Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse

In truck stops, and hamburger joints,

In Cadillac limosuines, 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

And suicidal cavalry attacks I recognize

Myself in every stranger's eyes.

And in wheelchairs by monuments,

Under tube trains, 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 on the China Seas,

In transit camps, under arc lamps, on unloading ramps,

And faces blurred by rubber stamps I recognize

Myself in every stranger's eyes.

And now, from where I stand, upon this hill I've plundered from the pool

I look around, I search the sky, I shade my eyes so nearly blind

And I've seen sights of half-remembered days, I hear bells that chime in

strange,

familiar ways

I recognize 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

smoke of our love.