[Intro]
C   Dm
[Estrofe]
C                      Dm 
For you dear, I was born 
C                    Dm 
For you I was raised up 
C                          Dm 
For you I've lived and for you I will
 die 
For you I've lived and for you I will die 
                  
For you I am dying
 C               Dm 
 now
For you I am dying now
[Refrão]
F                      G 
You were my mad little lover 
     F                          
In a world where everybody fucks
        G 
 everybody else over 
In a world where everybody fucks everybody else over 
               Dm         
You who are so far from me
             G 
 
You who are so far from me 
Dm                      G 
So far from me 
Em              F             G 
Way across some cold neurotic sea 
C               Dm 
Far from me
[Estrofe]
C                          Dm 
I would talk to you of all matter of
 things 
I would talk to you of all matter of things 
C                          Dm 
With a smile you would reply 
C                          Dm 
Then the sun would leave your pretty
 face 
Then the sun would leave your pretty face 
                                   
And you'd retreat from the front of
      C         Dm 
 your eyes
And you'd retreat from the front of your eyes
[Refrão]
F                          G 
I keep hearing that you're doing best
 
I keep hearing that you're doing best 
F                             G 
I hope your heart beats happy in your
 infant breast 
I hope your heart beats happy in your infant breast 
           Dm         
You are so far from me
             G 
 
You are so far from me 
Dm                      G 
Far from me 
C                      Dm 
Far from me
[Estrofe]
C                           Dm 
There is no knowledge but i know it 
C                                 
There's nothing to learn from that
    Dm 
 vacant voice 
There's nothing to learn from that vacant voice 
C                   Dm 
That sails to me across the line 
                          
From the ridiculous to the
    C           Dm 
 sublime
From the ridiculous to the sublime
[Refrão]
F                                
It's good to hear you're doing so
 G 
 well 
It's good to hear you're doing so well 
           F                      
But really can't you find somebody
           G 
 else that you can ring and tell 
But really can't you find somebody else that you can ring and tell 
             Dm               G 
Did you ever care for me? 
              Dm              G 
Were you ever there for me? 
   C                          Dm 
So far from me
[Estrofe]
C                  Dm 
You told me you'd stick by me 
C                                
Through the thick and through the
      Dm 
 thin 
Through the thick and through the thin 
C                      Dm 
Those were your very words 
               
My fair-weather
       C           Dm 
 friend
My fair-weather friend
[Refrão]
F                         G 
You were my brave-hearted lover 
       F                          
At the first taste of trouble went
 G 
 running back to mother 
At the first taste of trouble went running back to mother 
   Dm            G 
So far from me 
Dm               G 
Far from me 
Em                F                 
Suspended in your bleak and fishless
 G 
 sea 
Suspended in your bleak and fishless sea 
C            F 
Far from me 
C            F         C 
Far from me