Tuning: D# G# C# F# A# D# 



(Intro) 


Am    G    F    E 


(Verse) 

        Am               G 
Humble moon, what now do I do?  
                  F                          
A restaurants' plastic glass,  
                       E 
at house party with your hip flask 
                     Am           Dm 
Has he kept you precious like a locket?  
                 E 
The pale night alive  
                                                
Through your jeans tight,  
                               F    G 
cigarette box outline in your pocket  

               Am                    G 
We're in the bathroom and you perch on the sink  
              F                      E 
I begin to infatuate, exasperate, resuscitate 
                 Am 
By day the cat sleeps,  
                  Dm                               E 
but at night how he moans through the windows perspex 
                                                       F                   G 
We sit and talk about sex because it's all we have in common, don't you know 


(Chorus) 


          C                  Am 
And it's youth, ever fading youth  
                       F 
Would you have lived differently  
                                   G 
if you had known this life was on loan?  


(Verse) 


               Am                 G 
I recall the blue first night I met you,  
                       F 
and gaze through the passing time  
                  E 
Your hair was henna and wine 
                         Am          Dm 
The contrast in what I dream and reality 
                         E 
Took you back from the club while your friends all did drugs,  
                       F                G  
we never spoke about love, just mortality  


(Chorus) 


          C                  Am 
And it's youth, ever fading youth  
                       F 
Would you have lived differently  
                                   G 
if you had known this life was on loan?  

          C                  Am 
And it's youth, ever fading youth  
                       F 
Would you have lived differently  
                                   G 
if you had known this life was on loan? 


(BRIDGE) 


 C 
All of these nights you just trawl the same streets 
  Am 
Tell the same stories, you count the heart beats 
    F 
Obsess with the death of the miracle days 
         G 
I CAN FEEL ALL YOUR DREAMS START TO FLICKER AND FADE 


(Chorus) 


          C                  Am 
And it's youth, ever fading youth  
                       F 
Would you have lived differently  
                                   G 
if you had known this life was on loan? 


(OUTRO) 

 C                   
Youth, ever fading youth