F
There's a kid I used to know
Bb
His heart exploded one day after school
F
When we were walking home
F
My mother told me son
F
That boys heart was so full up with love that
Bb F
It just gave out there wasn't enough room
Dm F
But I heard he wrote a love song
Gm Dm
For a girl he never met
Dm F
How stupid can one kid get?
F
It was soft and sweet
Gm Dm
Miserable but pleasantly upbeat
Dm F
And this is how it went:
[Chorus]
F Gm Dm
Alison I know this world is killing one of us
D C F
But that could never change the way you smile Whoa
Gm
And I can't convey
Dm
That we just seem to betray
D C F Bb
The way I feel when I see your pretty face from far away
Bb C F
Knowing that that's the closest that will ever be
[Verse 2]
Dm F
It was Sunday after church
Dm Bb
The funeral masses crowded out the door
Bbm F
And spilled onto the curb
Bb Bbm
The mothers wiped their tears
F Dm
And held their sons tightly near em
Bb F
Said little one don't you ever fall in love
Gm
But its not the fear of telling her the truth
D
About the things that he would do
F
To make her his that led this whole thing to ensue
Gm
It's just the pain of seeking her each day
D
The way it's gonna end the same
F
How many times you let the right girl get away
[Chorus]
F Gm Dm
Alison I know this world is killing one of us
D C F
But that could never change the way you smile Whoa
Gm
And I can't convey
Dm
That we just seem to betray
D C F Bb
The way I feel when I see your pretty face from far away
C
Knowing that that's the closest that will ever
Gm Bb F
C Bb C Bb
Gm Bb F
C Bb C Bb
[Chorus]
F Gm D
Alison I know this world is killing one of us
D C F
But that could never change the way you smile Whoa
Gm
And I can't convey
Dm
That we just seem to betray
D C F
The way I feel when I see your pretty face from far away
F Gm Dm
Alison I know this world is killing one of us
D C F
But that could never change the way you smile Whoa
Gm
And I can't convey
Dm
That we just seem to betray
D C F Bb
The way I feel when I see your pretty face from far away
C Bb
Knowing that that's the closest that will ever be
