Words and music by Richard Homer
4/4, 83 bpm
Intro C G C F G C
G C G C
You know, I / gave her / all of my / love
F G C
wanting a / clean and / warm life for / me
C G C
but I found to my cost, in / unwitting / way
F G C
there was nothing but // acrimony
F C
Why, to try to get a / warm life
G C
did I tie myself up in a / maze?
F G
in unthinking way, back / in the mist of time
C G C
I did what I did, now / here I just / gaze
Ch
C G C
How can a woman / break a man’s / heart? (I tell you)
F G C
with / words and a / lacking of / care
C G C
just like two ocean currents, / ripping / apart
G F C
abandoning you / alone, cold and / bare
F G
There might be a place / far, far away
F C
where a man can find / peace and calm
F G
to rehabilitate, to / engage with Mother Earth
C G C
to repair emotion, the / hurt and the / harm
You know, I / gave her / all of my / love
wanting a / clean and / warm life for / me … G C
