A Thousand Years, by Sting & Kipper

Transcribed by Andreas Lehmann

a tempo=1/4 note - 84



Ebm7 (no3)   Ebm7   Eb5    Abm

Ab5/Eb       Ab5    Eb5    Abm

Fm7 (no5)/Eb Ab5    Ebm/Gb Abm

Fm7(no5)            Eb5/Db Abm/Cb

Bb7/sus4     Eb5

 

  Eb5               

A thousand years, a thousand more, 

  Abm                              Ab5/Eb     Ab5  

A thousand times a million doors to eternity 

                   Eb5      

I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times 

   Abm

An endless turning stairway climbs 

     Fm7 (no5)/Eb    Ab5

To a tower of souls 

                    Ebm/Gb

If it takes another thousand years, a thousand wars, 

    Abm                               Fm7(no5)  

The towers rise to numberless floors in space 

                     Eb5/Db           

I could shed another million tears, a million breaths, 

  Abm/Cb                           Bb7/sus4   

A million names but only one truth to face 



Ebm  Eb5

              

A million roads, a million fears 

  Abm                               Ab5/Eb       Ab5  

A million suns, ten million years of uncertainty 

                Eb5

I could speak a million lies, a million songs, 

  Abm                                      Fm7 (no5)/Eb    Ab5

A million rights, a million wrongs in this balance of time 

                   Ebm/Gb

But if there was a single truth, a single light 

  Abm                                Fm7(no5)  

A single thought, a singular touch of grace 

                    Eb5/Db     

Then following this single point , this single flame, 

    Abm/Cb                   Bb7/sus4 

The single haunted memory of your face 



  Eb    Abm/Eb  Fm7(no5)/Eb

I still love               you 

  Eb/G  Abm Fm7(no5)

I still want        you 

  Gb/Db                          Cb9

A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves 

                   Bb7sus4

Like galaxies in my head 



Ebm  Ebm/Db  Cbmaj7 



Eb5                Abm

I may be numberless, I may be innocent 

Ab5/Eb                 Ab5

I may know many things, I may be ignorant 

Eb5                       Abm

Or I could ride with kings and conquer many lands 

Fm7(no5)/Eb                   Ab5

Or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands 

Ebm/Gb                 Abm

I could be cannon food, destroyed a thousand times 

Fm7(no5)                

Reborn as fortune's child to judge another's crimes 

Eb5/Db                       Abm/Cb

Or wear this pilgrim's cloak, or be a common thief 

Bb7/sus4

I've kept this single faith, I have but one belief 





  Eb    Abm/Eb  Fm7(no5)/Eb

I still love               you 

  Eb/G  Abm Fm7(no5)

I still want        you 

  Gb/Db                          Cb9

A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves 

                   Bb7sus4

Like galaxies in my head 

Abm/Cb                    Abm

On and on the mysteries unwind themselves 

                   Gbadd9/Bb

Eternities still unsaid 

     Bbm7     Ebm9

'Til you love me 



Ebm7 (no3)   xx132x
Ebm7         xx1322
Eb5          x688xx
Abm          466444
Ab5/Eb       x668xx
Ab5          466xxx
Fm7 (no5)/Eb xx1141
Ebm/Gb       xx4342
Fm7(no5)     xx3141
Eb5/Db       x4134x
Abm/Cb       7x6444
Bb7/sus4     x13141
Ebm          xx4342
Eb           xx5343
Abm/Eb       x66444
Eb/G         xx5343
Fm7 (no5)    xx3141
Gb/Db        x44322
Cb9          x21222
Ebm/Db       x41344
Cbmaj7       x24342
Gbadd9/Bb    x14324
Bbm7         x13121
Ebm9         x6466x