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