Never Coming Home chords by
Sting
Sting
Sting
Sting

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Key: F minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well, it's five in the morning
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and the light's already broken
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And the rainy streets are empty
for nobody else has woken
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Yet you turn towards the window
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as he sleeps beneath the covers
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And you wonder what he's
dreaming in his slumbers
Verse 2
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There's a clock upon the table
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and it's burning up the hour
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And you feel your life is shrinking
like the petals of a flower
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As you creep towards the closet you're so
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careful not to wake him
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And you choose the cotton dress
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you bought last summer
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There's a time
Verse 3
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of indecision between
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the bedroom and the door
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But the part of you that knows that
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you can't take it any more
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There's the promise of the future
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in the creaking of the floor
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And you're torn if you should
Verse 4
leave him with a number
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Bbdim
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And in your imagina tion you're
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a thousand miles away
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Because too many of his promises
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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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never coming home
Verse 5
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She starts running for the railway station,
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praying that her calculation's right
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And there's a train just waiting there to
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get her to the city before night
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A place to sleep a place to stay will
get her through another day
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She'll take a job she'll find a friend
she'll make a life that's better
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The
Verse 6
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passengers ignore her
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just a girl with an umbrella
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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
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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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When too many of his promises
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got broken on the way
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So she wrote it in a letter all
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the things she couldn't say
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C#m
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And she told him she was never
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coming home
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D#dim
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And she told him she was never coming
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home
Interlude 1
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Verse 8
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I wake up in an empty bed a road
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drill hammers in my head
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I call her name there's no reply
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it's not like her to let me lie
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It's time for work it's time to go but
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something's different I don't know
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I need a cup of coffee
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I'll feel better
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I
Verse 9
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stumble to the bathroom door,
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her make up bag is on the floor
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It really is a mess this place,
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it takes some time to shave my face
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I'm not really thinking straight she
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never lets me sleep this late
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I'm almost done and then I see the letter
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In
Verse 10
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his imagination she's
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a universe away
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Too many of his promises
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got broken on the way
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Bbdim

So she wrote it in a letter
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Bbaug

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all things she couldn't say
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C#m

And she told him she was
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never coming home
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C#dim
C#dim

And she told him she was
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D#dim

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never coming home
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And she told him she was
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never coming home
Verse 11
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I'm gonna
live my life,
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I'm gonna live my life
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And she told him she was
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never coming home
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I'm gonna live my life,
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I'm gonna live my life
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And she told him she was
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never coming home
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I'm gonna live my life,
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I'm gonna live my life
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And she told him she was never
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coming home
Interlude 2
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I'm gonna
Verse 12
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live my life, I'm gonna live my life in my own way
Outro 1
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