forever autumn Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]For three days I fought my way
along roads packed with refugees,
The homeless, burdened with boxes
and bundles containing their valuables.
All that was of value to me was in London.
By the [Dm]time I reached their [Am]little red brick house,
Carrie and her father were gone.
[Dm][Am]

[Verse 2]
[Dm]
Forever Autumn
[Am]Journalist

[Verse 3]
The summer sun is fading as
the [G]year grows [F]old,
And darker [Dm]days are [C]draw[Dm]ing [G]near,
[Dm][F]
The winter winds will be much [G]colder,
Now you're not [Am]here.

[Verse 4]
[Am]
I watch the birds fly south across
the [G]autum[Dm]n sky[G][F]
And [C]one by [Dm]one they [C]disa[G]p pear,
[Dm][G]
[Dm]I wi[F]sh that I was
[G]flying with them
Now you're not [Am]here.[F]
Like [C]the sun through [Bb]the trees
you came to [Am]love [F]me,
Like a [C]leaf on a [Bb]breeze you blew away...
[Am][F]

[Interlude 1]
[E][Am][Bb][Am][Dm][Am]

[Verse 5]
Through autumn's [Am]golden gown we
used to [G]kick our [Dm]way,[G][F]
You [E]always [Dm]loved this [C]time of
[G]year[Dm][G][Dm][F]
Those fallen leaves lie
undis[G]turbed now
'Cause you're not [Am]here
'Cause you're not [G]here
'Cause you're [Am]not here

[Interlude 2]
[Am][G]
[F][C][Dm][C][G][Dm][G][Dm]

[Verse 6]
[F]Fire suddenly leapt from house to house.
The population pan[G]icked and ran, and I was swept along [E]with them, [Am]aimless and lost without Carrie. Fi[G]nally,
I headed eastward for the ocean and my [Am]only hope of survival: a boat out of England.

[Verse 7]
[F]Journalist
Like [C]the sun through the [Bb]trees you
came [Am]to love [F]me,
Like a [C]leaf on the [Bb]breeze [Dm]you [Bb]blew

[Interlude 3]
away...
[Am][F][E][Bb][Am][Dm][Am]

[Verse 8]
A gentle [Am]rain falls softly
on my [G]weary [F]eyes
As if [C]to [Dm]hide [C]a lonely [G]tear[Dm][F]
My life will be forever au[G]tumn,
'Cause you're not [Am]here
'Cause you're not [G]here
'Cause you're not [Am]here

[Interlude 4]
[Am][F][Am]

[Verse 9]
As I hastened through [Am]Covent Garden,
Blackfriars and Billingsgate,
More and more [Dm]people joined
the pain[G]ful [Dm]exodus.
Sad, [G]weary [Dm]women,
their chil[Am]dren stumbling in [Dm]the street [Am]with [G]tears,
Their [Am]men bitter and angry,
the rich rubbing shoulders with beg[F]gars and outcasts.
Dogs snarled an[G]d whined,

[Verse 10]
the horse's [Am]bits were covered with foam,
And here and there were wounded soldiers,
as helpless as the [F]rest.[Am][F][Am][F][Am]
[F][Am]
We saw tripods wading
up the [F]Thames,
Cutting [Dm]through [Am]bridges as
though they were paper.
Water[Dm]loo b[Am]ridge, Westminster bridge,
[F]one appeared [Dm]above Big [Am]Ben.

[Interlude 5]
Ulla!
[Am][F][Am][F][Am][E]
[Am][E][Bdim][E][Am]

[Verse 11]
Never before in [Am]the history of the world,
[Dm]Had such a[Am] mass of human beings
moved and suffered together.
This was no disciplined march,
it was a stampede,
[E]Without order and without a goal,
six million [Am]people unarmed and unprovisioned driving headlong.
[E]It was the beginning

[Verse 12]
of [Dm]the rout of civiliz[E]ation,
[Am]of the massacre of manki[G]nd.[Am][G][Am][G][F]
A vast crowd buffeted [Bb]me towards
[C]the already packed steam[G]er.
[Dm]I looked up enviou[G]sly at t[Dm]hose safely on board...
[F]straight into the eyes of my beloved Car[G]rie.
At sight of me she began to fight her way
along the packed deck to the [Am]gangplank.
At that very moment, it [G]was raised,
And I caught [Dm]a last [G]glimpse of her despairing [Am]face
as the crowd swept me away [F]from her.
Journalist Like [C]the sun through the

[Verse 13]
[Bb]
trees
you came to [Am]love [F]me,
Like a [C]leaf on a [Bb]breeze you blew [Am]away...
[F][Am]

[Interlude 6]
[Bb][Am][Dm][Am]

[Verse 14]
Through autumn's [Am]golden gown
we used to [G]kick our [F]way
You [C]always [F]lov[Dm]ed this
[C]time of [G]year[Dm][F]
Those fallen leaves lie
undis[G]turbed now
'Cause you're not [Am]here
'Cause you're not [G]here
'Cause you're [Am]not here