From The Ideal Home Music Library, Volume 3: Songs for Orchestra
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anytime, anywhere, anything
Verse 1 (D major)
D f#m bm G G/E
D F#m G
D f#m bm G G/E
D A7 D
Refrain 1:
D em f#m G
D A7 D A7
D em f#m G
D A7 G D
Verse 2 (D mixolydian)
D7 f#m7(b5) bm G G/E
D f#m7(b5) G
D f#m7(b5) bm G G/E
D Cmaj7 D
Refrain 2
D em f#m7(b5) G
D Cmaj7 D Cmaj7
D em f#m7(b5) G
D Cmaj7 G D
Verse 3 (B dorian)
bm7 f#m7 bm7 g#m7(b5) g#m7(b5)/E
bm7 f#m7 bm7 g#m7(b5)
bm7 f#m7 bm7 g#m7(b5) g#m7(b5)/E
bm7 Amaj7 bm7
Refrain 3
bm7 c#m7 Dmaj7 E7
bm7 Amaj7 bm7 Amj7
bm7 c#m7 Dmaj7 E7
bm7 Amaj7 g#m7(b5) bm7
Verse 4 (B aeolian)
bm7 f#m7 bm7 Gmaj7 Gmaj7/E
bm7 f#m7 bm7 Gmaj7
bm7 f#m7 bm7 Gmaj7 Gmaj7/E
bm7 A7 bm7
Refrain 3
bm7 c#m7(b5) Dmaj7 em7
bm7 Amaj7 bm7 Amj7
bm7 c#m7 Dmaj7 em7
bm7 A7 G7 bm7
Verse 5 (B phrygian)
bm7 f#m7(b5) bm7 Gmaj7 Gmaj7/E
bm7 f#m7(b5) bm7 Gmaj7
bm7 f#m7(b5) bm7 Gmaj7 Gmaj7/E
bm7 Cmaj7 bm7
Refrain 3
bm7 Cmaj7 D7 em7
bm7 Cmaj7 bm7 Cmaj7
bm7 Cmaj7 D7 em7
bm7 Cmaj7 Gmaj7 bm7
We traveled so far for freedom
To chisel out a life of our own
Among wide boulevards
Green river barges
Angels with wings made of stone.
But like Icarus
My wings of wax melted
When I flew too close to that dream.
A flat with 2 rooms
One for us, one for your daughter.
Pancakes, colored pencils, and moonbeams.
Refrain
Anytime, anywhere, anything you want:
Just tell me. It’s yours. It’s yours.
Anytime, anywhere, anything you want:
Just tell me. It’s yours. It’s yours.
I found myself in a cathedral.
I joined the non-believers at the edges of the pews.
When an angel came with his wings bloodstained
And brought me a memory of walking here with you.
All the saints looked down from rose windows.
Shafts of colored sunlight pouring in.
All reverently bowing toward you, the Madonna
Of the Brown Eyes, of the Pale Freckled Skin
Refrain
I bent down on one knee on the banks of the Neva.
Helped you lick bits of cheesecake off the ring
That I made for you with my own two hands
Out of silver, peridot and the feathers of clipped wings.
Did we ever really yell at each other?
Did I let you go to bed feeling ignored?
Did I really become disillusioned
With the dream that little ring stood for?
Refrain
Did we really walk these bridges together?
Did we lie in this grass in the shadow of the tower?
So why am I lying here alone now
Taking the way out of the coward?
Because the past has devoured the future.
We got burned by Narcissus’s flame.
Instead of a castle made of stone to protect you,
I made you a hut of waxed feathers and a cheap wooden frame.
Refrain
In this little white room, like a pinhole camera,
Our bike ride through Berlin flickers on the walls.
I watch from the other side as these moments like low tide
Recede into distant waterfalls.
Like them I free-fall into oblivion.
The wind whips my body and it stings.
And the beautiful dream I flew too close to
Falls upward, having melted my wings.
words, music, and arrangement by Michael Johnson
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