Time Heals chords by Peter Hammill

PETER HAMMILL - TIME HEALS

     Am         Dm        Am           G
Thinking back, it seems that I can lie beside you like I never truly did
  F      G Am
In afterglow - no afterwords at all.
Am      F/A Am  F/A  Am  G
Only writing love songs when it's gone and dead
F      Dm/A  F   Dm/A   F  Em
only paying words out, strings of half-forgotten sentiment.
F Em
I mean...
Em F
Imeant...
F E F  E  F B   F   E  F  E  F B (single notes over an E bass)
I never really quite could say the way it was.

  Am                 F
The first time that we met I thought 'I bet that she's the one"
     Esus4           E7 E
but I was talking to myself than, as always.
  Am                 F
As time went by our steps entwined, unwritten lines grew taut, and I
Esus4              E7 E
tried to find a way to make it all safe.
 Am       G
Into the play - what a production!
 F         E
Into the days and ever more suction
  Am       G
You hold me close, hold me farther
 F                E
away from yourself - I make me a martyr,
  Am    G    F    E
for pain and love go hand in hand...

   Am                  F
And hand in hand go you and my friend, you are his and I am yours
  Esus4     E7  E
and I just cannot evade you.
  Am                 F
My days are dream, my nights unseemly, stolen moments all I live for,
  Esus4         E7  E
but theft is no way to persuade you
  Am       G
to come with me, leave him behind you,
  F          E
my hurtful eyes try to remind you,
  Am        G
it's all I can do to keep on screaming
  F                   E
'I love you, I love you!' - I wish I were dreaming,
    Em    D    C   B
but the steps we take all leave footprints.

D G/D D G/D D D  G/D  D   G/D D D
Sooner or later the whole thing will be blown
A  D/A A   D/A A A  D/A A  D/A  A A
You will leave him or I'll be left here, alone.
D G/D D  G/D D  D G/D D  G/D
Either way someone loses someone
G C/D  G  C/G  G G  C/G  G   G/G G A
I don't mind that, I just would quite like to know who we love the most,
           A
but I guess that's ourselves.

  Am                   F
The days are strange, at night we're stangers, lie in bed and lie inside
  Esus4               E7 E
our heads, we come no closer than as dancers.
   Am                   F
Your eyes are change, your presence danger, won't look me in the eye and
    Esus4          E7 E
yet you kiss, and make up the answer
      Am           G
to all the questions that lie unanswered, unreasoned,
 F         E
death in the sky, death in the season,
  Am          G
if you leave me now, it might nearly kill me
 F
Remember me?
       E
Remember we three?
Em   D   C         B
It all seemed so important at the time
Em     D    C        B
We came so close to wrecking all our lives
Em      D    C   B
And now it's all just song lines...
Em    D C B
Time heals,
Em    D C B
Time heals...
Em     D  C    B
oh, but I still bear the weals...

*here, the "em D C B" sequence drops down gradually, to "am G F E", first
the bass notes, then the whole chords*

     Am         Dm        Am       G
Thinking back, it seems that I can lie beside you as I never truly did
  F      G Am
In afterglow - no afterwords at all.
Am      F/A Am  F/A  Am  G
Only writing love songs when it's gone and dead
F      Dm/A  F   Dm/A   F  Em
only paying words out, strings of half-forgotten sentiment.
F Em
I mean...
Em F
Imeant...
F E F  E  F B   F   E  F  E  F B
I never really quite could say the way it was.