Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) Intro: F C G Verse: Dm C Fadd9 Dm If life is a river and your heart is a boat C Dm G And just like a water baby, baby born to float Dm C Fadd9 Dm And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high C Dm G And your heart is Amelia dying to fly F G Edim A Heaven knows no frontiers Dm G Fadd9 And I've seen heaven in your eyes
Instrumental: Fadd9 C Dm Chorus: Dm C Fadd9 Dm And if life is a barroom in which we must wait C Dm G 'Round the man with his fingers on the ivory gates Dm C Fadd9 Dm Where we sing until dawn of our fears and our fates C Dm G And we stack all the dead men in self addressed crates Verse: C G In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark Fdim Am That somehow this black night F Feels warmer for the spark C Warmer for the spark G To hold us 'til the day Fdim Am When fear will lose it's grip F And heaven has its way G Edim A Heaven knows no frontiers Dm G Fadd9 And I've seen heaven in your eyes Instrumental: Fadd9 C Dm Chorus: Dm C Fadd9 Dm If your life is a rough bed of brambles and nails C Dm G And your spirit's a slave to man's whips and man's jails Dm C Fadd9 Dm Where you thirst and you hunger for justice and right C Dm G And your heart is the pure flame of man's constant night Verse: C G In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark Fdim Am That somehow this black night F Feels warmer for the spark C Warmer for the spark G To hold us 'til the day Fdim Am When fear will lose it's grip F And heaven has its way C And heaven has its way Verse: G When all will harmonise Fdim Am And know what's in our hearts F The dream will realise G Edim A Heaven knows no frontiers Dm G F And I've seen heaven in your eyes G Edim A Heaven knows no frontiers Dm G Fadd9 C And I've seen heaven in your eyes