Shall we agree that just this once, I'm gonna change my life
Until it's just as tiny or important as you like
and in time, you won't even recall that we spoke
words that turn out to be as thick as smoke
like smoke disappears on the air,
A G#m Ethere's always something smouldering there
Chorus
I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
you'll see me off in the distance I hope
F#m A B A G#m F#m E A G#m F#m Eat the other end, at the other end of the telescope
E B G#m A C#m B
There was a time not long ago, I dreamt the world was flat
and all the colours bled away and that was th-------at
A C#m B Aand in time, I could only believe in one thing
the sky was just phosphorous, stars all on strings
A F#m Eand you swore that they'd always be mine
A F#m Ewell you can't pull them down any time
Chorus
[Bridge]:
B A EThere there baby now don't say a word
lie down baby your vision is blurred
C#m B A Eyour head is so sore, from all of that thinking
I don't want to hurt you now, but I think you're shrinking E
I think you're shrinking
E B G#m A C#m B
You're half naked ambition and half out of your wits
and though your wristwatch always works your necktie never fits
A C#m B Anow its so hard to lift the receiver up and when I call
I never noticed you could be so small
F#m Ethe answer was under your nose,
but the question never arose
C#m B A E
you'll find me here at the end of my rope
when the head and the heart of it finally elope
you'll see us off in the distance I hope
at the other end, at the other end of the telescope
[outro]:
|| A G#m F#m E :|| a few times
last time : A G#m F#m G#m E
4 4 2 1 1 <-- Number of strums
EADGBe 022100 - E
Possible alternative to the 3rd line of the bridge is :
B A A C#myour mind is so sore, from all of that thinking
. . . but I think the first one sounds
closest.
Transposed to Eb: The album's in Eb, which either means putting a capo at 11th
fret (yuk), or playing it with a capo at the first fret and substituting the
chord shapes written above as follows:
Chord in E SHAPE in Eb
(above) (capo @ 1)
E D. . . but I prefer to play it in 'E'! If nothing else, it's fun to run down A
G#m F#m E (5th, 4th, 2nd, 0th frets) at the end of the chorus. Any
improvements welcome.
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