Free As Stone
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Australia
Free As Stone - Shane Howard
Transcribed by Mark Finlayson (finny@nor.com.au)
F
Phone calls and taxi rides
Bb C
somebody's leaving
F Bb C
Misunderstandings get out of control
F Dm
The right words get left
Bb C
The wrong words get spoken
F
She's gone
C F
But not your pride
Look at you now
You're a picture of sorrow
Head in your hands
Complete isolation
All of the things that seemed so important
are leaves
And are blowing away
Not much can hurt
the fool heart hat's breaking
You can't find the words
You can't hide the feelings
It's down to the bone
To the heart of the matter
You're free
Free as stone
Walking through Belfast
on a cold Sunday morning
Young soldiers in their uniforms
guns in their hands
In a world all cut up
with barbed wire fences
I'm free
I'm free as stone
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