Half Man Half Biscuit – My Outstretched Arms (Guitar)

  F                       Dm
I asked her to meet me outside the Town Hall

  Bb                 C
I had in my pocket a ring

    F                        Dm
I'd base-layered up with the temperature being

Bb        G7          C
Way below average for spring

          Bb                      A
But she'd read the timetable like I'd read her mind

    F                      C
And when she was late to arrive

   Bb                        Dm
My outstretched arms were at quarter to three

    C            C7         F     C  F  C
And hers were at five forty-five.

F                     Dm
Biding my time in the hope she'd defrost

  Bb                   C
I busied myself at the gym

F                        Dm
Barbells were raised and biceps were praised

   Bb           G7            C
At length I was filled with a vim

     Bb                     A
On a cottage near Thwaite a deposit was placed

  F                         C
Believing I'd still win her heart

   Bb               Dm
To sacrifice sanity thinking such things

  C              C7           F     Dm  Bb F   Ab  G  C
I must have been mad from the start.

F                     Dm
Now I've accepted her love lies elsewhere

  Bb                     C
I spend all my time in arcades

  F                Dm
I saw her today outside the Town Hall

      Bb           G7              C
And I pondered how pointless these shades

        Bb                A
For the radiance of her immortal beauty

F                         C
This mortal frame can't endure

   Bb                        Dm
My outstretched arms were at quarter to three

   C         C7           F      Bb  F  Bb  F Bb (to fade)
As I lay prostrate on the floor.