C G
I wrote a letter on a nothing day
C G
I asked somebody “Could you send my letter away?”
C G C G
“You are too young to put all of your hopes in just one envelope”

C G
I said goodbye to someone that I love
C G
It’s not just me, I tell you it’s the both of us
C G
And it was hard like coming off the pills
C G
That you take to stay happy

C G
Someone above has seen me do alright
C G
Someone above is looking with a tender eye
C G
Upon her face, you may think
C G
You’re alone but you may think again
(GM7)

C Gm7
If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy
C Gm7
They’d write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes
Am C
On second thoughts I’d rather hang about and be there with my best
friend
Gm7
If she wants me

C G
And far away somebody read the letter
C G
He condescends to read the words I wrote about him
C G C G
And if he smiles, it’s no more than a genius deserves
C G
For all your curious nerve and your passion

C G
I’m going deaf, you’re growing melancholy
C G
Things fall apart, I don’t know why we bother at all
C G C G
But life is good and “It’s always worth living at least for a while”

C Gm7
If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy
C Gm7
They’d write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes
Am C
On second thoughts I’d rather hang about and be there with my best
friend
Gm7
If she wants me

C G
If you think to yourself “What should I do now?”
C G
Then take the baton, girl, you better run with it
C G C G
There is no point in standing in the past cause it’s over and done with

C G
I took a book and went into the forest
C G
I climbed the hill, I wanted to look down on you
C G
But all I saw was twenty miles of wilderness so I went home