U2 – Cedars Of Lebanon (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
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[Intro] |Em Bm |Bm | 2x |Em D |Bm | [Verse]
Em                    Bm
 Yesterday I spent asleep

Em                                 Em7
 Woke up in my clothes in a dirty heap

Em                                 Bm
 Spent the night trying to make a deadline

Em
 Squeezing complicated lives into a simple headline

Em                                Bm
 I have your face here in an old Polaroid

Em                       Em7
 Tidying the children's clothes and toys

Em                                      Bm
 You're smiling back at me, I took the photo from the fridge

Em                     Em7
 Can't remember what then we did

Em                               Bm
 I haven't been with a woman, it feels like for years

Em                                  Em7
 Thought of you the whole time, your salty tears

Em                      Bm
 This shitty world sometimes produces a rose

Em                            Em7              Em
 The scent of it lingers and then it just goes
[Chorus]
  Em       Em7      Em    Bm
Return the call to home
[Instrumental] |Em |Em7 |Em |Bm | 2x [Verse]
Em7                          Bm
 The worst of us are a long drawn out confession

Em                                  Em7
 The best of us are geniuses of compression

                                              Bm
You say you're not going to leave the truth alone

Em               Em7
 I'm here cos I don't want to go home

Em                                    Bm
 Child drinking dirty water from the river bank

Em                         Em7
 Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank

Em                               Bm
 I'm waiting on the waiter, he's taking a while to come

Em7
 Watching the sun go down on Lebanon
[Chorus]
  Em       Em7      Em    Bm
Return the call to home
[Instrumental] |Em |Em7 |Em |Bm | 2x [Verse]
D                                   Bm
 Now I've got a head like a lit cigarette

Em                              Em7
 Unholy clouds reflecting in a minaret

D                         Bm
 You're so high above me, higher than everyone

Em7
 Where are you in the Cedars of Lebanon?
[Instrumental] |Em |Em7 |Em |Em7 | [Outro]
D                                   Bm
 Choose your enemies carefully cos they will define you

Em
 Make them interesting cos in some ways they will mind you

D                                        Bm
 They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends

Em
 Gonna last with you longer than your friend