Chords used
Dmaj7 (xx0222)
Em7 (022030)
D (xx0232)
A (x02220)
Asus4 (x02230)
Bm (x24432)
G (320033)
Bb (x13331)
Gmaj7 (3x0032)
[Intro]
(half time, repeat four times)
Dmaj7 Em7
[Verse]
D A Bm G x 2
D A
In a village in the hills
Asus4 G
House buried to the window sills in snow
D A
In a prison yard at night
Asus4 G
An Alsatian barking for the stars to go
D A
In the attic of a house
Asus4 G
In the slats of light which creep across the room
D A
In a forest grove at dawn
Asus4 G
Where the animals sleep hidden in the gloom
[Chorus]
Bb Bm
On the 97th floor overlooking Tokyo
Bb Bm
In Camden road in a second floor flat with Dilworth down below
Bb Bm
There is only one thing
Bb A D
There is only one thing
[Verse]
D A
In a cancer ward where the patients sit
Asus4 G
Waiting patiently to die
D A
In an aeroplane high above the place
Asus4 G
You finally left behind
D A
In a cage where only one thing could be free
Asus4 G
And it's not you and I
D A
In a cage where only one thing could be free
Asus4 G
And it's not you and I
[Chorus]
Bb Bm
In every single place that has ever ever been
Bb Bm
Hiroshima, Los Angeles and each town in between
Bb
There is only one thing
Bm Bb A
There is only one thing
[Intro]
(half time again, repeat four times again then straight into the verse)
Dmaj7 Em
One thing
[Verse]
D A Asus4 G
In the darkest part of you that you have ever seen
D A Asus4 G
In the smile of the child staring at the TV screen
D A Asus4 G
In the diary of a priest, in the sheets that lie upon his bed
D A Asus4 G
Out there amongst the waves and inside your lover's head
[Chorus]
Bb
There is only one thing
Bm
There is only one thing
Bb
There is only one thing
Bm
There is only one thing
Bb
There is only one thing
Bm
There is only one thing
Bb A
There is only
N.C.
one thing
[Outro]
(tempo slows down)
Em7 G D x 2
Em7 G D
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever
Em7 G D
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever
Em7 G D
10 years on the coast figuring out the weather
Em7
Another decade getting high
G
until you're free
D
There's nothing after that but you and I
Nothing after that buy you and me
Em7 G D
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever
Em7 G D
20 years of sleep before we sleep... forever