Strumming pattern D D D DU DU

Chords used: | C| Am| F| G| C|

C

This is the story of how I learned my lesson

Who would have thought that true love could be the perfect intervention?

Am

Well anyway, here I am a changed man

A new life, a new love, a new game plan

F

Promise me that you’ll never let them change us

G

Never let them break us because your love is contagious

C

This love is outrageous, This love should be famous

(same chord styling throughout the whole song—fits with the tempo)

I washed my hands of my past and my deceiving

Now you’re my new faith and the road that I believe in

Who would have thought that one girl could clean me up like Purell

Charge me up like Duracell, crack the whip and give me Hell?

Never a saint, but don’t label me a sinner

I’ve dealt some dirty cards, but that doesn’t mean I’ll hit and quit her

Baby I could be your winner, I could be your chicken dinner

Don’t buy into all the chatter

It’s just getting in our way

They’re trying to spread rumors

I tell you, you’re my main girl

I know that I’m not perfect

I’ve done things I’m ashamed of

Don’t listen to them, baby

I tell you you’re my main girl

Ghosts of the past are like tabloids in a magazine

Selling you my story like the main event on TMZ

They paint you a picture of a man that I don’t wanna be

Can’t they just accept that ZP has come clean?

While they’re trying to bring us down, I’m trying to get us out

I try to halt the negative, I try to calm the doubt

These walls that we’re living in are strangling our fate

I won’t give up, just like Gilligan, trying to escape

Man, I’m stuck on an island but I’m going to give you more

I’ll build you a boat out of kisses and we’ll sail to any port

Just sit back and relax, girl

Because I’m going to be your captain

And when it all ends

And Mary Ann is home back in Kansas

And Mr. Howell has topped the Dow

And Ginger is with her cameras

Well I’ll be on the mainland laying with my Mrs.

Yeah, you heard me right, I said Mrs. , not a mistress

[chorus]

We could do good things together

Be my bread, I’ll be your cheddar

All I want is to be with you day and night

You are the only one for me

[chorus]