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Song title:      Distance Across
Original Album:  Time on Earth (2016 re-issue, Disc2)

Words and Music by Neil Finn
Copyright © 2007 EMI Records
Published by EMI Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Notes:
A single C-note on the piano.


[play:]  [x2]

  C-note
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-5-------5-------5-------5-------|-5-------5-------5-------5-------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |



VERSE1:
Chords:
G  355433
C  x35553
Fm 133111 or x8 10 10 98


| G                 | C
  On the trampoline,  never leave the scene

| Fm                              | G
  Weightless for a moment then you  fall

   | G                     | C
The  object of my dreams is  further than it seems

   | Fm                            | G
The  common bar I share we have en - throned




CHORUS1:
Chords:
G  355433                     Fm 133111 or x8 10 10 98
F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8    C  x35553
Cm x35543


   | G         | F     | Cm             | G
And  all I ever  ask is  faith enough to  act

       | G                     | F
For the  best intentions in the  world

                | G         | Fm
Ships on the ho - rizon come  closer to us

| F              | G        | Fm
  Will they go to  rescue or  will they get lost?

| F                   | G       | Fm          | G          | C
  Find out where we're  going to  navigate the  distance a - cross




VERSE2:
Chords:
G  355433
C  x35553
Fm 133111 or x8 10 10 98


| G                      | C
  Where my hell awaits is  where my hell awaits,

| Fm                            | G
  Standing blindly at the pearly  gates

| G                     | C
  All the ones that lead  seem to lack belief

| Fm                             | G
  There are ways to terrorise the  weak




CHORUS2: 
Chords:
G  355433                     Fm 133111 or x8 10 10 98
F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8    C  x35553
Cm x35543


| G            | F     | Cm                | G
  All they ever  ask is  faith enough to go  on

       | G                     | F
For the  best intentions in the  world

                | G         | Fm
Ships on the ho - rizon come  closer to us

| F              | G        | Fm
  Will they go to  rescue or  will they get lost?

| F                   | G       | Fm          | G          | C
  Find out where we're  going to  navigate the  distance a - cross




BRIDGE:
Chords:
C  x35553                   Bb  688766
Fm 133111 or x8 10 10 98    G#  466544
G  355433


                 | C    Fm G
When they all be - come at last

              | C  Fm G
They call ???

            | C    Fm  Bb  G#  C
They all be - come the ???



[Piano SOLO over VERSE chords]



CHORUS3:
Chords:
G  355433                     Fm 133111 or x8 10 10 98
F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8    C  x35553
Cm x35543


| G            | F       | Cm           | G
  All I want is  yours to  rest my weary  head

   | G                    | F
But  all the sentences are  done 

               | G         | Fm
Back on the ho - rizon come  closer to us

| F              | G        | Fm
  Will we get our  rescue or  will we get lost?

| F                   | G         | Fm
  Find out where we're  going, the  distance across

| F                | G         | Fm          | G          | C
  There's no way of  knowing to  navigate the  distance a - cross



[play INTRO piano figure]  [x2]

[end on C]