Intro: E5 - D5 - C5 (x3) - G5 G5 D5 C5 Please send me a sign G5 B5 And set me up against the rain E5 D5 C5 And give me something I can trust D5 In all the drama of change G5 D5 C5 I followed a dream G5 B5 And if a man is born to fall E5 D5 C5 Then let me live against my creed D5 In all the filth of it all C5 G5 And I can drink my whiskey and water B5 E5 And fix folly in peace C5 Cos there's a price you pay G5 D5 To live this way, its called a release G5 D5 C5 Please drop me a line G5 B5 And send me love and sun to boot E5 D5 C5 Cos I am idle drunk and well D5 Busy with nothing to do G5 D5 C5 This body is cold G5 B5 I have to make the grade alone E5 D5 C5 Cos I have traveled far to find D5 I need a room of my own C5 Where I can G5 Break kindly with Fortune B5 E5 Cos she's something to be C5 G5 She's spending Saturdays in the Baltic D5 With the SSP C5 G5 And I am charged guilty as sin B5 E5 Because it hurts me to know C5 That she is working so hard G5 D5 But for the joy of stock control Instrumental verse: G5 - D5 - C5 - G5 - B5 E5 - D5 - C5 - D5 - C5 - G5 G5 D5 C5 But let me sing out to myself G5 B5 And polish off these bottled cries E5 D5 C5 And send them down to Saville Row D5 Cos I'm not ready to die G5 D5 C5 But I, I'm ready to live G5 B5 Can I make it out with pride E5 D5 C5 Play the left wing let down king D5 Put out there something to hide C5 G5 And I can run to you for cover and B5 E5 We'll bury the dread C5 G5 And when the time has come for leaving D5 I will love you instead C5 G5 Oh won't you sing something in minor key B5 E5 This stillness is bleak C5 G5 Oh could we dream away the guilt D5 We have for the working week C5 G5 oh and in the warm arms of a stranger I'm B5 E5 Too happy to lie C5 G5 I know we've both been here before D5 Just please don't ask me why C5 And I have G5 Walked here with you close to me B5 E5 But never alone C5 G5 But won't you cling to me in the major key D5 All the joy I've known C5 All the joy I've known G5 C5 Oh the joy I've known (x4) G5 C5 Lalalala-lalala (x3) G5 Lalala la
