Cifras
Poets Heart

Tom: E

Introdução: Em7    C    B7    Em    G    

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I wrote to you somewhere in South Australia
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A poet's heart in the eye of a hurricane
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I struggle with finding words to sing these days, I said
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As if my thoughts are waiting in the wings for the stage to clear
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And you in your elegance and humour fill the room
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Your love and your concern
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Your anger at the injustice of man's narrowness and fear
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I thank you for being here
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You wrote of love from the coast of Mendocino
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A poet's heart crying a fighter's tears
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The children of your body spread out across this earth
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Like messages written across time measuring the years
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You in your elegance and humour fill the room
             Em                                      D  
Your love and your concern
             C                                                                 B7                                                 C  
Your anger at the injustice of man's narrowness and fear
     D                                 Em7                         G  
I thank you for being here
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I heard your songs reach out to California
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A poet's heart locked in the Coeur d'Alene
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Of the old men and the booze, singing out the truth in lives
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Of forgiveness and loyalties to friends
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Constant as the endless railroad ties
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You in your elegance and humour fill the room
             Em                                      D  
Your love and your concern
             C                                                                 B7                                                 C  
Your anger at the injustice of man's narrowness and fear
     D                                 Em7                         G  
I thank you for being here
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So here we are joined finally by our words
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All poets' hearts close though far apart
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I remember how you said that language is a knife
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That spreads what we feel across the dry crust of someone's heart
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You in your elegance and humour fill the room
             Em                                      D  
Your love and your concern
             C                                                                 B7                                                 C  
Your anger at the injustice of man's narrowness and fear
     D                                 Em7  
I thank you for being here