Tonart: D minor
Verse 1
Em
Like the contents of your handbag
C
Am
You don't know why it's there
B
People ask you where you're
heading
Em
You just answer "anywhere"
Verse 2
Em
don't mean to be this vague
C
Am
It just happens that we are
B
No- one asked us to elaborate
Em
B
We just shrug our shoulders and be
Em
Verse 3
C
And like the stories that just
C
B
No- one thought of, no- one planned
B
we could have conquered
C
B
Then we could have been a man
Verse 4
C
B
We could be ex- husband
B
C
But no- one looks at the menu
B
C
B
in a greasy spoon life
Verse 5
Em
C
Am
Alone, alone
B
Half an hour is seven hours
Em
B
One day is several months
Em
C
Alone, alone
Em
B
A year can be a decade spent
Alone
Em
Verse 6
He knows "hello" in eighteen languages
C
Am
"I love you" in only one
his phrase- book
Em
B
The chance is usually gone
Verse 7
Em
And we feel ourselves quite prepared
C
Am
But quite prepared for what
C
B
We always took the lead
Em
B
Before we actually knew the plot
Em
Verse 8
we've been shopping
B
C
B
By the bags beneath our eyes
C
B
Make- up shoulders burden
C
B
But the smile never lies
Verse 9
C
B
We could be ex- husband
C
B
We could be ex- wife
C
But no- one looks at the menu
B
C
B
in a greasy spoon life
Verse 10
Em
C
Am
Alone, alone
B
Half an hour is seven hours
Em
B
One day is several months
Em
C
Am
Alone, alone
Em
B
A year can be a decade spent
Alone
Em
Verse 11
So empty at the airport
C
Am
You don't set off the doors
B
We used to feel like chorus girls
Em
B
And now we feel like whores
Verse 12
Em
Hearts built like reservoirs
C
Am
Words built like dams
C
B
Thoughts built like juggernauts
Em
B
Our actions built like prams
Em
Verse 13
C
B
And when the wind blows into our face
C
B
We should be warmer and not colder
C
Well, what price the charges
B
C
B
On this cargo that we shoulder
Verse 14
C
B
We could be ex- husband
B
C
But no- one looks at the menu
B
C
B
in a greasy spoon life
Verse 15
Em
C
Am
Alone, alone
B
Half an hour is seven hours
Em
B
One day is several months
Em
C
Am
Alone, alone
Em
B
A year can be a decade spent
Alone
Em
Verse 16
And we only smoke when bored
C
So we do two packs a day
B
And we've lost the difference
Em
B
Em
Between bored and lonely anyway
Outro 1
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