[Intro] (whistling):
C G Em D/F#
C G Em D/F#
Obsession it takes control
C G Em D/F#
Obsession it eats me whole
Em D/F# G
I can't say the words out loud
Em D/F# G
So in a rhyme I wrote you down
C D G
Now you'll live through the ages
C D G
I can feel your pulse in the pages
C G D/F#
Whoa whoa-oa
C G
I have written you down
Em D
Now you will live forever
C G
And all the world will read you
Em D
And you will live forever
C Em
In eyes not yet created
C G
On tongues that are not born
C G
I have written you down
Em D
Now you will live forever
Whistling:
C G Em D/F#
C G Em D/F#
Your body lies upon the sheets
C G Em D/F#
Of paper and words so sweet
Em D/F# G
I can't say the words
Em D/F# G
So I wrote you into my verse
C D G
Now you'll live through the ages
C D G
I can feel your pulse in the pages
C G D/F#
Whoa whoa-oa
C G
I have written you down
Em D
Now you will live forever
C G
And all the world will read you
Em D
And you will live forever
C Em
In eyes not yet created
C G
On tongues that are not born
C G
I have written you down
Em D
Now you will live forever
C
I have read her with these eyes
Em
I've read her with these eyes
G D/F#
I have held her in these hands
C G
I have written you down
Em D
Now you will live forever
C G
The virtues in the verse
Em D
And you will live forever
C G
I have written you down
Em D
Now you will live forever
C G
And all the world will read you
Em D
And you will live forever
C Em
In eyes not yet created
C G
On tongues that are not born
C G
I have written you down
Em D
Now you will live forever
[Outro] (whistling):
C G
Em D/F# (G)
You will live forever