Intro E F#m x 2 E F F#m x 2 F#m A E E F F#m

F#m Ticking away the moments that make up a A dull day
You E fritter and waste the hours in an off hand F#m way
F#m Kicking around on a piece of ground in your A hometown
E Waiting for someone or something to show you the F#m way

Dmaj7 Tired of lying in the sunshine
Amaj7 staying home to watch the rain
Dmaj7 You are young and life is long
And Amaj7 there is time to kill today

Dmaj7 And then one day you find
C#m7 ten years have got behind you
Bm7 No one told you when to run, E you missed the starting gun

Solo F#m A E F#m x 4

Instr Dmaj7 Amaj7 x 2 Dmaj7 C#m7 Bm7 E

And you F#m run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s A sinking
And E racing around to come up behind you a-F#m gain
The F#m sun is the same in the relative way, but youre A older
E Shorter of breath and one day closer to F#m death

Dmaj7 Every year is getting shorter
Amaj7 never seem to find the time
Dmaj7 Plans that either come to naught
Or Amaj7 half a page of scribbled lines

Dmaj7 Hanging on in quiet
despe-C#m7 ration is the english way
The Bm time is gone, the song is over
Bm7 thought I’d something F7/B more to say

Inter Em A7 x 2

Em Home, home a-A7 gain
Em I like to be here when I A7 can
Em And when I come home cold and A7 tired
Its Em good to warm my bones beside the A7 fire

Cmaj7 Far away across the field
The Bm tolling of the iron bell
F Calls the faithful to their knees
To G hear the softly D9+ spoken Ebm6 magic Bm spells