Note: The picking pattern throughout is an alternating quick bass note, high note except for the licks below.
Chords used:
Bm x 2 4 4 3 2
C x 3 2 0 1 0
Dsus4 x 0 0 2 3 3
Em/A 0 0 2 0 0 0
G 3 2 0 0 0 3
[Intro]
Em/A Bm C Em/A Bm C
Em/A G, Em/A G Dsus4: the lick is ---0-3-0------------------0-3-0--------------------
---------3-0-------------------3-0-----------------
--------------2h4--2------------------2h4--2--0----
-2-------------------2---2-------------------------
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-----------------------3---------------------------
[Verse]
Em/A Bm C
It's not the long flowing dress that you're in
Em/A Bm C
Or the light coming off of your skin
Em/A G
The fragile heart you protected for so long
Em/A G Dsus4
Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong
[Verse]
Em/A Bm C
It's not your hands, searching slow in the dark
Em/A Bm C
Or your nails leaving love's watermark
Em/A G
It's not the way you talk me off the roof
Em/A G Dsus4
Your questions like directions to the truth
[Chorus]
C G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C G Dsus4
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C Em/A
Maybe we'll get forty years together
Dsus4 C Em/A Dsus4
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone
[Verse]
Em/A Bm C
If we were vampires and death was a joke
Em/A Bm C
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke
Em/A G
And laugh at all the lovers and their plans
Em/A G Dsus4
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand
[Verse]
Em/A Bm C
Maybe time running out is a gift
Em/A Bm C
I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift
Em/A G
To give you every second I can find
Em/A G Dsus4
And hope it isn't me who’s left behind
[Chorus]
C G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C G Dsus4
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C Em/A
Maybe we'll get forty years together
Dsus4 C Em/A Dsus4
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone
[Interlude]
Em/A Bm C Em/A Bm C
Em/A G, Em/A G Dsus4: the lick is ---0-3-0------------------0-3-0--------------------
---------3-0-------------------3-0-----------------
--------------2h4--2------------------2h4--2--0----
-2-------------------2---2-------------------------
---------------------------------------------------
-----------------------3---------------------------
[Chorus]
C G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C G Dsus4
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C Em/A
Maybe we'll get forty years together
Dsus4 C Em/A Dsus4
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone
[Outro]
Em/A Bm C Em/A Bm C
