The Letter(Chords)

	        

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