Eighteen chords by Tyler Lyle

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

intro:

G+G G MajorG G+G G MajorG
G+G G MajorG G+G G MajorG

verse 1:

G+G          D MajorD
I wish I met you ten years ago,
A minorAm       E minorEm
when I was eighteen:
     C majorC
A augmentedA tragic late bloomer

With no sense of humor
G+G          D MajorD
Dreaming of my gypsy queen.
        A minorAm
You would have found me on the couch
C majorC
Playing with my flip phone
    G+G
At some house party off-campus
      D MajorD
Waiting to walk home alone.
G+G              D MajorD
You would have offered me a pot brownie,
A minorAm        E minorEm
When I imagine it now,

And we would have
C majorC
Talked all night

Danced to the sunrise
  G+G            D MajorD
And I would have kissed your mouth,

Without a doubt.
       A minorAm
It would have saved us so much time,
C majorC
Knowing it was always you
    G+G
On that far end of forever
   D MajorD
That I've been singing to.

chorus:

C majorC     G+G
Forever is not enough.
     E minorEm     D MajorD
I want a whole life through,

To love you.
C majorC      G+G
I wish I had junior year
  E minorEm        D MajorD
To disappear in your brown eyes.
C majorC       D MajorD
My first song should have been your song.
C majorC    D MajorD    E minorEm           C majorC
My first high, should have been your arms.
     D MajorD
A augmentedA life to love you.
     G+G     D MajorD     E minorEm
I want a whole life through to love you.
     C majorC           D MajorD       G+G    E minorEm
I want a whole life through to love you more.
     C majorC           D MajorD       G+G
I want a whole life through to love you more.

verse 2:

G+G          D MajorD        A minorAm
I wish I met you at five years old
            E minorEm
Through a crack in the fence
     C majorC
Back when clouds were angels and

Your hair was in tangles
    G+G            D MajorD
And the world was its own sacrament.
     A minorAm
In those halcyon flashes
      C majorC
Through the hourglass sand.
     G+G
Now I only see in pictures
      D MajorD
When once I could have held your hand.
G+G                D MajorD
I could have saved you from your parents' fighting.
A minorAm               E minorEm
I could have joined you in the closet hiding.
C majorC
You could have saved me from the predjudice
    G+G       D MajorD
And the goddamned fundamentalists.
      A minorAm
But in the time that I have left,
      C majorC
I will not waste the rest of these years.
    G+G
I want twenty Roman candles shooting;
    D MajorD
I want twin liter beers.

chorus:

C majorC     G+G
Forever is not enough.
     E minorEm     D MajorD
I want a whole life through,

To love you.
C majorC         G+G      E minorEm       D MajorD
We could have had Springsteen, swim team, and blue skies.
C majorC       D MajorD
My first song should have been your song.
G+G         E minorEm              C majorC
My first time,  should have been your arms.
     D MajorD
A augmentedA life to love you.
     G+G           E minorEm
I want a whole life through to love you.
     C majorC           D MajorD      G+G  E minorEm
I want a whole life through to love you more.
     C majorC           D MajorD      G+G  E minorEm
I want a whole life through to love you more.

outro:
     C majorC
And if we come back here,
   D MajorD        G+G
Let's find each other first.