HOW THE HEART APPROACHES WHAT IT YEARNS Words & music by Paul Simon 1978


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In the blue light

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Of the Belvedere Motel

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  Wondering as the television burns

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   How the heart approaches what it yearns


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In a fe-ver

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I distinctly hear your voice

|A             |E                 |     |  |
Emerging from a dream, the dream returns

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   How the heart approaches what it yearns


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After the rain on the Interstate

                |Bbm7
Headlights slide past the moon

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A bone-weary traveler

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Waits by the side of the road

Gbm6                  |B7 |
     Where's he going?


Instrumental:

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I dream we are lying on the top of a hill

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And headlights slide past the moon

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I roll in your arms

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And your voice is the heat of the night

Gbm6            |
     I'm on fire


B7     |E    |    
   In a phone booth

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In some local bar and grill

 |A                 |E             |     |  |
Rehearsing what I'll say, my coin returns

B7                |                |E     |  |  
   How the heart approaches what it yearns

B7                |                |E     |  |
   How the heart approaches what it yearns

B7 |  |E |  |B7 |  |E |  |