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