Transcribed by Brian Murtagh



G/G5

G5        
I got your address from the phone book at the library
          C5
Wandered in, looked you up and you were there
G5                                                          C5
Weird that you've been living, maybe, 2 miles away for the best part of 20 years
                    G5
You must be, what, in your early forties now
             C5
If I remember,
                                 G5
You were born in June or was it May?
                             C5 
Eisenhower was the president although it may have been JFK


G5
Years of silence
    C5            G5               C5
Not enough who could blame us giving up?
          A5              C5
Above the quiet there's a buzz

That's me trying


G5                               C5
You still working in that store on ventura?
                           G5
You still going with--no, that's not fair
                                    C5
I know I haven't been the very best of dads

I'll hold my hand up there
G5                                                C5
The reason that I'm writing is that i'd like for us to meet

Get a little daughter dad action going soon
A5
We can put things behind us

Eat some pizza, drink some beer
C5
You still see your sister Lemli?

Bring her, too


G5                 C5
Years of silence, not enough
          G5               C5
Who could blame us giving up?
          A5              C5
Above the quiet there's a buzz

That's me trying

G5 C5 


But I don't want to talk about any of that bad stuff
D5
Why I missed out on your wedding and your high school graduation
G5
I'd like to explain, but I can't
D5
So let's keep things neutral
         G5
Stick to topics that won't bug us



How 'bout this?
C5
Let's choose a book and we'll read it before we meet
C5
Then we can sit down at a restaurant 
                                                   Bb5
Have a look at the menu and talk about it while we eat

See, if we never had a problem

Then that's what life would be like
G5
Easy

Uncomplicated
C5
Cool


                                           G5
So let's just pretend that the past didn't happen
                                      C5
I don't really like thriller as well.
G5                          
I don't want to know if I've got grandchildren
                   C5
no need to tell me where I went wrong
                                    G5                C5
I don't want to know what happened in your thirties

You wanna try 'cold mountain'?

Or is that too long??


G5                      C5
Years of silence, not enough
          G5               C5
Who could blame us giving up?
          A5              C5
Above the quiet there's a buzz
                 G/G/C5
That's me trying

I'm trying