Momento Mori Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][C][Am][Em]
[Am][Em]

[Verse 1]
Here we
are rounding the edge [G]again
And I won[Am]der if [Gm]you re
[C]call [Am]what you said
When [Em]I ask[C]ed to he[Em]ar your la[G]rgest
[Em]as yet unans[C]wered question
And you said, [Bb]"Why bother at [Am]all?[Em]
I just arrived by the train from Bombay"
Nev[C]er heard [F]anyone
[C]say it so plain
[Em]

[Verse 2]
[C]
[Em]The prettiest girl in the room stood
Collected her [Eb]things
Fastened her coat [F]up
Around her fine [Em]throat
And though [C]you did[Em]n't notice there
For just one mo[Eb]ment well
I was the [F]prettiest wo
[C]man [F]with [Em]you
[C]

[Verse 3]
[Bb]Half a world away trying hard to
stay [C]aware of why I came
[Em]You forgot the comment, forgot the moment,
went on your way
There's [C]got to be a better way
to waste [Em]day

[Verse 4]
[Em]Your mother you told me had
been a great beauty
And [Bb]suffered profoundly
the loss [Em]of her looks
You gave a prac[C]ticed ex
[Em]hausted expression
Re[C]cited [Eb]a line from a [Bb]quotations book
[F]"My fat[Em]her in [Bb]his youth set off with[Em] a
kite [F]and [Bb]a liter [Em]of wi[C]ne"
Mad [Bb]to determ[F]ine the
[G]height of the sky
And the [Bb]breadth of one human [C]life[F]
[C]No ribbons, no [G]starting guns
[C]sprinting [G]around [C]the sun
[Bb]Man's quaint little [C]race
The [Am]heaving [Em]contenders get one thing to say
[F]And it's always the[Bb] same
[Em]Our name
[C]

[Verse 5]
[Em]
Why bother?
[C]It is tim[Eb]ing through s[F]pace
[Em]We stayed up[G] late until it[Em] became early
And [Eb]camped in the cold
on the [Bb]hood of [C]your car
[F]The nei[G]ghbors the papers
ra[Em]di o[C] TV [Bb]said
This evening we could see
thousand[Em]s of [G]fast falling stars
That [Em]sort of thing hap[Bb]pens just
once in a lifetime like [F]ours
[Bb]I'm hope[C]lessly nearsighted
Not much [Em]for star gaz[F]ing
But couldn't [Eb]let all of
those [F]meteors pass
[C]This was our [Em]first
[C]This was our [Em]only
[F]This was [Eb]our very [F]last chance