Tom: F#
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[Verse 1]
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I come home late after closing the coffee shop
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Make myself some dinner then get to drinking
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And Peter down at the corner store
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The young man, our friend remember?
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Well, he's moving on, he don't work there anymore
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I went by last night and he was gone
[Chorus 1]
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And I just wish I could tell you
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Yeah, I just wish I could tell you
[Verse 2]
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Wake up phone call from the A PD
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Say they wanna talk to me about the theft
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Can't say I haven't been keeping busy
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I couldn't write a song, so I tried to play that song
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That we used to sing together bout sailing
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Couldn't make it through the first verse
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Without breaking down and crying
What the hell is wrong with me?
[Chorus 2]
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Hey I just wish we could sing it
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Yeah, I just wish we could sing it
[Verse 3]
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To answer your letter, most days I'm doing fine
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But sometimes I still get deep, down, dark and feeling low
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But now I wear sunglasses and a big jacket
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And get so high that I can't see the bottom, it helps a little
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And when it's too hard to handle I call Carlos and we talk it out
[Chorus 3]
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But I just wish I could call you
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Yeah, I just wish I could call you
[Verse 4]
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Remember that time we rode the train to San Mateo
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And met up with my mom and her husband
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She'd just found $20 on the ground
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So she took us out to lunch, and it was raining
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After that we said goodbye, and walked down to the tea gardens
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Beneath our broken umbrella and when we got there it was closed
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We did our best to enjoy ourselves despite it all
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But by then the sun was setting on our problems
[Chorus 4]
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I want to say sorry
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Yeah, I just wanna say sorry
[Verse 5]
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I got this whole trunk of love poetry between us
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That I can't put away, or throw away, or even begin to think about
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So it just sits in the window, waiting
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for the day when some new little rose is gonna be heading on over
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And I'll just sweep it away, sweep our memories up
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Like I'm making my bed, without thinking
Just like I'm making my bed, without thinking
[Chorus 5]
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And that's no way to say thank you
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Yeah, that's no way to say thank you
[Verse 6]
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That whole thing about the A PD, it's not as bad as it sounds
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I just cashed a check for somebody that turned out to be stolen
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And I think I did it 'cause I was lonely
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I got the call today that the bank's gonna pay restitution
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But there was a while there where I thought
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I was gonna get thrown in a cell or be on the line for 5000 dollars
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And you don't know the first thing about it, beginning, middle or end
[Outro]
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But it's still you that arrest me and robs me
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Still you that arrest me and robs me
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Still you that arrest me and robs me
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Still you that arrest me and robs me
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Still you that arrest me and robs me
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Still you that arrest me and robs me
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Still you that arrest me and robs me
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Still you that arrest me and robs me
