Words and music by Richard Homer
4/4, 145 bpm
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high up / birds on the / Mardy / wire
AEBE
enjoying the / humming of the / telegraph / breeze
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a truck or a / motorbike / fly past, the / tyre
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whining on the / tarmac, / rocking with / ease EBAE / BE
the new night / now / coming to me / here
back home by / gardens, / parked car or / two
hang up the / jacket, take / out a cold / beer
one way / I can / get the night / through
A E
thinking of the time when / you were with me
B E
thinking of the time when / you were with me
bringing / colour to the / greying / air
four // pm, the / street lights come / on
winter / trees are / raw and / bare
I wonder / where another / lost day has / gone
tonight lamb and / apricot were / enough for / me
in a mental / pipeline of / broken / rock
here, in / disconsolate // harmony
I gaze at the / gas fire, the / wall, the / clock
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thinking of the time when / you were with me
B E
thinking of the time when / you were with me
AE
a pen with a raging / energy
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I write for whom, / no-one can know
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I write on the paper in / front of me
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‘a frost in // December, just / one week // ago’
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‘a frost in // December, just / one week // ago’
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one week // ago, / one week // ago
one week // ago, / one week // ago EBAE / BE
AEBE / AEBE / EEEE / BBBB
A E
in the empty room, I / hear the wind moan
B E
the flickering rain of the / winter weather
A E
thinking of when we / were together
B E
thinking of / you girl, / thinking alone
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when we / held each / other / tight
A E B E / B A E B E / A E B E
memory / of a / Mardy / night, a / Mardy / night
