Intro Fm C#/F Eb/F C#/F

Fm Bored of the C#/F life in the city of Eb/F gold
He’d left and let Fm nobody Bb/F know
Fm Gone were the C#/F towers he had known from a Eb/F child
Alone with the Fm dream of a Bb/F life

He C travelled the F wide open G7 road,
the blinkered ar-Em cade… in search of
a-G nother to F share in his Em life
Em/D No-A whe-C ere
Dm Everyone F looked so G strange to him

They’ve Dm7 got no horns and they’ve got no tail
They Gm7 don’t even know of our existence
Am I Dm7 wrong to believe in a city of gold
That Gm7 lies in the deep distance, he cried

And Fm wept as they C#/F led him away to a Eb/F cage
Beast that can Fm talk, read the Bb/F sign
The Fm creatures they C#/F pushed and they prodded his Eb/F frame
And questioned his Fm story a-Bb/F gain

But C soon they grew F bored of their G7 prey
The beast that can Em talk… more like
a G freak or pu-F blicity Em stunt
Em/D Oh, A no-C-o … Dm Oh, F no-G-o

They’ve Dm7 got no horns and they’ve got no tail
They Gm7 don’t even know of our existence
Am I Dm7 wrong to believe in a city of gold
That Gm7 lies in the deep distance, he cried

And D broke down the door of the cage and marched on F out
He G7 grabbed a creature by the scruff of his neck, pointing C out E

A There, beyond the E6 bounds of your D weak imagi-A nation
A Lie the noble E6 towers of my D city, bright and E gold

A Let E me
F# take you there and C#m7 show you a living B story D
A Let me show you C others such as D me
Why did Gm7 I… ever C7-2 leave?

They’ve Dm7 got no horns and they’ve got no tail
They Gm7 don’t even know of our existence
Am I Dm7 wrong to believe in a city of gold
That Gm7 lies in the deep distance, he cried and

Inter Fm C#/F Eb/F C#/F
            wept

And Fm so we set C#/F out with the beast and his Eb/F horns
And his crazy des-Fm cription of Bb/F home
After Fm many days C#/F journey we came to a Eb/F peak
Where the beast gazed a-Fm broad and cried Bb/F out

We C followed his F gaze and we G7 thought and maybe we Em saw
A spire of G gold, no, a F trick of the Em eye
Em/D that’s A a-C all
But the Dm beast was F gone and a G voice was heard

They’ve Dm7 got no horns and they’ve got no tail
They Gm7 don’t even know of our existence
Am I Dm7 wrong to believe in a city of gold
That Gm7 lies in the deep distance, he cried and wept

Outro Fm C#/F Eb/F C#/F Fm