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