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