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Tuning: Standard (Chord diagramE MajorE Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramG+G Chord diagramBB Chord diagramE MajorE)

Verse 1:
Chord diagramE minorEm
Well you don’t like that way that I am (is not the way)
Chord diagramC majorC
Way that you want and the way you understand (but I can’t)
Chord diagramG+G
Can’t help being the way that I am (it’s just the way)
Chord diagramD MajorD
Way that it is and what I know so sorry about

Chord diagramE minorEm
All of these things that I be and I know (it's all me)
Chord diagramC majorC
And not you but this ain't how I wish (it to be)
Chord diagramG+G
For you and your way and I know (it’s all me)
Chord diagramD MajorD
Just know that I know, I know it’s all on me
Refrain:
Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramE minorEm
All the little pieces make up so much sense in the distance, a-whoa-ho-ho-ho
Chord diagramC majorC         Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramE minorEm
Fragmented to the point of is it possible?


Chorus:
Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramG+G     Chord diagramC majorC
Hot on the trail of a real fine life
Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramC majorC
This could be what it means to be alive
Chord diagramC majorC      Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC
Can’t be too sure but it feels the right way
Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramG+G
Love is infinite like sun rays


Post-Chorus:
Chord diagramC majorC       Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramE minorEm
I know what I need to be me
Chord diagramC majorC        Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramD MajorD
And I know being me makes it hard to see
Chord diagramC majorC       Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramE minorEm
Standing on a precipice isn’t new
Chord diagramC majorC           Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramG+G
Those demons sometimes get me seeing blue
Bridge:
Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramD MajorD
All this, call this, what you want but it
Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramC majorC
Makes me feel alive
Chord diagramC majorC           Chord diagramD MajorD
Stowed it, showed it, now I know it
Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramC majorC
Can’t be in my mind
Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramD MajorD
It was foreign, pouring, I’ve been storing
Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC
This for a long while
Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramD MajorD
I consumed, felt doomed, sung a new tune
Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramB7B7
Eventually in time


Verse 2:
Chord diagramE minorEm
But you don’t like that way that I feel (is the way)
Chord diagramC majorC
Way that makes you feel worse all of the time (and I know)
Chord diagramG+G
Know that it’s not okay for you (and it’s not)
Chord diagramD MajorD
Not for me and is for you so sorry about

Chord diagramE minorEm
All of these things that you didn’t sign up for (and I don’t)
Chord diagramC majorC
Wish the pain on you it’s so sore (but I’ve been)
Chord diagramG+G
Honest to fault (but it doesn’t help)
Chord diagramD MajorD
I know that hurts and it hurts and it keeps on hurting


Verse 3:
Chord diagramE minorEm
Every single time we try and try
  Chord diagramC majorC
To make things right for you and I
  Chord diagramG+G
We just kept digging, digging it deep
Chord diagramB7B7
Below our feet ‘till we started to sink

  Chord diagramE minorEm
And I didn’t know what what to do
 Chord diagramC majorC
I told myself the truth the truth
  Chord diagramG+G
And I could understand and you could understand
  Chord diagramB7B7
But how could we stand, when there was nowhere to stand?

  Chord diagramE minorEm
And all the little things that get under our skin
    Chord diagramC majorC
Didn’t make us better in that heavy weather
 Chord diagramG+G
I hope that it’s better but never upsetter
  Chord diagramB7B7
We took our hands, made some vague plan


Refrain:
Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramE minorEm
All the little pieces make up so much sense in the distance, a-whoa-ho-ho-ho
Chord diagramC majorC         Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramE minorEm
Fragmented to the point of is it possible?


Chorus:
Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramG+G     Chord diagramC majorC
Hot on the trail of a real fine life
Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramC majorC
This could be what it means to be alive
Chord diagramC majorC      Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC
Can’t be too sure but it feels the right way
Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramG+G
Love is infinite like sun rays


Post-Chorus:
 Chord diagramC majorC      Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramE minorEm
I know what I need to be me
   Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramD MajorD
And I know being me makes it hard to see
  Chord diagramC majorC        Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramE minorEm
The distance hasn’t always been clear
  Chord diagramC majorC        Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramB7B7
But finally with our love it could appear


Outro:
  Chord diagramC majorC
And you don’t like what it is (You don't like what it is)
  Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramD MajorD
And you don’t know what it is (You don't know what it is)
  Chord diagramC majorC
And I can’t sum it up easily
   Chord diagramD MajorD
But I know what it is that I plainly see

   Chord diagramE minorEm
Yeah who could have liked what it was?
Chord diagramC majorC
It caused such a fuss
Chord diagramG+G
My heart placed in your hand
Chord diagramD MajorD
Then we gave love a chance and

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