INTRO:
Am C F G
Am C F G
VERSE:
Am C F G
By the time that you told me it was already plain that you'd changed
Am C F G
But your conscience was clean and as white as a line of cocaine
Am C
My back to the wall of your bedroom apartment
F G
You're talking in circles, got two cigarettes burning
Am C F G
And I couldn't hide how afraid I was to see you so strange
Am C
Don't get me wrong, I've got no ill will for you
F G
It'd just been so long, I thought I'd always know you
Am
But you're so far gone
C F
Up where the air gets thin
G
You cut the kite strings
Am C F
I've seen my name in lights, I've seen my face in papers
G
But my civilian life, I spent ten good years waiting
Am C F G
Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, for you
Am
You charmed the snake
C
You picked the card
F G
You bent the spoo-oo-oon
Am C
A curved plane, the shapes change
F G
Euclid's made to play the fool, but
Am C
I don't know what that stuff does to you
F G Am
And I don't know if it's real, but
C
I spent a decade in love with you
F G
And I can't stand if you're here, 'cause
HOOK:
Am C Fmaj7
The man I knew
G Am C Fmaj7 G
I don't think that he can hear me now
G Am C F G
So dizzy with the al-ti-tude
G Am C F G
It's just tooooooo far
VERSE:
Am C F
Who am I to tell you to come down?
F G
Lucky that my palate still prefers a legal poison
Am C F
Who am I to tell you to come down?
F G
Sit back and raise a glass, a glass to easy choices
Am C F
Who am I, yeah, who am I, yeah who am I
G Am C F G
To tell you to come doooooooown?
HOOK:
Am C Fmaj7
The man I knew
G Am Cmaj7 F G
I don't think that he can hear me now-o-o-ow
G Am C Fmaj7 G
So dizzy with the al-ti-tude
G Am C F
It's just tooooooo far,
G Am C
Who am I to tell you, tell you, to tell you, tell you,
F G
To tell you, to tell you, tell you, tell you, tell you
OUTRO::
F G
Last night you came to kiss me in a dream and when I woke
Am
What kind of foolishness is this
C
Breathed out a lungful of your smoke
F
I've seen you at your brightest
G
What a mind, let it burn
Am C
Who am I to pull you down to Earth?
F G Am C
Yeah, who am I to tell you to come doooown?
F G Am
Come dooooownnn
