Standard (EADGBE)

 We almost got it together

 And I'll be your favourite thing

 Oh stand by the river with hard-luck eyes

 And I'll just be open and sing

 And if I was telling you stories

 I was only trying to surprise

 I wish I was like the frog princess

 And I'd never tell you lies

 And down by the soil of the hard life

 Oh they like to greet us with smiles

 They like to tell us their good hostess

 Has travelled a million miles

 But you'd like it written closer

 Yes, you'd like it written pure

 If I told you this, would you miss my kiss

 Would you come right back for more

 Oh, I'd like to be, what I wanna be

 But you want to carry on

 But you need to take, what you have to take

 But I'd still be here when you're gone

 And there's a light by your window

 And I'd like to capture you by there

 And I'd like to hold you for all to see

 But they don't really care

 And if I said you're no peccadillo

 Yes, I said you're a major thing

 Would you stand by me, at the corner dock

 And say, "Yes, this girl is the swing!"

 Oh, I'd like to be, what I wanna be

 But you want to carry on

 But you need to take, what you have to take

 But I'd still be here when you're gone

And I'd like another cue

 That's why I strain to see

And I'd like the best in you

 Cause you write the best in me

 And everybody was swinging

 Oh swooning to the heart in me

 Oh they were sure that I'd be burning, yes

 So their tart swerve to here might be

 But if I said "you're gold, inside, yes?"

 And if you were true to me

 Would you hang around with that creepy smile

 Crawl home back to me

 Oh, I'd like to be, what I wanna be

 But you want to carry on

 But you need to take, what you have to take

 But I'd still be here when you're gone