CAPO: 3rd Fret

INTRO: F Dm Am Bb

Thought you’d bide your time and play your part
But you were wrong dear
Somewhere down the line your lonely heart
Could not belong here
And in some frame of reason
Beyond our vision
Your love lagged behind and fell apart
Without a soul to hear

On a night like this the stars don’t shine
And there’s no moonlight
We’re like you I guess, we bide our time
Try to play our parts right
And wonder where you gathered
Your angry sorrow
Through the rolling mist the scenes unwind
They seem so clear to-night

BRIDGE:
And in my sleep you are crying still
The way you touch your brow, hang your head
I never knew and I never will
The voices haunting you, a thing that I could do

INSTRUMENTAL: Am Dm Bb Dm C Am Dm Bb Dm C F

Were they in your stars, those lonely nights
Tormented hours?
Something snapped your spars and slacked your lines
And took your powers
Did no one see you sinking
‘Til you’d gone under?
While you slipped so far beyond the lights
Were we just watching ours?

OUTRO: Dm Bb Dm C F (3x)

CAPO: 6th Fret

INTRO: C F-C (2x)

When we were in love, or whatever it was
We tore apart their believing hearts
Just to ride that passion in

And we survived okay, through the mess we made
But I don’t know how we can come back now
And try to be friends again

CHORUS:
‘Cause when I see you, I can’t let the past remain the past
All that heartache we brought on, comes rushing back so fast
I can’t see no road ahead, just pulls me down somehow
There’s so much water under that bridge, it must be sinking now[F-C][F-C]

With a shiver and chill, it haunts me still
What a fool I was to have almost lost
Most of what’s dear to me

From the very first touch, we took too much
In the fire we found, I was burning down
And just too blind to see

CHORUS:
And when I see you, I can’t let the past remain the past
All that heartache we brought on, comes rushing back so fast
I can’t see no road ahead, just pulls me down somehow
There’s so much water under that bridge, it must be sinking now[F-C][F-C]

BRIDGE:
If we had just held on and maybe once
Seen beyond our fire
But our try-agains and might-have-beens
Were swept away when we were
Oh, when we were

OUTRO:
Ohooooh
I can’t see no road ahead, just pulls me down somehow
There’s so much water under that bridge, it must be sinking now
So much water under that bridge, it must be sinking now

CAPO: 2nd Fret

INTRO: C F Em F Em C

How can there be trouble in this world?
With the colour in these hills
The blue October sky
This little road that winds along the river

Dusty barns and tractors in the fields
And families sit in front yards
Or stand outside the churches
Kids are throwing footballs
And pulling carts of pumpkins
And the morning sun is sparkling on the water

How can there be such trouble in this world?
Where the mountains roll so gently
Deer graze on the hillsides
Birds chat on the phone lines
The whole wide world’s a prayer for Sunday morning

The geese inspect the stubble in the fields
And all along the roadside
Families stop to wonder
At the new October morning
And a red tailed hawk is circling

And a father hugs his daughter
And an old man holds the car door for his wife to come and see
Then they turn and smile at me
How can there be such trouble in this world?

I know of course, I know, that this is not the only picture
F C F ~ G
I don’t of course, I don’t, know what to do

INSTRUMENTAL: F C F ~ ~ G F C ~ ~ G C F Em C

But the road keeps winding through the afternoon
And it doesn’t know the sorrow
Or an inkling of the shadow
Of the rage across the water
The hatred and the horror
It just wanders through this valley with the river by its side
As the light fades from the sky
The beautiful light fades from the sky