Stay (Far away, so close !)    (video)    (midi)

 

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1. Green light, seven-eleven, you stop in for a pack of cigarettes,

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    you don’t smoke, don’t even want to, hey, now, check your change.

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    Dressed up like a car crash,

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    your wheels are turning, but you’re upside down.

Em                                                         D

    You say when it hits you, you don’t mind,

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    because when he hurts you, you feel alive.

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    Hey, now, is that what it is?

 

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2. Red light, grey morning, you stumble out of a hole in the ground,

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    a vampire or a victim, it depends on who’s around.

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    You used to stay in to watch the adverts

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    you could lip-synch to the talk shows.

Em                                                    F#m

    And if you look, you look through me,

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    and when you talk, you talk at me,

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    and when I touch you, you don’t feel a thing.

 

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+  If I could stay, then the night would give you up,

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    stay and the day would keep its trust,

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    stay and the night would be enough.

 

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3. Far away, so close, up with the static and the radio,

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    with satellite television you can be anywhere :

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    Miami, New Orleans, London, Belfast and Berlin.

Em                                        F#m

    And if you listen, I can tell you,

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   and if you jump, you just might fall,

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    and if you shout, I’ll only hear you.

 

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+  If I could stay, then the night would give you up,

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    stay and the day would keep its trust.

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    Stay with the demons you drowned, stay with the spirits I found,

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    stay and the night would be enough.

 

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+  Woah, oh oh oh oh, woah, oh oh oh oh.  (2x)

 

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4. Three o’clock in the morning, it’s quiet and there’s no one around,

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    just the bang and the clatter, as an angel runs to ground.

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    Just the bang and the clatter, as an angel hits the ground.

 

 

(orig. = capo 1st)    (U2)