C         G           E      Am      G/C
E|----0----|----3----|----0--|----0--|----3---|
B|----1----|----0----|----0--|----1--|----3---|
G|---------|---------|-------|-------|--------|
D|---------|---------|-------|-------|--------|
A|--3------|---------|--2----|--0----|--------|
E|---------|--3------|-------|-------|---3----|


Intro / Verso:
           C                  G
Girl, I've been thinking a lot
         C              C     G
about who we could have been
   C
if i was back home
        G                 C             C
just chilling with you and all my friends
  E       Am     Am
But dear I'm gone
       G         C      C
and that's the lousy truth
  G            C
For the past 3 years
     G            C        C
I swear I've been a better man
        G           C
than who Ive become
     G                 C           C
i know i know i know I let you down

 E         Am       Am
But I've been gone
   G            C  C  C
for too damn long

Refrão:
G/C   G/C    G/C    G/C
So if you go away
 G/C     G/C       G/C          G/C
right now that i can't guarantee
     C   E      Am        Am     Am
that i won't break your heart
 G/C       G/C        G/C      G/C
But if you go stay then baby
     G/C        G/C        G/C      G/C   C    E   Am    Am
That i will hope and pray that you would run away
    E       C        E    Am   Am
Cause dear it breaks my heart
  G        C
to see you here

So shine outward, not inward
you've been a selfish little girl
for the past 3 years
I've been through more than you can know
and God I don't want you to know

But I have been through
cause you just wouldn't understand
you're just a girl with some issues
as bad as it might sound

But you're the girl who's been driving me mad

So if you go away
then know that i can't guarantee
that i won't break your heart
But if you go stay then baby
That i will hope and pray that you would run away
Cause dear breaks my heart
to see you here

Am Am    C      C  G G G G
So go to school in Chicago
Am     Am       C     C
find a new boy, a new life
G      G      G      G
a whole new set of friends
Am      Am     C         C     G   G   G   G
Cause all that I've ever do is break your heart
               Am
and dear it breaks my heart
     G         C  C
to see you here
E          Am
And dear it breaks my heart
G           C
to see you here

But just so you know...

I've been thinking a lot of
who we could have been
if i was back home
just chilling with you and all my friends

But dear I'm gone
and that's the lousy truth.