[Intro] E  G#m  E  G#m 
        E  G#m  F#

         E
Were you drifting
     G#m       
On a strange tide?
E
Collecting visions
G#m
From the other side?
               E
Caught between day and night
         G#m
You were stealing moments past hours
F#
Of your life

And balancing on
              E
The edge of a knife
     G#m                E
Memories of once longer days
              G#m
They keep on flooding back
    E
The adventurous times when we
G#m
Traveled life's road
               F#
Though we were often blind
           C#m
But with a lot more heart
    E              F#
And for each other
           B
Taking the time
     Em
On a wing and a prayer
  B                   E
A wounded bird in the hand
                     F#
With the eyes of a child
     B         E
Come to understand
                  F#
I will open the book
           B
Raise the pen
         E
Let it reinvent
    B
My life again
                   F#
Take me from where I am

As a freed bird
E
Flies from the hand
               F#
To ascend, to ascend

( E  G#m  E  G#m )

         E
Were you catching
                  G#m
The last train to nowhere?
E
Playing out scenes
   G#m
Of dark desert days?
       E
Put it behind you now
G#m                                F#
Call out those bleak shadows from your mind

And never again
                 E 
Slip through the cracks
    G#m                  E
Memories of once longer days
                      G#m
They keep on flooding back
       E
The adventurous times when we
G#m
Traveled life's road
               F#
Though we were often blind
           C#m
But with a lot more heart
    E               F#
And for each other
           B
Taking the time 
     Em
On a wing and a prayer
         B            E
A wounded bird in the hand
                   F#
With the eyes of a child
     B          E
Come to understand
                F#
I will open the book
          B
Raise the pen
        E
Let it reinvent
   B
My life again
                     F#
Take me from where I am

As a freed bird
E
Flies from the hand
                 B
To ascend, to ascend