Fm                                 G#
It kills me not to know this but I've all but just forgotten
         C#                             G#               G#maj7
What the color of her eyes were and her scars or how she got them
       Fm                               G#
As the telling signs of age rain down a single tear is dropping
            C#                            G#             G#maj7
Through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten

Fm    G#    C#    G# G#maj7   x2

            Fm                       G#
there is no reconciliation that will put me in my place
            C#                       G#                   G#maj7
there is no time like the present to drink these draining seconds
    Fm                                   G#
but seldom do these words ring true when I'm constantly failing you
C#                                     G#          G#maj7
walls that we just can't break through until we disappear

           C#
so tell me now
              D#
if this ain't love then how
          C#
do we get out?
              D#
cause I don't know 

                             Fm
that's when she said I don't hate you boy
               G#
I just want to save you
                              C#            G#
while there's still something left to save
              G#maj7
that's when I told her
  Fm
I love you girl
                G#
but I'm not the answer for
                   C#              G#      G#maj7
the questions that you still have

Fm    G#    C#    G# G#maj7   x2

        Fm
and the day pressed on like crushing weights
    G#
for no man does it ever wait
     C#
like memories of dying days
     G#              G#maj7
that deafen us like hurricanes
Fm
bathed in flames we held the brand
  G#
uncurled the fingers in your hand
C#
pressed into the flesh like sand
    G#          G#maj7
now do you understand?

           C#
so tell me now
              D#
if this ain't love then how
          C#
do we get out?
              D#
cause I don't know 

                             Fm
that's when she said I don't hate you boy
               G#
I just want to save you
                              C#            G#
while there's still something left to save
              G#maj7
that's when I told her
  Fm
I love you girl
                G#
but I'm not the answer for
                   C#              G#      G#maj7
the questions that you still have

Fm

Fm                 D#
one thousand miles away
                        C#
there's nothing left to say
                      D#
but so much left that I don't know
Fm             D#
we never had a choice
                       C#
this world is too much noise
it takes me under
D#
it takes me under once again

Fm

           C#
so tell me now
              D#
if this ain't love then how
          C#
do we get out?
              D#
cause I don't know 

                             Fm
that's when she said I don't hate you boy
               G#
I just want to save you
                              C#           G#
while there's still something left to save
              G#maj7
that's when I told her
  Fm
I love you girl
                G#
but I'm not the answer for
                   C#              G#      G#maj7
the questions that you still have

Fm    G#    C#    G# G#maj7   x2

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