FURTHER TO FLY Words & music by Paul Simon 1989 Note: This song is actually played in Ebm
on the record, but these chords
are easier to play on a guitar.
Just tune the guitar half a tone down if you
want to play along with the album.


 
     There may come a time

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When you'll be tired

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As tired as a dream that wants to die

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 And further to fly

           |Am7/E |
 Further to fly

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 Further to fly

           |Am7/E |  |
 Further to fly


Em11#5                      |
       Maybe you will find a love

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That you discover accidentally

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Who falls against you gently

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As a pickpocket

             |Em7  |
 Brushes your thigh

           |Dm/F |E7 |
 Further to fly


Am                 |                  |
   Effortless music from the Cameroons

G                             |    |
  The spinning darkness of her hair

Am                    |B7          |E      |E7
   A conversation in a crowded room going nowhere

   |Am            |
The open palm of desire

     |G
Wants everything
   
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It wants everything

        |Am  |B7   |Em7 |A |Em7 |A |
It wants everything


                    
     Sometimes I'll be walking down

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The street and I'll be thinking

 
Am I crazy

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Or is this some morbid little lie

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 Further to fly

           |Am7/E |
 Further to fly

           | |  |Am7/E |  |
 Further to fly


Em11#5                        |
       A recent loss of memory

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 A shadow in the family
 
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The baby waves bye-bye

   |Em7    |     Dm/F |E7    |
I'm trying,  I'm fly  --  ing


Am                 |
   There may come a time

           |G   |   |
When I will lose you

Am                   |B7      |
   Lose you as I lose my light

E                         |E7          |
Days falling backward into velvet night

Am                   |
   The open palm of desire

     |G 
Wants everything

        |
It wants everything

        |Am             |B7    
It wants soil as soft as summer

       |Em7                  |A     |Em7 |A | |  |  |  |
And the strength to push like spring


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 A broken laugh a broken fever

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Take it up with the great deceiver

   |                |
Who looks you in the eye

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 And says baby don't cry

           |Dm/F |E7 |
 Further to fly------


Am                 |    
   There may come a time

           |G   |   |
When I will lose you

Am              |B7           |
   Lose you as I lose my sight

E                         |E7          |
Days falling backward into velvet night

Am                   |    |
   The open palm of desire

G                |   |
  The Rose of Jericho

Am                |B7    |
   Soil as soft as summer

Em7                        |A |Em7 |A |
    The strength to let you go


Repeat and fade:

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