Tom: C
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[Verse 1]
F D
It turned and it called
C F D
A new spell was breathing, through the towns
G C
Down the roadsides unveiled in streetlights,
D
across the sea
F D C D
On island tides, our dreams need no keepers,
F D
they too can call
G C
Summon shipyard bays, from the blackened sand
D F
Iron rigging raise
D C
Those voices cried with me
D C F
For the sails and their silence abandoned in reams
D C F
White on the sea, sea, sea
[Chorus]
F D G C
Well don’t say I'm a troubled man
F G C F
Your lies are late
D G C F G C
They stole from me my little life
F D
And left me lying in those same waters
C F D
for which I used to write
[Verse 2]
F D C
Do you speak of their names?
D F
Now whispers on water, I'm with them now
G C
Drifting slowly away on Atlantic blue
D F
Down the shipping lanes
D C
And though these islands are towers
F D C
In Paris I'm dreaming of months below
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her velvet nights
C F D
And wandering girls, green in an absinthe glow
F
Would they lie with me?
C F D
On the sails in the silence abandoned in reams
C F D C
Far from the sea, sea, sea
[Chorus]
F D G C
Well don’t say I'm a troubled man
F G C F
Your lies are late
D G C F G C
They stole from me my little life
F D
And left me lying in those same waters
C F D
for which I used to write
[Outro]
C F D C
They weren’t the same as the photographs
F D C
But if you saw them I hope you’d call
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