[Intro]
G
[Verse]
G
Thought about it all day
G
been meaning to tell you
D
it's too late to explain
D
too soon to make sense of it
G Em D G
all I can offer is this belated goodbye.
G
Just imagine if you're always coming and going
D
purposely misplaced and not sure where home is
G Em D G
but always get homesick in the cradle of night.
[Break]
G D
[Chorus]
G D G C
See, if your heart had a backdoor I'd sure slip away
G D G
Cowardly, but it's my go-to
G D G C
Seems like every so-long needs some profound thing to say
G D G
but honest, there's nothing to tell you...
Em D G
Except... I hope you enjoy this mess
Em D G
and what you love leads you to success
Em D G
and when you think of me now and then
C G D G
forgive your friend who's always leaving.
G
Sometimes I think distance is perfect
G
cause it prolongs our romanticized state in all this
D G
and sometimes I really wanna call you but for some reason shy away
G D G
because I know you'd be glad, and that makes me sad.
G
So I'll show up on some cloudy day and we'll make a million pancakes
G
and we'll talk like its been no time at all, still young, dumb, impressionable
G CM7
and you've finished Innocents Abroad
CM7 C
and you set me up with your extra cot
G CM7 CM7
and I keep my stories to a minimum, cause you're sick of them
D G
but I bet you would have loved the highlands of Guatemala,
D
Eurail Belgium to Spain, backpacking Yosemite
G
Utila on a full moon dive...
D G
our falling out was no one's but mine.
[Break]
G D
G D G C
See, there's this ache in my chest and it won't go away
G D G
doctor says I pulled a muscle
G D G C
But I think it's some residue from what I coundn't say
G D G
so I carved in the wall of a hostel
Em D G
I wrote... I hope you enjoy this mess
Em D G
and what you love leads you to success
Em D G
and when you think of me now and then
C G D G
forgive your friend who's always leaving.
Em D G
And maybe I'm not cut out for all this
Em D G
maybe I want more than life can give
Em D G
But i hope you know it pains me to no end
C G D G
to be your friend who's always leaving.