Verse
B F#
Is part of the attraction
F#
that you want to be destroyed?
C#m
I’m the spirit on the water,
E
you’re the formless void
B
When I heard your voice
F#
at first I was annoyed
C#m
You woke me
[Verse 2]
B
From the beginning of time
F#
you had so little grace
C#m
After a while not a
E
freckle on your face
B
I was looking for a rhyme
F#
in time and space
C#m
and you broke me
[Verse 3]
B
You were walking
F#
round naked with
C#m
your pants not on
E
At the gates of Eden
F#
with no sins to pardon
B
It was Adam not Eve
F#
who threw God out of the garden you
C#m
wrote me
[Pre-chorus]
E B F#
Let’s not get too clever with this stuff
E B F#
What are you ready to give up
[Chorus]
C#m E
To find love
B F#
To find love
C#m E
To find love
B
To find love
[Verse 4]
B
When you’re climbing from the wreckage
F#
of a burned out star
C#m E
Any old neon looks like the Carlton Bar
B
Asked where was I going
F#
I answered how far
C#m
you wanna go
B F#
American male interiornight,
C#m E
the cigarette smoker’s gonna find his light
B
If you repeat it often enough
F#
wrong looks right
C#m
But deep down you know
[Pre-chorus]
E B F#
The smooth will make excuses for the rough
E B F#
You know it shouldn’t be this tough
[Chorus]
C#m E
To find love
B F#
To find love
C#m E
To find love
B
To find love
[Bridge]
B C#m B C#m
Tell the oceans, tell the sun
B C#m B C#m
Tell the weatherman, tell everyone
[Verse 5]
B
All the money junkies
F#
are running out of veins
C#m
If you’re one of them yourself
you’ve got no one else to blame
B
You don’t need anymore
F#
then you have except the shame
C#m
of feeling torn
B
between the hungry and the greedy
F#
the honeyed and the needy
C#m E
When you serve the poor, you free me
[Verse 6]
B
Slaves have grown accustomed
F#
to the weight of your chains
C#m
And your heads shorn
B
your eyes will find the silence
F#
inside the hurricane
C#m
you know you must do something
E
other than complain
B
We’ll pray for mother earth,
F#
these are not more labour pains
C#m
Maybe you’re being born
[Pre-chorus]
E B F#
Out of the ash, out of the dust
E B F#
The clever learn, who not to trust
E B F#
The genius of belief, is that we must
E B F#
take a chance sometimes on us
[Outro]
C#m E
To find love
B F#
To find love
C#m E
To find love
B
To find love
C#m E
To find love
B F#
To find love
C#m E
To find love
B C#m B C#m B
To find love