Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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Bm
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A
And hear her softly say, he's a pretty one
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F
Then maybe I'd have never
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Cm
been lonely
D
A
C
And maybe I'd have never felt low
D
G
A
Or maybe I'd have still have been
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A
Bm
the self -obsessed, obsessively
A
G
A
Compulsively selfish son of a bitch
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A
E
G
I wish just what it's day
F#m
Em
To tell me I was lovely underneath
A
D
C
This hateful hollow shell, but hell
D
G
A
Life is never the way we want it to be
D
Bm
G
A
Life is never the way we want it to be
D
Bm
G
Life is never the way
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D
we want it to be
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A
D
Life is never the way we want it to be
If I could just recall
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A
hold it gently now
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G
how I saw my own reflection in eyes
Bm
A
And she smiled wondrously at me
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F
C
But maybe I'd have never been lonely
Cm
D
G
A
C
And maybe I'd have never felt low
D
G
A
Or maybe I'd have still have been
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A
Bm
the egocentric, eccentric
A
G
A
Em
Half -crazy, selfie son -of -a -bitch
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D
who made my mother cry
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Bm
A
An d wished that
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F#m
she'd not died before
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D
The moon, the stars, the sea
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A
Life is never the way we
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Bm
want it to be
A
D
Bm
we want it to be
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A
D
Oh, life is never the way we want it to be
Bm
G
A
Oh, life is never the way we
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C
want it to be
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D
What we've all been looking for
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An d the child is
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D
A
that they are meaningless
when my father said
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Bm
If he don't want to play football,
A smile if I failed badly
Well, nothing's perfect,
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F
Then maybe I'd have never
G
C
Cm
been lonely
C
G
A
And maybe I'd have never have felt low
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D
G
A
Or maybe I'd have still have been
Bm
A
A nervous, anxious, neuroses -filled,
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A
Em
alien -selfie son -of -a -bit
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D
With nothing left to give
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A
G
And nothing left to live for
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Em
Or maybe someone out
there feels the same
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D
No need to be afraid
Because, hey,
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A
Life is never the way we
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Bm
want it to be
G
A
Oh, life is never the way we want it to be
D
A
Bm
D
G
A
Life is never the way we
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A
G
A
D
want it to be
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F
And laugh a bit and love a bit
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F
D
G
And tell each other we are not so bad, really
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