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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
Em
Well you don’t like that way that I am (is not the way)
C
Way that you want and the way you understand (but I can’t)
G
Can’t help being the way that I am (it’s just the way)
D
Way that it is and what I know so sorry about

Em
All of these things that I be and I know (it's all me)
C
And not you but this ain't how I wish (it to be)
G

For you and your way and I know (it’s all me)
D
Just know that I know, I know it’s all on me


Refrain:
C                             D                    Em
All the little pieces make up so much sense in the distance, a-whoa-ho-ho-ho
C                 D              Em
Fragmented to the point of is it possible?


Chorus:
C          D          G         C
Hot on the trail of a real fine life
C          D          G            C
This could be what it means to be alive
C            D           G               C
Can’t be too sure but it feels the right way
C       D                 G
Love is infinite like sun rays


Post-Chorus:
C             D          G    Em
I know what I need to be me
C                D           G            D
And I know being me makes it hard to see
C             D               G     Em
Standing on a precipice isn’t new
C                      D             G
Those demons sometimes get me seeing blue


Bridge:
C                    D
All this, call this, what you want but it
G             C
Makes me feel alive
C                     D
Stowed it, showed it, now I know it
G              C
Can’t be in my mind
C                        D
It was foreign, pouring, I’ve been storing
G               C
This for a long while
C                        D
I consumed, felt doomed, sung a new tune
G                   B7
Eventually in time


Verse 2:
Em
But you don’t like that way that I feel (is the way)
C
Way that makes you feel worse all of the time (and I know)
G
Know that it’s not okay for you (and it’s not)
D
Not for me and is for you so sorry about

Em
All of these things that you didn’t sign up for (and I don’t)
C
Wish the pain on you it’s so sore (but I’ve been)
G
Honest to fault (but it doesn’t help)
D
I know that hurts and it hurts and it keeps on hurting


Verse 3:
Em
Every single time we try and try
   C
To make things right for you and I
   G
We just kept digging, digging it deep
B7
Below our feet ‘till we started to sink

    Em
And I didn’t know what what to do
  C
I told myself the truth the truth
    G
And I could understand and you could understand
    B7
But how could we stand, when there was nowhere to stand?

    Em
And all the little things that get under our skin
       C
Didn’t make us better in that heavy weather
  G
I hope that it’s better but never upsetter
   B7
We took our hands, made some vague plan


Refrain:
C                             D                    Em
All the little pieces make up so much sense in the distance, a-whoa-ho-ho-ho
C                 D              Em
Fragmented to the point of is it possible?


Chorus:
C          D          G         C
Hot on the trail of a real fine life
C          D          G            C
This could be what it means to be alive
C            D           G               C
Can’t be too sure but it feels the right way
C       D                 G
Love is infinite like sun rays


Post-Chorus:
  C           D          G    Em
I know what I need to be me
      C          D                   G    D
And I know being me makes it hard to see
    C               D           G    Em
The distance hasn’t always been clear
    C                D              G   B7
But finally with our love it could appear


Outro:
    C
And you don’t like what it is (You don't like what it is)
    G                      D
And you don’t know what it is (You don't know what it is)
    C
And I can’t sum it up easily
      D
But I know what it is that I plainly see

     Em
Yeah who could have liked what it was?
C
It caused such a fuss
G
My heart placed in your hand
D
Then we gave love a chance and