The Absence Of You by Tim Minchin (Official Video) Chords

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_ _ _ _ _ [Am] I _ [Bm] take a walk [C] on the _ Seine, _ [Am] cross Pont Neuf on [G] my way to [C] Saint-Germain, _ love [F] hearts on.
padlocks [C] on [G] wire in [C] the mist, [F] where young [C] lovers kiss [Ab] and swear to [Am] be true.
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Echoes [E] of ten [Am] thousand sighs [E] of love, and [Am] yet I [F] feel only [G] the absence [C] of you.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Out of [Am] a window [G] on the _ [C] 30th floor, _ _ Central [Am] Park shines [G] with the coming [C] of dawn,.
through eyes [F] rendered weary [G] by jet lag [C] and wine, [F] I turn [C] round to find _ [Ab] there's a girl in [Am] my room.
_ _ _ [E] For a moment [Am] we kiss, [E] but her vodka [Am]-soaked lips [F] taste only [G] of the [C] absence of you.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ Don't know _ _ what all of this [Em] _ _ .
_ _ _ means, _ if you are [F] not here _ [G] with _ [F] _ me.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ we are [Em] apart, there's a hole in my heart, light _ [F] passes _ _ through, _ _ _ _ _ .
[B] _ [F] and the pattern it [Dm] creates is [Am] the shame of [F] the absence [C].
of you.
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_ _ _ _ Spring [Am] has been found [G] hanging round [C] Soho Square, so I take [Am] my coffee [G] and newspaper [C] _ there.
to bask [F] in the not warm [G] enough April [C].
sun [F] with the workers [C] who come to [E] eat pret with [Am] no shoes.
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_ [D] But the grass to [C] the side of [Bm] the patch where [C] I'm lying [F] is flat with [G] the absence [C] of _ _ you.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] Don't _ know _ _ _ _ _ what all this [Em] is _ _ for, _ _ _ if you are [F] not here [G] to _ [F] _ .
_ make _ [C] amends.
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_ [Am] _ Can't _ sleep, _ _ _ _ _ sleep is [Em] no fun when the _ unruly sun will reveal a [F] rotten _ _ [G] _ .
_ _ [F] truth.
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[F] Space in [Dm] my bed [C] is cold [F] as the day, [G] _ exactly [F] the size and [B] shape of [C] the absence of you.
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And all of this [Em] beauty runs over and through me [C] and [Am].
[F] pulls round my shoes.
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_ _ _ _ And the pattern it _ forms conforms to the shape of the absence [C] of you.
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