[Intro] C  F7+  Am  G  F7+
        Am  G  F7+
        Am  G  C  F7+ 
                               
           Am         G        F7+
Sweat, and blood, and ink I've spent
      Am       G     F7+
But I saved my tears
       Am          G       C       
I won't  spring a leak for them

F7+       Am           G    F7+
  Sharply dressed and ill at ease
       Am      G       F7+
Like a sucker keen to please
             Am          G    C  
The man, the boss, the teacher

C/B                       C    
  I have tried to fall in love
   C/B
It did nothing more than leave me messed up
    Am      G     F7+
Some wild, bitter baby
         G                  
Now I'm crying for whoever
F7+          C           G   
 Contentment would have made
F7+          G       Am
 All things pass and change
   G      F7+    G
I wish you could
                   C   F7+
Have lived your life

        Am          G        F7+
All the things you would have seen
       Am       G       F7+
Or the man you could have been
       Am       G       F7+  C  F7+
I would stand beside you
        Am        G       F7+
Now the hours and seconds crawl
       Am         G       F7+
Make me  question it all again
    Am         G       F7+    C
Why my son, my boy, my light?

C/B                           C    
  You'd have found someone to love
    C/B
Someone sweet and kind, a lot like you
     Am   G     F7+
She'd  be  your everything
      G         
And it could have saved you
F7+          C           G   
 Contentment would have made
F7+          G       Am
 All things pass and change
   G      F7+    G
I wish you could
                   C   F7+
Have lived your life

            C           G   
Contentment would have made
F7+          G       Am
 All things pass and change
   G       F7+    G
I wish you could
                    C           F7+  C 
Have lived your life like this