Missed My Chance
Griffin House

Tuning Standard
Capo 1st fret

C | --3---------- |     D | --2---------- |       G | --3-------- | 
  | --3---------- |       | --3---------- |         | --3-------- | 
  | --0---------- |       | --2---------- |         | --0-------- | 
  | --2---------- |       | --0---------- |         | --0-------- | 
  | --3---------- |       | --0---------- |         | --2-------- | 
  | --x---------- |       | --2---------- |         | --3-------- | 

Strumming Pattern: Intro & Verse (All Downstrokes)
   G                         C
 | --3-------3-----------3-----3-------3-------3--------- | x2 for intro
 | --3-------3-----------3-----3-------3-------3--------- | 
 | --0-------0-----------0-----0-------0-------0--------- | 
 | --0-------0-----------0-----2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2----- | 
 | --2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----- | 
 | --3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--------------------------- | 


   G                              C
      Passed through main street yesterday
   G                              C
      And, oh, this town just ain't the same
   G                              C
      Looked in the window and it was gone
   G                              C
      All those tables I'd written on

        D                                         C
      We're vanished as if I had never been there
        D                                                                C
      Like the poets and prophets who can't find the words so they stare
        D                                               C
      And all that made sense has somehow turned askew
            D        D        D        C              G               C
      I missed my chance with you


    G                                                               C
      There were seconds then minutes then years that I could not breathe
    G                                                               C
      In the Pere Lachaise with the hammer the chisel and the stone
    G                                            C
      Now I've bartered and begged for what I believed
    G                                          C
      And I saw that the name engraved was my own


        D                                                C
      Now there's nothing so peaceful as when I met you
      D                                                   C
      And there's nothing so lonely as when it was through
        D                                               C
      And the words, "I'm not here anymore", echo into
             D        D        D        C             G               C
      "I missed my chance with you"


    G                                  C
      Had love play so many tricks on me
    G                                               C
      I've always felt cheated that you'd make me leave
    G                                          C
      Like taking my sight after letting me see
    G                                              C
      But I found out love had something up it's sleeve


        D                                                      C
      Leave me scattered like leaves by winds that never blew
        D                         C
      When I captured the starts
        D                                 C
      In the palm of my hand it was true
             D         D        D          C            G             C
      I'd just give them back to you



    G                                    C
      I was seventeen, but just for one year
    G                                    C
      I always knew one day, I'd end up here
    G                                                          C
      And the sands have now fallen to the evening of my afternoon
    G                                                         C
      I'm was always so ready to stay and always leaving too soon



        D                                               C
      And I don't want to think about it now, but I do
        D                        C
      And my spirit is restless
        D                      C
      'Cause I know it's true
            D        D         D    C
      I missed my chance with you