Key: E minor
Verse 1
Em
C#dim
first meeting you when
D
A
You were a small blond kid about
nine or ten
your father drank
you had an aunt to thank
You came to stay when you were still quite
young
and a razorsharp tongue
Life has its interludes and
As we'd pretend for the weekend
you were our son
were feeling blue
too
But nothing's forever
and it couldn't last
Em
D
We had our own baby,
A
Em
and the moment passed
If you felt betrayed, boy,
you hid it well
now I feel guilty as hell
You hit the bottle when you
D
hit your teens
F#dim
B
chicken queens
Verse 2
Em
Am
Don't jump, don't fall
G
F#dim
B
and you can have it all
Verse 3
must've seemed like fun
The kind of life you lived when you
were on the run
The tricks you turned, and the drugs
you'd done
As you scraped the barrel with
A
Em
your lowlife chums
You were always so certain
you'd never see thirty
talk drunk and dirty
G
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B
And the pain of inhabiting a human skin
Em
Don't
Verse 4
G
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B
you could have it all
Em
Am
Don't jump, don't fall,
G
D
your back against a wall
B
You
Verse 5
Em
must have been
shaking with a terrible dread
your unmade bed
numb
Esus4
A
To know your mo ment
had finally come
Em
B
When you left the flat on that fi nal night
you leave the light
Em
Did you think of her, did you think of me
were about to be free
Em
C
The alcohol raging round your veins
pouring down like rain
name
Verse 6
Em
Am
Don't jump, don't fall,
G
B
and you could have it all
Em
Am
Don't jump, don't fall,
G
B
your back against a wall
Don't jump
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