Intro
D# Ab/D#
D# Ab/D#
[Verse 1]
D# D#6
Now she didn't get off to a very good start.
Ab
And she tangled with love and he broke her heart.
D# A# A#7
In a crumbling home had shown the childhood dreams were never real.
D# D#6
I came along, she was seventeen,
Ab
With the sun in her eyes and you know what I mean.
D# Cm F A#
She grew up too soon in the shade of my love, she taught me how to feel.
[Bridge 1]
Gm
Loving each other was never enough.
Cm
She was watching me grow and she wrote it up
Gm Cm Fm7 A#7
In a book of life she gave to me the day the white ships sailed.
Gm Cm
Farewell my darling, au revoir.
Fm7 Abm
I will pray every day for you, oh.
[Chorus 1]
D# Ab
And she would stay alone while I'm away.
Gm Fm7 A#7
She wouldn't walk all alone in the city without me.
D# Ab C
She would stay alone. She wouldn't play in the dark
Fm D# Abm D#
With this love inside........my heart.
[Verse 2]
D# D#6
I came home on a summer night
Ab
And the wind in her hair and she looked just right
D# Cm
There was never another kind of woman
Fm A#7
Could see right through my soul
D# D#6
Suddenly after the southern rain
Ab
She rode out of my life on the midnight train
D# Cm F A#7
And I fell to the ground and the world became the last place I should be
[Bridge 2]
Gm
Wandering angel I will wait for you
Cm
For the sound of your voice, the dream that you made
Gm Cm Fm7 A#7
The book of life you gave to me still keeps my flame alive
Gm Cm
Nobody knows which way I'm going
Fm Abm
But I only search for you. Oh....
[Chorus 2]
D# Ab
So won't you stay alone while I'm away
Gm Cm
If we both walk in the same direction
Fm7 A#7
Maybe my eyes will see you one day
D# Ab C
Stay alone and may your dreams come to be
Fm D# Abm D# Ab/D#
All this love inside....of me
D# Ab Ab/A# D#
Stay alone......Oh.....Ohhhhhhhhh