Every Strangers Eyes

Tom: C
Intro: C Am Dm G

   C
In truck stops, and hamburger joints,
Am
   In Cadillac limosuines, in the company of
Dm
Has-beens and bent-backs
G
  And sleeping forms on pavement steps,
   C
In libraries and railway stations,
Am
   In books and banks,
Dm
   In the pages of history
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And suicidal cavalry attacks I recognize
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  Myself in every stranger's eyes.
       C
And in wheelchairs by monuments,
Am
   Under tube trains, commuter accidents,
Dm
   In council care and county courts,
G
  At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts,
C
  In drawing rooms and city morgues,
                 Am
In award-winning photographs of life-rafts on the China Seas,
   Dm
In transit camps, under arc lamps, on unloading ramps,
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  And faces blurred by rubber stamps I recognize
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  Myself in every stranger's eyes.
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And now, from where I stand, upon this hill I've plundered from the pool
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I look around, I search the sky, I shade my eyes so nearly blind
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And I've seen sights of half-remembered days, I hear bells that chime in
strange,
                     G
        familiar ways
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I recognize      the hope you kindle in your eyes
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  It's oh, so easy now, as we lie here in the dark
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Nothing interferes, it's obvious how to beat the tears that threaten to
snuff out the
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        smoke of our love.