If Only

Em           G             D    
What do you do when they turn on
      Em
 the light?
Em             G               D
You guard your heart, so they 
         G
steal your sight
    G            D          Em   
You reach out in blindness, touch
     D
 the alone
  Em        G             D      
His icicle fingers chill you to 
    Em    E
the bone
Am    C           G            
What do you do when the cat gets ya 
Am
tongue?
Am          C        G        C
No way to tell it's all going wrong
C             G         Am     G
Mouth out the words on the telephone
Am      C        G        Am
Nobody answers, nobody's home…

[Chorus]
    D                A         
What's done has been done, and I 
        C#m    B
won't be the one
     D                   A    
Who despairs in the wheelchair, 
                  B
resigned to "If only"
    D                            A
No, I'll stand up again and I'll run
      C#m          E          B
I'll jump up till I touch the sun
          D                     
Because I won't be the one to be 
 A
bound
                 B
By the sound of "If only, if only, 
if only"

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[Verse 2]
       Em           G             
Well, I reach out in blindness 
D                Em
now, but what do I care?
Em              G          
I'll walk into walls and I'll 
    D           G
stumble downstairs
      G           D              
I'll laugh like a fishwife, I'll 
Em         D
cry like a clown
Em        G           D         
Up is the only way to go when 
     Em     E
you're down

[Verse 3]
     Am        C                  
When I reach a mountain top, then 
G          Am
I start to climb
Am               C                
I'll walk on the water, I'll turn 
G        C
water to wine
C             G          Am     
Hope is the one thing we got on 
    G
our side
Am            C           G     
Hope can be salvaged when all 
       Am
else has died

[Chorus]
    D                A         
What's done has been done, and I 
        C#m    B
won't be the one
     D                   A    
Who despairs in the wheelchair, 
                  B
resigned to "If only"
    D                            A
No, I'll stand up again and I'll run
      C#m          E          B
I'll jump up till I touch the sun
          D                     
Because I won't be the one to be 
 A
bound
                 B
By the sound of "If only, if only, 
if only"

[Fill]
Em   G    D    Em
Em   G    D    G
G    D    Em   D
Em   G    D   Em
Am   C    G   Am
Am   C    G   C
C    G    Am  G
Am   C     G  Am

 [Chorus]
    D                A         
What's done has been done, and I 
        C#m    B
won't be the one
     D                   A    
Who despairs in the wheelchair, 
                  B
resigned to "If only"
    D                            A
No, I'll stand up again and I'll run
      C#m          E          B
I'll jump up till I touch the sun
          D                     
Because I won't be the one to be 
 A
bound
                 B
By the sound of "If only, if only, 
if only"