Tune guitar on full step down. Use the following chord shapes.
Em Bm C
It's not the long, flowing dress that you're in
Em Bm C
Or the light coming off of your skin
C G
The fragile heart you protected for so long
C G D
Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong
Em Bm C
It's not your hands searching slow in the dark
Em Bm C
Or your nails leaving love's watermark
C G
It's not the way you talk me off the roof
C G D
Your questions like directions to the truth
C G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C G D
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C G
Maybe we'll get forty years together
D C
But one day I'll be gone
C G D
Or one day you'll be gone
verse 2
Em Bm C
If we were vampires and death was a joke
Em B C
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke
C Am Em
Laugh at all the lovers and their plans
C Am G
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand
Em Bm C
Maybe time running out is a gift
Em Bm C
I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift
C G
And give you every second I can find
C G D
And hope it isn't me who's left behind
C G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C G D
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C G
Maybe we'll get forty years together
D C
But one day I'll be gone
C G D
Or one day you'll be gone
C G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C G D
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C G
Maybe we'll get forty years together
D C
But one day I'll be gone
C G D
Or one day you'll be gone