Hello, C you wanna cup of coffee?
Dm7 I’m sorry, would you like a cup of coffee?
G Ok, you take cream and sugar? Sure

In C truck stops and hamburger joints, in Cadillac limousines
In the company of Dm7 has-beens and bent-backs
G And sleeping forms on pavement steps

In C libraries and railway stations, in books and banks
Dm7 In the pages of history, in G suicidal cavalry attacks
I recognise… C G/B Am
F Myself in G every stranger’s C eyes

And in C wheelchairs by monuments,
under tube trains and commuter accidents
In Dm7 council care and county courts
G At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts

In C drawing rooms and city morgues
in award winning photographs
Of life rafts on the China seas
in Dm7 transit camps, under arc lamps
On unloading ramps G in faces blurred by rubber stamps
I recognise… C G/B Am
F Myself in G every stranger’s C eyes

And C now, from where I stand, upon this Dm7 hill
I plundered from the G pool
I look a-C round, I search the skies, I shade my Dm7 eyes
So nearly G blind

And I see C signs of half re-C/B membered Am days
I hear bells Am/G that F chime C/E
in Dm7 strange familiar G ways
I recog-C nise… G/B Am
F The hope you G kindle in your C eyes

Inter C F G Em Am F G

C It’s oh so easy now as we F lie here in the G dark
Nothing Em interferes, it’s obvious
How to Am beat the tears
That F threaten to snuff out
The G spark of our C love