Key: C
Introduction:
C E Bm F
From the paper umbrellas in both of our drinks
C F G C
To the shadows that walk without us
C E Bm F
My account of the details is as clear as you'd think
C F G C
Kept up by friends that still ask about us
C F
If our lives were a movie, if our lives were a book
C F
It'd be longer than I'd recommend
C E
'Cause if you're telling a story, at some point you stop
Am G F
But stories don't end
C E Bm F
The remains of a person, the habits of a ghost
C F G C
You could still find in the places you used to
C E Bm F
Still reading off cue cards and raising a toast
C F G C
To the stories I still tell about you
Dm
But the plot line wanders and versions change
Am F
And I don't know where to quit
C F
If I tried to show every side of you through words of a song
C F
I'd say a fraction of what I'd intend
C E
'Cause if you're telling a story, at some point you stop
Am G F
But stories don't end
G C F G
The next time I see you and my conscience tells me
G C F G
That the episode has long since been closed
G C F G
But he's not the one that gets up every morning
G C F
And wonders how long a memory keeps its pose
G C F
And how much that the man beside you knows
G C F
And how much of the toll it's taken shows
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Dm
Like a famous singer that lost his voice
Am F
That we all still want to meet
C F
If our lives were a movie, if our lives were a book
C F
It'd be longer than I could defend
C E
'Cause if you're telling a story, at some point you stop
Am G F
But stories don't end
Am G F
Stories don't end
Fm
They go on and on
Fm
Just someone stops listening