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