Intro
|EmBm |Bm | 2x
|EmD |Bm |
VerseEmBm
Yesterday I spent asleep
EmEm7
Woke up in my clothes in a dirty heap
EmBm
Spent the night trying to make a deadline
Em
Squeezing complicated lives into a simple headline
EmBm
I have your face here in an old Polaroid
EmEm7
Tidying the children's clothes and toys
EmBm
You're smiling back at me, I took the photo from the fridge
EmEm7
Can't remember what then we did
EmBm
I haven't been with a woman, it feels like for years
EmEm7
Thought of you the whole time, your salty tears
EmBm
This shitty world sometimes produces a rose
EmEm7Em
The scent of it lingers and then it just goes
ChorusEmEm7EmBm
Return the call to home
Instrumental
|Em |Em7 |Em |Bm | 2x
VerseEm7Bm
The worst of us are a long drawn out confession
EmEm7
The best of us are geniuses of compression
Bm
You say you're not going to leave the truth alone
EmEm7
I'm here cos I don't want to go home
EmBm
Child drinking dirty water from the river bank
EmEm7
Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank
EmBm
I'm waiting on the waiter, he's taking a while to come
Em7
Watching the sun go down on Lebanon
ChorusEmEm7EmBm
Return the call to home
Instrumental
|Em |Em7 |Em |Bm | 2x
VerseDBm
Now I've got a head like a lit cigarette
EmEm7
Unholy clouds reflecting in a minaret
DBm
You're so high above me, higher than everyone
Em7
Where are you in the Cedars of Lebanon?
Instrumental
|Em |Em7 |Em |Em7 |
OutroDBm
Choose your enemies carefully cos they will define you
Em
Make them interesting cos in some ways they will mind you
DBm
They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends
Em
Gonna last with you longer than your friend
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.