Letters with a long arm

E
I've been writing a letter to my lover
Asus
Sayin' we must always be friends
E
And you know I'll never love another
Asus
The way that I love you

CHORUS
Asus E
I speak of you as one who knows
Asus E
The way that the muse wind blows

Asus
In the cold April nights
Asus
In a village of delights
E
I may hold another man's hand

Asus E
Another man's hand

VERSE
I've been writing a letter to the gardener
Sayin' the plants are just to tall
And soon they will want to take over
And ask us a terrible price

CHORUS
They have a secret scheme
To establish a new carbon regime

When I'm crawling round at night
They scratch and they bite
And they come out of the ground

Out of the ground

VERSE
I've been writing a letter to my children
Sayin' Daddies working hard
I've still not saved up to a million
The cost of living is severe

CHORUS
They write back with pictures and stories
Words I don't understand

Don't write before you can read
Tell 'em the plants are trying to breed
I know your mother's to blame

Your mother in name


Letters with a long arm by thejackstaffordfoundation

Nick Helderman and the Immortals

Chords throughout: A  / G#m / D / E 

Bpm: 148

VERSE
From the frozen North, to the deserts of the South
Across the oceans West, and mountains to the East
They all come to dance, and laugh and jump and sing
And perform in front of him, ‘cos

CHORUS:
Nick Helderman
Can make you immortal
If he snaps and it's his will
He can make time stand still

VERSE
He can make the prints, many many times
Give you a hundred faces, and millions of eyes
And make you very wide, and stand out very tall

On children’s bedroom walls, ‘cos

CHORUS:
Nick Helderman
Can make you multiply
If he snaps and it's his will
He can copy you until

VERSE
Every where you look, there’s a picture of your face

Send your image out, even into space
And soon you will be known, and you can be seen

In places you haven't been, ‘cos

CHORUS:
Nick Helderman
Can help you travel
If he snaps and it's his will
You could end up in Brazil

MIDDLE (A – E – G#m – E)
All this power in one man

Too much power for one man

OUTRO x10
Nick Helderman
And the immortals
Everybody go long
Everybody lives on

The waiting game

VERSE

G                                                D
I’ve been playing the waiting game
            C                                                G
For so long that I don’t know how to roll

Watching this thing play out from somewhere up there
And I forgot to take the remote control

BRIDGE
C                                                G
I’ve been building on this feeling so long
D                                                G
That I think it’s bigger than me

And I don’t know what I’d do if it’s gone
No point in carrying on (three taps)

CHORUS
(High) C                                                            D
I’m waiting for the moment, at the end of the night
That one perfect moment, when everything’s right
I’m holding for the last dance, my very last chance

VERSE
But at least I have the hope now
With in every detail and it’s perfect as it is,

It gets me up in the morning
It’s the vision I run to
It’s what I see when I go to sleep

BRIDGE
Cos if it don’t work out, the answers no
I’d be ten times worse off than before

Hope would be a terrible memory to have
Still one way or the other I’m a fool for waiting

CHORUS
So I’m holding for the moment, at the end of the night
That one perfect moment, man it has to be right
I’m holding for the last dance, my very last chance

MIDDLE
G                                                Am
If there’s a lesson I should leave
                        C                                                G
It’s don’t wait to think, tune your impulses to act first

Because if you wait without a taste and it builds up inside
There’s no taste that can quench such thirst

Fool for waiting

CHORUS
You don’t need that perfect moment, at the end of night
They’re all perfect moments, it doesn’t need to be right
Still I’m holding for the last dance, my very last chance

There is no perfect moment, no end to this night
That one perfect moment, won’t even be right
Still I’m holding for the last dance, my very last chance