Key: A
Introduction:
A A7
I don't believe everything happens for a reason
D
To us romantics out here, that amounts to high treason
A A7
I don't go in for your star-crossed lovers
D
In the heart of a skeptic
G
There's a question that still hovers near
Verse
C F
For it begs the question
C F
How did I ever find you
C F
Now you got me writing love songs
C F
With a common refrain like this one here,
C F
baby
Am F C
And all your left handed kisses
G Em Am
Were just prelude to another
F C G Em Am
Prelude to your back handed love song,
F C
baby
C F
But it begs a question
C F
How did I ever find you
C F C
Drifting gently through the gyre
F C F C F C
Of the great Sargasso sea, Atlantic Ocean
F C F C
Got me writing love songs
F
With a common refrain like this one here
Solo
Am F C GEm
Verse
Am F C
The point your song here misses
G Em Am
Is that if you really loved me
Am F
You'd risk more than a few 50 cent
C G Em Am
Words in your backhanded love song
F
So it begs a question
C G Em Am
How did I ever find you
F C
Drifting gently through the gyre
G Em Am F C GEm Am
Of the great Sargasso sea, Atlantic Ocean
Am F C
The point your song here misses
G Em Am
You got me writing love songs
F C
Is that you really love me
G Em Am
With a common refrain like this one here, here (Baby)
F C G Em Am
Is prelude to another of your backhanded love song
Coda/Outro
A A7
Now it's time for a handsome little bookend
D
Now it's time to tie up all the loose ends
D
If you hesitate, you'll hear the click of the receiver