Intro chords:
E-G-D-B
Verses:
ABE
He was just a young boy in the city
ABE
Clouds of smoke he sought to find his dreams
A B E* E/Eb C#m B
Swayed hair and his pipe he walked through the white city
ABE
The hows-your-father bookies run the scene
e|-----7----5----4----2---0----0------|
B|---9----7----5----4-------2---------|
G|------------------------------------| Played after "... find his dreams"
D|------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------|
E* E/Eb C#m B A
e|-------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------| These are the notes I hear
D|-----6-----4-----2-----1-------| during "through the white city"
A|---7-----6-----4-----2----0----|
E|---9-----7-----5---------------|
ABE
She was just a young girl in the city
ABE
Struggling with life love and money
ABEE/BC#mB
Weaving through the streets and looking so so pretty
ABE
The rummest sort Stockwell had ever seen
ABFG
The rummest sort Stockwell had ever seen... seen
Chorus:
AFGE
I've spent my days in the haze with the iceman
AFGE
I've spent my nights wondering the wards
AFGE
I've spent my days in the haze with the iceman
AFGE
It means the iceman is always on call
Post-chorus:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|I'm sure this is played on bass
D|---------------------------------------------------------------|but here's the guitar equivalent
A|------------5--2~--2--0-----------------5--2~--2--0-------0----|
E|--0~--2--3--------------3--2--0~--2--3--------------3--2-------|
ABE
She started work on the last day of November
ABE
Spilling drinks in a seedy cabaret show
A B E* E/Eb C#m -
He met her on the first day of December
BABE
Outside a bookshop on the Charing Cross road
ABE
Those winter nights they'd walk along the river
ABE
He'd chain-smoke and she'd stare up at the sky
ABEE/EbC#m
And say this life, this love, this river has to end
ABE
But just for now we have all the time
ABFG
Just for now we have all the time... time
Chorus:
AFGE
Don't spent your days in the haze with the iceman
AFGE
Don't spent your nights wondering the wards
AFGE
Don't spent your days in the haze with the iceman
AFGE
It means nothing at all
Post-chorus:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------5--2~--2--0-----------------5--2~--2--0-------0----|
E|--0~--2--3--------------3--2--0~--2--3--------------3--2-------|
Bridge:
A - F - G - E x4 ...Wish I knew the leads here
Chorus (twice):
AFGE
Don't spent your days in the haze with the iceman
AFGE
Don't spent your nights wondering the wards
AFGE
Don't spent your days in the haze with the iceman
AFGE
It means nothing at all
BAE
Just for now we have all the time
BAE
Just for now we have all the time