Verse
C#
I remember way back when
G#
I felt only ennui
D#
Like nothing could complete me
C#
No promise of a rising sun
G#
Illuminating everyone
D#
The very thought defeated
C#
My life was a blinded light
G#
Must be what it's like when worlds collide
D#
Especially when he sees her
Pretty soon he'll tease her
C#
I was on the road too long
G#
My laboured lover only song
D#
Not one of them a keeper
C#
But if I woke in the morning to find you were gone
Fm
I know I'd try and find the will to be strong
G# D#
But am I strong enough? D#m I strong enough?
C#
I once built a bower, I could build you a home
Fm
Together forever but forever and on
G# D#
Is still not long enough, still not long enough
C#
You look confused in your eyes
G#
And I could see myself as a child
D#
Such a devastating feeling
A#m D#
C#
I wished I could go back in time
G#
But all I could do was apologize
D#
Right then your eyes were healing
G#m D#
Healing
C#
Oh, if I woke in the morning to find you were gone
Fm
I know I'd try and find the will to be strong
G# D#
But am I strong enough? D#m I strong enough?
C#
I once built a bower, I could build you a home
Fm
Together forever but forever and on
G# D#
Is still not long enough, still not long enough
C# G#
Oh, I've been Cain but I wanna be Abel
D# G# C#
Been a drunken fool but I wanted to be stable enough
G#
To lay every one of my cards onto the table
D#
Hope it's not too late for us to find a way too
C#
If I woke in the morning to find you were gone
Fm
I know I'd try and find the will to be strong
G# D#
But am I strong enough? D#m I strong enough?
C#
I once built a bower, I could build you a home
Fm
Together forever but forever and on
G# D#
Is still not long enough, it's still not long enough
C#
I went looking inside myself for a home
Fm
Find only a sapling in search of an oak
G# D#
But it's a start my love, oh it's a start my love
C#
But am I strong enough?