Am F C E 

[Verse 1]

                 Am
Back then it almost felt,
          F
Heaven sent
      C
With slow dancing models
          E
In a child's ornament
      Am                          F
Kept spinning our heads full of stars
      C
Don't know what we had
        E
But we knew it was ours
         Am                         F
With one hand on the small of her back
    C                      E
The other in hers, as we moved to the track
           Am                      F
That was playing in our heads all along
      C                 E
The symphony silent, a beautiful song

       F                                 C
We were lovers, we were doomed from the start
       E                           Am
It was all broken clockwork, the dancers both fall apart
     F                    E           Am
Maybe it was a dream, and I just woke up

F C E      Am F C E

[Verse 2]

    Am                        F
The girl sits alone with her art
  C 
Seems her words are the only way
   E
To mend her broken heart
         Am                       F
Like her life is the fiction not found
          C                   E
Her real image in writing is staring straight back
       Am                  F
Her protagonist has broken hope
     C                          E
The typewriter pause, then the words come out slowly
      Am                      F
Like teardrops, fall on the page
       C                    E
In an instant her soul, released from its cage

She wrote

         F 
You were laying there dying,
         C
Like the end of a western
       E                       Am
Saying tell me what Europe is like
       F                        E                  Am
I said tell me yourself, we can go when you feel right

F C E      Am F C E

[Verse 3]

        Am                        F
At the coast, every star seems so near
         C                            E
But you wouldn't know each, had been gone all those years
        Am                    F
And the ocean rose on like a dream
      C                    E
And into the distance, forever it seems