Nothing is keeping you here    (video)    (intro)

 

    C - Em - C - Em (2x)  + C - Em

 

           C                                                                             F

1. The lights change on the hill, the air seems strangely still,

                            C

    everyone’s asleep.

              C                                                                          F

    The floorboards creak at dawn as you walk out on the lawn,

                                     C

    the grass is wet beneath.

 

        Am      G           F                Am      G         F

You think it rather strange, you think it rather weird,

      F                      G                                   C       - Dm

it’s fair to say that nothing is keeping you here.

  F               G                C     - Dm     F              G                 C

nothing is keeping you here,           nothing is keeping you here.

 

               C                                                           F

2. The phone is off the hook as you sink into a book,

                                                C

    you don’t know where you are.

       C                                                            F

    From the world detached, unto a girl you latched,

                             C

    it never got too far.

 

        Am      G       F              Am     G      F

Amd everybody stares, and everybody cares,

      F                      G                                   C       - Dm

it’s fair to say that nothing is keeping you here.

  F               G                 C     - Dm    F              G                 F

nothing is keeping you here,           nothing is keeping you here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            Am     G     F             Am     G       F

+  And everybody talks, and everybody stares,

              E                          F                G                           C      - Dm

    you knew your day to shine would come without you here,

      F             G           C     - Dm

    come without you here,

      F                  G                  C     - Dm - F - G

    nothing was keeping you here,             

      C      - Dm    F               G                C        - Dm

    here,            nothing is keeping you here.

 

+   G - C - Dm - F - G - C

 

(orig. = capo 5th)    (A-ha)