Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

I

 Am a wavering candle light

 I remain but I’m ever slight

 Through all my years

I sit

 In my room in the fading light

 Righting back all my wrongs tonight

 Cos I’m still here

Boarded up all the doors

 And I swallowed all the keys

I’m still haunted by

 All the things I’ll never be

To live

Is to learn

 Oh the heart’s a heavy burden

So I take

I don’t wait

 Nothing ever is for certain

And I hold my hands up high

 On my knees tonight

I’ll take

Won’t wait

 I will live and learn my lesson here tonight

I

 Never knew it could be so cold

 But I burnt all the things I used to hold so dear

 Still I fight

 With my pen in my hand held tight

 Writing protest songs tonight cos I’m still here

Boarded up all the doors

 And I swallowed all the keys

I’m still haunted by

 All the things I’ll never be

To live

Is to learn

 Oh the heart’s a heavy burden

So I take

I don’t wait

 Nothing ever is for certain

And I hold my hands up high

 On my knees tonight

I’ll take

Won’t wait

 I will live and learn my lesson here tonight

 I will live and learn my lesson