How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns

	  		words & music by Paul Simon 1978  


      |E   |  
In the blue light  

      |           |   E9  
Of the Belvedere Motel  

A                 |E         |     |  |  
  Wondering as the television burns  

B7                |                |E     |  
   How the heart approaches what it yearns  


    |  |  
In a fe-ver  

    |                 |     E9  
I distinctly hear your voice  

|A             |E                 |     |  |  
Emerging from a dream, the dream returns  

B7                |                |E     |E7 |  
   How the heart approaches what it yearns  


Gbmaj7    Gb/F       |Bbm7      Bbm6  
After the rain on the Interstate  

Cm7/5-      Cdim          |Bbm7  
Headlights slide past the moon  

 |Ebm7/5-             |  
A bone-weary traveler  

Dbmaj7                  |Gbmaj7 |  
Waits by the side of the road  

Gbm6                  |B7 |  
     Where's he going?  


Instrumental:  

E |  |  | E9|A |E |  |  |B7 |  |E |E7   


 |Gbmaj7       Gb/F        |Bbm7     Bbm6  
I dream we are lying on the top of a hill  

   |Cm7/5-      Cdim          |Bbm7  
And headlights slide past the moon  

 |Ebm7/5-             
I roll in your arms  

        |Dbmaj7                  |Gbmaj7 |  
And your voice is the heat of the night  

Gbm6            |  
     I'm on fire  


B7     |E    |      
   In a phone booth  

       |             |     E9  
In some local bar and grill  

 |A                 |E             |     |  |  
Rehearsing what I'll say, my coin returns  

B7                |                |E     |  |    
   How the heart approaches what it yearns  

B7                |                |E     |  |  
   How the heart approaches what it yearns  

B7 |  |E |  |B7 |  |E |  |