Key: D minor
Verse 1
A
F#m
You don't know why it's there
heading
Verse 2
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F#m
It just happens that we are
C#m
G#
We just shrug our shoulders and be
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Verse 3
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G#
No- one thought of, no- one planned
A
G#
Then we could have been a man
Verse 4
A
G#
We could be ex- husband
G#
A
But no- one looks at the menu
G#
A
G#
in a greasy spoon life
Verse 5
C#m
A
F#m
Alone, alone
C#m
G#
One day is several months
C#m
A
Alone, alone
C#m
G#
A year can be a decade spent
Alone
C#m
Verse 6
He knows "hello" in eighteen languages
A
F#m
"I love you" in only one
his phrase- book
C#m
G#
The chance is usually gone
Verse 7
A
F#m
But quite prepared for what
A
G#
We always took the lead
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Before we actually knew the plot
C#m
Verse 8
we've been shopping
G#
A
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By the bags beneath our eyes
A
G#
Make- up shoulders burden
A
G#
But the smile never lies
Verse 9
A
G#
We could be ex- husband
A
G#
We could be ex- wife
G#
A
G#
in a greasy spoon life
Verse 10
C#m
A
F#m
Alone, alone
C#m
G#
One day is several months
C#m
A
F#m
Alone, alone
C#m
G#
A year can be a decade spent
Alone
C#m
Verse 11
So empty at the airport
A
F#m
You don't set off the doors
C#m
G#
And now we feel like whores
Verse 12
A
F#m
Words built like dams
A
G#
Thoughts built like juggernauts
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G#
Our actions built like prams
C#m
Verse 13
A
G#
And when the wind blows into our face
A
G#
We should be warmer and not colder
G#
A
G#
On this cargo that we shoulder
Verse 14
A
G#
We could be ex- husband
G#
A
But no- one looks at the menu
G#
A
G#
in a greasy spoon life
Verse 15
C#m
A
F#m
Alone, alone
C#m
G#
One day is several months
C#m
A
F#m
Alone, alone
C#m
G#
A year can be a decade spent
Alone
C#m
Verse 16
And we only smoke when bored
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G#
C#m
Between bored and lonely anyway
Outro 1
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