Your Saddest Great Achievement chords by Lucy Eaton

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

B E B



🎸 Verse 1:
B
My mother has moved away
  E        B
She never liked that town
              E         B
I am so afraid that having children held her down
C#m              E
Being her third child I'm the reason for second place
C#m      E     C#m     B
A consolation prize in a consolation race

🎸 Verse 2:
B             E        B
My father was a poet and a dreamer made of time
              E      B
Every cent he ever made was wasted on my life
C#m              E
Love is so completely made of love when you are young
C#m        E        C#m         B
Then when you grow out of love they tell you what you've done

🎸 Chorus:
B           E           B
I'm sorry that I'm the best thing that you've done
   B           E     B
When all I ever do is complain and be alone
C#m                   E
Everything you could have been
I don't even come close
C#m            E           C#m    B
I'm your saddest great achievement, and I don't even come home

🎸 Verse 3:
B          E        B
I think of a million reasons not to call
                 E        B
At the end of the day I have got nothing done at all
C#m           E
All I ever talk about is trying not to talk
C#m       E       C#m        B
All you've ever offered me is everything you've got

🎸 Chorus:
B           E           B
I'm sorry that I'm the best thing that you've done
   B           E     B
When all I ever do is complain and be alone
C#m                   E
Everything you could have been
I don't even come close
C#m            E        C#m    B
I'm your saddest great achievement
I don't even come home

🎸 Bridge:
B                E
Mother nature, order, chaos, the circle of life
B              E
One day I will be somebody's disappointing wife
C#m               E
And when my turn comes around I hope I understand
C#m     E         C#m       B
Maybe I will realize it's all I ever could have been

🎸 Chorus:
B           E           B
I'm sorry that I'm the best thing that you've done
   B           E     B
When all I ever do is complain and be alone
C#m                   E
Everything you could have been
I don't even come close
C#m            E
I'm your saddest great achievement, and I don't even
C#m            E               B
I'm your saddest great achievement, and I don't even come home