Tales Of The Road

Em D The caravan flipped over two, three times went spinning down the carriageway Em D Em Breaking up into splinters wheels spinning around in the dust at the foot of the hill Em D And all the old clothes, the pots and pans and the photographs Em D The little things of those people's lives strewn across the road [Refrão] G D Em We all want what we cannot have G D Em We've driven so far, we can never get back G D Bm Sitting in the all-night cafe in a curl of smoke C Telling tales of the road Em D By the glow of a flickering lighter we went stumbling forward through the corridor Em D Up the broken staircase to the top of the trail of shattered glass Em D Damp mattresses in the doorway, an old abandoned take-away Em D Nothing much to tell us if and where you'd gone C By now you could be miles away [Refrão] G D Em We all want what we cannot have G D Em We've driven so far, we can never get back G D Bm Sitting in the all-night cafe in a curl of smoke C Telling tales of the road Bridge: D G C And everyone just keeps moving on, you turn around and find they're all gone D G C Am Em The lights go out one by one, the prodigal son is not coming home Em D Em Down at the ferrybridge junction beneath the cooling towers a man stood hitching a ride Em D And in the long grass at the verge his son was laid asleep Em D He said nothing's left to keep us in the city where we come from Em D Take us far away from here looking for work and the wishing well Em D This afternoon the sunlight spilled shadows across the golden hills Em D They searched us at the border but they're not looking for what we're hiding C They're not looking for what we're hiding [Refrão] G D Em We just want what we cannot have G D Em We've driven so far, we can never get back G D Bm Sitting in the all-night cafe in a curl of smoke C Telling tales of the road G D Bm Sitting in the all-night cafe in a curl of smoke C Telling tales of the road Am Em Tales of the road