Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Please send me a sign

And set me up against the rain

And give me something I can trust

In all the drama of change

I followed a dream

And if a man is born to fall

Then let me live against my creed

In all the filth of it all

And I can drink my whiskey and water

And fix folly in peace

Cos there's a price you pay

To live this way, its called a release

Please drop me a line

And send me love and sun to boot

Cos I am idle drunk and well

Busy with nothing to do

This body is cold

I have to make the grade alone

Cos I have traveled far to find

I need a room of my own

Where I can

Break kindly with Fortune

Cos she's something to be

She's spending Saturdays in the Baltic

With the SSP

And I am charged guilty as sin

Because it hurts me to know

That she is working so hard

But for the joy of stock control

Instrumental verse

But let me sing out to myself

And polish off these bottled cries

And send them down to Saville Row

Cos I'm not ready to die

But I, I'm ready to live

Can I make it out with pride

Play the left wing let down king

Put out there something to hide

And I can run to you for cover and

We'll bury the dread

And when the time has come for leaving

I will love you instead

Oh won't you sing something in minor key

This stillness is bleak

Oh could we dream away the guilt

We have for the working week

oh and in the warm arms of a stranger I'm

Too happy to lie

I know we've both been here before

Just please don't ask me why

And I have

Walked here with you close to me

But never alone

But won't you cling to me in the major key

All the joy I've known

All the joy I've known

Oh the joy I've known (x4)

Lalalala-lalala (x3)

Lalala la