Paul Simon - How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns

      words & music by Paul Simon 1978 


      |E   | 
In the blue light 

      |           |   E9| 
Of the Belvedere Motel 

A                 |E         |     |  | 
  Wondering as the television burns 

B7                |                |E     | 
   How the heart approaches what it yearns 


    |  | 
In a fe-ver 

    |                 |     E9 
I distinctly hear your voice 

|A             |E                 |     |  | 
Emerging from a dream, the dream returns 

B7                |                |E     |E7 | 
   How the heart approaches what it yearns 


Gbmaj7    Gb/F       |Bbm7      Bbm6| 
After the rain on the Interstate 

Cm7-5      Cdim          |Bbm7 
Headlights slide past the moon 

 |Ebm7-5             | 
A bone-weary traveler 

Dbmaj7                  |Gbmaj7 | 
Waits by the side of the road 

Gbm6                  |B7 | 
     Where's he going? 


Instrumental: 

E |  |  | E9|A |E |  |  |B7 |  |E |E7  


 |Gbmaj7       Gb/F        |Bbm7     Bbm6 
I dream we are lying on the top of a hill 

   |Cm7-5      Cdim          |Bbm7 
And headlights slide past the moon 

 |Ebm7-5            
I roll in your arms 

        |Dbmaj7                  |Gbmaj7 | 
And your voice is the heat of the night 

Gbm6            | 
     I'm on fire 


B7     |E    |     
   In a phone booth 

       |             |     E9 
In some local bar and grill 

 |A                 |E             |     |  | 
Rehearsing what I'll say, my coin returns 

B7                |                |E     |  |   
   How the heart approaches what it yearns 

B7                |                |E     |  | 
   How the heart approaches what it yearns 

B7 |  |E |  |B7 |  |E |  |