Intro: C G C F
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The other day when we were walking by the graveyard near the house
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You asked me if I thought we would ever die
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And if life and love both fade so predictably
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We've made ourselves a kind of predictable life
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And so I pictured us like corpses lying side by side in pieces
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In some dark and lonely blood under a bow
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We looked so silly there all decomposed half turned to dust
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In tattered clothes but we probably look just as silly now
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Bye bye bye bye bye bye to all this dogged innocence
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I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
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Or how to be
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But you have no idea about me do you
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And it left me to wonder if people will ever know each other
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By just stumbling around like strangers in the dark
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Cause sometimes you seem so strange to me
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I must seem strange to you
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We're like two actors playing our parts
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Did you memorize your lines 'Cause I did
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Here's the part where I get so mad
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I tell you I can't forget the past
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You get so quiet now and you seem somehow
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Like a lost and lonely child
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And you just hope that the moment won't last
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Bye bye bye bye bye bye to all this dogged innocence
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I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
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Or how to be
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But you have no idea about me
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You have no idea about me do you
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So there's always a way around
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There's something tying our feet to the ground
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A moment passed we hate how it sounds
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And it seems a little less profound
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Like we're all going the same way down
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Yeah we're all going the same way down
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I'm just trying to write it all down
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Cause I write songs and you write letters
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We are tied like two in tethers
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And we talk and read and laugh and sleep at night in bed together
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And you wake in tears sometimes
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I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes
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They say Darling will you be kind
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Will you be a good man and stay behind if I get old
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And then the letters all pass through my head
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With the words that I was told
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About the fading flesh of life and love the failures of the bold
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I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will
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And I'll defy everyone and love you still
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I will carry you with me up every hill
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And if you die before I die I'll carve your name out of the sky
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I'll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie
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It may be better to move on and to let life just carry on
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And I may be wrong
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But still I'll try
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Cause it's better to love whether you win or lose or die
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Yeah It's better to love whether you win or lose or die
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It's better to love and I will love you 'til I die