Passenger - Things That Stop You Dreaming

Intro: A#  Dm  C  A#  F  C  A#  Dm  C  F   
     
            A#    
I’ve got no money in my hands or my coat or my pocket    
Dm                       C    
Wont get to space cos I haven’t got a rocket    
         A#    
But I’ve air in my lungs    
Eyes in my sockets    
      F    
And a heart that beats    
       C    
Like a tap that leaks    
        A#    
In the night when you haven’t got a plumber who can stop it    
 Dm               C    
Jack in a box without a key to lock it    
          Am                    A#    
Well this boat may sink but I’m not gonna rock it    
         C                   Dm    
Cos the sea doesn’t know my name    
         Am                   A#    
Yeah the boat may sink but I’m not gonna rock it    
         C                   F    
Cos the sea doesn’t know my name    
     
     
             A#    
Well if you can’t get what you love    
    F                  C    
You learn to love the things you’ve got    
        A#    
If you can’t be what you want    
     F               C    
You learn to be the things you’re not    
         A#    
If you can’t get what you need    
     Dm                 C                            A#  Dm    
You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming    
         C                     F    
All the things that stop you dreaming    
     
     
               A#    
Well I’ve got no ones word and no bodies promise    
 Dm                          C    
Not a lot to show but this book full of sonnets    
         A#    
And my liver may be xxxxed but my heart is honest    
       F    
And my word is true    
          C    
Like the sky is blue    
        A#    
In the summer time when everybody gets on it    
Dm                      C    
Warm our skins and get sunburnt from it    
        Am                      A#                           
And our eyes shine bright like a sky full of comets    
      C                Dm    
that shoot like silver trains    
          Am                      A#    
Yeah our eyes shine bright like a sky full of comets    
      C                F    
that shoot like silver trains    
     
     
             A#    
Well if you can’t get what you love    
    F                  C    
You learn to love the things you’ve got    
        A#    
If you can’t be what you want    
     F               C    
You learn to be the things you’re not    
         A#    
If you can’t get what you need    
     Dm                 C                            A#  Dm    
You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming    
         C                     F    
All the things that stop you dreaming    
     
     
             A#    
Well if you can’t get what you love    
    F                  C    
You learn to love the things you’ve got    
        A#    
If you can’t be what you want    
     F               C    
You learn to be the things you’re not    
         A#    
If you can’t get what you need    
     Dm                 C                            A#  Dm    
You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming    
         C                     F    
All the things that stop you dreaming    
          C                    A#    
All the things that stop you dreaming 
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