Key: F
Introduction:
Bb/F F Bb/F F
My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away
Dm Dm/C G/B
But ev'ry now and then you come to mind
Bb F Dm G7
Cause you were always waiting to be picked to play the game
Bb C Dm Dm/C
But when your name was called, you found a place to hide
Bb C Bb/F F Bb/F F
When you knew that I was always on your side
VERSE: (STING)
Bb/F F Bb/F F
Well everything was easy then, so sweet and innocent
Dm Dm/C G/B
my demons and my angels reappeared
Bb F Dm G7
Leavin' only traces of the man you thought I'd be
Bb C Dm Dm/C
To afraid to hear the words I'd always feared
Bb C Bb/F F Bb/F F
Leavin' you with only questions all these years
Dm A7/C#
Now is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear
F/C G
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear
Bb Eb
Or are you left to wander, all alone, eternally
Gm F/A Bb
This isn't how it's really meant to be
F/A Gm F/A C
No it isn't how it's really meant to be
Bb F Bb/F F
Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear,
Dm Dm/C G/B
How to pull it close and make it stay
Bb F Dm G7
If butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away
Bb C Dm Dm/C
And I'm left to carry on and wonder why
Bb C Bb/F F Bb/F F
Even through it all, I'm always on your side
Dm A7/C#
But is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear
F/C G
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear
Bb Eb
Or are we left to wander, all alone, eternally
Gm F/A Bb
This isn't how it's really meant to be
F/A Gm F/A C
No it isn't how it's really meant to be
Bb F Bb/F F
Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear,
Dm Dm/C G/B
How to pull it close and make it stay
Bb F Dm G7
If butterflies are free to fly, why do they fly away
Bb C Dm Dm/C
Leavin' me to carry on and wonder why
Bb C Dm Dm/C
Was it you that kept me wondering through this life
Bb C Bb/F F Bb/F F Bb C Eb Bb/D F
When you know that I was always on your side
F
Dm xx0231
F/A
Csus x3556x