Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse

 Strange how you know inside me

 I measure the time and I stand amazed

 Strange how I know inside you

 My hand is outstretched toward the damp of the haze

Chorus

 And of course I forgive

 I've seen how you live

 Like a phoenix you rise from the ashes

 You pick up the pieces

 And the ghosts in the attic

 They never quite leave

 And of course I forgive

 You've seen how I live

 I've got darkness and fears to appease

 My voices and analogies

 Ambitions like ribbons

 Worn bright on my sleeve

 Strange how we know each other

 Strange how I fit into you

 There's a distance erased with the greatest of ease

 Strange how you fit into me

 A gentle warmth filling the deepest of needs

 And with each passing day

 The stories we say

 Draw us tighter into our addiction

 Confirm our conviction

 That some kind of miracle

Passed on our hands

 And how I am sure

 Like never before

 Of my reasons for defying reason

 Embracing the seasons

 We dance through the colors

 Both followed and led

 Strange how we fit each other

(bridge. I THINK this is largely variations on the A E theme from the intro with the

D and Dsus2 thrown in. Unfortunately I'm not 100% on this part)

 Strange how certain the journey

 Time unfolds the petals

 For our eyes to see

 Strange how this journey's hurting

 In ways we accept as part of fate's decree

 So we just hold on fast

 Acknowledge the past

 As lessons exquisitely crafted

 Painstakingly drafted

 To carve us as instruments

 That play the music of life

 For we don't realize

 Our faith in the prize

 Unless it's been somehow elusive

 How swiftly we choose it

 The sacred simplicity

Of you at my side

to coda