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Standard D tuning

[Intro]
 Em/A  Bm  C  Em/A  Bm  C 
 Em/A   G ,  Em/A  G   Dsus4 :the lick  ---0-3-0------------------0-3-0--------------------
                                        ---------3-0-------------------3-0-----------------
                                        --------------2h4--2------------------2h4--2--0----
                                        -2-------------------2---2-------------------------
                                        ---------------------------------------------------
                                        -----------------------3---------------------------
 
[Verse]
             Em/A          Bm                C 
It's not the long flowing dress that you're in
        Em/A        Bm           C 
Or the light coming off of your skin
             Em/A                       G 
The fragile heart you protected for so long
        Em/A                              G   Dsus4 
Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong
 
[Verse]
               Em/A             Bm          C 
It's not your hands, searching slow in the dark
         Em/A          Bm           C 
Or your nails leaving love's watermark
             Em/A                      G 
It's not the way you talk me off the roof
      Em/A                               G  Dsus4 
Your questions like directions to the truth
 
[Chorus]
      C                                G 
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
   C                            G              Dsus4 
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
  C                             Em/A 
Maybe we'll get forty years together
  Dsus4               C                       Em/A  Dsus4 
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone
 
[Verse]
             Em/A        Bm           C 
If we were vampires and death was a joke
        Em/A          Bm          C 
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke
     Em/A                               G 
And laugh at all the lovers and their plans
   Em/A                                 G   Dsus4 
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand
 
[Verse]
       Em/A        Bm        C 
Maybe time running out is a gift
           Em/A         Bm           C 
I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift
   Em/A                         G 
To give you every second I can find
     Em/A                            G   Dsus4 
 And hope it isn't me who’s left behind
 
[Chorus]
      C                                G 
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
   C                            G              Dsus4 
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
  C                             Em/A 
Maybe we'll get forty years together
  Dsus4               C                       Em/A  Dsus4 
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone
 
[Interlude]
 Em/A  Bm  C  Em/A  Bm  C 
 Em/A  G,  Em/A  G  Dsus4:  the lick is  ---0-3-0------------------0-3-0--------------------
                                        ---------3-0-------------------3-0-----------------
                                        --------------2h4--2------------------2h4--2--0----
                                        -2-------------------2---2-------------------------
                                        ---------------------------------------------------
                                        -----------------------3---------------------------
 
[Chorus]
      C                                G 
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
   C                            G              Dsus4 
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
  C                             Em/A 
Maybe we'll get forty years together
  Dsus4               C                       Em/A  Dsus4 
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone
 
[Outro]
 Em/A  Bm  C  Em/A  Bm  C