Key: A
Introduction: Dm Dm6 Bm7(b5) Fº E7
A Gm7 A Gm7
No one ever tells you what's like to love and lose
A Gm7 A Gº
How it feels to waken and have breakfast with the blues
D6 Dm6 A C#m7(b5) F#7
How to go on living, how to face another day
D9 Dm7M Fº E7
No one ever tells you the way
A Gm7 A Gm7
No one ever tells you how it feels to walk alone
A Gm7 A Gº
Listening for those footsteps through the echo of your own
D6 Dm6 A C#m7(b5) F#7
Suddenly it hits you all those dreams weren't worth a dime
D9 Dm6 Bb9 E7 A
'Cause no one ever tells you in time
Bridge
Gm7 Gº D D7M D6
Long before the icy winds of winter
Dm7 Fº A7 D
Autumn tells the swallows, "Time to fly"
Gm7 A Gm7 A
Why did she pretend, till the bitter end
Dm Dm6 Bm7(b5) Fº E7
Till it broke my heart to say, "Goodbye"
A Gm7 A Gm7
And no one ever tells you that it's just another fling
A Gm7 A Gº
No one ever warns you when your heart begins to sing
D6 Dm6 A C#m7(b5) F#7
Someone tells you later all is fair in love and war
D9 Dm6 Bb9 E7 A
But no one ever tells you before
A Gm7 A Gm7
No one ever tells you what's like to love and lose
A Gm7 A Gº
How it feels to waken and have breakfast with the blues
D6 Dm6 A C#m7(b5) F#7
How to go on living, how to face another day
C#m7(b5) F#7
It never comes easy
D9 Dm7 E7 A
No one ever tells you before
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