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Intro 1
(E minor)
(C major) (E minor)
Verse 1
Well, it's five (C major) in the morning
and the light's (D major) already broken
And the rainy (E minor) streets are empty
for nobody else has woken
Yet you turn (C major) towards the window
as he sleep (Bsus4) s beneath the cov (B major) ers
And you wonder what (E minor) he's
dreaming in his slumbers
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Verse 2
There's a clock (E minor) upon the table
(A minor) and it's burn (E minor) ing up the hour
And (C major) you feel (E minor) your life is shrinking
like the petals of a flower
As you creep (G major) towards the closet (D major) you're so
care (E minor) ful not to wake (B major) him
And you choose (E minor) the cotton dress
you bought last summer (C major)
(A minor) There's a time
Verse 3
(C major) of indecision between
the bed (D major) room (A minor) and the door (E minor)
But the part of you that knows (A minor) that
you can't take (E minor) it any more
There's the prom (C major) ise of the future
(D major) in (E minor) the creaking of the floor
(B major) And you're torn (E minor) if you should
Verse 4
leave him with a number
(E minor) And (C major) in your ima (B flatdim) gina tion (F sharp major) you're
a thousand (Bsus4) miles away (B major)
Because too (C major) many of his promises
got broken (D major) on the way
So you write (B flat major) it in a (B flatdim) letter (F sharp major) all
the thing (Bsus4) s you couldn't say
(B major) And you tell (C sharpdim) him that you're
never (D sharpdim) coming (B major) home (E minor)
Verse 5
(C major) She starts running for the railway sta (A minor) tion,
(C major) praying that her calculation's right
(E minor) And there's a train just waiting there to
get her to the city before (A minor) night
(C major) A place to sleep a place to stay will
get her through another day
(B major) She'll (E minor) take a job she'll find a friend
she'll make a life that's better
(A minor) The
Verse 6
(C major) passenger (E minor) s ignore (A minor) her
just a girl with an umbrella (E minor)
And there's nothing they can do (C major) for (A minor) her,
there's (E minor) nothing they can tell her
There's (C major) nothing they could ever say would
change the way she feels (B major) today
She'd (E minor) live the life she'd always dreamed if
he had only let (B flatdim) her
Now in her imagination (F sharp major) she's a million
Verse 7
(E minor)
miles (Bsus4) away
(B major) When too (C major) many of his promises
got broken (D major) on the way
So she wrote (B flatdim) it in a letter all
(F sharp major) the things (E minor) she couldn't (Bsus4) say
(B major) And she told (C sharp minor) him she was never
(D sharpdim) coming (B major) home (E minor)
And she told (C sharpdim) him she was never (D sharpdim) coming
(E minor) home
Interlude 1
(C major) (E minor) (C major) (E minor)
(C major) (E minor)
Verse 8
I (E minor) wake up in an (A minor) empty bed a road
drill (C major) hammers (D major) in my head
(A minor) I (C major) call her name there's no (E minor) reply
it's not like her to let (C major) me lie
It's time for work it's time (D major) to go but
(E minor) something's dif (C major) ferent I (B major) don't know
(E minor) I need a cup of coffee
I'll feel better (C major)
(A minor) I
Verse 9
(C major) stumble to the bath (A minor) room door,
her make up bag is on (D major) the floor
(E minor) It really is a mess (C major) this place,
it (E minor) takes some time to shave (C major) my face
I'm not really think (D major) ing straight she
(E minor) never let (C major) s me sleep (B major) this late
I'm al (E minor) most done and then I see the letter
(C major) In
Verse 10
(B flatdim) his imagination (F sharp major) she's
a uni (E minor) verse (Bsus4) away (B major)
Too (C major) many of his promises
got broken (D major) on the way
So she wrote (B flat major) it in a let (B flatdim) ter
(B flataug) all (F sharp major) things (B major) she couldn't say
And she told (C sharp minor) him she was
never (D sharpdim) coming (B major) home
(E minor) And she told (C sharpdim) him she was
never (D sharpdim) coming home (E minor)
And she told (C sharpdim) him she was
never (D sharpdim) coming (B major) home
Verse 11
(E minor) I'm (A minor) (B flat major) (B flatdim) (B major) (C major) (D major) (E minor) gonna
live my life,
I'm (A minor) gonna (B flat major) live my (B flatdim) life
(B major) And she told (C major) him she was
never (D major) coming home
(E minor) I'm gonna live my life,
I'm (A minor) gonna live (C major) my life
And (B major) she told (C major) him she was
never (D major) coming home
I'm (E minor) gonna live my (A minor) life,
I'm gonna (B flat major) live my life
(B major) And she told (C major) him she was never
(D major) coming home
Interlude 2
(E minor) (C major) (E minor)
(C major) I'm gonna
Verse 12
live my life, I'm gonna (D major) live my life in my (E minor) own way
Outro 1
(E minor) (C major) (D major) (C major) (E minor)
(E minor) (C major) (D major) (C major) (E minor)
(C major)
(D major) (C major) (E minor) (B major) (E minor)
(C major) (D major) (B major) (E minor) (E minor)
(B major) (C major) (C major) (E minor) (E minor)
(C major) (C major) (E minor)
(C major) (C major) (E minor) (E minor)
(E minor)
Never Coming Home
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