Capo 5th fret
Standard (EADGBE)
You left for camp, you left for school
Left for the coast when that was cool then
You left women, one a wife
To save your skin you wrecked a life and
then there's kids its not just one
life that you wreck you're on the run
You go to town to start anew
those you left come after you
Its what you think its how you feel
though who can say if its all real
The darndest thing kids grow up
One day some strange adults show up
The ones you left are right in town
thats nice you say they'll be around
perhaps they just a bit bereft but
they'll forgive the one who left
sad stories can have happy ends
perhaps now you can just be friends
Its what you want its how you feel
whats more you hope your theory's real
(Break)
Who would have thought or could believe
Things go so badly when you leave
the skin you saved is growing slack and
those you left don't want you back
(Instrumental)
Your power's gone it was pro tem
The wife you left meant more to them
Its not just that they side with her
you left and who knew where you were
The reason that they came to town
was just to make that place their own
You realised your greatest fear
you are so close but hardly here
It's what you think it's how you feel
and what's worse is you know its real