G G/F# Em D C G
G G/F# Em D C G
[Verse 1]
G G/F# Em D Am C
I am writing you this letter in desperation I'm afraid
G G/F# Em D Am C
And I won't be back to Lindsay for the veterans' parade
G G/F# Em D Am C
'Cause I got banged up pretty good in a street fight in Bilbao
G G/F# Em D C G
And I won't be coming home to see your young and pretty face
[Chorus]
C G
I am far too young to feel so old
D
And far too tired to care
G G/F# Em D C G
That I took down twenty bastards before they left me lying there
C G D
G G/F# Em D C G
[Verse 2]
G G/F# Em D Am C
When I landed here a year ago I know that I believed
G G/F# Em D Am C
That it was better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees
G G/F# Em D Am C
And it's not that I care any less for that philosophy
G G/F# Em D C G
But I would spend one night with you in trade of all that I've achieved
[Chorus]
C G
'Cause I was never much on dreams
D
And they were never big on me
G G/F# Em D C G
And I can't dream my way home from a gravesite by the sea
C G D
So I'll clench my fist and once more sing 'The Internationale'
G G/F# Em
And I'll say, "Goodbye, I love you."
D C G
'Cause it's time that I should go
