No Longer There
The Cat Empire
*CAPO FIRST FRET*
`= Hold for longer


VERSE:
G              Bm             Em      `
  I know you'd like to hear a song as everything's all
Bm        `              C        `
Right the temp'rature is warm the fire horses
D        `
Sleep so gently comes the

VERSE:
G         Bm                Em        `
Night now close your eyes a-stare the ground they're on is
Bm       `              C        `
Bare but once it was as deep and wild as giant's
D           `
Dreams it's no longer

VERSE-LONG:
G         Bm            Em          `
There and all of our de-sires could mirror skies with
Bm         `                  C         `
Flames and smoke out heaven's halls and who was that you
D              `         G    Bm
Called they're no longer there

REFRAIN:
C    `              Em      G
  Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a-
C    `              Em  `
gain here it goes a-gain__
Am  `  D  `

BRIDGE:
Em                   G                 C                   G
  Now what would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your
Em              G                  C                  G
Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept a-what would you
Em                G                      C                G
Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you
D      `  C                    `           D              `
Wrecked     and what would you leave behind__ when you're no longer

VERSE: [solo]
G    Bm  Em  `
There
Bm  `  C  `  D  `

VERSE:
G               Bm              Em         `
  And would you sail to distant shores and hide within the
Bm       `                 C        `
Haze and softly close your door pre-tend the world was
D         `
Saved and wait for heaven's

VERSE-LONG:
G                 Bm                Em  `
Call or would you turn and face the seas  and calm beside you
Bm           `                 C        `
Care there's chance but if you dare and swift as honest
D                 `         G    Bm
Deeds before it's no longer there__

REFRAIN:
C    `              Em      G
  Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a-
C    `              Em  `
gain here it goes a-gain__
Am  `  D  `

BRIDGE-LONG:
Em               G                 C                   G
  What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your
Em              G                  C                  G
Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept what would you
Em                G                      C                G
Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you
D      `  C                `           D              `         G    `
Wrecked     what would you leave behind__ when you're no longer there__

CODA:
C        `            Em           `
__ To de-ny or to des-pair they're really just the
D        `             D        `
Same but ev'rything be-tween it means we have to
C           `                 Em       `
Change 'cos where the one for-gets the world begins to
D        `                  D           `       
Fade and all the shapes and shades that made the colour
C               `             D                    `
Scene well they suddenly turn grey then they're no longer
G    `  `  N.C.
There_____ (end on 1)