Tom: Em
G Bm C
Well you were wrong about the way
D G
You said my memory would change
Bm C
Day after day, you claimed
D G
I’d find it inside of me to grow
B
Away from the pain
Am
And the shame and the guilt
C
And the questions
D G
Wondering what did I do wrong
Bm C D
To you, to decide it was time to go
[Chorus]
G C D
Because we had to
G Em
Because I tried the best that I could
D C D
To have and to hold you
G D Em
In the way I knew that I should
D C D
And we’d still be breathing darling
G D Em D
If I did the little you asked of me
C D G G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all
[Verse 2]
Bm
The way that the night came down
C D
You were alone in your room
G
With somebody else
Bm C
But you were too big, and bold in my eyes
D
And I was to cowardly to call all your lies
G Bm C
Well I didn’t know not telling the truth
D G
Would cost me my soul, and most of my youth
Bm C
So with you I stayed in spite of myself
D
And I don’t know why
[Chorus]
G C D
Because we had to
G Em
Because I tried the best that I could
D C D
To have and to hold you
G D Em
In the way I knew that I should
D C D
And we’d still be breathing darling
G D Em D
If I did the little you asked of me
C D G G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all
[Instrumental]
Em D Bm C (x2)
[Bridge]
Em D
Why would you roam when you knew
Bm C
That I’d always be coming back home, alone, to you?
Em D Bm
You knew that I never, ever, ever, ever
D
Would have done that to you
Still you did
[Chorus]
G C D
Because we had to
G Em
Because I tried the best that I could
D C D
To have and to hold you
G D Em
In the way I knew that I should
D C D
And we’d still be breathing darling
G D Em D
If I did the little you asked of me
C D G G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all
[Verse 3]
C D
And when we were younger
G F#m Em D
And our hearts outpaced our wits
C D
It was better
G D Em D
and I preferred to live in the ignorance
C D
In the bubble
G Em E
that you built with a fake façade
D C
In the guise of another
D G
Well you sold lies and I bought them all
