Aviator
Michael Chapman

Intro - F# Em F# Em D 
D Em   G D   D Em   G D   G D   G D
Desperation sits just like a friend upon the floor / My britches are all torn around my feet.
Mr. Madness points his eyes, a finger from his chair / And an angry crowd is gathering in the street
   To take my time away / To take my time away 

If I'm the man they say I am, then why am I still here / My portrait seems to make me look quite sane
There's no hair inside my helm and no scars upon my face / But the crowd is knocking on the door again
   To take my time away / To take my time away

And the music is so loud that I have lost all sense of time / A phone rings but no one makes a sound
The storm's a'falling on the roof and smashing all the tiles / And the banners are a'waltzing 'round and 'round.
   To take my time away / To take my time away 

In all of my life you know I've done no man no wrong / And yet to some that is the only mortal sin.
And so I stand accused of the crime of being poor / While my thoughts are confused by the din.
   The din that takes my time away / It takes my time away.

I light a cigarette just to try and slow my thoughts / My throat is awful dry but I can't drink
There's a clamoring within now, and a clamoring without / So much going on that I can't think
   It take my time away / Yes it takes my time away

And meanwhile in the wood watch what they're doing to the trees / Why must they let them spark and let them burn
It takes such a long long time for trees like that to grow /Some people, just never-ever learn
   And yet they take my time away / They take my time away.

There will be nothing left if this madness runs its course / Except the gleaming buildings to the sky.
With solitude and all and every friendly word / With the sound of feet as the old world shuffles by.
   Taking my time away / Taking my time away.

No concessions to my past no this song that I can make / If I had my time I'd do it all again
I'd just make a few adjustments to the way I treated you / And let myself be washed by the rain.
   The rain that takes my time Ãhay / It takes my time ahÃy.