The Passers By accords

Am G Am Am

  F                      E7
I sing you a song that I offer
   A7                D
To all the women you love for
  Am        G7           C    E7
A moment, a brief secret time
   F                           E7
To those that you scarcely had met when
  A7                D
A different destiny led them
   Am         G7         Am
To places you can't even find

   F                       E7
To her that you saw for an instant
  A7                       D
Appear at her window quite distant
     Am       G7      C    E7
Then suddenly vanish away,
    F                      E7
Her slim silhouette a mere outline
   A7                   D
So gracefully faded for all time
    Am              G7          Am
But filled you with joy come to stay

   F                       E7
To her on a train you were travelling
      A7                      D
Whose beautiful eyes left you marvelling
Am                G7         C    E7
And shortened the journey so much,
   F                   E7
Perhaps you alone understood her,
    A7                           D
You watched her get out: But you could not
     Am       G7                  Am
Even give her soft hand one light touch

   F               E7
To women already bespoken
    A7                            D
Who find that their life's a mere token
     Am           G7           C    E7
With someone that seems not to care
     F                    E7
They once, in a moment of madness
  A7                     D
Described the unbearable sadness
     Am             G7      Am
When life holds our only despair

    F                          E7
The visions once glimpsed and idealised,
    A7                          D
The shortest-lived hopes, never realised,
  Am           G7             C    E7
Remains in our minds just one day
    F                    E7
Whatever brief happiness takes you
    A7                     D
The memory will quickly forsake you
   Am             G7          Am
Of those you once met on your way

    F                          E7
But feeling your life has been wasted
    A7                          D
You wish with regret that you'd tasted
    Am               G7              C    E7
And known what these joys might have been
    F                    E7
The kisses you dared not discover,
    A7                       D
The hearts that await you forever,
      Am             G7        Am
Those eyes and their glances unseen

     F                        E7
When weariness lengthens your evenings
    A7                    D
You people your solitude, grieving,
     Am            G7       C    E7
With phantoms your memory retains
    F                          E7
You mourn absent lips of these countless
     A7                   D
Fair passers-by briefly encountered
    Am          G7       Am
You didn't know how to detain