Introduction: D5 D5 D5 A5 D5 The 1st time I saw you D5 I did try hard to burn my eyes D5 Life was but a sad dream I was but a sad breath A5 But you were something like sand When sunlight hits the sea D5 The 2nd time I saw you D5 I was about to take the road D5 I asked would you wait for me You said life ain't a highway A5 Better if we'd been born As siamese songbirds D5 The 3rd time I saw you D5 We went to the zoo D5 All steady hot beers, sorrowful monkeys A5 Big eyes laughing With I had not held hands D5 The 4th time I saw you D5 It was like I was gonna die D5 I was waiting outside You just had a new guy A5 Asked me why, I, I D5 Son, son, son D5 * D5 * won't you come along? | | | | | | D5 We have no time for another | | | | | | D9 | | | 1 | 2 song, song, song | | | | 3 | D5 * **???? Won't you sing along? D5 We have no sea, child D5 , D5 , D5 , A5 ) D5 The 5th time I saw you D5 He was traveling abroad D5 And your eyes, they were not here You just made new friends A5 While I tried to stop with cigarrettes D5 The 6th time I saw you D5 I was properly insane D5 For the whisky I had drunk The drugs I'd taken A5 Gimme one way and you will realise D5 The 7th time I saw you D5 You were married again D5 If I had just once kissed you Things wouldn't be the same A5 Surely the sky'd be different D5 The 8th time I saw you D5 I was strummin' the guitar D5 & your ear were just for him My ears were a-bleeding A5 The waiter was blind Please someone blind my eyes! D5 D5 D5 A5 (with the mouth organ) D5 The last time I saw you D5 It was about six a.m. D5 You approached me in a strange car Finally kissed me A5 Then did wave goodbye Before you disappear D5 Sometimes I ache, babe D5 Or I ain't hard enough to stand D5 But the days they just drown me Coming back from work A5 Having sour breakfast D5 Seasick from your chest.