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