verse 1 

C                    F 
Dead to the world my body was sleeping’ 

C                 F 
On my mind was nothin’ at all 

C               F 
Come a mist, an air so appealing 

C                          F                 C        F 
I’m here a whisperin', you summoned, I called 


verse 2 

C                            F 
I formed me a presence whose aspect was changing’ 

C                            F 
Oh, he would shift, he would not shift at all 

C                          F 
We sat for a while, he was very engaging’ 

C                           F              C         F 
And when he was gone, I was gone on a smile 



[Refrão]
       Dm                     
With a strange way of walking’ 

      F 
And a strange way of breathing’ 

     Dm                    F 
More lives than a cat that led me astray 

Dm                         F 
All in all, he captured my heart 

C           Dm          F             C 
Dead to the world and I just slipped away 


verse 3 

C                        F 
I heard me a music that drew me to dancing’ 

C            F 
Lo, I turned under his spell 

C                        F 
I opened my coat but he never came closer 

C                     F                 C         F 
I bolted the door and whispered, oh well 


[Refrão]
       Dm                     
With a strange way of walking’ 

       F 
And a strange way of breathing’ 

      Dm                    F 
More lives than a cat that led me astray 

Dm                         F 
All in all, he captured my heart 

C           Dm        F            C 
Dead to the world and just slipped away 


Instrumental 

  C  F x 5 


verse 4 

C                         F 
I laid in the rushes, the air was upon me 

C                    F 
Wondering’, well, I just couldn't discern 

C                       F 
Will he come back, come back to me? 

C                        F           C         F 
Oh, I whispered will you ever return? 


Verse 5 

C                            F 
I was feeling’ sensations in no dictionary 

C                             F 
He was less than a breath of shimmer and smoke 

C                          F 
The life in his fingers unwound my existence 

C                  F           C         F 
Dead to the world alive I awoke 



[Refrão]
       Dm                     
With a strange way of walking’ 

       F 
And a strange way of breathing’ 

      Dm               F 
Less than a breath of shimmer and smoke 

Dm                         F 
The life in his fingers unwound my existence 

C            Dm      F      C 
Dead to the world alive I awoke 


Outro 

C        F 
Alive I awoke 
G Am 
(Alive) 

C        F 
Alive I awoke 
G         Am 
(Alive I awoke) 

C        F 
Alive 
G Am 
(I awoke) 

C      F 
I awoke 
G Am 
(I awoke) 

C     F 
I awoke 
G Am 
(Alive) 

C        F 
Alive, alive, oh 
G Am 
(Alive) 

G Am 
(Alive) 
C        F 
Alive, alive, oh 
C        F 
Alive, alive, oh