INTRO: F5 , C5 , F5 , C5 , F5 , D5 , G5 F5 C5 G5 C5 All the happy couples on their way to New Or-leans F5 G5 C5 F5 Re-minding me of when we got a-long F5 C5 G5 C5 They're only renting time and space to fill up with their dreams F5 G5 C5 F5 And dreams are what they'll have when they have gone F5 C5 G5 C5 How could it be that I was born without a clue to carry on F5 G5 C5 F5 And still it is the same now I am older C5 G5 C5 Armed with just a will and then this love for singing songs F5 G5 C5 F5 And minding less and less if I am colder F5 C5 F5 C5 But I have this funny ache and it's burning in my chest F5 G5 C5 F5 And it spreads just like a fire inside my body F5 C5 F5 C5 Is it something God left out in my spirit or my flesh F5 G5 C5 F5 Would I be saved if I were brave and had a baby? F5 C5 It was never clear what would come next G5 C5 but that's the risk and that's the test F5 G5 C5 F5 And you were the only one so far to follow C5 G5 C5 And no one talks about when one might stop and need to rest F5 G5 F5 Or how long you sit alone before you G5 F5 G5 stop looking back It's like you're waiting for Godot F5 G5 C5 And then you pick your sorry ass up off the street and C5 F5 C5 F5 C5 F5 Go... F5 C5 F5 C5 And what the hell is this? Who made this bloody mess? F5 G5 C5 F5 And someone always answers like a martyr F5 C5 F5 C5 Is it something you should know, did you never do your best F5 G5 C5 F5 Would you be saved if you were brave and just tried harder F5 C5 G5 C5 So now I ride the aught-one-thirty-five to New Orleans F5 G5 C5 F5 I float a mile above life's toil and trouble C5 G5 C5 A thousand lonely lifetimes I still wait and then go on F5 G5 C5 F5 C5 F5 C5 F5 C5 A clown to entertain the happy couples
