No Longer There
The Cat Empire
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`= Hold for longer
Verse
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I know you'd like to hear a song as everything's all
[Bm] ` [C] `
Right the temp'rature is warm the fire horses
[D] `
Sleep so gently comes the
Verse
[G] [Bm] [Em] `
Night now close your eyes a-stare the ground they're on is
[Bm] ` [C] `
Bare but once it was as deep and wild as giant's
[D] `
Dreams it's no longer
[G] [Bm] [Em] `
There and all of our de-sires could mirror skies with
[Bm] ` [C] `
Flames and smoke out heaven's halls and who was that you
[D] ` [G] [Bm]
Called they're no longer there
Refrain
[C] ` [Em] [G]
Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a-
[C] ` [Em] `
gain here it goes a-gain__
[Am] ` [D] `
Bridge
[Em] [G] [C] [G]
Now what would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your
[Em] [G] [C] [G]
Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept a-what would you
[Em] [G] [C] [G]
Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you
[D] ` [C] ` [D] `
Wrecked and what would you leave behind__ when you're no longer
[Verse][solo]
[G] [Bm] [Em] `
There
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Verse
[G] [Bm] [Em] `
And would you sail to distant shores and hide within the
[Bm] ` [C] `
Haze and softly close your door pre-tend the world was
[D] `
Saved and wait for heaven's
[G] [Bm] [Em] `
Call or would you turn and face the seas and calm beside you
[Bm] ` [C] `
Care there's chance but if you dare and swift as honest
[D] ` [G] [Bm]
Deeds before it's no longer there__
Refrain
[C] ` [Em] [G]
Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a-
[C] ` [Em] `
gain here it goes a-gain__
[Am] ` [D] `
Bridge
[Em] [G] [C] [G]
What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your
[Em] [G] [C] [G]
Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept what would you
[Em] [G] [C] [G]
Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you
[D] ` [C] ` [D] ` [G] `
Wrecked what would you leave behind__ when you're no longer there__
CODA
[C] ` [Em] `
__ To de-ny or to des-pair they're really just the
[D] ` [D] `
Same but ev'rything be-tween it means we have to
[C] ` [Em] `
Change 'cos where the one for-gets the world begins to
[D] ` [D] `
Fade and all the shapes and shades that made the colour
[C] ` [D] `
Scene well they suddenly turn grey then they're no longer
[G] ` ` N.C.
There_____ (end on 1)
