Chords for Eddi Reader - Allelujah - Live At The Basement

[B] _ _ The lights [E] on the west we go
[B] _ a _ _ _ [E] _ million [F#] cars hurry [B] _ home
_ an [E] ice cream [F#] bar
shuts [B] off its [E] tinsel _ bells
Winter [F#] _ won't be [B] long _
I _ _ see you [E] every [B] day _
_ _ _ [E] I
Watch as [F#] you walk down [B] this way
_ _ We [E] pass on the [F#] stairs [B] of this council [E] _ _ block
Too shy [F#] to find the words [B] to say
_ _ That [D#m] your smile [E] is a prayer [F#] the praise [B] for love
Your [D#m] heart [E] is a cage [F#] the lungs
[B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [G#m] _ _ [E] We'll cut the [F#] strings tonight
[B] _ _
So _ _ meet me on the [E] _ corner [B] at _ eight
_ _ [E] _
Let's get [F#] out of this [B] place _
_ _ _ _ [E] _
We'll [F#] kiss the first of a million [E] kisses _ _
Let the [F#] past fall [B] away _
_ _ For [D#m] your smile [E] is a prayer [F#] the praise [B] for love
_ [D#m] _ _
[E] Is a cage
[F#] _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _
[F#] _ [G#m] Oh
_ _ [E]
We'll cut [F#] the strings [B] tonight
_ _ [E] _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[F#] Yes, _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [F#] _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ your [D#m] smile [E] is a prayer [F#] the praise for [B] love and your [D#m] heart
[E] Is a cage [F#] the lungs [B] to fly? _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [G#m] _ _ _ [E] We'll cut the [F#] strings tonight
[B] _ _
_ _ Yes, [D#m] your smile [E] is a prayer [F#] the [B] praise for love
And your [D#m] heart [E] is a cage [F#] the lungs to [B] fly _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [F#] _ _ _
[G#m] _ We'll [E] _ cut the [F#] strings tonight
[B] _ _
_ We'll [E] _ kiss [B] the first of a [C#m] million _ [B] _ [E] kisses _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
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_ _ _ _ [N] I
Get nervous so I talk a lot sometimes and I don't want to you know
I want [G] to be enigmatic and mysterious and [N] cool and groovy and all that but I
Can think you know, I'm gonna be 85
Hopefully and I'm what I just want to be able to look back and know that everything I did [G] was really authentic
[G#] Nothing was [G] pretentious and everything was with [A] good heart and honesty and I just I don't want to I
Don't want to get me wrong anymore.
I want to say that yeah, you know, [G] I'm clever with a song
I'm also a very kind-hearted and generous person and I'm not gonna kid anybody on I'm not and I'm also very down-to-earth
So I I like I like I don't want I just don't want to play any games [N] about it, you know