Your Saddest Great Achievement chords by Lucy Eaton

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

BB E MajorE BB


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

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

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

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

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

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

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