Capo 4

We earmarked our August vacation as a fine place to fall apart.
And we heard that a trial separation was a quaint idea for a new start.
Then the city approached like a bandit, my hands shook as they gripped the wheel.
As if I'd always known there's no place like home to show you the way that you feel.

A rainy afternoon in your bedroom , clothes in two piles on the floor.
One is labeled old couture, the other's marked alms for the poor.
I'm just loitering trying to look helpful; you offer two corners of the sheet.
We fold over and over and over again and then in the middle we'll meet.
                        
Now some days I feel like an engagement ring, resting on the ocean floor.
Yet others just like that same Glen Campbell record found in every second hand store.
Now right now I'm watching a drummer, haul his drums into a bar.
And deep down I'm secretly happy, that I play the harmonica.

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No I'm not sayin I'm lazy, I just, take more time to digress.
And of more than three ways I empty my days, now that you're not around to impress.
And of more than three ways I empty my days, now that you're not around to impress.

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Those forming, morning birds.
     F                  G  
They don't do things by thirds.


And your voice sounds just like it's reading, from a birthday telegram.
It says you're looking a little older, I say that's funny because I am.
Last year escaped by the window, and this year's going for a song.
And the church bells they're plagiarizing, merrily we roll along.

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No we weren't together forever, but then what the hell does that mean?
One persons lifetime the history of mankind, or the years since I turned seventeen?
One persons lifetime the history of mankind, or the years since you turned seventeen?

Yeah I was light headed unfettered not falsely, claimed to know the dimensions of love.
I was prone to wild exaggeration, sayin things I had no concept of.
Maybe love takes the form of a mountain, with no choice but forever to linger.
Or maybe love lives in a soap bubble, at the mercy of a childs finger.

But each one comes with a little rainbow, designed to hypnotize us.
And I wouldn't trade one heart-broken minute, for a years worth of dull happiness.

F C G
F G
C G F C (x4)

So I built myself another lifetime, oh how quick did the calendar grow?
And right now I'm seven years wiser, than I was twenty-five years ago.

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I stop to play with this cat on the footpath, and he's cleaning his head 
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with his paw.
And I know that you're gone so I'm moving on, still I know that you're worth mourning for.
And I'm feeling just fine but I'm taking my time, cause I know that you're worth mourning for.

Tabbed for Emma. I'm feeling just fine babe but I know that you're worth mourning for xoxo.