C5 
In the calling out to one another 
       G5 
Of the lovers up and down the strand 
D5 
In the sound of the waves and the cries 
       G5 
Of the seagulls circling the sand 
 

C5 
In the fragments of the songs 
                 G5 
Carried down the wind from some radio 
D5 
In the murmuring of the city in the distance 
G5 
Ominous and low 
 

C5                     G5   
I hear the sound of a world where we played 
        D5                           G5 
And the far too simple beauty of the promises we made 
 

A5               F5 
If you ever need holding 
C5             G5 
Call my name, I'll be there 
 

A5              F5 
If you ever need holding 
       C5                          G5 
And no holding back, I'll see you through 
 

C5   G5 
Sky blue and black 
D5     G5 

C5 
Where the touch of the lover ends 
        G5 
And the soul of the friend begins 
          D5 
There's a need to be separate and a need to be one 
      G5 
And a struggle neither wins 
 

C5 
Where you gave me the world I was in 
      G5 
And a place I could make a stand 
              D5 
(And) I could never see how you doubted me 
         G5 
When I'd let go of your hand 
C5         G5 
Yeah, and I was much younger then 
      D5                    
And I must have thought that I'd have known 
   G5 
If things were going to end 
A5                   F5 
And the heavens were rolling 
C5                 G5 
Like a wheel on a track 
A5                F5 
And our sky was unfolding 
C5                     G5 
 And it'll never fold back 
 

C5            G5 
Sky blue and black 
D5     G5 

         A5 
I'd have fought the world for you 
          F5 
(I'd have fought the world for you) 
     C5                    G5 
If I thought that you wanted me to 
       A5                     G5 
Or put aside what was true or untrue 
       C5 
If I'd known that's what you needed 
G5 
What you needed me to do 
 

C5                  G5 
But the moment has passed by me now 
        D5 
To have put away my pride 
              G5 
And just come through for you somehow 
 

A5              F5 
If you ever need holding 
C5            G5 
Call my name, I'll be there 
A5              F5 
If you ever need holding 
       C5                          G5 
And no holding back, I'll see you through 
 

C5 
You're the color of the sky 
                  G5 
Reflected in each store-front window pane 
D5 
You're the whispering and the sighing 
      G5 
Of my tires in the rain 
C5                                           G5 
You're the hidden cost and the thing that's lost in everything I do 
D5            G5          C5 
Yeah and I'll never stop looking for you 
 

G5 D5 G5 

C5 
In the sunlight and the shadows 
        G5 
And the faces on the avenue 
 

D5     G5 

C5 
That's the way love is 
G5 
That's the way love is 
D5 
That's the way love is 
G5            C5 
Sky blue and black