Key: D
Introduction:
C G D Em7x3 C G
C G D Em7
You were in college working part time waiting tables
C G D
Left a small town, never looked back
C G D Em7
I was a flight risk with a fear of falling
C G D
Wondering why we bother with love if it never lasts
C G D C G
I say can you believe it?
D C G
As we're lying on the couch
D
The moment I could see it
C G D
Yes, yes, I can see it now
C G
Do you remember we were sitting there by the water
D Em D
You put your arm around me for the first time
C G
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
D Em D C
You are the best thing that's ever been mine
C G D Em7
Flash forward and we're taking on the world together
C G D
And there's a drawer of my things at your place
C G D Em7
You learn my secrets and you figure out why I'm guarded
C G D
You say we'll never make my parents' mistakes
C G D
But we got bills to pay
C G D
We got nothing figured out
C G D
When it was hard to take
C G D
Yes, yes, this is what I thought about
C G
Do you remember we were sitting there by the water
D Em D
You put your arm around me for the first time
C G
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
D Em D
You are the best thing that's ever been mine
C G
Do you remember all the city lights on the water
D Em D
You saw me start to believe for the first time
C G
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
D Em D
You are the best thing that's ever been mine
C G
Do you remember we were sitting there by the water
D Em D
You put your arm around me for the first time
C G
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
D Em D C
You are the best thing that's ever been mine
Em C
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D
You said everything was slipping out of our hands
Em C D
I ran out crying and you followed me out into the street
C G D
Braced myself for the goodbye
C G D
'Cause that's all I've ever known
C G D
And you took me by suprise
C G D C
You said I'll never leave you alone
You said
C G
I remember how we felt sitting by the water
D Em D
And every time I look at you it's like the first time
C G
I fell in love with a careless man's careful daughter
D
She is the best thing that's ever been mine
C G
Hold on, we can make it last
D Em D
Hold on, never turn back
C G
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
D
You are the best thing that's ever been mine
C G D
(Hold on) Do you believe it?
C G D
(Hold on) We're gonna make it now
C G D
(Hold on) And I can see it
C G D
Yeah, yeah (I can see it now, see it now, see it now
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