Standard (EADGBE)
Intro
Please send me a sign
And set me up against the rain
And give me something I can trust
In all the drama of change
I followed a dream
And if a man is born to fall
Then let me live against my creed
In all the filth of it all
And I can drink my whiskey and water
And fix folly in peace
Cos there's a price you pay
To live this way, its called a release
Please drop me a line
And send me love and sun to boot
Cos I am idle drunk and well
Busy with nothing to do
This body is cold
I have to make the grade alone
Cos I have traveled far to find
I need a room of my own
Where I can
Break kindly with Fortune
Cos she's something to be
She's spending Saturdays in the Baltic
With the SSP
And I am charged guilty as sin
Because it hurts me to know
That she is working so hard
But for the joy of stock control
Instrumental verse
But let me sing out to myself
And polish off these bottled cries
And send them down to Saville Row
Cos I'm not ready to die
But I, I'm ready to live
Can I make it out with pride
Play the left wing let down king
Put out there something to hide
And I can run to you for cover and
We'll bury the dread
And when the time has come for leaving
I will love you instead
Oh won't you sing something in minor key
This stillness is bleak
Oh could we dream away the guilt
We have for the working week
oh and in the warm arms of a stranger I'm
Too happy to lie
I know we've both been here before
Just please don't ask me why
And I have
Walked here with you close to me
But never alone
But won't you cling to me in the major key
All the joy I've known
All the joy I've known
Oh the joy I've known (x4)
Lalalala-lalala (x3)
Lalala la