Tim Minchin – The Absence Of You (Guitar)

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[Intro] F G C F G C F G C F C E7 Am E7 Am E7 Am F G C [Verse 1]
F        G           C
I take a walk on the Seine

           F            G            C
Cross Pont Neuf on my way to St. Germain

               F           G           C
Love-hearts on padlocks on wire in the mist

      F            C
Where young lovers kiss

     E7         Am
And swear to be true

          E7           Am        E7
Echoes of ten thousand sighs of love

        Am
And yet I

     F        G          C
Feel only the absence of you
[Verse 2]
         F             G         C
Out of a window on the thirtieth floor

              F              G         C
Central Park shines with the coming of dawn

                      F        G          C
Through eyes rendered weary by jetlag and wine

  F             C
I turn round to find

          E7         Am
There’s a girl in my room

      E7        Am
For a moment we kiss

        E7           Am
But her vodka-soaked lips

      F           G          C
Taste only of the absence of you
[Chorus]
C       Am
I don’t know

                 Em*
What all of this means

               F
If you are not here with me

    C    Am
And I am lost

             Em
When we are apart
There’s a hole in my heart
                  F
That light passes through

        F
And the pattern it creates
Is the shape of
               C
The absence of you
[Verse 3]
                 F            G          C
Spring has been found hanging round Soho Square

              F         G         C
So I take my coffee and newspaper there

               F           G         C
To bask in the not-warm-enough April sun

          F          C
With the workers who come

       E7           Am
To eat Pret with no shoes

        E7           Am
But the grass to the side

       E7               Am
Of the patch where I’m lying

   F              G         C
Is flat with the absence of you
[Chorus 2]
C       Am
I don’t know

                 Em
What all this is for

               F
If you are not near to me

    C       Am
And I can’t sleep

            Em
Sleep is no fun when the unruly sun

                F
Will reveal the truth

   F
A space in my bed as cold as the dead
Exactly the size and the shape of
               C
The absence of you
[Ending]
    Am            Em
And all of this beauty
Runs over and through me
        F
And pools round my shoes
And the puddle it forms Conforms to the shape of
               C
The absence of you