Track 05
Chasing the Sun
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Chasing the Sun
An old-school folky number with Roger Brawn on acoustic lead guitar
I wrote the lyrics for this on an early autumn trip to southern Italy – so I was literally chasing the sun.words and music by Martin Stirrup 2019
HBD 05 Chasing the sun
There's grey over the hillside |Am | |
A chill is in your bones |Dm |Am |
From the dark earth mist is rising |G | Am |
Through the bristles and the cones |G | Am |
But you gaze sets to the east where a new day has begun |Dm | |C |G |E7 |
When all is said and done | Dm |
We all go chasing the sun |G F |Am | |
Your life is at the crossroads
Your hopes lie unfulfilled
You're angry at your past
And your ambition stilled
You're looking for that road
That climbs up to sunlit hills
When all is said and done
We all go chasing the sun
There it lies on the horizon |F | Am |
In wondrous spectral glow |F | Am |
There's nothing unsurprising |G | Am |
In the way that your thoughts flow |G | Am |
From time to time Your thoughts sublime |F | C |
They skitter slide and run |G | E7 |E7 |
When all is said and done | Dm |
We all go chasing the sun |G F |Am |
So batten down the hatches |Am | |
And weather out the storm |Dm |Am |
Just cos times are tough And you've had enough |G | Am |
That needn't be the norm |G | Am |
Turn dreams into reality |Dm | |C |G |G |
Go fire that starting gun
(Different ending)
You must believe You can succeed |F |F
The race is to be run |E7 |E7 |
When all is said and done | Dm |
We all go chasing the sun |G F |Am |Am…