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🎸 Verse 1:
A augmentedA    G+G     D MajorD        G+G       F# minorF#m       E minorEm
 Hallelujah
I'm listening to a recording of you sleeping next to me
A augmentedA    G+G     D MajorD           G+G   F# minorF#m     E minorEm
 A augmentedA cappella
I'm listening to you cover Elliot Smith's "Angeles"
      G+G     D MajorD     A augmentedA
It's these times I'll need if you go
      G+G      D MajorD     A augmentedA
It's these times I'll need if you go, so


🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD      B minorBm
 Get better, my darling
G+G       D MajorD
 I know you will
D MajorD      B minorBm
 Get better, my darling
G+G       D MajorD E7E7
 I know you will

Get better
🎸 Verse 2:
   D MajorD      B minorBm
I'm drawn to the motorway
   D MajorD           G+G
The cold whoosh of trucks passing
   D MajorD        B minorBm
This nightmare under sodium light
   D MajorD           G+G
The orange spread is soul-quietening
   D MajorD        G+G
A augmentedA younger you and a younger me

Meeting at The Serpentine
   E7E7      D MajorD A augmentedA
I am yours, you are mine

🎸 Instrumental:
D MajorD G+G F# minorF#m E minorEm   D MajorD


🎸 Verse 3:
 A augmentedA   G+G
Happy birthday
 D MajorD
Staff smuggled in a card I made
  G+G   D MajorD      A augmentedA
It rests under your pillow
 A augmentedA      G+G     D MajorD
When out of ICU I'll cringe at all the "I love you"s
G+G        D MajorD      A augmentedA
The card retired the life of one biro
     G+G   D MajorD       A augmentedA
At this time I wanted you to know
     G+G   D MajorD       A augmentedA
At this time I wanted you to know

🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD      B minorBm
 Get better, my darling
G+G       D MajorD
 I know you will
D MajorD      B minorBm
 Get better, my darling
G+G       D MajorD E7E7
 I know you will

Get better

🎸 Verse 4:
   D MajorD         B minorBm
I'll start the day with tiramisu
     D MajorD         G+G
Raise a spoon to front line workers
  D MajorD      B minorBm
An underfunded principle
      D MajorD        G+G
They risk all to be there for us
  D MajorD         G+G
A augmentedA younger you and a younger me
B minorBm
Meeting at The Serpentine
   E7E7       D MajorD A augmentedA
I am yours, you are mine

🎸 Instrumental:
D MajorD G+G F# minorF#m E minorEm   D MajorD

🎸 Verse 5:
 A augmentedA      G+G
You were the baker
    D MajorD               G+G    D MajorD      A augmentedA
I'll christen this new era with the smell of freshly baked bread
 A augmentedA    G+G     D MajorD
Your Nutella
I'll keep it in the cellar
     G+G    D MajorD       A augmentedA
You were always a fan of that spread
   G+G          D MajorD      A augmentedA
Six months on, there's a car crash outside
G+G    D MajorD        A augmentedA
The fire brigade using the jaws of life
   G+G         D MajorD      A augmentedA
No flush at night to sound your return
      G+G      D MajorD      A augmentedA
I still pretend you're only out of sight
        G+G     D MajorD
Front garden bouquet
I threw it at the fire brigade
G+G           D MajorD         A augmentedA
I was admonished and told to go back inside
A augmentedA            G+G     D MajorD                 G+G
 From the living room window I stand and watch the white sheet go over the
    D MajorD         A augmentedA
family car and I close my eyes
      G+G      D MajorD      A augmentedA         G+G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
 D MajorD        A augmentedA
Smiling at your phone
      G+G      D MajorD      A augmentedA        G+G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
 D MajorD        A augmentedA
Smiling at your phone
      G+G      D MajorD      A augmentedA        G+G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
 D MajorD        A augmentedA
Smiling at your phone
      G+G      D MajorD      A augmentedA        G+G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
 D MajorD        A augmentedA
Smiling at your phone
      G+G
I still pretend

🎸 Outro:
 G+G      D MajorD   A augmentedA   G+G
Hey younger me, a younger you
        D MajorD   A augmentedA  G+G
Meeting at The Serpentine
          D MajorD          A augmentedA       G+G
The beginning of spring, you wore those yellow ripped jeans
           D MajorD A augmentedA
Your look defined my 2009
G+G        D MajorD    A augmentedA  G+G
 Your shyness stoked my boldness
       D MajorD    A augmentedA
"Shall we go in "
I smiled
G+G          D MajorD          A augmentedA
 Your hand warmed walking through the gallery
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA

D MajorD         B minorBm
 (Get better,)
G+G      D MajorD
 I know I will
D MajorD        B minorBm
 (Get better,)
     G+G       D MajorD E7E7
My darling
I know I will

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