Good Red Wine

 F                    Bb
She pours a glass of good red wine
        F                        
Do you mind? He says and does the 
   C
same
 F                        Bb      
The wedding photo in the hall 
               F                 C
stares back at strangers from its 
frame
                   Dm              
In these familiar rooms, where they
                       F
 watched the years go by
                    Dm             
Somewhere along the way, they both 
                     C
stopped trying and trying


[Verse 2]:

             F                 Bb 
And in his mind, he can still see 
             F               C
her in that black dress he adored
         F                       
Her girlfriends all looked up to 
Bb           F                C
her and the men were always floored
                      Dm           
She interrupts his daydream, with a
                  F
 question of her own
                         Dm        
For the first time in a long time, 
                            C
he doesn’t feel like he’s alone


[Chorus 1]:

               F                 
And she says, Why did you never 
Bb                   F           
take me to Paris or write my name
         C
 in the stars?
 F                              
Why when you see that I need the 
  Bb             F                
most don’t you try and take me in 
       C
your arms?
                       Dm          
Whispering sweet consolations, as 
                   F
if the die weren’t cast
                  C                
And he looked surprised and said I 
  Bb                      F   Fsus F
guess because you never asked


[Bridge 1]:

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            Bb               F     C
You never asked, you never asked
                     Dm        Bb 
There’s nothing that I can do that
        C         F
 will change the past


[Verse 3]:

             F                  Bb
And in her mind, she can still see
                F       C
 him on his graduation day
         F                      Bb
With a beard and horn-rimmed 
           F                   C
glasses and a smile that seemed to 
say
                         Dm      
You’ll never want for anything if 
                  F
you stick close by me
                     Dm            
He interrupts her daydream and says
                  C
 I know what you mean


[Chorus 2]:

     F                    Bb      
But why do you roll your eyes at 
                    F            
my stories and the jokes that you 
         C
used to like?
 F                        Bb      
Why do you turn away from me when 
   F                       C
I lie down beside you at night?
                        Dm       
When my confidence is shaken, why 
                               F
don’t you build me up from scratch?
               C               
She looked surprised and said I 
   Bb                      F   
guess because you never asked
Fsus F



[Bridge 2]:

            Bb               F   C
You never asked, you never asked
                     Dm         Bb
There’s nothing that we can do 
        C         F
that can change the past
          Bb
So right now I’m asking do you love 
me?
       F                  Bb   C 
Right now I’m asking, do you 
          Bb
still give a damn?
    Bb
I don't know


[Guitar Solo]:

F F Bb F F F C C F F F Dm 

F C Bb Bb Bb C F


[Verse 4]:

       F           Bb       
Thank God for red wine and an 
     F              C
antique kitchen light
      F                            
that lets the shadows dance across 
      Bb                           
the floor and hit both their faces 
       C
just right

Till they’re saying


[Chorus 3]:

 F                    Bb          
Why don’t we take a blanket out 
        F                        C
back and watch the stars from our 
lawn
 F                        Bb      
We can pretend it’s the banks of 
                     F             
the Seine, laugh at those dumb old 
             C
stories till just before dawn
Then we’ll make it like the first 
 Dm                      F
time, as if it were our last
                      Bb           
We’ll answer every question we were
  C             F  Fsus F
 too afraid to ask
                    Bb          C 
The answer’s always no if you 
           F
never dare to ask