23 Years chords by Corey Kilgannon

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC

Verse 1:
G+G          C majorC    G+G
Was it the aching of your wrists
G+G          C majorC      G+G
Or just because of your weathered eyes
G+G            C majorC     E minorEm
Was it the shake in your clenching fists
    A minorAm  C majorC      G+G

Verse 2:
Or the hollow pass of time
G+G         C majorC     G+G
Was it the aging of her hips
G+G         C majorC   C majorC   G+G
Or the way that my mother always cried
G+G      C majorC       E minorEm   G+G
Was it the taste of another's lips
C majorC         C majorC    G+G
For which you put down your fight

G+G C majorC G+G C majorC

Verse 3:
G+G           C majorC        G+G
Had you forgotten her long white dress
G+G           C majorC        G+G
How pretty she looked coming down the isle
G+G          E minorEm        G+G
You asked her to love you and she said yes
     C majorC     D MajorD     G+G
And she loved you like a child

Verse 4:
G+G          C majorC        G+G
Had you forgotten those long hard days
 G+G         C majorC        G+G
Coming home to your lover most every night
G+G                    E minorEm
She'd wait for you to step off of that train
       C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
She's been waiting all her life

G+G C majorC G+G C majorC

Verse 5:
C majorC
Love is getting your hands dirty
E minorEm
Love is bleeding all over each other
C majorC
Love is sharing the same burden
E minorEm                  A minorAm   Am7Am7  A minorAm E minorEm
Love's not living, it's dying, it's dying together
G+G     A minorAm  Am7Am7  E minorEm   G+G
It's dying together

G+G C majorC G+G C majorC

Outro:
G+G           C majorC      G+G
I feel the weight of her broken prayer
A7A7      C majorC       G+G
Twenty Three years pleading for your life
G+G             A7A7     E minorEm
Twenty Three years begging you to care
A7A7         C majorC     G+G
For your tired and lonely wife
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