Love Never Runs On Time
Transcribed by Tim Ahern - timothy.ahern@med.monash.edu.au 

Here's my version of Love never runs on time. Thanks to Jeff and Peter for starting 
the ball rolling. You have both however missed a few changes that make you fell a bit 
lost when playing the song without them. I really enjoy belting this tune out on an 
acoustic guitar. It has a really easy rhythm which is good fun. 

Just as a comment, I think this is a suitable forum for exchange of ideas regarding 
how to play PK's songs. We are all fans and religiously purchase any songbooks etc 
that are available in our respective parts of the world. I therefore feel that the 
exercise here is not 'depriving the artist of his or her ability to make a living' 
as is the argument against sites such as that formerly at Nevada. I appreciate that 
we the fans, the artist, the record companies and their lawyers will all have differing 
opinions on this issue. Never the less I would welcome anyone else's comment on this issue. 

 

D G D
G D A

D                              G                 D
I pulled out of the suburbs by sunset.
G                     D                          A
Rain was falling, looked like it would for a while.
D                       G                                 D
I had a radio, six-pack and some cigarettes.
G                       D                 A
The radio died after the first hundred miles.

G                    D
I sang all the way to the border
G                          A
And guess who starred in every rhyme.
D                           G                   A
Ah you know and I know that love never runs on time.         D G D    G D A


D                             G                         D
I followed that old river 'til the morning.
G                   D                         A
I stopped, I don't remember the name of the town.
D                     G                            D
But the colour of the coffee was a warning,
G                                D                                   A
It was the colour of the river but not nearly as brown.
G                                        D
 The waitress poured me another,
 G                         A
I guess she was feeling kind (mind reading kind).
D                      G                A                            D
You know and I know that love never runs on time.


Bm                          G
You're lost in the traffic.
A                                                   D
I’ve been asking around, but you haven't been seen.
Bm                                 G
I never thought we were perfect.
A
Oh but darling - what we could have been!

(instrumental)
D G D
G D A
D G D
G D A

D                        G                             D
The rain came and went all the next day.
G                           D                               A
I pulled over sometime for a sleep on the side.
D                        G                                 D
Then I gunned it back out on the highway,
G                 D                     A
Hit a big pot-hole and the radio came alive.
G                       D
I never heard a love song yet
G                         A
That I could call your and mine.
D                        G                          A              D
'Cause you know and I know that love never runs on time.

(instrumental)

G                       D
I never heard a love song yet
G                         A
That I could call your and mine.
D                        G                          A
   D
'Cause you know and I know that love never runs on time.




NB
1. The changes may not always be in the correct format. Our email program is a pretty 
poor wordprocessor to say the least. 

2. When you listen to the 'Wanted Man' version of this song there are probably 2 guitars 
at work. One plays the cords above for the rhythm, the other play the same cords but 
mixes things up a bit. In particular you can hear the e string opened during the D 
chord at the end of the first movement in the intro and then in subsequent places in the 
song. You need to play the D chord something as follows: 

E---2---0---2-2-2-|
B---3---3---3-3-3-|
G---2---2---2-2-2|
D---0---0-|-0-0-0
A------------------
E-----------------|

to get the full sound. I admit that this is not completely accurate but I dont have my 
guitar here at work. The idea however is correct and to verify this listen in particular
just as the song goes into ...You're lost in the traffic... It's easiest to pick here at 
this point but if you listen closely it's repeated most of the way though the song. This 
style of play is quite typical of PK as he as really slick (but certainly simple and by no 
means novel) ways of moving though a chord change - most of which I certainly cannot work 
out. 

Any comments would, of course be welcomed!
Have fun.