Am       G
Mother, Mother
Am       G
I can't take another
Am               G          F     G
Moment here the way that it is
Am           G
Heartache, heartache
Am           G
It's a fear I can't shake
Am                      G       F     G
It heals and then it's broken again

[Chorus]
Dm            Am           G               Am
The things I love seem to slip through my hands
       Dm           Am        G        Am
Like a big red balloon or a grain of sand
      Am        G                 Dm        Am
But I see the future through the eyes of the past
          F              G        Am
Still I somehow want to make this last

[Verse]
      Am              G
They say the darkest hour
    Am            G
Is just before a flower
  Am       G               F   G
Opens to the light of the sun
     Am       G
And you're my reason
    Am              G
My softly changing season
    Am       G        F    G
Tell me I'm the only one

[Chorus]
Dm            Am           G               Am
The things I love seem to slip through my hands
       Dm           Am        G        Am
Like a big red balloon or a grain of sand
      Am        G                 Dm        Am
But I see the future through the eyes of the past
          F              G        Am
Still I somehow want to make this last
         F              G          A
Still I somehow want to make this last

[Bridge]

       C                         E7
All my life I've been fooling myself
   Am                G          D/F#
Trying to make the wrong things right
        F                 E7
Like a bird against the cold hard wind
  Am                G           F
Trying to find the end of the night


[Chorus]
Dm            Am           G               Am
The things I love seem to slip through my hands
       Dm           Am        G        Am
Like a big red balloon or a grain of sand
      Am        G                 Dm        Am
But I see the future through the eyes of the past
          F              G        Am
Still I somehow want to make this last
          F              G        Am
Still I somehow want to make this last