Key: E
Introduction:
E7M C#m
If I could live my life again awake,
E E7M C#m
Think of all the chances I could take,
A7M C#m
I'd love with all abandon just the same,
Am E
'Cause that's the game.
E C#m
If I could cross a bridge from now to then,
E C#m
Open up my chest and let it in,
A A7M C#m
I wouldn't fight so hard against the pain,
Am E
I'd let it rain,
E B6 C#m B A
Long time girl gone by.
E C#m
I couldn't take my loves the way they came,
E C#m
My eyes projected each one with a stain,
A7M C#
And though they gave me more than I could spend,
C#m A
I wouldn't bend.
E C#m
Hiding in my bridal veil of smoke
E D C#m
I sipped my lies until I thought I'd choke,
A C#m
Once there was nothing left that I could steal,
A E
I had to yield,
E B6 C#m B A
Long time girl gone by.
G#m7 B F#m7
The seconds whisper circles off the clock,
G#m7 B
The ships go sailing past and never dock,
E C#m
The sea rears up, collapses and withdraws,
E C#m
The constellations wheel and never pause,
A7M B/A C#m
The wind winds through the small bones in my ear,
A
I start to hear.
E C#m
The trees look just as pretty when they're bare,
E C#m
Black branches hieroglyphic in the air,
A C#m
The leaves they left are rotted into lace,
A E
It's all grace,
E B6 C#m B A
Long time girl gone by,
E F#m C#m B A Em
Long time girl gone by.