Key: E
Introduction:
Em A
Breathe, breathe in the air
Em A
Don?t be afraid to care
Em A
Leave, but don?t leave me
Em A
Look around, choose your own ground
C7M
For long you live and high you fly
Bm
Smiles you?ll give and tears you?ll cry
F
And all you touch and all you see
G F Eb Em
Is all your life will ever be
Em A
Run, rabbit, run
Em A
Dig that hole, forget the sun
Em A
And when at last the work is done
Em A
Don?t sit down it?s time to dig another one
C7M
For long you live and high you?ll fly
Bm
But only if you ride the tide
F
And balanced on the biggest wave
G F Eb Em
You race towards an early grave
F#m A
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
E F#m
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
F#m A
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
E F#m
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
D7M
Tired of lying in the sunshine,
A7M
Staying home to watch the rain
D7M
And you are young, and life is long
A7M
And there is time to kill today
D7M
And then one day you find
C#m
Ten years have got behind you
Bm
No one told you when to run
E F#m
You missed the starting gun
F# A
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun But it?s sinking
E F#m
And racing around to come up behind you again
F#m A
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you?re older
E F#m
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
D7M
Every year is getting shorter
A7M
Never seem to find the time
D7M
Plans that either come to naught
A7M
Or half a page of scribbled lines
D7M C#m
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
Bm
The time is gone, the song is over
D F Eb Em
Thought I?d something more to say
Em A
Home, home again
Em A
I like to be here when I can
Em A
And when I come home cold and tired
Em A
It?s good to warm my bones beside the fire
C7M
And far away across the field
Bm
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the fateful to their knees
G F Eb Bm
To hear the softly spoken magic spell