Hiding in plain sight (2024)     (video)

 

   D                                                A                                         Em

1.    Keep the curtains drawn all day, the mirror is a trap that fails,

                                     G                                         D

    saw a portrait of myself, made a promise to be kept.

                                         A                                      Em

    Yes, the procession is long but the time is very short,

                                         G                                       D

    leave the traces far behind for the future ones to find.

 

    D                                           A                                                    Em

2.     Loves in hiding, hate displayed, keep the curtains drawn all day,

                                           G                                                 D

    the mirror is a trap that saves or a debt that makes you pay.

                                           A                                   Em

    See you hiding in plain sight, and I wanna be in love

                                         G                                D

    with the man I used to be in a decade I felt free.

 

+  D - A - Em - G (2x)

 

    D                                         A                                            Em

3.    And as I walk the soft parade, see you standing in the rain,

                                                   G                                              D

    yes, I knew this thing would еnd, I did not know where or when.

                                      A                                              Em

    As I walk thе soft parade, will you, please, take me back

                                                G                                             Bm

    to the beach where I once ran with my toes dipped in the sand ?

 

+ Bm - F#m - G - E - A (3x)    +  Bm - F#m - G - A (2x)

 

                      D                       A                                                    Em

4.  Love’s in hiding, hate displayed, keep the curtains drawn all day,

                                           G                                                 D

    the mirror is a trap that saves or a debt that makes you pay.

                                           A                                   Em

    See you hiding in plain sight  and I wanna be in love

                                         G                                D

    with the man I used to be in a decade I felt free.

 

                                               A                                                   Em

+  Love’s in hiding, hate displayed, keep the curtains drawn all day.

                                              G                                                     D

    Love’s in hiding, hate displayed, keep the curtains drawn all day.

                                               A                                                   Em

    Love’s in hiding, hate displayed, keep the curtains drawn all day.

                                              G                                                     D

    Love’s in hiding, hate displayed, keep the curtains drawn all day.

 

 

    (Manic Street Preachers)