No Longer There The Cat Empire *CAPO FIRST FRET* `= Hold for longer [Verse] G Bm Em ` I know you'd like to hear a song as everything's all Bm ` C ` Right the temp'rature is warm the fire horses D ` Sleep so gently comes the [Verse] G Bm Em ` Night now close your eyes a-stare the ground they're on is Bm ` C ` Bare but once it was as deep and wild as giant's D ` Dreams it's no longer G Bm Em ` There and all of our de-sires could mirror skies with Bm ` C ` Flames and smoke out heaven's halls and who was that you D ` G Bm Called they're no longer there [Refrain] C ` Em G Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a- C ` Em ` gain here it goes a-gain__ Am ` D ` [Bridge] Em G C G Now what would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your Em G C G Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept a-what would you Em G C G Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you D ` C ` D ` Wrecked and what would you leave behind__ when you're no longer [Verse][solo] G Bm Em ` There Bm ` C ` D ` [Verse] G Bm Em ` And would you sail to distant shores and hide within the Bm ` C ` Haze and softly close your door pre-tend the world was D ` Saved and wait for heaven's G Bm Em ` Call or would you turn and face the seas and calm beside you Bm ` C ` Care there's chance but if you dare and swift as honest D ` G Bm Deeds before it's no longer there__ [Refrain] C ` Em G Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a- C ` Em ` gain here it goes a-gain__ Am ` D ` [Bridge] Em G C G What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your Em G C G Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept what would you Em G C G Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you D ` C ` D ` G ` Wrecked what would you leave behind__ when you're no longer there__ [CODA] C ` Em ` __ To de-ny or to des-pair they're really just the D ` D ` Same but ev'rything be-tween it means we have to C ` Em ` Change 'cos where the one for-gets the world begins to D ` D ` Fade and all the shapes and shades that made the colour C ` D ` Scene well they suddenly turn grey then they're no longer G ` ` N.C. There_____ (end on 1)
