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