Your longing is gone    (video)

 

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1.    It used to really feel like we were high, flying,

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    you could say our days were too good to be true.

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    I loved it when you showed me that inside you were dying,

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    like I had to answer that pull from you.

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    And then the leaves changed shades, and up they flew.

 

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Your longing is gone, now,        don't go trying to force it !

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Your longing is gone,            I'm gonna leave with the morning dew.

 

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2.     I've got a list of places where I'll find my freedom,

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    you could see me somewhere not thinking of you.

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    Well, maybe it's because I gave you too much

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    of what you were needing,

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    but the real reasons are       fading and shading in the blue.

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    And then the sea grew dark, and up it flew.

 

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Your longing is gone,        it was sweet like a summer sky,

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your longing is gone,             I just got used to it being all mi.....ne.

 

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+  For a while we were the only thing that mattered in our lives.

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    How did you make me believe

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    in such a sweet, in such a free, in such a cool thing ?

 

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Your longing is gone,       it doesn't matter what I do,

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your longing is gone,           I'm gonna leave with the morning dew.

                          Em  - F  - G                                                         F    - C

Your longing is gone,           I'm gonna leave with the morning dew.

 

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Katie Melua)