My Outstretched Arms

(intro) F C  F C  F C   Bb F C

  F                       Dm
I asked her to meet me outside the Town Hall
  Bb                 C
I had in my pocket a ring
    F                        Dm
I'd base-layered up with the temperature being
Bb        G7          C
Way below average for spring
          Bb                      A
But she'd read the timetable like I'd read her mind
    F                      C
And when she was late to arrive
   Bb                        Dm
My outstretched arms were at quarter to three
    C            C7         F     C  F  C
And hers were at five forty-five.

F                     Dm
Biding my time in the hope she'd defrost
  Bb                   C
I busied myself at the gym
F                        Dm
Barbells were raised and biceps were praised
   Bb           G7            C
At length I was filled with a vim
     Bb                     A
On a cottage near Thwaite a deposit was placed
  F                         C
Believing I'd still win her heart
   Bb               Dm
To sacrifice sanity thinking such things
  C              C7           F     Dm  Bb F   Ab  G  C
I must have been mad from the start.

(instr as verse)

F                     Dm
Now I've accepted her love lies elsewhere
  Bb                     C
I spend all my time in arcades
  F                Dm
I saw her today outside the Town Hall
      Bb           G7              C
And I pondered how pointless these shades
        Bb                A
For the radiance of her immortal beauty
F                         C
This mortal frame can't endure
   Bb                        Dm
My outstretched arms were at quarter to three
   C         C7           F      Bb  F  Bb  F Bb (to fade)
As I lay prostrate on the floor.