Lost Property
The Divine Comedy
[Verse] Postcards and letters T-shirts and sweaters Passports and Parkas Mobiles and chargers Two tennis rackets Blue Rizla packets A new sheep-skin jacket I lost it [Chorus] Em Esus2 Ddim All through my life there have been Many rare and precious things I have tried to call mine Esus Ddim But I just cannot seem To keep hold of anything For more than a short time Esus Ddim A C Possessions of a sentimental kind They were mine now they’re not [Verse] Gym-kits and trainers asthma inhalers (Lost blown like seeds on the wind) Silk-cuts and Bennies ten-packs and twenties (Everything lost tossed like ships on the ocean) C-class narcotics antibiotics (And dashed on the rocks hiding just out of reach) The holes in my pockets I lost it [Bridge] all (Waiting for me) [Chorus] Em Esus Ddim All that I’d like is to know Just where do those lost things go? When they slip from my hands Esus2 Ddim Then one night in a dream I passed through a sheepskin screen To a green and pleasant land Esus Ddim A C I found them all piled up into the sky And I cried tears of [Bridge] Joy