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Intro: C G6 Am G6 C (2x)
C G6 Am
I hear you knocking on the door,
G6 C
but you ain't comin' in, no, no,
G6 Am
to this house no more.
G6 C
Cause it ain't like,
G6 Am
it ain't like it was before.
G6 C G6 Am
You went a-sailin' on for that distant shore.
C G6 Am
Oh, oh, oh...
C G6 Am
True, we had love so true,
G6 C
oh we had skies so blue,
G6 Am
we had skies so blue.
G6 C G6 Am
So I, I had my hopes up high,
G6 C G6 Am
till all I heard was goodbye when I called for you.
F C G6
I turn the key, you twist the knife,
Am
I can't win,
F
no I can't win.
C Em Am
Now you're knockin' on the door but you can't come in.
Am
Oh no...
C
So you take it on the chin,
G6 Am
yeah you take it on the weak chin.
G6 C
Then you do it all again and again,
G6 Am
tell me when will it end.
G6 C
And now you come back,
G6 Am
oh yeah, you crawled on back,
G6 C G6 Am
with your head held high and your book of lies in a burlap sack.
G6 C G6 Am G6
I just don't know, honey, what went wrong.
C G6 Am G6
Love just can't grow when you're gone so long.
F C G6
I turn the key, you twist the knife,
Am
I can't win,
F
no I can't win.
C Em Am
Now you're knockin' on the door but you can't come in.
Am
Oh no...
C G6 Am
Oh, you just don't know,
G6 C G6 Am G6
Which way the wind is going to blow.
C G6 Am
No, you just don't know,
G6 C G6 Am G6
Just when the sky is going to fall.
C
You've been a soldier,
G6 Am
you've been a privateer,
G6 C G6 Am
now you're looking much older, yes you are, my dear.
G6 C
Now you're back again,
G6 Am
from the lion's den,
G6 C
you've for a plagiarist's eye,
G6 Am G6
you've got a poison pen.
F C G6
I turn the key, you twist the knife,
Am
I can't win,
F
no I can't win.
C Em Am
Now you're knockin' on the door but you can't come in.
Am
Oh no...
G6-C G6 Am
Oh, you just don't know,
G6 C G6 Am G6
Which way the wind is going to blow.
C G6 Am
No, you just don't know,
G6 C G6 Am G6
Just when the sky is going to fall.
C G6
Love can bend you, love can break,
Am G6
hearts can mend and hearts can ache.
C G6
Life will give you what you take,
Am G6
oh, life will give you what you take.
C G6
Love can bend you, love can break,
Am G6
hearts can mend and hearts can ache.
Written by Sam Roberts