Tono: C
C
F
C
F
C
F
C
E7/G#
E7/B
I am here to tell you we can never meet again
Am
C/G
F
G7
Gº
Simple really, isn't it, a word or two and then
C
F
C
E7/G#
E7/B
A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when
Am
C/G
F
C/E
You think of me or speak of me or wonder what befell
Dm
G7
Gº
The someone you once loved so long ago so well
C
F
C
E7/G#
E7/B
Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by
Am
C/G
F
G7
Gº
You don't have to ask me and I need not reply
C
F
C
E7/G#
E7/B
Every moment of my life from now until I die
Am
C/G
F
C/E
I will think or dream of you and fail to understand
Dm
G7
Gº
How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand
C
G/B
Is it written in the stars
Am
C/G
Are we paying for some crime
Am7/F
Dm/E
Is that all that we are good for
Dm
G
Just a stretch of mortal time
C
G/B
Is this God's experiment
Am
C/G
In which we have no say
Am7/F
Dm/E
In which we're given paradise
Dm
G
C
F
C
F
But only for a day
C
F
C
E7/G#
E7/B
Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide
Am
C/G
F
G7
Gº
No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide
C
F
C
E7/G#
E7/B
You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied
Am
C/G
F
C/E
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned
Dm
G7
Gº
What it is to be in love and have that love returned
(Chorus)
C
F
C
F
C