Key: G# minor•
Intro 1
D#m
D#
D#m
B
D#m
D#
B
D#m
B
D#m
B
D#m
Verse 1
G#m
And the days they flew by
B
C#
And the leaves fell from
D#m
B
D#m
the trees
F#
C#
And many times you came around
B
D#m
F#
G#m
And many times you slept with me
F#
C#
And every time that we made love
B
F#
You wrote it down in your diary
G#m
Lady of ladies
D#
Verse 2
G#m
F#
G#m
F#
But I would always say to you
E
D#
Don't ask about tomorrow
G#m
Give what you have,
F#
G#m
F#
take what you need
E
D#
Your time is only now
E
D#
Don't try to tie me down to promises
E
D#
I live for today, today is all there is
G#m
C#m
D#
And freedom seems to be everything
G#m
to me
Interlude 1
G#m
D#m
B
D#m
Verse 3
G#
I took you down to a party
G#m
B
C#
On the night of the
D#m
B
D#m
4th of May
F#
C#
And a strange and growing restlessness
B
F#
G#m
Had hung in the air all day
F#
C#
The need to try and tear down
B
F#
And destroy all
G#m
that we'd made
Lady of ladies
D#
Verse 4
G#m
F#
G#m
F#
You whispered in my ear and asked me
E
If I fancied her
D#
G#m
F#
G#m
You told me that he'd phoned you
F#
E
D#
When I was in America
E
D#
Daring each other just to say okay
E
D#
Swap for tonight, didn't I al ways say
G#m
C#m
That freedom seems to be
D#
G#m
everything to me
Verse 5
C#m
And she came and she sat
D#
G#m
down beside me
E
And you found an excuse
D#
G#m
to go downstairs
C#m
D#
And she smiled and made
G#m
D#
The kind of conversation that you do
C#m
D#
And later on she said
G#m
'My last train has gone
E
D#
G#m
Oh I wonder if you could run me home'
Verse 6
C#m
D#
And I found you in the hall
G#m
way and told you
D#
That was all that I would do
G#m
G#dim
D#
Just run her home and it's through
G#m
G#dim
D#
G#m
Oh I thought you knew
F#
B
But I must con fess
F#
E
G#m
I laid my head on her breast
F#
And it seemed so hard
To pull it away
E
Verse 7
G#m
F#
B
Her hand touched my hand
F#
E
G#m
And her eyes were offering the rest
If it wasn't for you,
F#
E
oh I would have stayed
G#m
F#
But I came back home
E
through the morning
G#m
F#
E
To find you lying awake
G#m
F#
E
And I knew all at once what you'd done
C#m
D#
And I heard myself say
G#m
"Why did you have to sleep with him
Anyone else
Wouldn't have mattered
Half
Interlude 2
As much as him"
G#m
D#
D#m
B
D#m
B
D#m
Verse 8
G#
I don't want to touch you
B
C#
D#m
F#
Somehow you feel unclean
C#
I just wish that you
B
F#
G#m
Were five hundred miles away from me
F#
C#
B
Don't talk at all, don't start to cry
F#
G#m
Just pack up your things
Lady of ladies
D#
Verse 9
G#m
F#
G#m
F#
And though I'd always told myself
E
D#
That when our time ended
G#m
F#
G#m
F#
I'd walk away with no regrets
E
D#
And no attempts to stay
E
D#
Somehow it doesn't seem to be that way
E
D#
I find I'm needing every word you say
G#m
C#m
This freedom seems to be
D#
G#m
everything to me
Verse 10
C#m
D#
G#m
And you went up to Cambridge
C#m
And you stayed in your
D#
G#m
brother's room
C#m
D#
And you wro te me a letter
G#m
and sent it the same afternoon
D#
C#m
D#
G#m
You said "I just want to hurt myself
C#m
D#
G#m
Oh I need you so badly now"
Verse 11
C#m
And you told me
D#
"Without you there seem
G#m
D#
s to be no horizon at all
G#m
G#dim
D#
Just no crack in the wall
G#m
G#dim
No place lower to fall
D#
Verse 12
G#m
F#
"Hey don't leave me,
E
don't leave me
G#m
F#
E
The shapelessness of the dawn
G#m
F#
E
Floods above and beneath me,
D#
I can't go on
Verse 13
C#m
And I had to walk right
D#
into the trap
C#m
D#
And I had to say please come back
C#m
Though I felt all the while
E
My resistance slipping away
D#
Verse 14
G#m
Why did I have to fall for you
Anyone else
Wouldn't have hurt me
Half
As much as you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD#m D# B G#m C#...
D#m
D#
B
G#m
C#
F#
E
C#m
G#
G#dim
Capo: 4
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