Standard (EADGBE)

  Hello...you wanna cup of coffee?

  I'm sorry, would you like a cup of coffee?

  Ok you take cream and sugar?

 In truck stops and hamburger joints

In Cadillac limousines

 In the company of has-beens

 And bent-backs and sleeping forms

On pavement steps

 In libraries and railway stations

In books and banks

In the pages of history

 In suicidal cavalry attacks

 I recognise...

Myself in every stranger's eyes

 And in wheelchairs by monuments

Under tube trains and commuter accidents

In council care and county courts

At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts

 In drawing rooms and city morgues

In award winning photographs

Of life rafts in the China seas

 In transit camps, under arc lamps

On unloading ramps

In faces blurred by rubber stamps

 I recognise...

Myself in every stranger's eyes

 And now from where I stand

 Upon this hill I plundered from the pool

 I look around, I search the skies

 I shade my eyes, so nearly blind

 And I see signs of half remembered days

 I hear bells that chime in strange familiar ways

 I recogn------ise...

The hope you kindle in your eyes

It's oh so easy now

 As we lie here in the dark

 Nothing interferes it's obvious

 How to beat the tears

 That threaten to snuff out

 The spark of our love