Intro
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Verse 1
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Saturday sunset-- we’re lying on my bed with five hours to go
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Fingers entwined and so were our minds crying 'I don’t want you to go'
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You wiped away tears but not fears under the still and clear indigo
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You said, ‘Baby don’t cry, we’ll be fine, you’re the one thing I swear I can’t outgrow’
Verse 2
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My mother said the younger me was a 'Pretending' prodigy well nothing, then, much has changed
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Coz while you’re wolfing down liquor, my soul it gets sicker, but I’m stickin' to the screenplay, gotta say
[Ab]
I’m okay but answer this babe:
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How is it now that somehow you’re a stranger; you were mine just yesterday—
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I prayed the block in my airway dissipates and instead deters your airplane’s way
Pre-Chorus 1
[Fm]
But heaven denied
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Destiny decried
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Something beautiful died
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too soon
Chorus
[Eb]
But I’m letting gooooooooo
[Cm]
I’m givin’ up the ghost
[Ab]
But don’t get me wrong
[Ab]
I’ll always love you that’s why
[Bb]
I wrote you this very last song
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I guess this is where we say goodbye
[Ab]
I know I’ll be alright
[Bb]
Someday I’ll be fine
[Cm]
but just not tonight
Verse 3
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Plunging into all kinds of diversions like blush wine and sonorous soirees
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But even with gin and surgin’ adrenaline I see you’re all that can intoxicate
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Oceans and Engines, you’re skilled at infringin' on great love affairs
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'cause now my heart’s home -- all I’ve known -- is long gone and 10 thousand miles away
Pre-Chorus 2
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And I’m not okay
Chorus
[Eb]
But I’m letting gooooooooo
[Cm]
I’m givin’ up the ghost
[Ab]
But don’t get me wrong
[Ab]
I’ll always love you that’s why
[Bb]
I wrote you this very last song
[Eb] [Cm]
I guess this is where we say goodbye
[Ab]
I know I’ll be alright
N.C.
But just not-
Bridge
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Tonight was the first time I stared into seas of beguiling sepia two years ago
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and the first time
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I learned real world superpowers lived in three words and could revitalize my frayin’ bones
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Now what do you do when
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Your pillar crumbled down, you’ve lost all solid ground, both dreams and demons drowned, and this void is all
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you’ve found and doubts light it aglow?
[Cm]
I have so many questions
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But I’m pourin them into the ocean and I’m starting up my engine
Chorus
[Eb]
and I’m letting go
[Cm]
I’m givin’ up your ghost
[Ab]
It’s come to a close
[Bb]
I marked the end with this last song I wrote
Outro
[Eb]
I’m letting go
[Cm]
This is the last falsetto
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I’ll ever sing to you my great, lost love.
