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Song title:       Sovereign Light Café
Original Album:   Strangeland

Words and Music by Tim Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes and Jessie Quin
Copyright © 2012 Island Records (UK) Limited
Published by BMG Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:  Capo on 2.


VERSE:
Chords:
A        x02220
Dsus2    xx0230
F#m      244222
Esus4    022200
E        022100

          A
I'm going back to a time when we owned this town
     Dsus2
Down Powder Mill Lane, in the battlegrounds
        A                      F#m      Esus4   E
We were friends and lovers and clueless clowns


VERSE:
                    A       
I didn't know I was finding out how I was torn from you
        Dsus2
When we talked about things we were gonna do
        A                      F#m    Esus4  E
We were wide-eyed dreamers and wiser, too


CHORUS:
Chords:
D        x00232
A        x02220
F#m      244222
Esus4    022200
E        022100

               D               A
Go down to the rides on East Parade,
       F#m                    E
By the lights of the Palace Arcade
                       D                     A       Esus4  E
And watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café


VERSE:
                         A
I'm begging you for some sign, but you've still got nothing to say
      Dsus2
Don't turn your back on me, don't walk away
      A                     F#m      Esus4  E
I'm a better man now than I was that day


CHORUS:
                     D               A 
Let's go down to the rides on East Parade,
       F#m                    E
By the lights of the Palace Arcade
                       D                     A       Esus4  E
And watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café

                     D                A
Let's go down to the bandstand on the pier
          F#m                     E
Watch the drunks and the lovers appear
                     D                      A       Esus4  E
To take turns as the stars at the Sovereign Light Café


BRIDGE:
Chords:
D        x00232
Esus4    022200
A        x02220
E        022100
F#m      244222

  D     Esus4 A            E
I wheel my    bike off the train, up the North Trade Road,
D    Esus4 A             E
Look for   you on Marley Lane
                         F#m
In every building, every streetlight
                    D              Esus4  E
Oh, why did we ever go so far from home?


VERSE:
Chords:
A        x02220
Dsus2    xx0230
F#m      244222
Esus4    022200
E        022100

                            A
Well, you've got nothing to hide, you can't change who you really are
        Dsus2
You can get a big house and a faster car
        A                     F#m      Esus4  E 
You can run away boy, but you won't go far


[repeat CHORUS]


         D           A
La la la la la la la la
F#m       E                      D       A   Esus4  E
Yeah, I'm going where the people know my name


OUTRO:

[play: D  A  Esus4  E]  [x2]

[end on D]