"DUSTY PAGES" - Icehouse
From the 1984 Album "SIDEWALK"


Transcribed by Justin Watson, mentalman@bigpond.com
Any comments, correspondence, criticisms or corrections welcome.

{I can't quite figure this one out, it sounds right, but it could be better}
{If anyone has a better ideas email me please. The opening strum especially}
{I suspect an obscure open tuning}


|A///|////|////|////|
|C///|////|D///|////|

A
Window frosted in the rain
_______________________C
Dusty pages, broken lines
__________D
Is all we have

A
Candle shadow in the flame
________________________C
Of the moments that we try
__________D
to start again

REFRAIN
C_____________________G
Of many things that I remember
______________________D______C___D
Too many now that you forget
C_____________________________G
How can you tell me that it gone, no
___________________________D___C___D
How can you turn and walk away


CHORUS
_______________C#m___F#m
Don't say it's o-----ver
____________C#m
Don't turn away
__________B
a love so fine
________C#m__F#m
No it's o----ver
____________C#m
Don't turn away
__________B
A love so fine


A
The empty room you leave behind
__________________________C
Nothing is, nothing belongs
_______________D
Nothing belongs
A
The faded roses by the door
__________________________C
The picture hanging on my wall
_____________D
no more than this

REFRAIN
Of the promises we made
of the good time that we had
Cause they don't come to nothing now
just look again before you go

Repeat CHORUS

A___________________C_____D
Dusty pages, broken lines

Repeat REFRAIN

Repeat CHORUS x2

_______________C#m_F#m
Don't say it's o---ver
C#m_________B
__A love so fine
_________C#m_F#m
Now it's o---ver
____________C#m
Don't give away
__________B
A love so fine