Chord transcription by Ola Rinta-Koski 17-Feb-96 This might actually be recorded in Em; transpose as appropriate.
Am
I stretch my hands,
Dm G
clutch vacant laughter
Em Am
in silence and sweet, sweet pain;
without demand,
Dm G Em
but with a longing
Am
for what will never come again.
I smell your perfume
on the sheets in the morning -
it lingers like the patterns
on the window after rain,
a past that lives,
if only for the present...
which is gone and will never come again.
Em
To your sad eyes,
G
turned away, mine say
F G Am
'Do you? Did you? How?'
Em
As the darkness
G
slides away the day
F
shows what was
G Am
and makes what is now.
I see your picture
as though it were a mirror
but there's no part of you
outside the frame
except the change that you game to me:
this will never come again.
I am me,
I was so before you,
but afterwards I am not the same.
You are gone
and I am with you:
this will never come again.