Bm    A         G
I wrote a thousand verses
     G         A           Bm
Each one about doctors and nurses
   Bm    A           G
On paper napkins in diners
    G          A           Bm       A
And wrote the titles on matchsticks
   G
Tucked them in the left breast pocket
     F#m
Of a tattered silk check shirt
    Em                   D
And threw the shirt away
G
  Into the shadow in the corner
     F#m
Of a northern Spanish bar
        Em
Without brass in the backline
D
But shutters on the doors
F#m
    And twenty, thirty people
   Em
In clusters on the floor
G                            D
Looking anywhere but at each other
F#m                          Em
    Between the runners of a busted wooden pier
  G                                D
Before the beers with Tracy on the bottle

[Chorus 1]
      Bm         A           G
And I thought of you at the airport
           G             A             Bm
And I was still thinking of you on the plane
    Bm                      A
And when the police took my passport
G
And wrote down my name
G   A              Bm
  I thought of you again

[Verse 2]
Bm             A                      G
   I was doing press-ups in the hotel lobby
    G          A           Bm
The lobby with me was unimpressed
  Bm      A          G
I managed five but I was barely alive
G        A              Bm
  When I rolled over to rest
      G
And I thought of all your illnesses
       F#m
And your incredible strength
      Em                         D
And I guess that it meant that I missed you
      G                                    F#m
And I though of all the little things that always made you tense
      Em                D
And I wished I was able to tell you that
F#m                               Em
I'd have learnt a thousand tricks to make them disappear
     G                       D
With whispers in the ear and kisses
      F#m                                       Em
And I though about your lips, your mouth, your smile, your laugh, your lips
     G                                              D
Your lips, your mouth, your smile, your laugh, your lips

[Chorus 2]
      Bm        A      G
And I though of you in Sweden
              G           A             Bm
Like I'd been thinking of you all over Spain
             Bm                   A                     G
And when the pissed up student girls teased me with the sound of my own name
G   A              Bm
  I thought of you again

[Outro]
Bm A G
G A Bm
Bm A G
G A Bm