Chords with lyrics
Note: The picking pattern throughout is an alternating quick bass note, high note except for the licks below.
Chords used:
B minorBm x 2 4 4 3 2
C majorC x 3 2 0 1 0
Dsus4Dsus4 x 0 0 2 3 3
Em/A 0 0 2 0 0 0
G+G 3 2 0 0 0 3
Intro:
Em/A B minorBm C majorC Em/A B minorBm C majorC
Em/A G, Em/A G+G Dsus4: the lick is ----3-0-------------------3-0--------------------
---------4-0-------------------4-0---------------
--------------2-0-------------------2-0----------
-2----------------------2--------------------2---
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-------------------3----------------------3------
Verse:
Em/A B minorBm C majorC
It's not the long flowing dress that you're in
Em/A B minorBm C majorC
Or the light coming off of your skin
Em/A G+G
The fragile heart you protected for so long
Em/A G+G Dsus4Dsus4
Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong
Verse:
Em/A B minorBm C majorC
It's not your hands, searching slow in the dark
Em/A B minorBm C majorC
Or your nails leaving love's watermark
Em/A G+G
It's not the way you talk me off the roof
Em/A G+G Dsus4Dsus4
Your questions like directions to the truth
Chorus:
C majorC G+G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C majorC G+G Dsus4Dsus4
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C majorC Em/A
Maybe we'll get forty years together
Dsus4Dsus4 C majorC Em/A Dsus4Dsus4
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone
Verse:
Em/A B minorBm C majorC
If we were vampires and death was a joke
Em/A B minorBm C majorC
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke
Em/A G+G
And laugh at all the lovers and their plans
Em/A G+G Dsus4Dsus4
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand
Verse:
Em/A B minorBm C majorC
Maybe time running out is a gift
Em/A B minorBm C majorC
I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift
Em/A G+G
To give you every second I can find
Em/A G+G Dsus4Dsus4
And hope it isn't me who’s left behind
Chorus:
C majorC G+G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C majorC G+G Dsus4Dsus4
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C majorC Em/A
Maybe we'll get forty years together
Dsus4Dsus4 C majorC Em/A Dsus4Dsus4
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone
Interlude:
Em/A B minorBm C majorC Em/A B minorBm C majorC
Em/A G, Em/A G+G Dsus4: the lick is ----3-0-------------------3-0--------------------
---------4-0-------------------4-0---------------
--------------2-0-------------------2-0----------
-2----------------------2--------------------2---
-------------------------------------------------
-------------------3----------------------3------
Chorus:
C majorC G+G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C majorC G+G Dsus4Dsus4
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C majorC Em/A
Maybe we'll get forty years together
Dsus4Dsus4 C majorC Em/A Dsus4Dsus4
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone
Outro:
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