INTRO: (close but not good enough :D)

G(only with E string on 4th finger (atleast it’s good for me))

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He’s the deflated balloon wrapped around your gait
Cut priced to clear a past to ’sell by date’
He’ll be fool running through the church screaming out ‘it’s not too late’
When he does, I know that you’ll wait

He’s the drunk man with bad breath coming on too strong
He’s the beauty queen that strings your heart along
And he’ll answer every question in your new-age magazine wrong
But I know you’ll love him strong

INTRO TO CHORUS

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So I’m leaving before there’s nothing to believe in
I’m just craving for a love I never knew

(INTRO TO CHORUS)
Please don’t go mistreating me
I’m not saying you’ve been misleading me
Just not needing me the way that I need you

(INTRO)

He’s the elephant in the room that never speaks
But you dream about him every two weeks
I wouldn’t know his name, but you call it in your sleep
Oh I know you love him deep
So run back to him like you should
I guess I always knew that you would
For he’s captured your heart in a way I never could
So go on and love him good

So I’m leaving before there’s nothing to believe in
I’m just craving for a love I’ve never knew
(INTRO TO CHORUS)
I’m the stray cat you keep feeding
You’re the book I can’t stop reading
But the tides are receding that it’s true
(INTRO TO CHORUS)
So please don’t go mistreating me
I’m not saying you’ve been misleading me,
Just not needing me the way that I need you
(STRUM ONCE)
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Just not needing me the way that I need you

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Verse I

Australian man, Scandinavian tan
Kicking stones ‘round the square
He sat for a while, and carved out a smile
As if someone would care

Said I’m a long way from the gold coast
Furthest I’ve ever known
Ooh and this just ain’t my home
It was my wife’s idea but she’s no longer here
She left me traveling alone

Oh I never heard silence
Ring out like a bell
I never heard silence like last night in my expensive hotel
Well I’m loving a shadow,
I’m trying to catch the rain
I never heard silence, ‘till I heard it today

Bridge: C G F C C G C C7 F Fm C G C G – (I recommend replaying intro progression) –

Well she walked out of the hotel
I could still smell the smoke, of a burning heart left inside
She said men are all aholes and life’s a bad joke
She laughed and started to cry
See 10 years with this man and a life time of plans
Oh and I loved him to his bones
But now I’ve lines on my skin and he’s traded me in
And left me traveling alone

Oh I’ve never felt silence
hit me like a train
I’ve never felt silence
Like blood course through my veins
Oh I’m loving a shadow
and I’m trying to catch the rain
I never heard silence
‘Till I heard it today
I never felt silence
‘Till I felt it today

Chorus:
I said darling you know, darling you know I cant stay.
Cause I’ve given my heart and my word to a girl far away.
I felt weak as she kissed my cheek, and aside when I heard her say.
Never knew I could get my heart broken, in less than a day.

Verse 2:
Oh and the next time that I saw her,
Must have been a year or more.
Face stained with mascara,
Shivering outside my door.
I did my best to assure her,
But assurance isn’t easy to give.
You’ve never been sure of anything much,
And get less so the longer you live.

Chorus 2:
She said darling you know, darling you know I can’t stay.
Cause I’ve given my heart and my word to a boy far away.
I spoke soft and pretended to cough, like I didn’t care either way.
Never knew I could get my heart broken in so many ways.

Verse 3:
And the last time that I saw her,
Standing in the pouring rain.
Hair a little shorter,
But everything else looked the same.
I could’a told her that I adored her,
She coulda said she felt the same way.
But we just smiled cause sometimes words, aren’t the right words to say.
We just smiled cause sometimes words, aren’t the right words to say.

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INTRO (Starts at 1:21)

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VERSE (Starts at 1:37)

I met him outside a hostel door
He said I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours
I know you think it’s shifty for a man in his fifties to be
sleeping in a hostel dorm
But I used to be a welder by trade
Used to work by the water where the ships get made
But no shipyard will take me now
My hands are too shaky now
I’ve spend all my money before I get paid

CHORUS (Starts at 2:10)
And I said David, don’t you think it’s strange
While you were in your dark room
How the world went and changed
Looking in your eyes, I think you know
That David, we lost you, lost you a long time ago
Ooh, ooh, oh, oh,?
Ooh, ooh, oh, oh,?
Ooh, ooh, oh, oh,?
Ooh, ooh, oh,

VERSE 2 (Starts at 2:41)
He leans his head against the hostel wall
Said I have an ex-wife that doesn’t hear me
And a kid that doesn’t call
And every month I’m caught short
With my fking child support
And the court says that I’m reckless and irresponsible
‘Cause it was never part of the plan
To be a middle aged man
To be sat outside a hostel, shaking strangers’ hands
But I’ve drunk away my wealth
And I’m a picture of bad health
And I’m a shadow of a shadow of a former self

CHORUS (Starts at 3:15)
And I said David, don’t you think it’s strange
While you were in your dark room
How the world went and changed
Looking in your eyes, I think you know
That David, we lost you, lost you a long time ago
Ooh, ooh, oh, oh,?
Ooh, ooh, oh, oh,?
Ooh, ooh, oh, oh,?
Ooh, ooh, oh, oh,?
Ooh, ooh, oh, oh,?
Ooh, ooh, oh, oh,?
Ooh, ooh, oh, oh,?
Ooh, ooh, oh,

CHORUS (Starts at 4:03, this time you only play the chords once)
And I said David, don’t you think it’s strange
While you were sleeping
How the world went and changed
Looking in your eyes, I think you know
That David, we lost you, lost you a long time ago

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