Am

/c

D

If heaven is a place upon your skin

F

Am

That I may have touched from without to within

Am

/c

D

Then dust yourself of fingerprints and grin

F

Am

And grin

C

/b

Am

Cause we don't have to stay

F

With these people whose ideas

C

Are just what other people say

C

/b

Am

We can walk away

F

From these feelings that are filling up

C

E

Our lives with daze And I guess that I've been singing all my life Well that's right, and that is fine I've been spending all your money and your time Well that's right, and that is fine Cause I don't have to stay With these feelings that are filling up My life with daze I can walk away From these people whose ideas Are just what other people say And the crowd that is gathered is confused We're all trembling inside - solitude We've got nothing left to use We've got all the bullets but there's no one left to shoot We can't walk away From these feelings that are filling up Our lives with daze We may have to stay With these people whose ideas Are just what other people say Can I again? But if heaven is a place upon your skin That I may have touched from without to within Will then dust yourself of fingerprints and grin And grin And grin I guess that I've been singing all my life Well that's right And that is fine I've been spending all your money and your time Well that's right And that is fine

C#m

When I was a child

C#m/a

I looked up at the sky

A

Thought I saw you and I

F#

In the clouds passing by When I was a boy I looked out at the sea Thought I saw you and me In the waves on the breeze

E

C#m

And I I still do

A

I still do

F#

I still do When I was a child I had that look in my eye Had a will to despise Make destruction my life And I I still do I still do I still do And I I still do I still think I still do When I was a boy I looked out to the sea Thought I saw you and me In the waves on the breeze And I I still do I still do I still do And I I still do I still do I still do

G

Above there are no stars tonight just northern skies

C

Reflected light upon your face

G

People think stars rule our lives

C

Some people they think otherwise, they can be replaced

Am

D

Where did you go on that big black night?

Am

D

Did you take the coast road back through your life?

Am

D

See the sand, the moon, the stars that shine the light

C

G

And say, well, they'll do all right for me We shroud our lives in mysteries Brooding skies and stormy seas, if we have any sense Storm clouds roll, they're free to break And we're free to make the same mistakes again and again Where shall I go on those big, black nights? Should I take the coast road back through my life? See the sand, the moon, the stars that shine the light And say, well, they'll do all right for me Na na na na Above there are no stars tonight, just northern skies Reflected light on fields of snow Some people think stars rule our lives Some people they think otherwise; what does anybody know? Where shall we go on those big, black nights? Shall we take the coast road back through our lives? See the sand, the moon, the stars that shine the light And say, well they'll do all right for me Na na na na Where shall I go on those big, black nights? Should I take the coast road back through my life? See the sand, the moon, the stars that shine the light And say, well, they'll do all right for me? Na na na na

G

See the stars and constellations Sit beneath their congregation

A

C#m

Do you fancy a drink? I know a place called The Brink, do you wanna go there?

F#m

E

I can buzz off your smile and there may be people you know there They've got no rule of thumb, so on the counter I strum with my fingers And I adore the surprise of tomorrow's sunrise, so I linger

C#

F#m

And I raise a glass, a smile or two

B

A

This stuff strips the light from your bones

C#

F#m

B

E

And I would like to stay with you, but I leave alone You're the guy on the bus whose not quite one of us, you hear laughter And they won't let you in 'cause everyone knows what you're after So you wear the disguise of your brilliant eyes drenched in flamboyance And you sit by the bar much to everyone else's annoyance And I raise a glass, a smile or two This stuff strips the light from your bones And I would like to leave with you, but I stay alone And I raise a glass, a smile or two This stuff strips the light from your bones And I would like to leave with you

B

This stuff strips the light

D

This stuff strips the light

B

A

B

This stuff strips the light from your bones

E

A

From your bones