Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
🎸 Intro:
| C majorC D MajorD | G+G C majorC | C majorC | C majorC D MajorD | 2x
🎸 Verse 1:
C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC
Is this the life you chose yourself
D MajorD
Or just how it ended up?
C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC
Is that the yard you pictured when
D MajorD
You closed your eyes and dreamed
C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC
Of children in the grass running through the sprinklers?
D MajorD
Being somebody's wife?
C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC D MajorD
Or were you living in another life?
🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm C majorC
When will I make it home?
E minorEm D MajorD
When I damn well feel like driving
A minorAm C majorC
Down these empty streets
E minorEm Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
That burn through our birthright
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
I passed a couple of kids holding hands in the street tonight
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
They reminded me of us in another life
🎸 Instrumental:
| C majorC D MajorD | G+G C majorC | C majorC | C majorC D MajorD | 2x
🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC
A minorAm I the man of your desire?
D MajorD
Or just a guy from your hometown?
C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC
Are these the arms that you saw when you
D MajorD
Pictured yourself wrapped around?
N.C.
Baby, I can vouch for the hopeless dreamer
Cadd9Cadd9 C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC D MajorD
When you look at me, am I the man you hoped I'd be?
🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm C majorC
When will I make it home?
E minorEm D MajorD
When that jukebox in the corner
A minorAm C majorC E minorEm Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Stops playing country songs of stories that sound like mine
🎸 Outro:
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
I spent my best years laying rubber on a factory line
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC
I wonder what I would've been in another life
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC
In another life
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC
In another life
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC
In another life