Intro
N.C.
Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue.
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See how we polish and we shine.
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We rearrange and realign.
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Everything is balanced and… and…
[Verse 1]
Absus Ab Db
Days and days and days—that's how it happens:
Ab Dbsus2
Days and days and days
Db
Made of lunches And car rides
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And shirts and socks
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And grades And piano
Ab/C A#m
And no one clocks the day you disappear.
[Verse 2]
Absus Ab Db
Days and days and days— that's how it happens:
Ab Dbsus2
Days and days and days
Db
Made of posing And bragging
Ab/C
And fits of rage
A#m7 Ab/C
And boys – my god, some of them underage!
A#m7
And, oh, how did it all happen here?
[Bridge]
A#/D Ebmaj9
There was a time your father swept me off my feet with words.
A#/D
We read books,
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Strolled through Munich at night, drank beer with friends,
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Discussed the places we would go.
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And he said I understood how the world made him ache.
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But no,
Absus Ab
but no.
[Verse 3]
Db Absus Ab
That's how it happens:
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Days
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Made of bargains I made because I thought
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As a wife I was meant to,
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And now my life is shattered and made bare.
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Days and days and days and days and days and days and days.
[Bridge 2]
F C
Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue.
F C
See how we polish and we shine.
F/A G/A Am
We rearrange and realign.
F C
Everything is balanced and serene.
F Csus2 N.C.
Like chaos never happens if it's never seen.
[Verse 4]
Asus A
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Don't you come back here. I didn't raise you
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To give away your days
A A/G A
Like me.