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



🎸 Chorus:
D            Bm
  Get better,  my darling
G             D
  I know you will
D            Bm
  Get better,  my darling
G             D  E7
  I know you will

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

Meeting at The Serpentine
      E7            D  A
I am yours, you are mine

🎸 Instrumental:
D  G  F#m  Em     D


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

🎸 Chorus:
D            Bm
  Get better,  my darling
G             D
  I know you will
D            Bm
  Get better,  my darling
G             D  E7
  I know you will

Get better

🎸 Verse 4:
      D                  Bm
I'll start the day with tiramisu
          D                  G
Raise a spoon to front line workers
    D           Bm
An underfunded principle
           D               G
They risk all to be there for us
    D                 G
A younger you and a younger me
Bm
Meeting at The Serpentine
      E7             D A
I am yours, you are mine

🎸 Instrumental:
D  G  F#m  Em     D


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

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

D                 Bm
  (Get better,)
G           D
  I know I will
D                Bm
  (Get better,)
         G             D  E7
My darling
I know I will