Intro
Am G Em F
Verse
Am G I recall a time and place
Emwhen you'd call me 'baby'
FLike a newborn crying out,
Amyeah, you'd just hold me
G FIn the sheets, never lonely
Am See we had all of the
G Emwarmth in the world but yet we got so cold
FI checked the debris,
Amstill don't know where it went wrong
G FWent wrong, now gone
Verse
Am G EmI've been wide-eyed from sunset to the sunrise
F AmI never really had a bedtime so I'm doing alright
GBut when I close my eyes,
EmI still think that you're mine
FWish I could Go back in time and set it right
Verse
AmBut our hearts weren't aligned and
Gwe were fighting all the time
Em FAnd your love it was changing, getting complicated
Am GYeah we tried to save it and didn't quite make it
Em FGetting back to basics and ripping out the pages
Chorus
Am GBut if you gotta go, you gotta go.
EmAnd I know you're tired of tears
Ffilling up your eyes
Am GAnd if you want to know, you ought to know
Em FI always thought it would be you and I
Am GIn the summertime, in the spring time,
Emin the winter time
F**** it for a lifetime
Am GSo if you gotta go, you gotta go.
Em F AmI always thought we would get it right, yeah
G Em F Am
G Em F
Verse
Am G A couple weeks have gone by,
Emnow even Mum's been asking
F"How you been? What you doing,
Amand how's Pilates classes?"
GDon't know what Dad would say,
Embut I can see his face.
FKinda looks like mine, eyebrow raised
Amand a hundred yard gaze
GAnd I was thinking about that time
Emwe met in California
FLaying eyes on you was something
Amthat I'd never get over
GBut we got older, couldn't keep it in order
EmCouldn't make it work now our
Fhead's under the water
Chorus
Am GBut if you gotta go, you gotta go.
EmAnd I know you're tired of tears
Ffilling up your eyes
Am GAnd if you want to know, you ought to know
Em FI always thought it would be you and I
Am GIn the summertime, in the spring time,
Emin the winter time
F**** it for a lifetime
Am GSo if you gotta go, you gotta go.
Em F AmI always thought we would get it right, yeah
G Em F
Am G F
Bridge
AmAnd I'm back at the headland writing
G Emsongs where we first met
FIt's just me and these six strings
Ambut I feel you there
G21 seems so long ago, just goes to
Emshow you never know
Just what you've got and what you
Fhad until you watch it go
Am And how ironic all those
G Emsongs that I wrote about you and I
FTalk about forever and ever
Amand how love could never die
GWe were so high up
EmThey never loved like us.
I've never cussed in a song before
Fbut baby now it's all ****** up
Chorus
Am GBut if you gotta go, you gotta go.
EmAnd I know you're tired of tears
Ffilling up your eyes
Am GAnd if you want to know, you ought to know
Em FI always thought it would be you and I
Am GIn the summertime, in the spring time,
Emin the winter time
F**** it for a lifetime
Am GSo if you gotta go, you gotta go.
Em F AmI always thought we would get it right, yeah
G Em F
Am G F
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