Key: A
Introduction: A C#m F#m D Dm
A
Her language was a perfect phrase
C#m
Her playful prose followed me for days
F#m
Down the alleyways of my desire
D Dm
To their final resting place
A
In a vacation town where I lived year round
C#m
She migrated here with the summer crowds
F#m
And we fell in love under impossible smiles
D Dm
Life was perfect if just for a little while
Pre-Chorus
Bm
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
D
Hello exile
A E
And a thousand years may come and go
F#m D
We may never meet another soul
A F#m E
Here on our own island of Elba in the Poconos
Bm D(hºld)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Hello exile
A
And we bathed in the sun
Cut our jeans into shorts
C#m
Outstared every star in the sky
F#m
Under the cover of nowhere the present was a present
D Dm
It looked beautiful on you every night
A
But we knew it would end yeah we knew it all along
C#m
It was a future never reconciled
F#m Dm
It?'s as if letting your shackled heart feel loved was more difficult than total denial
Pre-Chorus
Bm
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
D
Hello exile
A E
And a thousand years may come and go
F#m D
I may never meet another soul
A F#m E
Here on my own island of Elba in the Poconos
Bm D(hºld)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Hello exile
A
Now I imagined her memory would fade in the void
C#m
She'??d only reappear every now and again
F#m
I'd smile at the thought of us
D Dm
But that was purely wishful thinking
Pre-Chorus
Bm
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
D
Hello exile
A E
And a thousand years may come and go
F#m D
I may never meet another soul
A F#m E
Here on my own island of Elba in the Poconos
F#m A
And just play the last set of my mind ?
E D
Our passions were real from the summertime
F#m A E
Swimming in the Delaware wringing out your long blonde hair
Bm
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
D
Hello exile
A A/G# E F#m
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Dm
Hello exile