C5         G5           E5       A5      G5
E | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | -------- | 
B | ----1---- | ----0---- | ----1-- | ----1-- | ----1--- | 
G | ----0---- | ----0---- | ----0-- | ----2-- | ----0--- | 
D | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | -------- | 
A | --3------ | --------- | --2---- | --0---- | -------- | 
E | --------- | --3------ | ------- | ------- | ---3---- | 



Intro / Verso:
           C5                  G5
Girl, I've been thinking a lot
         C5              C5     G5
about who we could have been
   C5
if i was back home
        G5                 C5             C5
just chilling with you and all my friends
  E5        A5      A5
But dear I'm gone
       G5         C5      C5
and that's the lousy truth
  G5            C5
For the past 3 years
     G5            C5        C5
I swear I've been a better man
        G5           C5
than who Ive become
     G5                 C5           C5
i know i know i know I let you down

 E5          A5        A5
But I've been gone
   G5            C5   G5
for too damn long

Refr?o:
G5   G5    G5    G5
So if you go away
 G5     G5       G5          G5
right now that i can't guarantee
     C5   E5      A5        A5     C5
that i won't break your heart
 G5       G5        G5      G5
But if you go stay then baby
     G5        G5                C5       E5     A5    A5
That i will hope and pray that you would run away
    C5       E5     A5       A5
Cause dear it breaks my heart
  G5        C5
to see you here

So shine outward, not inward
you've been a selfish little girl
for the past 3 years
I've been through more than you can know
and God I don't want you to know

But I have been through
cause you just wouldn't understand
you're just a girl with some issues
as bad as it might sound

But you're the girl who's been driving me mad

So if you go away
then know that i can't guarantee
that i won't break your heart
But if you go stay then baby
That i will hope and pray that you would run away
Cause dear breaks my heart
to see you here

So go to school in Chicago
find a new boy, a new life
a whole new set of friends
Cause all that I've ever do is break your heart
and dear it breaks my heart
to see you here

And dear it breaks my heart
to see you here

But just so you know...

I've been thinking a lot of
who we could have been
if i was back home
just chilling with you and all my friends

But dear I'm gone
and that's the lousy truth.