|C  F|Am  |C  F|Am  |


[Verse 1]
C                            F         Am
I am the colour of an autumn flurry of leaves in a 
breeze for you
    Dm              Am                   G         
And I am a study in hues of grey and the blue of a 
       F
broken day for you
C                               Dm          Am
Oh the hurry, the press of your body in the embers of 
an afternoon
      Dm                Am                G         
Now I spend my money on something stupid, trying to 
            Dm            G
believe I belong to you

[Chorus]
G                                C               F
Oh when the colours go, when the colours go they won't 
come back
    C           G                               C     
You strip me right, you strip them right out so maybe 
          F
you would welcome that
    C         G                                     
And I don't know where your colours go, but if your 
C            F
colours go I won't come back
  C          F         Em                        G
I won't come back, but maybe you would welcome that

[Interlude]
|C Dm|Am F|C Dm|Am  |


[Verse 2]
C                        F               Am
Oh we linger in the cold comfort of each other in your 
bedroom
    Dm                   Am                  G         
And we are the colour of something borrowed, trying to 
              Dm
believe we're something new

[Chorus]
    G                                  C               
And oh when your colours go, when your colours go they 
F
won't come back
    C           G                               C     
You strip me right, you strip them right out so maybe 
          F
you would welcome that
    C         G                                       
And I don't know where your colours go, but when your 
C            F
colours go I won't come back
    C           G                             C        
You strip me right, you strip me right out so maybe you
       F
 would welcome that
  C          F         Em                        G
I won't come back, but maybe you would welcome that

[Bridge]
Bb            Am          C             F   F/E
  And in this garden we were barely kept
Bb           Am            D
  So maybe more should be less
F            Em      Am            D       F
  We're only antique blooms, on an unmade bed

[Chorus]
    G                                  C            
And oh when your colours go, when your colours go I 
F
won't come back
    C            G                              C     
You strip me right, you strip them right out so maybe 
          F
you would welcome that
    C         G                                       
And I don't know where your colours go, but when your 
C               F
colours go they won't come back
    C           G                             C        
You strip me right, you strip me right out so maybe you
       F
 would welcome that
    C         G                                       
And I don't know where your colours go, but when your 
C               F
colours go they won't come back
     C          F         Em                        G
They don't come back, and maybe you would welcome that

[Interlude]
|C Dm|Am F|C Dm|Am  |


[Outro]
    C                            F         Am
And I am the colour of an autumn flurry of leaves in a 
breeze for you
    Dm              Am                   G         
And I am a study in hues of grey and the blue of a 
       C
broken day for you