Transcription by Dagmar Klein
Eb Bb Ab
Searching for diamonds in a sulphur mine
Eb Bb Ab
Leaning on props which are rotten
Eb Bb Ab
Hoping for anything, praying for a sign
Eb
That I am not forgotten.
Eb Bb Ab
Lost in a labyrinth of future mystery
Eb Bb Ab
Tracing my steps all mistaken
Eb Bb Ab
Trusting to everything, praying it can be
Eb
That I am not forsaken. ||: Db Eb :||
Db Bbm Gb E
I wait by the door, wondering when
B A
You will come and keep me warm
Ab Db B E
I pray for the end of the night
Ebm Dbm B A Ab Db
Hoping the light will still the storm
Eb
Which presently entraps me:
Bb Ab
Helpless sea-monster stranded on the shore
Eb Bb Ab
Marooned in an ecstasy of waiting
Eb Bb Ab
I yearn, although knowing that I shall dive no more
Eb
In the tide already racing. ||: Db Eb :||
Db Bbm Gb E
My lungs burst to cry "Finally, how
B A
Can you leave me here to die?
Ab Db B E
I freeze in the chill of this place
Ebm Dbm B A Ab Db
With no friendly face to smile goodbye -
Eb
How could you let it happen?"
(Jaxonsax solo on ||: Ebm Bbm Abm :||, then back to ||: Eb Db :||)
Eb Bb Ab
Dreams, hopes and promises, fragments out of time
Eb Bb Ab
All of these things have been spoken
Ebm Bbm Abm
Still, you don't understand how it feels when I'm
Abm Dbm Abm Dbm Abm Ebm
Waiting for them to be broken. ||: Dbm Ebm :|| fade out