Not The One

  Probably my favourite opening couplet of any song anywhere.
  
 
 C   G F C   G F C  G F C 
 
            F
 It's the kind of grey November day that washes away reflections
            C
   in the eyes of hotel porters.
         F
 And the latticed wooden benches by the sea contain no travellers
      C
   or Irish lady authors
         Am                     G
 And the girl in the raincoat walks the lanes of Brighton
              F                           C
   with her collar turned against the wind
     F                           Em7
 And hovers in the doorways of second-hand bookshops
               Dm7               F
   among the dust and fading print
                C G/B Am G F    C                    F
 And you're not             the one she's thinking of,
                C G/B Am G F     C               F
 And you're not             the one she really wants;
 C    G/B Am      G  F     Em  Dm           F         C      G F C 
 Just a   point a - long the line she's leaving from.
 
 G F C  G F C
 
     F
 She goes into a cafe, orders tea, looks at the menu
                 C
   but there's nothing really on it.
         F
 And the place is as deserted as a plaza in a heat wave,
             C
   and the cloth has jam upon it.
         Am                             G
 But the girl in the raincoat doesn't stop to count the tea-leaves
      F                                  C
   or turn to see the mists around the sun,
         F                           Em7
 For the winter's unfolding around her
   Dm7                        F
   and it's time for moving on.
                 C G/B Am G F      C                    F
 And you're not                 the one she's thinking of,
                 C G/B Am G F      C                F
 And you're not               the one she really wants;
 C    G/B Am G     F Em    Dm       F           C  G F C
 Just a sta--tion on the line she's leaving from.
 
 G F C  G F C
 
 F
  And so you sit there in the middle of the carpet
              C
   with her suitcases around you.
        F
 And it comes to you she journeyed to the centre of your life
  C
   but she never really found you.
 Am                       G
 Just another girl in a raincoat
       F                           C
   who shared the passing of the days,
              F                             Em7
 And you're glad of the warmth that she gave you,
             Dm7              F
   and you hardly need to say
              C G/B Am G F      C                     F
 That she's not              the one you're thinking of,
              C G/B Am G F       C                F
 No, she's not               the one you really want;
 C    G/B  Am G   F     Em    Dm             F           C  G F C
 Just a     point along the     line you're leaving from.
 
  G F C  G F C  Am G F
 
 
 
 
 Ray Hewitt.
 R.A.Hewitt@man1301.wins.icl.co.uk