Intro
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[Verse]
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We all lead such elaborate lives
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Wild ambitions in our sights
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How an affair of the heart survives
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Days apart and hurried nights
[Bridge]
A#/D
Seems quite unbelievable to me
Ebm
I don't want to live like that
A#/D
Seems quite unbelievable to me
Cb
I don't want to love like that
Db Eb
I just want our time to be
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Slower and gentler, wiser, free
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[Chorus]
Cb/Gb Gb Cb Fb/Cb Cb
We all live in extravagant times
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Playing games we can't all win
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Unintended emotional crimes
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Take some out, take others in
[Bridge]
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I'm so tired of all we're going through
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I don't want to live like that
Ebm A#/D
I'm so tired of all we're going through
Ebm Cb
I don't want to love like that
Db Eb
I just want to be with you
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Now and forever, peaceful, true
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This may not be the moment
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to tell you face to face
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But I could wait forever
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for the perfect time and place
[Chorus]
Cb/Db Gb Cb/Gb Gb Cb Fb/Cb Cb
We all lead such elaborate lives
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We don't know whose words are true
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Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives
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Hard to know who's loving who
Db A#/D
Too many choices tear us apart
A#/D Ebm
I don't want to live like that
Ebm A#/D
Too many choices tear us apart
Cb
I don't want to love like that
Dbadd9 Eb
I just want to touch your heart
Eb Ab7
May this confession
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Be the start