Why I Had To Go

Intro/fill (originally on keyboard)

G                    Em
E|--------------------|----------
B|--------------------|----------
G|--7-------7---------|--9-------
D|----9-7-----9-7-----|----9-7---
A|-------10------10---|-------10-
E|--------------------|----------

E|----------|    
B|----------|    
G|9---------|    
D|--9-7-----|    
A|-----10---|    
E|----------| x2 

Chords are for two measures each. 
The fill above basically happens 
every time there’s
a G-Em progression that isn’t under 
major vocals.

G  Em x2
D C
G  Em x2

        G                          
It is a narrowing. It is a 
                Em
shrinking and there’s a danger of 
overthinking
       G                         
It was everybody getting tired of 
                Em
drinking every night
            D                      
There was a little left to believe 
             C
in, which is how I really knew I 
should be leaving

            G              Em
I should be leaving…       now
            G              Em
I should be leaving

               G              
We were clever then. We’d talk 
forever then, and the night of our 
                  Em
invention it would never end
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           G                   
It was a parting, and there was 
sorrow, it was impossible to picture
    Em
 a tomorrow
          D                        
It was necessity and it was 
                                C
instinct and the pattern underneath 
it kept repeating
          D                    
kept repeating, kept repeating, 
which is how I really knew I should 
C
be leaving

            G              Em
I should be leaving…       now
            G              Em
I should be leaving

 Am                        C      
Oh and it was everything. Oh and 
it was just a way to keep from 
           G          Em
waking up alone
                      G            
Which is why I had to go
 Em

                         D         
Which is why I should be leaving
    C

                      G            
Which is why I had to go
Em        G       Em


     G                             
Am I belaboring? Am I delivering? 
    Em
Am I offering you a blanket, and 
you’re shivering?
        G                     
Is it a play?      Without the 
                   Em
passion? Is it an endless repetition
 of an action?
             D                
If there’s a christening, or a 
                C
crisis, we can get together then and
 say how nice it is
      D                        
Is it torment? Well it depends, 
          C
which is how I really knew I should 
be leaving

            G              Em
I should be leaving…       now
            G              Em
I should be leaving

Am                        C      
Oh and it was everything. Oh and 
it was just a way to keep from 
          G             Em
waking up alone
                      G            
Which is why I had to go
 Em

                         G         
Which is why I should be leaving
    Em

                      G            
Which is why I had to go           
Em                        G
                which you know