From Kloot's Mercury Prize-nominated Sky At Night Album.
A very beautiful song that is also straightforward to learn.
Standard tuning
Capo at 2nd fret
Am x02210
Am/G 3x2210
C 032010
D xx0232
F6 1x3231
Intro
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Am /G D Asus/F Am (x3)
Verse 1
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Am /G D
If heaven is a place upon your skin
F6 Am
That I may have touched from with-out to within
Am /G D
Well then dust yourself of fingerprints and grin
F6 Am
And grin
Refrain 1
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C /B Am
Cos we don't have to stay
F6
With these people whose ideas
Am
Are just what other people say
Refrain 1
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C /B Am
We can walk a-way
F6
From these feelings that are filling up
Am E
Our lives with daze
F E C B F E
Verse 2
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Am /G D
And I guess that I've been singing all my life
F6 Am
Well that's right and that is fine
Am /G D
I been spending all your money and your time
F6 Am
Well that's right and that is fine
Refrain 2
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C /B Am
Cos I don't have to stay
F6
With these feelings that are filling up
Am
My life with daze
C /B Am
I can walk a-way
F6
From these people whose ideas
Am E
Are just what other people say
F E C B F E
Again and again
Verse 3
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Am /G D
And the crowd that is gathered is con-fused
F6 Am
We're all trembling inside solitude
Am /G D
We've got nothing left to use
F6
We've got all the bullets
Am
But there's no-one left to shoot
Refrain 3
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C /B Am
And we can't walk a-way
F6
From these feelings that are filling up
Am
Our lives with daze
C /B Am
We may have to stay
F6
With these people whose ideas
Am E
Are just what other people say
F E C B F E
Again and again
Verse 4
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Am /G D
Well if heaven is a place upon your skin
F6 Am
That I may have touched from with-out to within
Am /G D
Well then dust yourself of fingerprints and grin
F6 Am
And grin and grin
Am /G D
I guess that I've been singing all my life
F6 Am
Well that's right and that is fine
Am /G D
I been spending all your money and your time
F6 Am
Well that's right and that is fine
Outro
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Am /G D Asus/F Am (x2)
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I hope I've done it justice!
Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
June 2011
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