Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

  Passed through main street yesterday

  And, oh, this town just ain't the same

  Looked in the window and it was gone

  All those tables I'd written on

  We're vanished as if I had never been there

  Like the poets and prophets who can't find the words so they stare

  And all that made sense has somehow turned askew

  I missed my chance with you

  There were seconds then minutes then years that I could not breathe

  In the Pere Lachaise with the hammer the chisel and the stone

  Now I've bartered and begged for what I believed

  And I saw that the name engraved was my own

  Now there's nothing so peaceful as when I met you

  And there's nothing so lonely as when it was through

  And the words, "I'm not here anymore", echo into

  "I missed my chance with you"

  Had love play so many tricks on me

  I've always felt cheated that you'd make me leave

  Like taking my sight after letting me see

  But I found out love had something up it's sleeve

  Leave me scattered like leaves by winds that never blew

  When I captured the starts

  In the palm of my hand it was true

  I'd just give them back to you

  I was seventeen, but just for one year

  I always knew one day, I'd end up here

  And the sands have now fallen to the evening of my afternoon

  I'm was always so ready to stay and always leaving too soon

  And I don't want to think about it now, but I do

  And my spirit is restless

  'Cause I know it's true

  I missed my chance with you