From Kloot's Mercury Prize-nominated Sky At Night Album.
A very beautiful song that is also straightforward to learn.
Standard tuning
Capo at 2nd fret
Am x02210
Am/G 3x2210
C 032010
D xx0232
F6 1x3231
Intro
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/G (x3)
Verse 1
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/G
If heaven is a place upon your skin
That I may have touched from with-out to within
/G
Well then dust yourself of fingerprints and grin
And grin
Refrain 1
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/B
Cos we don't have to stay
With these people whose ideas
Are just what other people say
Refrain 1
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/B
We can walk a-way
From these feelings that are filling up
Our lives with daze
Verse 2
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/G
And I guess that I've been singing all my life
Well that's right and that is fine
/G
I been spending all your money and your time
Well that's right and that is fine
Refrain 2
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/B
Cos I don't have to stay
With these feelings that are filling up
My life with daze
/B
I can walk a-way
From these people whose ideas
Are just what other people say
Again and again
Verse 3
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/G
And the crowd that is gathered is con-fused
We're all trembling inside solitude
/G
We've got nothing left to use
We've got all the bullets
But there's no-one left to shoot
Refrain 3
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/B
And we can't walk a-way
From these feelings that are filling up
Our lives with daze
/B
We may have to stay
With these people whose ideas
Are just what other people say
Again and again
Verse 4
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/G
Well if heaven is a place upon your skin
That I may have touched from with-out to within
/G
Well then dust yourself of fingerprints and grin
And grin and grin
/G
I guess that I've been singing all my life
Well that's right and that is fine
/G
I been spending all your money and your time
Well that's right and that is fine
Outro
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/G (x2)
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I hope I've done it justice!
Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
June 2011
watfordkev@gmail.com