Key: A
Introduction: C C C4 C2
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dreams of pioneers and pirate ships and Bob Dylan
C4 C2 C
Of people wrapped up tight in the thing that'll kill them
C4 C2 C
Of being trapped in a lift plunging straight to the bottom
C4 C2 Am
Of open seas and ways of life we've forgotten
G
I keep having dreams
Am F
Amy worked in a bar in Exeter
G Am
I went back to her house and I slept beside her
Am F
She woke up screaming in the middle of the night
G Am
Terrified of her own insides
Am F
Dreams of pirate ships and Patty Hearst
G Am
Breaking through a life of a rehearse
Am F
She can't remember which came first
G Am
The house the home or the terrible thirst
G
She keeps having dreams
F G
And on the worst days
G C F
When it feels like life weighs ten thousand tonnes
F G C
She's got her cowboy boots and her keys on the bed stand
F
So she can always run
F
She could get up and shower in half an hour
F Am
She'd be gone
Am F
I keep having dreams of things I need to do
G Am
Of waking up and not following through
Am F
It feels like I haven't slept at all
G Am
When I wake to a silence and she's facing the wall
Am F
Posters of Dylan and Hemingway
G Am
An antique compass for a sailor's escape
Am F
She says you just can't live this way
G Am
I close my eyes and never say
G
I'm still having dreams
F G
And on the worst days
G C F
When it feels like life weighs ten thousand tonnes
F G C
I sleep with my passport, one eye on the back door
F
So I can always run
Fm
I could get up and shower in half an hour
Am
I'd be gone
Am
And come morning I am disappeared
C G
Just an imprint on the bed sheets
Dm Am
And by the roadside with my thumb out
C G
A car pulls up and Bob's driving
Dm Am
So I climb in we don't say a word
C G
As we pull off into the sunrise
Dm Am
And these rivers of tarmac
C G
Are like arteries 'cross the country
Dm
We are blood cells
Am
Alive in
C
The blood stream
G
and the beating heart of the country
Dm Am
We are electric pulses
C G
In pathways of the sleeping soul of the country
Dm Am
We are electric pulses
C G
In pathways of the sleeping soul of the country
Dm
We are electric
Am C
In the sleeping soul of the country
G
(the sleeping soul of the country)
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