Standard (EADGBE)

 You're the nose on my bullet

The trigger on my gun

 You're the sandbank in the ocean

Oxygen in my blood

 You're the fastest of the fish

You're the prickliest pear

 You're a chameleon in the night

You're the sahara's sun glare

You're my mind's rest

You're the strings on my guitar

 You're the wax in my moustache

The keys to my car

 You're the magical mermaid's hollowed illusion

You cool them, fool them

And they hope so much

 And you let them down

And you watch from your rock

And your heart beats fast as you watch their's stop

I will keep on loving

'Cos I believe in love

 I don't mind dying

If you follow me up

 Your victory's your defeat

Your head above your heart

Only the brave surrender

Death cannot tear us apart

Interlude

Well my smile is wider

Than your's when we meet

 And the winter is colder

For me underneath

 And I know that you glow

From the inside out

 You can keep it for yourself

And I'll go without

You are the fire and I'm the chimney

You'll burn away and I'll choke on your memory

 All the words, my sense, you're the poet to my pen

You're the dream that brings the morning sadness

Start the day storm in my head

Well you're the Oscar Wilde short stories in my bookcase

 You're positively 4th street isolated in my itunes

 You're the word in the dictionary that I can't spell

 Can't describe, can't put in a sentence but use all the time

Your own pair of trousers look better on me

 The boots of spanish leather

And the bottom of the sea

 Every symbol of love that doesn't relate to a meaning

 Every feeling, every sensation

Only real when I'm dreaming

I will keep on loving

'Cos I believe in love

 I don't mind dying

If you follow me up

Your victory's your defeat

Your head above your heart

Only the brave surrender

Death cannot tear us apart

Well I wish we were animals free of loves games

 I wish we were snails with really big shells

 I wish I was a lion, I'd be king of the wild

 I'd command all the beasts to carry you when you're tired

I'm the elephant in the circus

Oh, you're my trainer

 You'd never let me go

But if you did I would stay here

 In love there is freedom

But it must be returned

 There must be sacrifice

Love must be learnt

 A donkey, a mule, a lifetime of work

 In death he rests his head from his reins

No burden to bare but work left him lame

 And the lion on the mountain chased from his pride

His lioness stolen, his rival survives

 The sound of his cubs in death are dim

He knows his world well, no pain can defeat him

Wild horses in the wilderness

 Will know no journey home

 Well my love is locked in chains

 The lion walks alone

 Oh the lion walks alone

Nature is cruel

 But he knows it's his home

He to his demons

 And you to your own

Please let me stand by you

 And we'll conquer them all

We will conquer them all

 Oh I will conquer them all (x3)