Key: C Intro: C Em G C Em G C Em G Verse: C Em G I ain’t written a love song in so long as your hair leans down your spine C Em G If you don’t mind, being mine for the night or the rest of time C Em G let your hips and lips and your fingertips slip against the city streets C Em G Sleeping in again, sleeping in while my friends get high on the edge of Westside Highway
C Em G Verse: C Em G Did you ever make it back to Byron Bay? C The day that you told me to quit drinking Em G And thinking that I was gonna die before thirty, your mom was so worried about C Em All those kids in the house tearing picture frames down G Our fathers were never around when we were younger C Em G Chorus: N.C. C So let it go I saw you on the river's edge G Dragging on a plastic cigarette D* Em With your swim top still wet C G So let it go, I'm meeting you out on the coast D You hate the smell of real smoke Em Why'd you always keep it so cold? C G D Em Verse: C Em G We're collecting shells out on the bayshore you know I was a shell before C Em G Deep in the hands of another my brother told me to leave, but I didn't believe C Em G the evil beneath some people you meet out in Queens C Em G The way the rain came down the other day in Byron Bay C Em G Made me feel so alone, so I just went home, scribbled some poem that I know that she'll never read C Em G Chorus: N.C. C So let it go I saw you on the river's edge G Dragging on a plastic cigarette D* Em With your swim top still wet C G So let it go, I'm meeting you out on the coast D You hate the smell of real smoke Em Why'd you always keep it so cold? C G D Em C G D Em Outro: C G D* Em Let it go I saw you on the river's edge C Let it go I saw you on the river's edge G Dragging on a plastic cigarette D* With your swim top still wet ______________ * = strum once
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