered all our lines babe no-one had to show us how
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Be careful that you do not slip upon the newly painted stage
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I expected your directions but not times exquisite rage
[Chorus 3]
F C E Am G
Whoever you discover who next walks you to your door
F C E Am G
Or dares put his hands where my hands used be to dance across your bedroom floor
F C E Am G
I hope he will understand you’re worth much more than he could know
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Will you think of us from time to time and let our time together show
[Verse 8]
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The pearls they would destroy us because that’s not a diamond ring
C F Am G
Maybe I was scared to show you but you did mean everything
F C Am G
I only understand you, only you know all of me
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Is this how Adam felt the day that Eden set him free?
