{Intro} (sample starts playing)

[E F#m] [E F#m] [E F#m] [E F#m] [F#m A] [E F#m]

{Verse} [F#m A] Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day [E F#m] Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. [F#m A] Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town [E F#m] Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

{Verse} [Dmaj7 Amaj7] Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. [Dmaj7 Amaj7] You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. [Dmaj7 C#m7] And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. [Bm7 E ] No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

{Solo} [F#m A E F#m ] [F#m A E F#m] [F#m A E F#m] [F#m A E F#m]

[Dmaj7 Amaj7 ] [Dmaj7 Amaj7 ] [Dmaj7 C#m7 ] [Bm7 E]

{Verse} And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

{Verse} [Dmaj7 Amaj7] Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. [Dmaj7 Amaj7] Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines [Dmaj7 C#m] Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way [ Bm] The time is gone, the song is over, [Bm7 F] Thought I'd something more to say.

{Breathe Reprise} [Em(add9) A Em(add9) A]

[Em7 A ] Home, home again. [Em7 A ] I like to be here when I can. [Em(add9) A ] When I come home cold and tired [Em(add9) A] It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.

[Cmaj7] Far away across the field [Bm7] The tolling of the iron bell [Fmaj7] Calls the faithful to their knees [G D7#9 D7b9 Bm] To hear the softly spoken magic spell.