Intro
C# G# A#m G# F# A#m G# (x2)
[Verse 1]
C#
It's a sordid sort of feeling
G# A#m
When you learn to live with spite.
G# F#
It's a desperate kind of living
A#m G#
When you're burning up the night.
C#
Getting sick of all the drinking
G# A#m
Getting sicker every day.
F# G# C#
Cause I can't say the things I really want to say
[Verse 2]
C# G# A#m
I remember when Chicago seemed a million miles away
G# F# A#m G#
I was chained by quiet longing on that Independence Day
C# G# A#m
B month across the country built in all I learned from you
F# G# C#
I sang those thoughts away just like I always do.
[Chorus]
C# F#
It's been an age, it's been an era, it's been a lifetime.
A#m G#
But I'll remember every step
C# F#
I'll cross my heart when we cross paths across the country
A#m G#
Please just remember I'm not the one who left, and I never will
[Interlude]
C# G# A#m G# F# A#m G# (x2)
[Verse 3]
C# G# A#m
All the aches and shits and quivers hurdle in with morning light
G# F# A#m G#
and a somber sense of longing steals my breath and grips my spine
C# G# A#m
I can feel the salty ocean suck the moisture from my skin
F# G# C#
And I know staying here will surely do us in
[Verse 4]
C#/D D#m F# C# G# F#
And I walked on down to that lonely shoal, where my best hopes go to die
D#m F# C# G# F#
I thought I will keep you in my pen, until the ink wells all go dry
C# G# C#
And I'll keep it like a secret every day
[Chorus]
C# F#
It's been an age, it's been an era, it's been a lifetime.
A#m G#
But I'll remember every step
C# F#
I'll cross my heart when we cross paths across the country
A#m G#
Please just remember I'm not the one who left
C#
And I never will