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