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Reaching For The Rail

Richard Wright

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Am Em Am Em
C Em/B C E


Am                      Em
I'm ill with a fever, I feel like a child
Am		               Em
I lay in the dark 'til morning came.
     C
It's so unoriginal
      Em/B
And I feel it worse at night
  C
I know it's not terminal
    E
But I'm near half-dead fright
             Am
And freezing cold.


Am
But sooner than woke up
   Em
To find it all unchanged
Am					    Em
I'll sleep through the day til the daylight ends.
         C
Cos it's all so familiar
      Em/B
As it comes around again
    C
The same taste to everything
    E
The same unbroken chain
         Am
That still remains.


F G Em/G Em
F G Em


F              G
With morning I rise,
F                  Em
A dream that won't leave me,
       F              G
You're sad, naked and pale
           Am
And you're reaching for the rail


					   Em
You took a look inside, how could you peel away
   Am                                         Em
Or break the shell, the hurt you've hidden so well

For all your days.


           C
And you're going down
       Em/B
As you slip beneath the waves,
      C
Won't make a sound
      E			    Am
Won't even leave a trace before you.


D/A C/G Bb/F Am/E

Dm7 Em7 F

G Am

				  Em
I hear an appalling sigh from the streets below
         Am                              
And it's creeping fear congealed in stone
     Em
That paves the crazy road.
    C                           Em/B
And all are succumbing and they look so hopelessly
       C                                  
At the heartbreak, it's easy to deal with,
E                                       Am
Just take these and you'll really never feel it. 



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Reaching For The Rail

Richard Wright