Intro: Am F C E verse 1 Am Back then it almost felt, F Heaven sent C With slow dancing models E In a child's ornament Am F Kept spinning our heads full of stars C Don't know what we had E But we knew it was ours Am F With one hand on the small of her back C E The other in hers, as we moved to the track Am F That was playing in our heads all along C E The symphony silent, a beautiful song F C We were lovers, we were doomed from the start E Am It was all broken clockwork, the dancers both fall apart F E Am Maybe it was a dream, and I just woke up F C E Am F C E verse 2 Am F The girl sits alone with her art C Seems her words are the only way E To mend her broken heart Am F Like her life is the fiction not found C E Her real image in writing is staring straight back Am F Her protagonist has broken hope C E The typewriter pause, then the words come out slowly Am F Like teardrops, fall on the page C E In an instant her soul, released from its cage She wrote F You were laying there dying, C Like the end of a western E Am Saying tell me what Europe is like F E Am I said tell me yourself, we can go when you feel right F C E Am F C E verse 3 Am F At the coast, every star seems so near C E But you wouldn't know each, had been gone all those years Am F And the ocean rose on like a dream C E And into the distance, forever it seems Am
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