Heart of Stone

  
 Rick Kemp played bass Michael Chapman on albumns such
 as Fully Qualified Survivor and Window. He joined
 Steeleye Span after Ashley Hutchings left and played
 with them All Around their most commercially successful 
 phase. He is married to Maddy Prior and she recorded
 this haunting song on her excellent albumn Flesh and Blood.  
  
  Intro
 Bm G Em A 
 
 
  Bm 
 I was talking on the phone to an abstract friend
          G                 Em 
 All the way from days of innocence
  G                                  A   A6     A 
 About the way things were, and the way things are.
  Bm                      
 How a new life starts  when  an old life ends
          G                    Em 
 With the promise of a new experience,
          G                A          A6      A 
 How the strangest things become our guiding star.
  G                       D            A 
     Mostly re-runs of old movies we've  s een
  G                          D                 A
   Half a lifetime vanished could have been a dream
 D                    G             Bm       A 
 What're you going to do about this heart of stone
  D                G        Bm          A 
 That twi s ts your mind and bends your bones
  D                    G             A                D 
 What're you going to do about this bad old heart of stone?
 
  Bm 
 I said good-bye, really had to fly,
              G                   Em 
 Should have been on my way some time ago
  G                                 A    A6 A 
     To set the world aright, and to make my mark,
  Bm                      
 How I keep a brave face, with a smile in place
         G                     Em                     
 'cos I really don't want to let it show
  G                            A     A6     A 
     That I fear failure like a demon in the dark.
  G                      D                 A
    Always searching for perfection
  G                        D                A
    Always searching for a voice to call my own!
  D                    G             Bm        A 
 What're you going to do about this heart of stone
  D                G        Bm         A 
 That twi s ts your mind and bends your bones
  D                     G              A            D 
 What are you going to do when you're all alone at night?
  D                   G                    A 
 How're you going to make this old friend sing
  D                   G               A 
 How're you going to fix his damaged wings
  D                    G             A                D 
 What're you going to do about this bad old heart of stone?
 
  Bm 
 I was cruising in a clapped-out care worn carriage
           G                   Em
  Near the crumbling stones of Hadrian
  G                      A   A6  A 
     Passing monuments to passing men.
  Bm 
 Heading for a frontier town in time
         G                      Em
  On the borders of a new millenium
  G                            A     A6 A 
     Weighing my prospects on a scale of ten.
  G                              D             A
    Leisure and luxuries they've never been so high.
  G                          D                     A
    Pride and prejudice they reach right up to the sky.
  D                    G             Bm      A 
 What're you going to do about this heart of stone
  D                G        Bm          A 
 That twi s ts your mind and bends your bones
  D                    G             A                D 
 What're you going to do about this bad old heart of stone?