Key: F# major•
Intro 1
F#
Verse 1
F#
F#sus4
F#
In a foreign city once again
B
F#
You waved weekly in the night
The early sun of London morning
Burned the darkness with unanswered light
F#sus4
B
F#
But morn ing found you crying
F#
B
Where she left you in an
F#sus4
F#
empty state of mind
C#
F#
C#
Waiting not for her but for
F#
B
Re lief from passing time
F#
Verse 2
And a young friend talking softly
F#sus4
F#
As the mis t
B
F#
keeps tumbling down
Stayed and told you of the
B
F#
Peace that could be found
B
F#
was woken
F#sus4
B
In your tired
F#sus4
B
F#
waiting time
And you thought you
B
F#
might begin again
C#
B
F#
From all the ashes of your mind
B
F#
And though he used no poetry
B
F#
B
F#
His words are weaving songs
And the peace they were recalling
Were good roads that you
Might have walked along
F#sus4
B
And the skies you saw
F#
F#sus4
F#
were all the same
B
F#
Although his words were not your own
F#
F#sus4
F#
spoken
C#
B
Are the ashes from a peace
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# F#sus4 B C#
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