Key: F
Introduction:
F5
So steadfast and stolid
Eb5
And stoic and solid
C5 Bb5
For day after every day
Ab5 F5
Why stay?
Ab2 F2
Why stay?
Eb5/F
Why not simply give in
F5 Eb5 F5
And get on with living?
F5 Bb
Cause everyone knows you tried
Eb Bb7 Eb Bb Eb Bb
But somehow some-thing died
C7
On the way
So tell me why you stay
Ab F5
Why stay?
Ab F5
Why stay?
Eb5/F F5
En-dur- ing and coping
F5 Eb5 F5
And hurt-ing and hoping
Bb
For day after fucking day
Ab F5
Why stay?
Ab F5
Why stay?
Eb5/F
Why not simply end it?
F5 Eb5 F5
We'd all comprehend it
F7 Bb
And most of the world would say
Eb Bb Eb Bb Eb Bb
He's better off that way
C7sus
F5
And maybe so is she
F5
A promise a boy says forever
F5 Db7+
A boy says whatever may come we'll come through
F5
And who can know how
Bb2 C
When all I know now to be true
Bbm7 F5
Is this promise that I make to you
F5
A question, a boy wonders whether
F5 Db7+
The two stay together the way that they stay
F5
For year after year
Bb2 C
From love or from fear, either way
Bbm7 F5
That's the promise that I made that day
F
Here's what I say
Am F
To the girl who was burning so brightly
Am F
Like the light from Orion above
Bb F2 F F2
And still I will search for her nightly
F C F7
If you see her, please send her my love
Am F
And the boy was a boy for all seasons
Am F
That boy is long lost to me now
Dm G
And the man has forgotten his reasons
Bbm7
But the man still remembers his vow
F5
A promise, a man says forever
F5 Db7+
A man says I'll never regret or let you
F5 Am F/A Bb Bb2
The promise I made to stay and I stayed true
Gm7
Knowing one day we'd remember that joy
Gm7 A
You'd remember that girl, I'd remember that boy
A Dm9 Dm Dm9/C Dm/C Bb
Til we do, the promise I made I'll make it brand new
F5
The promise that I made to you