Intro 1
Em
C
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
Bsus4
B
as he sleeps beneath the covers
Em
And you wonder what he's
dreaming in his slumbers
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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
G
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
D
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
B
Em
And you're torn if you should
Verse 4
leave him with a number
Em
C
Bbdim
F#
And in your imagina tion you're
Bsus4
B
a thousand miles away
C
Because too many of his promises
D
got broken on the way
Bb
Bbdim
F#
So you write it in a letter all
Bsus4
the things you couldn't say
B
C#dim
And you tell him that you're
D#dim
B
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,
Em
there's nothing they can tell her
C
There's nothing they could ever say would
B
change the way she feels today
Em
She'd live the life she'd always dreamed if
Bbdim
he had only let her
F#
Now in her imagination she's a million
Verse 7
Em
Bsus4
miles away
B
C
When too many of his promises
D
got broken on the way
Bbdim
So she wrote it in a letter all
F#
Em
Bsus4
the things she couldn't say
B
C#m
And she told him she was never
D#dim
B
Em
coming home
C#dim
D#dim
And she told him she was never coming
Em
home
Interlude 1
C
Em
C
Em
C
Em
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
It's time for work it's time to go but
Em
C
B
something's different I don't know
Em
I need a cup of coffee
C
I'll feel better
Am
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
C
In
Verse 10
Bbdim
F#
his imagination she's
Em
Bsus4
B
a universe away
C
Too many of his promises
D
got broken on the way
Bb
Bbdim
So she wrote it in a letter
Bbaug
F#
B
all things she couldn't say
C#m
And she told him she was
D#dim
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
D#dim
B
never coming home
Verse 11
Em
Am
Bb
Bbdim
B
C
D
Em
I'm gonna
live my life,
Am
Bb
Bbdim
I'm gonna live my life
B
C
And she told him she was
D
never coming home
Em
I'm gonna live my life,
Am
C
I'm gonna live my life
B
C
And she told him she was
D
never coming home
Em
Am
I'm gonna live my life,
Bb
I'm gonna live my life
B
C
And she told him she was never
D
coming home
Interlude 2
Em
C
Em
C
I'm gonna
Verse 12
D
Em
live my life, I'm gonna live my life in my own way
Outro 1
Em
C
D
C
Em
Em
C
D
C
Em
C
D
C
Em
B
Em
C
D
B
Em
Em
B
C
C
Em
Em
C
C
Em
C
C
Em
Em
Em
Never Coming Home
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