Key: A5

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Verse 1:
A5                       D5
  I met you on a stormy weekend
A5                             D5
  You never meant to draw the line
A5           B5               D5
  I saw you once you didn't smile
                        E5
Thought you needed my advice
           F#5            D5
But didn't know it at the time


Verse 2:
A5                             D5
  I called you in the dead of winter
A5                          D5
  You didn't even hold the line
A5              B5               D5
  I've seen it all the great decline
                           E5
One more troubled state of mine
          F#5                  D5
What's so wrong? Why can't you even try?


Chorus 1:
A5
   Hear me out now 
D5
   a thousand miles around
F#5
   That the sound of strangers 
         E5
breaking new ground
A5
   It's the breakdown 
D5
   of a lifetime
B5                E5
   Here we go now falling
of the straight line
A5       B5   D5
Lost in city lights
A5       B5   D5
Lost in city lights


Verse 3:
A5
  I know all about 
            D5
your little secrets
A5
  I've felt the chills 
            D5
and your regrets
A5              B5
  I heard them all
                 D5
yeah through the wall
                      E5
While you never had a clue
           F#5                 D5
And if you knew what would you do?


Chorus 2:
A5
   Hear me out now 
D5
   a thousand miles around
F#5
   That the sound of strangers 
         E5
breaking new ground
A5
   It's the breakdown 
D5
   of a lifetime
B5                E5
   Here we go now falling
of the straight line


Breakdown:
F#5 D5 E5
       I'm dreaming 
F#5 A5 E5
       I'm dreaming 
F#5 D5 E5            F#5 A5 E(hold)
       I'm dreaming 


Bridge: with Synth Piano solo
A5                     D5
  Falling back in the days 
                   F#5
you were doing all right
                      E5
If you're set in your ways 
                     A5
then you fade out of sight
                      D5
When at first it felt wrong 
               F#5
it soon became right
                      E5
Now the cracks on the wall
                   D5
were a map of your life
                 E5
The addiction is back and 
                A5
it's heavy this time
Now you're talking to the 
F#5    E5           D5
voices through the wall
                      E5
Will you make it this time?


Chorus 3:
A5
   Hear me out now 
D5
   a thousand miles around
F#5
   That the sound of strangers 
         E5
breaking new ground
A5
   It's the breakdown 
D5
   of a lifetime
B5                E5
   Here we go now falling
of the straight line
D5                  E5
  The addiction is back and 
                A5
it's heavy this time
Now you're talking to the 
F#5    E5           D5
voices through the wall
                      E5
Will you make it this time?


Outro:
A5       D5     F#5
I don't wanna know
That the sound of strangers 
         E5
breaking new ground
A5       D5    B5
Lost in city lights
B5                E5
   Here we go now falling
                    A(hold)
of the straight line