Never Coming Home chords by Sting
Intro 1
Em
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Em
Verse 1
C
Well, it's five in the morning
D
and the light's already broken
Em
And the rainy streets are empty
for nobody else has woken
C
Yet you turn towards the window as he
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B
sleeps beneath the covers
Em
And you wonder what he's
dreaming in his slumbers
Verse 2
Em
There's a clock upon the table
Am
Em
and it's burning up the hour
C
Em
And you feel your life is shrinking
like the petals of a flower
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D
As you creep towards the closet you're so
Em
B
careful not to wake him
Em
And you choose the cotton dress
C
you bought last summer
Am
There's a time
Verse 3
C
of indecision between
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Am
Em
the bedroom and the door
Am
But the part of you that knows that
Em
you can't take it any more
C
There's the promise of the future
D
Em
in the creaking of the floor
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Em
And you're torn if you should
Verse 4
leave him with a number
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C
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And in your imagina tion you're
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a thousand miles away
C
Because too many of his promises
D
got broken on the way
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So you write it in a letter all
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the things you couldn't say
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And you tell him that you're
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Em
never coming home
Verse 5
C
Am
She starts running for the railway station,
C
praying that her calculation's right
Em
And there's a train just waiting there to
Am
get her to the city before night
C
A place to sleep a place to stay will
get her through another day
B
Em
She'll take a job she'll find a friend
she'll make a life that's better
Am
The
Verse 6
C
Em
Am
passengers ignore her
Em
just a girl with an umbrella
C
Am
And there's nothing they can do for her,
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there's nothing they can tell her
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There's nothing they could ever say would
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change the way she feels today
Em
She'd live the life she'd always dreamed if
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he had only let her
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Now in her imagination she's a million
Verse 7
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miles away
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C
When too many of his promises
D
got broken on the way
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So she wrote it in a letter all
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Em
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the things she couldn't say
B
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And she told him she was never
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Em
coming home
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And she told him she was never coming
Em
home
Interlude 1
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Verse 8
Em
Am
I wake up in an empty bed a road
C
D
drill hammers in my head
Am
C
Em
I call her name there's no reply
C
it's not like her to let me lie
D
Em
C
It's time for work it's time to go but something's different,
B
I don't know
Em
I need a cup of coffee
C
and I'll feel better
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I
Verse 9
C
Am
stumble to the bathroom door,
D
her make up bag is on the floor
Em
C
It really is a mess this place,
Em
C
it takes some time to shave my face
D
I'm not really thinking straight she
Em
C
B
never lets me sleep this late
Em
I'm almost done and then I see the letter
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In
Verse 10
Bbdim
F#
his imagination she's
Em
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B
a universe away
C
Too many of his promises
D
got broken on the way
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So she wrote it in a letter
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F#
B
all things she couldn't say
C#m
And she told him she was
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B
never coming home
Em
C#dim
And she told him she was
D#dim
Em
never coming home
C#dim
And she told him she was
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B
never coming home
Verse 11
Em
Am
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C
D
Em
I'm gonna
live my life,
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I'm gonna live my life
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C
And she told him she was
D
never coming home
Em
I'm gonna live my life,
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C
I'm gonna live my life
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C
And she told him she was
D
never coming home
Em
Am
I'm gonna live my life,
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I'm gonna live my life
B
C
And she told him she was
D
never coming home
Verse 12
Em
C
I'm gonna live my life,
I'm gonna live my life
I'm gonna live my life, I'm
Em
gonna live my life
C
I'm gonna live my life,
D
I'm gonna live my life
I'm gonna live my life, I'm
Em
gonna live my life
And she told him she was
never coming home
And she told him she was never
coming home
Outro 1
And she told him she was never coming home
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Never Coming Home
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