They Werent There

B – X-2-4-4-4-2---|
G#m – 3-5-5-3-3-3-|
E – 0-2-2-1-0-0---|
F# - 2-4-4-3-2-2--|


Intro – B, G#m, E, F#

B
You breathed infinity into my world
G#m
and time was lost up in a cloud and in a whirl.
E                                                      F#
                B
We dug a hole in the cool grey earth and lay there for the night.
               G#m              E
Then you said, "wait for me we'll fly the wind,
                 F#                       E               F#
              B
we'll grow old and you'll be stronger without him" but oh,
             G#m                                  E
now my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found,
                  F#
but I was alive and now I've drowned.
G#m    E                                   B
So now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song
                   F#                    E, F#
so they can tell me I was wrong...
                           G#m
But they weren't there beneath your stare,
                             E
and they weren't stripped 'till they were bare of
           B                                              F#
any bindings from the world outside that room.
                G#m
And they weren't taken by the hand
                E
and led through fields of naked land
             B                          F#
where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...
      G#m   F#   E
so I couldn't say "no".

B, G#m, E, F#

       B                                G#m
You sighed and I was lost in you, weeks could've past for all I knew.
E                                       F#
You were the blanket of the over-world and so I couldn't say,
                B                 G#m            E
I wouldn't say "no". But they all said, "you're too young to even know,
                F#              E       F#
just don't let it grow and you'll be stronger without him"
     B          G#m                       E
but oh, now, my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found,

           F#
but I was alive and now I've drowned.
G#m     E                           B
So now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song
             F#                 E, F#
so they can tell me I was wrong...

                           G#m
But they weren't there beneath your stare,
                             E
and they weren't stripped 'till they were bare of
           B                                              F#
any bindings from the world outside that room.
                G#m
And they weren't taken by the hand
                E
and led through fields of naked land
             B                          F#
where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...
                           G#m
But they weren't there beneath your stare,
                             E
and they weren't stripped 'till they were bare of
           B                                              F#
any bindings from the world outside that room.
                G#m
And they weren't taken by the hand
                E
and led through fields of naked land
             B                          F#
where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...
      G#m   F#   E
so I couldn't say "no".