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No Longer There
The Cat Empire
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No Longer There
The Cat Empire
*CAPO FIRST FRET*
`= Hold for longer
VERSE:
G Bm Em `
I know you'd like to hear a song as everything's all
Bm ` C `
Right the temp'rature is warm the fire horses
D `
Sleep so gently comes the
VERSE:
G Bm Em `
Night now close your eyes a-stare the ground they're on is
Bm ` C `
Bare but once it was as deep and wild as giant's
D `
Dreams it's no longer
VERSE-LONG:
G Bm Em `
There and all of our de-sires could mirror skies with
Bm ` C `
Flames and smoke out heaven's halls and who was that you
D ` G Bm
Called they're no longer there
REFRAIN:
C ` Em G
Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a-
C ` Em `
gain here it goes a-gain__
Am ` D `
BRIDGE:
Em G C G
Now what would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your
Em G C G
Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept a-what would you
Em G C G
Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you
D ` C ` D `
Wrecked and what would you leave behind__ when you're no longer
VERSE: [solo]
G Bm Em `
There
Bm ` C ` D `
VERSE:
G Bm Em `
And would you sail to distant shores and hide within the
Bm ` C `
Haze and softly close your door pre-tend the world was
D `
Saved and wait for heaven's
VERSE-LONG:
G Bm Em `
Call or would you turn and face the seas and calm beside you
Bm ` C `
Care there's chance but if you dare and swift as honest
D ` G Bm
Deeds before it's no longer there__
REFRAIN:
C ` Em G
Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a-
C ` Em `
gain here it goes a-gain__
Am ` D `
BRIDGE-LONG:
Em G C G
What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your
Em G C G
Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept what would you
Em G C G
Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you
D ` C ` D ` G `
Wrecked what would you leave behind__ when you're no longer there__
CODA:
C ` Em `
__ To de-ny or to des-pair they're really just the
D ` D `
Same but ev'rything be-tween it means we have to
C ` Em `
Change 'cos where the one for-gets the world begins to
D ` D `
Fade and all the shapes and shades that made the colour
C ` D `
Scene well they suddenly turn grey then they're no longer
G ` ` N.C.
There_____ (end on 1)