The lovers are losing    (video)

 

    F - C

 

    C                                            - Am

1.      I dreamed I was drowning           in the River Thames,

G                                                   F                                    - C

    I dreamed I had nothing at all, nothing but my own skin.

C                                        - Am

    I dreamed I was drifting          on a howling wind,

G                                                    F                                     - C

    I dreamed I had nothing at all, nothing but my own skin.

 

Am                                      D                - Bb            F

    Slipped away from your open hands        into a river,

Am                                    D

    saw your face looking back at me,

Bb                             F                 C

    I saw the past and I saw my future.

 

                                              F

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have,

                                                         C

’cause you don’t like the way they seem to be going.

                                                        F

You cut them up and spread them out on the floor,

                                              C

you’re full of hope as you begin rearranging.

                          Bb                                               F

Put it all back together, but any way you look at this,

          C                           G

looks like the lovers are losing.

 

    C                                           - Am

2.     I dreamed I was watching          the young lovers dance,

G                                                                       F                           C

    I reached out to touch your hair, but I was watching from a distance.

 

Am                                     D               - Bb                   F

    We cling to love like a skidding car        clings to a corner,

Am                                 D

    I tried to hold onto what we are,

Bb                                        F                      C

    the more I squeeze, the quicker we’re over.

 

                                              F

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have,

                                                         C

’cause you don’t like the way they seem to be going.

                                                        F

You cut them up and spread them out on the floor,

                                              C

you’re full of hope as you begin rearranging.

                          Bb                                               F

Put it all back together, but any way you look at this,

          C                           G

looks like the lovers are losing.

 

    G                                                  - G - C - G

+      I dreamed I had nothing at all,   

G                                                   - G - C

    I dreamed I had nothing at all.

 

                                              F

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have,

                                                         C

’cause you don’t like the way they seem to be going.

                                                        F

You cut them up and spread them out on the floor,

                                               C

you’re full of hope as you begin rearranging.

                          Ais                                        F

Put it all back together, but in the final reckoning ,

          C                           G          - G

looks like the lovers are losing.

 

(orig. = capo 1st)    (Keane)