Tabbed by Jay Chipple Intro : C5 C5 God this is hard you've had no sleep, you thought of nothing else for weeks A5 G5 You begin your lines, and fumble with your purse C5 It's been eating you and you don't know what to do A5 G5 And your lie, only made it worse F5 C5 F5 C5 You can't expect him to understand, he's not a saint, he's just a man A5 G5 And you know, that you can't change what he did F5 C5 F5 C5 But if you had 40 lives, you d get it right by the 39th, A5 G5 C5 As it is, all that you could ask, all this will pass C5 God, you wish like hell, you hadn t done it and you tell A5 G5 Him , how much you regret it C5 But you're talking to yourself, you're as lonely and as desperate A5 G5 As a kettle boiling, with no there to get it F5 C5 F5 C5 All the words you meant to say, hang in the air then float away A5 G5 And vanish into the end of a dying day F5 C5 F5 C5 But if you had 40 lives, you d get it right by the 39th, A5 G5 C5 As it is, all that you could ask, all this will pass [Don t lie, ah ah ah] F5 C5 F5 C5 And if only you hadn't stayed, and if only you'd been delayed A5 G5 And it s funny what a difference a minute makes F5 C5 F5 C5 But if you had 40 lives, you d get it right by the 39th A5 G5 C5 As it is, all that you could ask, all this will pass