Peter Hammill - Again Chords

[Verse 1]
Em                                Am
I stretch my hands, clutch vacant laughter
D  Bm                          Em
   in silence and sweet, sweet pain
Em                         Am
without demand, but with a longing
D  Bm                        Em
   for what will never come again.
 
[Verse 2]
Em                                        Am
I smell your perfume on the sheets in the morning:
D                            Bm                  Em
it lingers like the patterns on the window after rain,
Em                                 Am
a past that lives, if only for the present,
D                          Bm          Em
but which is gone and will never come again.
 
[Bridge]
        D                           Bm
To your sad eyes, turned away, mine say
Am       Bm       Em
'Do you? Did you? How?'
       D                        Bm
As the darkness slides away the day
Am                 Bm            Em
shows what was and makes what is now.
 
[Verse 3]
Em                                   Am
I see your picture as though it were a mirror
D              Bm                      Em
but there's no part of you outside the frame
Em                         Am
except the change that you gave to me:
D  Bm                    Em
   this will never come again.
 
[Verse 4]
Em                  Am
I am me, I was so before you,
D  Bm                          Em
   but afterwards I am not the same.
Em                    Am
You are gone and I am with you:
D  Bm                    Em
   this will never come again.
D  Bm                    Em
   this will never come again.
D  Bm                    Em
   this will never come again.