Tonart: Eb major
Verse 1
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my mother's voice when I was born
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Bm
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And hear her softly say, he's a pretty one
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If I could just remember
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how I held on to her finger
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As she held me in her arms
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Then maybe I'd have never
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been lonely
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And maybe I'd have never felt low
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Or maybe I'd have still have been
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the self -obsessed, obsessively
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Compulsively selfish son of a bitch
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who drove my friends away
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E
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I wish just what it's day
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Em
To tell me I was lovely underneath
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D
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This hateful hollow shell, but hell
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Life is never the way we want it to be
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Life is never the way we want it to be
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Life is never the way
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we want it to be
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Life is never the way we want it to be
If I could just recall
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My sister saying can I hold him
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And hear my parents' answer,
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hold it gently now
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If I could just remember
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how I saw my own reflection in eyes
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And she smiled wondrously at me
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But maybe I'd have never been lonely
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And maybe I'd have never felt low
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Or maybe I'd have still have been
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the egocentric, eccentric
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Em
Half -crazy, selfie son -of -a -bitch
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who made my mother cry
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An d wished that
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she'd not died before
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I told her what she meant to me
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The moon, the stars, the sea
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Life is never the way we
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want it to be
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No, life is never the way
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D
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we want it to be
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D
Oh, life is never the way we want it to be
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Oh, life is never the way we
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want it to be
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Maybe one day we will find it
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What we've all been looking for
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The an swer's in our hearts
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Before the anguish starts
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An d the child is
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While they all are made to feel
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that they are meaningless
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If I could just recall the moment
when my father said
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Bm
If he don't want to play football,
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Then help me with my skills
A smile if I failed badly
Well, nothing's perfect,
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Then maybe I'd have never
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been lonely
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G
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And maybe I'd have never have felt low
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D
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Or maybe I'd have still have been
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A nervous, anxious, neuroses -filled,
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Em
alien -selfie son -of -a -bit
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With nothing left to give
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And nothing left to live for
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Or maybe someone out
there feels the same
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No need to be afraid
Because, hey,
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Life is never the way we
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want it to be
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Oh, life is never the way we want it to be
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Bm
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Life is never the way we
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want it to be
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And maybe we can talk a bit
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And laugh a bit and love a bit
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And tell each other we are not so bad, really
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