Am Fmaj7 Am G
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.
F C G
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.
Am Fmaj7 Am G
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.
Am Fmaj7 Am
I stop to play with this cat on the footpath, and he's cleaning his head
G
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.
