From the Album "Arc of a Diver", released 1981 on Island Records.
Words and Music by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings.
Key of G-major. Time signature alla breve.
C D G Em Am D G Am7 G/B
Sundown coming down too soon, no time to be alone
C Am7 G/D
So I'll take a glass of memories and understand the blues
Am7 D7 G Am7 G7/B C
Oh they're the last thing you lose
C/D G Am7 G7/B C C/D G Am7 G7/B
Slowdown sundown, all I really need is time
C C/D G D/F# Em
For faded love songs and feelings in the wine
Bm7 C Am7 D C/D G
Let them take me down the line
Sunrise, a woman's eyes, good loving one warm afternoon
Here's to all the strong ones who don't care if they win
The kind I'll never see again
Slowdown, give me just a little while
It's not the darkness, it's just the night's so long
Puts the sadness in the song
E A/E B/E
Here's to someday when someone understands it
A/E B A E
Why life keeps turning like a mad thing
A B C#m A E/B B
Until that someday I'll just play what I have to play though I play it alone
Slowdown sundown, all I really need is time
For faded love songs and feelings in the wine
Let them take me down the line