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by U2




U2

A Sort of Homecoming	(From the album "The Unforgettable Fire")
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 NOTE: Much of this is taken from the book The Best of U2

Intro:               

And you know it's time to go
                           

through the sleet and driving snow
                                 

across the fields of mourning to a
           
light's in the distance
                     

And you hunger for the time
                          

time to heal, 'Desire', time
                          

and your earth moves beneath
                          

your own dream landscape
                 

Oh, ho, ho on borderland we run________
                         

I'll be there, I'll be there
                        

tonight, a high road, a high road out of here
                                    

the city walls are all come down
the dust a smoke screen all around to see
faces ploughed like fields that once
gave no resistance

And we live by the side of the road
on the side of a hill as the valleys explode
dislocated, suffocated
the land grows weary of it's own

O come away, o come away, o come, o come away I say I  hmm hmm
                                             

O come away, o come away, o come, o come away I say I
                                             

Oh, ho, ho on borderland we run, and still we run, we run and don't look back
                                                                 

I'll be there, I'll be there tonight    tonight      tonight
                                                  

I'll be there tonight, I believe.  I'll be there so high (land),
        

I'll be there tonight, tonight____________
                                     

O come away, I sing  I say, um ha,  o come away oh say.
                                 			

The wind will crack in wintertime
                   

this bomb-blast lightning waltz
	        

no spoken words, just a scream . . . yeah.... oh........ oh.....
                                              

tonight we'll build a bridge across the sea and land
            	             		    

see the sky burning rain
              

she will die and live again tonight_______
      	                                          

And you heart beats so slow
through the rain and fallen snow
across the fields of morning
to a light that's in the distance
Oh don't sorrow, no don't weep
for tonight, at last
I am coming home
I am coming home

CHORD FORMATIONS:    (This might make a nice acoustic version with these)
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G6   x x 0 0 3 0
D2   x x 0 2 3 0
D4/A x 0 0 0 3 x
G    3 x 0 0 0 x
G2   3 0 0 0 0 3
D4   x x 0 2 3 3
D    x x 0 2 3 2
Gii  x x 0 0 3 3  (G, type 2)
C7   x 3 2 3 1 x

But The Edge is probably playing the chorus this way
(esp. for intro of live version where it is arpeggio)
G      x x x 7 8 7
G2     x x x 7 10 x
D2,D   x x x 7  7 10
D4,Gii x x x 7  8 10