Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse

Chorus

Bridge

end:

 He was named nineteenhundred 'TD'

 in the ship`s belly lies his cradle

 had no birthday and no land of home

 the ocean has no bounds

 virginian sounds

 and he faced the world from inside

 the ball-room of splendid skies

 and on the grand piano

 his hands light as butterflies

 he played for the rich and for the poor

 thrilling the hearts of all

 the world could have been beneath his feet

 searching the call

 the voice of the sea

 old chandelier tells a story

 old piano still echoes in here

 old ship lies rusted in the port

 and the best years fade away

 the splendour has gone

 not what he saw could hold him back

 it was what he didn`t see

 there was no end in this town

 keys so eternally

 but this was god`s piano

 he heard on the gangway there

 he couldn`t leave forever

 the sea to somewhere

bow and stern

all the wishes between

 (wishes to yearn)

 the world outside is a dream

 (a lone dream, lone dream)

 and when the whole world`s leaving

 the music will always stay

 and if a story`s worth to tell

 the end will be far away

 the final notes lie mute upon the sand

 when land is a ship too big

 a woman out of reach

 a journey too far

 a whiff too strong

 he didn`t exist for anyone

bow and stern

all the wishes between

 (wishes to yearn)

 the world outside is a dream

 (a lone dream, lone dream)

 and when the whole world`s leaving

 the music will always stay

 and if a story`s worth to tell

 the end will be far away

 the final notes lie mute upon the sand

and in this lonesome end

 final notes lie mute upon sand..