Subbuteo

Tom:
E: 022100
C#m: (2x)
B: 224442
B7: 224242
A: (2x)
Verse 1:
E
Hello, my chum
                                       C#m
It's me and I'm banging on your door
           B
It's been far too long
                                             A
Since we set the leaves alight down on the floor
      E
I've returned for a while
                                            C#m
To the concrete that once claimed my knees
          B
And the stones my hands owned
                                    A
As I sent them toward windows and trees
Middle 8:
          F#m
Towering trees
B   -   B7   -   E
Towering trees
Verse: 2
E
There are bangers in the wheely bins
                                   C#m
Lazer pens shone through the glass
    B
And BB after BB fired
                                  A
From behind the wall beyond the grass
             E
And though boots met my face
                                        C#m
And knuckles cracked me black as coal
        B
I care not for the mindless
                                 A
Who poked fear at my sorry soul
Middle 8:
    F#m
My soul
B   -   B7
My soul
Verse 3:
                E
And I miss the rain on the roof
                                   C#m
Pitstop paths and whistling streams
               B
I miss the Coldstream chips
                                A
The red subbuteo team painted green
E
Built on back fields,
                              C#m
It seemed a thorn in my child side
                   B
Instead became a grit-soaked playground
                                  A
Where the propers and the poor collide
Bridge:
         E
Oh, it might sound dull
                                  C#m
But dull's sometimes all we have
           B
Yeah, it might sound dull
                         A
But dull's all we ever have
Refrain:
          E
Sometimes I talk with the meter
                                   C#m
Of a bingo caller's east-end drawl
                  B
Who cares; we're all just trying to float
             B                 A
While everything seems set to fall
Middle 8:
   F#m
So hard
B   -   B7
So hard