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