Eden Burning
another country
from http://www.wwide.co.uk/edenburning/
(official site of EB)
A
living at the edge of the realm
BD
seems quite tempting to me,
A
far from the concrete and the sodium light
BD
and next to the emerald sea.
F#m
teacher's out of the room
B -D
and the cat's away for a while
A
and it's drink, drink to get drunk time:
BD
wash out the culture and bring on the style.
F#mABD
there's another country i've heard of long ago;
F#mAB
so dear to them that love her;
Dm
most great to them that know.
A
living at the edge of the realm,
BD
doing much more as you please.
A
watching the sunset over mallory square
BD
and supping on the juice of the keys.
F#m
and there's always that nagging sense
B -D
that you're not just miles from home
A
'cos it might as well be light years,
BD
wrapped up in glitter and chilled to the bone.
EBF#mAE
so strange that i'm tempted to go to the edge;
BF#mE
so strange, yet like the prodigal i go.
BF#mAE
and i'd have fallen had the world been flat,
BF#m
or did your hand hold on
D - DmA
and keep me from the fall.
A
chosing to be outside the fold
BD
from kerry to kirkwall skies.
A
out on the edge,
trading love and the hearth,
BD
for the thrill and surprise.
F#m
yet i know another country,
B -D
that's mapped within,
A
and it's always time to return there,
BD
no matter where i've been.