Key: C
Introduction: C D Em
C D Em
I was walking around, just a face in the crowd try to keep myself out of the rain
C D Em
Saw a vagabond king wear a story from a crown wondered if I might end up the same
C D Em C D Em
There's a man out on the corner, singing old songs about change everybody got their cross to bare, these days.
Verse 2
C D Em
She came looking for some shelter with a suitcase full of dreams
C D Em
To a motel room on the boulevard I guess she's trying to be James Dean
C D Em C D Em
She's seen all the disciples and all the 'wanna be's' no one wants to be themselfs these days
C D G
Still there's nothing to hold on to but these days
Chorus
C D Em C D G
These days the stars ain't out of reach - These days there ain't a ladder from the streets oh no no
C D G C D G
These days are fast, nothing lasts in this graceless age - There ain't nobody left but us these days
Verse 3 (like Verse 2)
C D Em C D G
These days the stars ain't out of reach But these days there ain't a ladder from the streets oh no no
C D G C D Em
These days are fast, nothing lasts it's a graceless age - Even innocence has caught the midnight train
C D G
There ain't nobody left but us these days
Bridge
C Am C Am
I know Rome's still burning though the times have changed
C Am D
This world keeps turning round and round and round and round these days
C G D(4x)
Chorus
These days the stars ain't out of reach But these days there ain't a ladder from the streets oh no no
C D G
There ain't nobody left but us these days
C- D: Em C D G
There ain't nobody left but us these days
End