||This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.|| All the other chords or tabs for this song are pretty much correct, but this is the exact way Conor plays the chords in the song. I figured it out from watching him play it at a show. CHORDS: (all of them are played this way throughout the entire song) C/G (3x555x@1)x G (320003@1)x F (133211@1)x G7 (320001@1)x Amin (x02413@1)x D7 (xx0212@1)x D (xx0232@1)x Emin (022032@1)0 x x x x 1 x x 0 0 0 2 0 2 5 4 0 2 0 3 3 2 4 5 2 3 2 3 2 0 5 5 2 3 3 x 3 x x x 0 C/G (3x555x@1) G (320003@1) FThe (133211@1)rain, it started tapping on the window near my bed. There was a loophole G7 (320001@1) Aminin (x02413@1)my dreaming, so I got out of it. And to my surprise my eyes were wide and F (133211@1) D7 (xx0212@1) Dalready (xx0232@1)open. Just my nightstand and my dresser where those nightmares had just been. C/G (3x555x@1) G (320003@1) FSo (133211@1)I dressed myself and left them, out into the gray streets. But everything G7 (320001@1) Aminseemed (x02413@1)different and completely new to me. The sky, the trees, F (133211@1) D7houses, (xx0212@1)buildings, even my own body. And each person I encountered, I Dcouldn't (xx0232@1)wait to meet. C/G (3x555x@1) G (320003@1) And I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said "there is F (133211@1) G7nothing (320001@1)that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself." He said "Oh Amin (x02413@1) F (133211@1) D7yes (xx0212@1)you can. Just hold my hand. I think that would help." So I sat with him Da (xx0232@1)while and then I asked him how he felt. F (133211@1) Emin (022032@1)Amin (x02413@1) F (133211@1) Emin (022032@1)Amin (x02413@1) F (133211@1)Emin (022032@1)AminHe (x02413@1)said, "I think I'm cured. No, in fact, I'm sure. Thank you stranger, for Gyour (320003@1)therapeutic smile." (Play through verse progression once) C/G (3x555x@1) G (320003@1) FSo (133211@1)that is how I learned the lesson that everyone is alone. And your eyes G7 (320001@1) Aminmust (x02413@1)do some raining if you ever want to grow. But when crying don't help F (133211@1) D7and (xx0212@1)you can't compose yourself, it's best to compose a poem, an honest verse D (xx0232@1) of longing or a simple song of hope. C/G (3x555x@1) GAnd (320003@1)that's why I'm singing, "Baby,don't worry, cause now I got your back. FAnd (133211@1)every time you feel like crying, G7 (320001@1) AminI'm (x02413@1)gonna try and make you laugh. But if I can't, if it just hurts too bad, F (133211@1) D7then (xx0212@1)we will wait for it to pass, and I will keep you company through those D (xx0232@1) C/G (3x555x@1) Gdays (320003@1)so long and black. And we'll just keep working on the problem we know F (133211@1) G7we'll (320001@1)never solve, of Love's uneven remainder, our lives are fractions of a Amin (x02413@1) Fwhole." (133211@1)But if the world could remain within a frame like a painting on a D7 (xx0212@1) Dwall. (xx0232@1)Then I think we would see the beauty then. We would stand staring in awe F (133211@1) Emin (022032@1)Amin (x02413@1) F (133211@1)Emin (022032@1)Amin (x02413@1) FEmin Aminat (x02413@1)our still lives posed like a bowl of oranges, like a story told by the G (320003@1) G7fault (320001@1)lines and the soil. (Play through verse progression once more and end on a C)