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