Tom: D
Intro: D D D A
D
The 1st time I saw you
D
I did try hard to burn my eyes
D
Life was but a sad dream
I was but a sad breath
A
But you were something like sand
When sunlight hits the sea
D
The 2nd time I saw you
D
I was about to take the road
D
I asked would you wait for me
You said life ain't a highway
A
Better if we'd been born
As siamese songbirds
D
The 3rd time I saw you
D
We went to the zoo
D
All steady hot beers, sorrowful monkeys
A
Big eyes laughing
With I had not held hands
D
The 4th time I saw you
D
It was like I was gonna die
D
I was waiting outside
You just had a new guy
A
Asked me why, I, I
D
Son, son, son
D
Won't you sing along?
D
We have no sea, child
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The 5th time I saw you
He was traveling abroad
And your eyes, they were not here
You just made new friends
While I tried to stop with cigarrettes
The 6th time I saw you
I was properly insane
For the whisky I had drunk
The drugs I'd taken
Gimme just one chance you will realise
The 7th time I saw you
You were married again
If I had just once kissed you
Things wouldn't be the same
Surely the sky'd be different
The 8th time I saw you
I was strummin' the guitar
& your ear were just for him
The waiter was blind
Please someone blind my eyes
The last time I saw you
It was about six a.m.
You approached me in a strange car
Finally kissed me
Then did wave goodbye
Before you disappear
Sometimes I ache, babe
Or I ain't hard enough to stand
But the days they just drown me
Coming back from work
Hving sour breakfast
Seasick from your chest.