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