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An Open Book Tab

by Stephen Duffy


(For all the folks from ultimate-guitar-land: This is his official website:


This is from the album "Keep Going" an absolute brilliant song if you ask me
(which for some reason, no one ever does). I'm surprised to see there
aren't any other songs here by Stephen Duffy. 
So here are the chords for this one, "An Open Book", enjoy it.



We walked across the fields

Through coarse December rain
                   
I knew but could not say
                        
That I’d lost our love again
                          
It will come in waves you said

In tides it will return
                       
The winter moon took it away
                     
It’s another beaches turn

                             
You think that life's an open book
                              
Filled with pictures that you took
                           
You close the book the story ends
                           
And it was so hard to make friends
                             
You close the book the story stops
                                 
Sometimes you stay down from the knocks
                             
You can't always come out on top


I walked across the hillside

I looked out on the view
                    
It could've been a TV show
                    
If I’d had a bigger crew
                 
I see my life reflected

In pearls shed by your eyes
                    
I wish for pearls of wisdom
                            
Not just tears and long goodbyes


                             
You think that life's an open book
                              
Filled with pictures that you took
                           
You close the book the story ends
                           
And it was so hard to make friends
                             
You close the book the story stops
                                 
Sometimes you stay down from the knocks
                                       
You can't always come out on top


                    
And when I wrote this song

I was on the run

In a gold rush town
                           
You didn’t think it was that good
                             
Even though you understood


                         
That life will be an open book
                              
Filled with pictures that you took
                           
You close the book the story ends
                           
And it was so hard to make friends
                             
You close the book the story stops
                                 
Sometimes you stay down from the knocks
                                       
You can't always come out on top


                             
You think that life's an open book
                              
Filled with pictures that you took
                           
You close the book the story ends
                           
And it was so hard to make friends
                             
You close the book the story stops
                                 
Sometimes you stay down from the knocks
                                       
You can't always come out on top